A former lieutenant at the Federal Bureau of Prisons was sentenced to two years of probation for conspiring to violate the civil rights of inmates at Butner Correctional Institute.
On December 23, 2024, Daniel Mitchell, 42, pled guilty to the charge.
According to court documents and other information presented in court, Mitchell was a lieutenant supervising the special housing unit at the Federal Correctional Institute Butner Medium II.
Victim K.G. was an inmate housed in the SHU under Mitchell’s supervision.
On the morning of December 8, 2021, a female officer reported to Mitchell that inmate K.G. exposed himself to her and engaged in a sexual act within her view. The BOP disciplinary policy for such behaviour is a formal write-up of the misconduct.
Instead, Mitchell directed another officer to take inmate K.G. to a holding cell and teach him a lesson by “tuning him up.”
There, the inmate was physically assaulted by the officer.
In later interviews, Mitchell and the officer both admitted to meeting in Mitchell’s office, where they agreed that the officer would assault K.G. as punishment.
