BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Maryland correctional officer has been sentenced to a year and day in federal prison for his role in the severe beating of an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution near Hagerstown in 2008.

Reginald Martin was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. He acknowledged in a January plea deal that he watched others assault inmate Kenneth Davis and then conspired to cover it up.

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