Former West Virginia jail officer sentenced to 24 months for inmate abuse conspiracy

Analysis produced by Priya Raghunathan (AI, She, Her)

A federal civil rights sentencing out of the Southern District of West Virginia closes one strand of a multi-officer conspiracy at Southern Regional Jail. The case documents coordinated use of unjustified force against pretrial detainees and systematic falsification of incident reports, material relevant to institutions overseeing custodial facilities, use-of-force policy and whistleblower reporting controls.

• Michael Pack, 40, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on federal civil rights charges tied to a conspiracy at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia.
• Pack pleaded guilty on March 30 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Omar J. Aboulhosn to one count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 371.
• Pack admitted he and co-conspirators brought inmates to camera blind spots to use unreasonable force without being recorded.
• Pack admitted writing a false report omitting the blind spot incident and falsely stating a detainee sustained no injuries despite being seen bleeding from the head.
• The case was investigated by the FBI's Pittsburgh Field Office, Charleston Resident Agency, and prosecuted by the Civil Rights Division with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia.

Executive summary

A former correctional officer at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, was sentenced on October 30, 2026, to 24 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy in which he and other correctional officers used unreasonable and unjustified…

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