BENTON, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois correctional officer has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges accusing him of assaulting and injuring a handcuffed inmate. Federal prosecutors say 30-year-old Dustin A. Fleming of DuQuoin entered the plea Tuesday to a charge of depriving an inmate of his federal civil rights. Prosecutors say the charge alleges Fleming choked, punched and kicked the Pinckneyville Correctional Center inmate. Fleming is to be sentenced Oct. 18.