The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Dec. 27 that Daniel Mitchell, a former lieutenant at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate civil rights.
According to the U.S. attorney’s office, on Dec. 8, 2021, then-Lt. Mitchell was supervising the special housing unit (SHU) at the Federal Correctional Institution Butner Medium II when a female officer reported that an inmate, identified in court documents as K.G., had exposed himself and engaged in a sexual act in her view.
Rather than following the FBOP’s standard disciplinary process, which includes a formal write-up, Mitchell discussed the incident with another corrections officer, identified as “co-conspirator 1,” and decided to take more severe action, the department said.
Mitchell directed the co-conspirator to move K.G. to a holding cell and “teach him a lesson” by physically assaulting him, according to the department.
The co-conspirator enlisted other officers to assist in relocating K.G. to the holding cell, the U.S. attorney’s office said.