Former Fayette County, Kentucky, Corrections Officers Sentenced for Civil Rights Charges
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WASHINGTON, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scott Tyree, 47, a former officer at the Lexington-Fayette County, Ky., Detention Center (FCDC), and Anthony Estep, 35, a former sergeant and supervisor at FCDC, were sentenced in federal court today in Lexington, Ky., for their roles in the systematic abuse of detainees at FCDC, the Justice Department announced. Federal Judge Karen K. Caldwell sentenced Tyree to serve 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release and Estep to serve 12 months and one day in prison and one year of supervised release.
Tyree pleaded guilty on May 14, 2009, to conspiring to deprive detainees of their constitutional rights by physically abusing them and by authoring false and misleading incident reports in order to conceal that abuse. Tyree testified for the government during the trial of two co-defendants, John McQueen, 33, and Clarence McCoy, 31, who were convicted by a federal jury on May 13, 2010, for related charges. Judge Caldwell recognized Tyree's testimony during the trial and granted him a reduced sentence.See the full content of this document
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Former Fayette County, Kentucky, Corrections Officers Sentenced for Civil Rights Charges
Estep pleaded guilty on May 14, 2009, to a civil rights charge for fa...
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