A former Alabama prison supervisor has been charged with using excessive force against two inmates, the US Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
The indictment charges Mohammad Shahid Jenkins, who worked as a lieutenant at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Center in Bessemer, Alabama, with injuring two inmates in assaults in which he beat and chemically sprayed them. He is also charged with misleading investigators about one of the incidents.
It was not clear if Jenkins has an attorney who can speak on his behalf.
The indictment charges Jenkins with depriving the two inmates of their right to be free from excessive force.
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A former Alabama prison supervisor is being accused of using excessive force against two inmates. The inmates accused the supervisor of disenfranchising him.
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In a 2022 incident, Jenkins is accused of kicking an inmate, punching him, spraying him with chemical spray, hitting him with a can of chemical spray, and then hitting him with a shoe. In a 2021 incident, he is accused of spraying an inmate with chemical spray multiple times, hitting him with a can of chemical spray, and beating him.
Both men were injured in the incidents, the Justice Department wrote in a news release.
The indictment also charged Jenkins with two obstruction-related offenses, charging him with falsifying a prison incident report about the 2022 incident and then engaging in misleading conduct toward federal agents who were interviewing him about it.
The Department of Justice has an ongoing lawsuit against Alabama’s prison system, accusing the state of housing male inmates in deadly and violent conditions.
