Former small-town Alabama police chief sentenced to federal prison

The former police chief of a small town in Jackson County has been sentenced to 27 months in prison two federal civil rights violations.

Former Stevenson police Chief Daniel Gordon Winters was convicted of the federal charges in July 2016 by a jury at the federal courthouse in Huntsville.

Winters was handed the 27-month sentence today by U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala. The judge also ordered Winters to pay $12,970 in restitution. The sentence was announced by announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

Winters, 56, was convicted of beating an arrestee, David Fulmer, of Tuscumbia. Winters also was convicted for allowing a civilian to beat Fulmer.

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