Former Philadelphia Prison Guard Now A Convicted Felon
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Ivory S. Cousins, 35, of Glassboro, New Jersey, was a corrections officer at the Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility on State Road. She will now most likely become an inmate herself, albeit in the federal system. Cousins was convicted at trial of three counts of depriving an inmate of his civil rights under color of law and one count of filing a false report about the incident,
Authorities said that she found out about a fight inside the prison that seriously injured an inmate. Instead of getting medical help for the inmate and starting an investigation into the incident, Cousins ignored the incident and covered it up.
Eventually another prison guard found the inmate and called for medical transport. Cousins then pepper sprayed the inmate for no reason. To make matters worse, she then helped another inmate steal the belongings from the injured prisoner. That prisoner was involved in the original assault officials said.
Green was also convicted of filing a false report that listed the injured inmate as the aggressor and claimed he had a weapon, when he did not. Cousins faces a maximum sentence of 41 years in federal prison.