Two prison guards from Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga. resigned from their positions Monday after a photo of a beaten teenage inmate kneeling on the floor with a makeshift leash tied around his neck spread across Facebook last week.
The teen in the photo has been identified, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, as 18-year-old Cortez Berry, who is currently serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for aggravated assault, robbery, and theft of a motor vehicle. He was reportedly beaten by "at least" 10 other inmates and then forced to pose for the now viral photo, apparently taken on a contraband cell phone.