A corrections officer from New Jersey who watched two separate attacks on inmates in an officer’s quarters by fellow inmates and a colleague during a “going away party” is going to prison.
Joshua Hand, 35, was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 months — more than a year and a half — in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and a fine of $10,000, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a press release .
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He pleaded guilty in February to charges of depriving two inmates of their right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, prosecutors said.
His defense attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Law&Crime.
The attacks happened between April 2019 and December 2019 at Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, New Jersey.
Court documents said the attacks at the prison were common. They happened when officers would initiate a “going away party” for an inmate nearing the end of his prison sentence or their transfer to another unit or facility.