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. 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 to
commit the assault, which resulted in injury to the inmate.
Today’s indictment was announced by Assistant Attorney
General Eric Dreiband for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division,
U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst for the Southern District of Mississippi, and FBI
Jackson Acting Special Agent in Charge Luis M. Quesada.
The maximum penalty for the charged civil rights violation
is 10 years of imprisonment. An indictment is merely an accusation, and a
defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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.
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