Colorado to pay inmate $200,000 for excessive force by corrections officers

Colorado will pay $200,000 to a state prison inmate whose head was split open when two corrections officers slammed him onto the floor, according to a statement from the inmate’s lawyers sent on Thursday. The inmate, Shawn Lovett, was being escorted from his cell in Centennial Correctional Facility near Cañon City when then-corrections officer Anthony Martinez lifted Lovett by his wrist restraints and forced him to the ground, a video of the 2014 incident showed. Lovett was knocked unconscious and was ble