NEW YORK – A former correction
officer was sentenced on Thursday by US District Judge Kenneth Karas to
40 months in prison for the November 12, 2013 beating of an inmate at
Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill and for falsifying records
to cover up the beating.
Carson Morris, 33, of Coconut Creek, Florida pled guilty on November 1,
2017 to assaulting inmate Kevin Moore, 54, at Downstate prison for repeatedly
striking him as he lay restrained on the floor.
Moore was hospitalized for two weeks with several serious injuries from
the beating, including facial bone fractures, five broken ribs, and a
collapsed lung.
Morris also pled to conspiring to violate Moore’s civil rights,
as well as falsifying and conspiring to falsify state prison records about
the assault.
Four other state corrections officers were charged in connection with
the assault and cover-up.
