MISSISSIPPI
A federal grand jury indicted Sharalyn McClain, 28, a former Mississippi Department of Corrections officer, for using excessive force against an inmate at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, authorities announced Wednesday.
The indictment charges McClain with a felony civil rights offense for her role in the assault of the inmate, and for aiding and abetting others in committing the assault. The indictment also alleges that McClain used a “dangerous weapon,” a foot with a shoe on it to commit the assault, which resulted in injury to the inmate.
McClain is facing up to 10 years in prison. She is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
DOJ NOTED:
This case was investigated by the FBI’s Jackson, Mississippi, Field Office. Trial Attorneys Julia Gegenheimer and Cameron Bell of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenda Haynes of Southern District of Mississippi, are prosecuting the case.