Former Atlanta prison doctor jailed for sex assaults of inmates

ATLANTA (Reuters) – A former doctor at a federal prison in Atlanta was sentenced on Thursday to two years and a month behind bars for sexually assaulting three male inmates in Georgia who sought medical treatment from him, court officials said. Lewis Jackson, 34, still faces sentencing in Washington after pleading guilty in January to sexually assaulting a male inmate at the District of Columbia jail in 2008, federal prosecutors said. “The federal inmates who relied on Dr. Jackson for their care believed he would treat them humanely,” said Sally Yates, U.S. …