Illinois Prison Guard Pleads Guilty for Role in Beating Inmate to Death
Willie Hedden is one of three guards at the Western Illinois Correctional Center charged in the May 2018 assault of Larry Earvin, who was handcuffed at the time.
Larry Earvin, in an undated photo, was an inmate at the Western Illinois Correctional Center. A forensic pathologist ruled his death a homicide as a result of blunt-force trauma.Credit.Illinois Department of Corrections, via Associated Press
March 9, 2021
A state prison guard in Illinois pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of federal civil rights violations and one count of conspiracy to engage in misleading conduct in the 2018 beating death of an inmate who had been handcuffed, prosecutors said.