South Dakota prison guard convicted of assaulting inmate at Sioux Falls penitentiary

'The conduct in this case should not and has not been tolerated,' AG says following two-day trial.

A former South Dakota Department of Corrections officer has been convicted of multiple charges stemming from an assault on a state prison inmate last year.

The South Dakota Attorney General’s Office earned a pair of convictions against Joshua Westenkirchner this week in a two-day trial before a Minnehaha County jury, which found the Harrisburg man guilty…