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Former West Virginia officers sentenced to decades in prison for their role in deadly inmate assault
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FILE - The Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., is seen in this undated photo. - photo by Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald via AP, File
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate. Mark Holdren, 41, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and Johnathan Walters, 33, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the March 2022 attack in the Southern Regional Jail, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Quantez Burks, 37, was a pretrial detainee who died less than a day after he was booked into the jail in Beaver on a wanton endangerment charge, according to court documents.