Associated Press
LAFAYETTE, La. — A Louisiana sheriff and two of his employees have pleaded not guilty to new criminal charges in the federal investigation into inmate beatings at the parish jail.
Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal and his chief of staff, Gerald Savoy, had already been charged in a series of 2011 beatings inside the jail’s chapel, a location prosecutors say was chosen because there were no surveillance cameras.
A superseding indictment released last week lodges new charges against the two men and former sheriff’s Capt. Mark Frederick, whose name had yet to publicly surface in the investigation.
The Advocate reports that Ackal appeared in uniform Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Hanna in Lafayette. One of Ackal’s three attorneys, Richard Haik, appeared with the sheriff and entered the not guilty plea on his behalf.
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