A senior correctional officer at the federal prison in Lexington has agreed to plead guilty to beating an inmate inside his cell and then writing a false report to cover it up, according to a plea agreement filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
Ryan Carnahan, who worked as a senior officer specialist at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, admitted that on June 28, 2025, he opened the door of a locked cell in the prison’s Special Housing Unit, walked in with two other officers and repeatedly slapped an inmate in the face before punching him. The inmate, identified in the filing only as Inmate A, had not been handcuffed…