CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio — Editor's note: The video in the player above is from a previously published story.
On Wednesday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that a former corrections officer for Cuyahoga County has been sentenced to 30 days in jail following a guilty plea to counts of tampering with records and dereliction of duty relating to an inmate's death.
Martin Devring, 61, plead guilty in February to the two misdemeanor charges and was sentenced in a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday.
“Mr. Devring didn’t cause this man to die, but his actions could have made a difference in life and death,” Yost said. “Corrections officers are the gatekeepers for our jails, and they have an obligation to serve and protect.”
Joseph Arquillo, the inmate at the Cuyahoga County jail died in August 2018
An investigation into the death found that Devring had failed to regularly monitor or perform rounds on the inmates, and ignored Arquillo as he was dying. Devring then falsified jail records to conceal his actions.