On February 24, 2025, a former BOP Correctional Officer previously assigned to the United States Penitentiary Hazleton (USP Hazelton) in West Virginia, was sentenced to sixteen months of incarceration, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment, following a guilty plea of conspiracy to commit alteration and falsification of records in an OIG investigation by including false information in a memorandum regarding the assault of an inmate. Joshua David Sines was charged and sentenced in the Northern District of West Virginia. According to the Superseding Indictment, on or about March 21, 2019, Sines knowingly and willfully conspired with BOP Correctional Officer Robert David Sims to alter and falsify records and documents with the intent to impede, obstruct, and influence an OIG investigation regarding deprivation of rights under color of law and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. The investigation was conducted by the OIG's Washington Field Office.
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