MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A former Tennessee corrections officer has pleaded guilty in federal court to hiding other officers’ assault of an inmate.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Memphis said Wednesday that 42-year-old Carl Spurlin Jr. admitted his role in the Feb. 1 beating of an inmate in the mental health unit of Northwest County Correctional Complex in Tiptonville.
Prosecutors said in a news release that another officer said twice to “violate” a surveillance camera in the cell. The release said Spurlin covered the camera with his hand and later with paper towels and watched three correctional officers repeatedly punch the inmate in the head and body.
Spurlin faces up to three years when he is sentenced Jan. 15. Former officers Nathaniel Griffin and Tanner Penwell previously pleaded guilty to assaulting the inmate and will be sentenced next month.
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