Prosecutors have asked a federal court to set plea hearings for two corrections officers on a charge stemming from an assault on a jail inmate who later died
Prosecutors have asked a federal court to set plea hearings for two corrections officers on a conspiracy charge stemming from an assault on a jail inmate who later died.
The officers were charged earlier this week in a criminal information that they conspired to deny Quantez Burks’ right to due process of law. That federal charging document is filed with a defendant’s consent and typically signals an intent to plead guilty.Burks, 37, was a pretrial detainee at the jail in Beaver who died less than a day after he was booked into the jail in March 2022 on a wanton endangerment charge.
The state medical examiner’s office attributed Burks’ primary cause of death to natural causes, prompting the family to have a private autopsy conducted. The family’s attorney revealed at a news conference last year that the second autopsy found the inmate had multiple areas of blunt force trauma on his body, news outlets reported.
Republican Gov. Jim Justice ordered an investigation of conditions at the Southern Regional Jail in March 2022 after allegations surfaced of water deprivation, failure to provide toilet paper and inmates having to sleep on hard floors without a mattress. Justice said the state’s Department of Homeland Security told him the investigation found no evidence of inhumane treatment.
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