Corrections officer Marcus Bias was accused of slamming the handcuffed detainee's head into a metal door frame. A former D.C. corrections officer was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 42 months in prison after pleading guilty to a civil rights offense in an assault on a handcuffed detainee, who court records show required a neck brace and two layers of stitches for wounds on his head.
“Like any other law enforcement officer, the defendant had a duty to protect the constitutional rights of anyone who was in his care and custody,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves said in a release announcing the sentencing.Court records show the assault happened after the detained man, referred to in filings by his initials, got into an altercation with a corrections officer who tried to intervene when the man refused to go to his cell as directed and began to use a phone in the dining hall.