Ex-prison guard admits pepper-spraying inmates’ eyes

A third former prison guard has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, saying he led other guards at a privately run Louisiana prison in spritzing pepper spray into the eyes of kneeling, handcuffed inmates.
Roderick Douglas pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the civil rights of inmates.
Two ex-guards pleaded guilty to a cover-up conspiracy. Two more remain scheduled for trial in federal court in Monroe.
Douglas’ signed statement is the most detailed so far. He says he sprayed two inmates, then