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A former Fayette County Detention Center supervisor who pleaded guilty in May to being part of systematic detainee abuse at the jail was sentenced in the case Wednesday.

Kristine Lafoe, a former lieutenant and supervisor at the jail, was sentenced to one year in prison and two years of supervised release. Lafoe pleaded guilty on May 14 to a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice for her role in concealing abuses at FCDC.

According to the plea proceeding and documents filed in court, Lafoe, who supervised the midnight intake shift at the FCDC, admitted that between January and October 2006 she instructed officers under her command to falsify reports by using inaccurate language to describe uses of force so that the physical abuse of detainees would sound innocuous and justifiable.

As a supervisor, Lafoe then reviewed these false reports and submitted them to her supervisors, knowing that the reports would conceal and cover up detainee abuse and would obstruct any federal investigations of the abuse. Lafoe admitted that her actions allowed officers under her command to continue abusing detainees with impunity.