ALABAMA
A federal grand jury indicted former Alabama Department of Corrections officer, Sergeant Lorenzo Mills, 55, with assaulting three compliant inmates with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional Facility.
Mills is also charged with falsification of records for submitting a false written statement in connection with the incident.
The indictment alleges that on Oct. 25, 2020, Mills, while acting in his official capacity as a Correctional Sergeant with ADOC, subjected three inmates to cruel and unusual punishment by striking them with a wooden baton and that the assault caused bodily injury and involved the use of a dangerous weapon.
The indictment further alleges that Mills submitted a false written statement in connection with the incident. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Mills falsely wrote in his statement that he had not used any force against the three inmate victims.
Mills faces up to 10 years in prison for each of the civil rights charges and 20 years for obstruction of justice offense, officials stated.