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Erin Sharma gets life in prison for her role in putting an inmate in a cell with a violent criminal.
A female guard in a federal prison will serve life for placing one inmate in a cell with a violent offender. The move resulted in the murder of the inmate.
Erin Sharma, had been on trial for federal civil rights charges. a federal jury in Orlando found Sharma guilty of two felony federal civil rights charges related to the fatal assault of federal inmate Richard Delano in March 2005.
The evidence at trial showed that on Feb. 28, 2005, Sharma and a co-conspirator agreed to move Delano into the cell of another inmate at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Fla.
The evidence also showed that Sharma and the co-conspirator knew that the other inmate was likely to assault Delano and that this move was in retaliation for a prior altercation between Delano and Sharma.
Sharma also encouraged the inmate to assault Delano. The co-conspirator moved Delano into the inmate’s cell on March 1, 2005, and the inmate assaulted Delano three days later, on March 4. On March 17, 2005, Delano died from the injuries he suffered during that assault.
“Nothing justifies or excuses the defendant’s outrageous conduct in this case,” said U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton. “When correction officers make the corrupt choice to act as judge, jury and executioner, the United States will prosecute such actions aggressively, just as it did here.”
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