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Iberia Parish
Sheriff Louis Ackal and Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Savoy are
accused of conspiring with each other and with other officers to
assault inmates in April 2011, the justice department said in a
statement on Wednesday.
Ackal and Savoy face conspiracy against rights and deprivation
of rights under color of law charges in U.S. District Court of
the Western District of Louisiana, the department said.
According to the indictment, Ackal and Savoy conspired with jail
staff to retaliate against five inmates by assaulting them in
the jail chapel, where there were no video surveillance cameras.
Eight former Iberia Parish Sheriff Office employees previously
entered guilty pleas in related cases involving the incident,
the justice department said.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee)
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