On September 25, 2025, Damon Perry, a former USMS Contract Correctional Officer, was sentenced in the Northern District of Ohio to 112 months of imprisonment followed by 60 months of supervised release and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and a $400 special assessment for sexual abuse and sexual abuse of a ward. According to the factual statement in support of the guilty plea, on two occasions in November 2023, Perry sexually abused a USMS detainee housed at the Mahoning County Jail. The investigation was conducted by the OIG’s Detroit Office with assistance from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department.
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