Oklahoma corrections officer was found guilty of helping white supremacists attack Black detainees i

[Demovictory9]

A federal jury in Oklahoma found a former corrections officer guilty on Friday of facilitating white supremacist attacks on incarcerated Black people.

Matthew Ware, a former supervisory corrections officer at the Kay County Detention Center, violated "the civil rights of three pretrial detainees," the Justice Department said in a release.

According to the release, Ware "willfully" deprived them of their "right to be free from a corrections officer's deliberate indifference to a substantial risk of serious harm" and "use of excessive force," a jury found.

In 2017, Ware commanded lower-ranking officers to move two Black detainees to a cell row that housed "white supremacist" inmates, the release stated. These inmates "posed a danger" to the detainees, D'Angelo Wilson and Marcus Miller.

Later that day, Ware ordered the officers to unlock the doors to both the jail cells of the detainees and of the white supremacist inmates.

"When Ware's orders were followed, the white supremacist inmates attacked Wilson and Miller, resulting in physical injury to both, including a facial laceration to Wilson that required seven stitches to close," the release said.

Ware will be sentenced in July. He faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence, a fine of up to $250,000 for each violation, and three years of supervised release.

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[DFW]

1. I hope he gets the max allowable under the law

I know, I know--it's Oklahoma, so don't get my hopes up.

[Eugene]

2. It's a federal conviction, so it's mainly a matter of sentencing guidelines.