PITTSBURGH — Two Pennsylvania county jail guards have been fired and charged with handcuffing an inmate to a shower stall for more than 30 minutes as they threw boxes, toilet paper rolls, and rubber gloves filled with water at him.
Criminal complaints against Michael Antonio, 40, and Stephen Richard Smith, 49, indicate eight inmates and four other jail staff saw the inmate handcuffed to the shower on Oct. 19. The jail’s security cameras also captured part of the encounter.
‘‘This type of behavior for the jail guards is not something that will be tolerated,’’ Lawrence County District Attorney Joshua Lamancusa told the New Castle News. ‘‘We have a responsibility to treat [inmates] humanely and with dignity.”