The Associated Press
BOSCAWEN, N.H. —A Merrimack County jail officer has been charged with assaulting an inmate while trying to return him to his cell.
more stories like thisTwenty-eight-year-old Aaron Little of Franklin is the fourth employee at the jail in Boscawen, New Hampshire, to face criminal charges in the last year.
Jail Superintendent Ron White would say little about the incident, which happened in March. He said inmate Roger Gringras refused when asked to go in his cell. Little was part of a team that responded. He said the inmate was hurt when the team used force to try to get him into his cell.
Little is on administrative leave.
Another jail officer, Shawn Cunningham, was convicted this week of two counts of simple assault, for shoving an inmate and knocking him to the ground.
Two other corrections officers have been charged in alleged inmate assaults.