PENDLETON, Ind. (WTHR) - Three former officers at the Pendleton Correctional Facility were arrested on felony charges Thursday morning.
The three men are accused of beating an inmate February 24, with the attack captured by surveillance cameras.
Video shows the inmate, David Lee Perry, who is handcuffed behind his back, led into a cell, where he's allegedly punched in the face, kneed in the chest and shoved into a brick wall.
The probable cause affidavit says Perry suffered injuries to several areas of his upper body, including a broken jaw.
Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said the beating was supposedly in retaliation for the inmate spitting on the officers the day before.
"It appears this was a calculated reprisal for battery upon them," Cummings said, adding, "the prisons are very, very difficult places to work and the people that work there put up with unbelievable indignities, but this is not appropriate behavior and it's not acceptable. We do not stand for that in law enforcement."
Unbeknownst to those charged, the surveillance cameras were just recently installed.
The men arrested are Matthew Franklin, 29, of Daleville, and Zachary Graham, 30, of Pendleton. Both men are facing felony charges of Battery with Moderate Injury and Official Misconduct.
Jonathan Reed, 29, of Anderson, was charged with Level 6 Felony Official Misconduct and misdemeanor False Reporting.