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\"\"On July 8, after a three-week trial, a federal jury convicted three former correctional officers at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center \u2014 Jason Tagaloa, 31, Craig Pinkney, 38, and Jonathan Taum, 50 \u2014 for assaulting an inmate, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

A fourth officer, Jordan DeMattos, previously pleaded guilty for his role in the assault and cover up, and testified for the government at trial. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the jury\u2019s verdict, Judge Leslie Kobayashi ordered the U.S. Marshals to take the defendants into custody pending their sentencing hearings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The evidence at trial established that the defendants assaulted the inmate in the prison\u2019s recreation yard. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Over the course of two minutes, the defendants punched and kicked the inmate in the head and body while he was lying face-down in a pool of his own blood.<\/span><\/p>\n

The inmate suffered a broken nose, jaw, and eye socket. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the beating, the defendants wrote false reports in which they omitted almost all of the force they had used. <\/span><\/p>\n

When the prison opened an investigation, the defendants met to get their stories straight and brainstorm false excuses they would give for having used force. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the Hawaii Department of Public Safety fired all four officers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese defendants abused the trust given to them as law enforcement officers when they violently assaulted an inmate and lied to cover it up,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cThe Justice Department will prosecute corrections officials who violently assault inmates inside our jails and prisons, and abuse their official positions to cover-up their crimes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThe FBI will always investigate when a person’s civil rights are violated,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge Steven Merrill of the FBI Honolulu Field Office. \u201cAs correctional officers, they were held to upholding the standards of law enforcement officers within the state prisons and they did not do so in this case. The FBI will vigorously pursue justice for those whose civil rights were violated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The defendants are facing up to 10 years of imprisonment for the deprivation-of-rights offense, 20 years of imprisonment for the false report offenses, and five years of imprisonment for the conspiracy offense.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI conducted the investigation. <\/span><\/p>\n

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Nolan of the District of Hawaii, and Special Litigation Counsel Christopher J. Perras and Trial Attorney Thomas Johnson of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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