A former Oklahoma jail supervisor is now facing prison time after a federal jury convicted him of excessive force and deliberately putting two inmates in harm’s way.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Matthew Ware, 53, deprived three pretrial detainees at the Kay County Detention Center in rural Newkirk, Oklahoma, near the Kansas border of their civil rights in 2017 and 2018.
He put two Black detainees, D’Angelo Wilson and Marcus Miller, at risk by placing them in the same unit as white supremacists who attacked them.
“This high-ranking corrections official had a duty to ensure that the civil rights of pretrial detainees in his custody were not violated,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
“The defendant abused his power and authority by ordering subordinate corrections officers to violate the constitutional rights of several pretrial detainees. The Civil Rights Division will continue to hold corrections officials accountable when they violate the civil rights of detainees and inmates.”
According to justice officials, Ware was lieutenant in May 2017 when he ordered lower-ranking officers to place Miller and Wilson on the same cell row as known white supremacists. He later told his subordinates to unlock the Black inmates’ and the white supremacists’ cells at the same time.
As a result, they attacked Miller and Wilson, leaving Wilson with a facial laceration that required seven stitches, officials...
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