U.S. Attorney's Office

A federal grand jury indicted a former jail administrator for allegedly beating a handcuffed incarcerated person in an Alabama jail and then lying about it to law enforcement, the Justice Department said. Christian Alexander Porter, 33, is accused of punching an unnamed handcuffed man who was incarcerated at the Crenshaw County Jail in October 2021.

Jefferson County and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for North and Central Alabama have come to a settlement on voting access for the disabled.An…