SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV) - A former inmate was convicted of assaulting a Sumner County corrections officer, according to District Attorney General Ray Whitley.

A jury returned a guilty verdict for Kevin Daniel Baker on Wednesday for assaulting a corrections officer in 2023.

Baker was charged on November 11, 2023, after he kicked a corrections officer in the knee during a laundry collection because he did not want the linens in his cell to be cleaned.

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FORMER INMATE CONVICTED OF ASSAULTING SCSO CORRECTIONS OFFICER: Today, following a 2 day jury trial in Sumner County... Posted by Ray Whitley, District Attorney General, Sumner County, TN on Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The corrections officer had to have surgery

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