CLEVELAND, Ohio — Two Cuyahoga County Jail officers face discipline for separate use-of-force incidents against inmates who were praying, mentally ill or physically ill.

Cuyahoga County Corrections officers Darriell Hayes and Christopher Perdue face discipline at hearings scheduled for Thursday, according to records obtained by cleveland.com. Cuyahoga County spokeswoman Mary Louse Madigan said Perdue has a disciplinary hearing scheduled that day, but was unsure about Hayes.

The incidents involving Hayes and Perdue happened between Oct. 17 and Nov. 12 and preceded a 55-page U.S. Marshals report released Nov. 21 that detailed “inhumane” conditions at the jail.

The marshals' report detailed “strong and consistent allegations of brutality, [use-of-force] punishment and cruel treatment” of inmates by some guards, specifically the jail’s the tactical Special Response Team, a specialized unit that known as the “Men in Black” because of their paramilitary gear.

The marshals reported that more than 100 inmates told their investigators that members of the SRT team also verbally abused inmates. The marshals reviewed multiple body camera videos that show “aggressive conduct and behavior as well as abusive, explicit language used by SRT members direct at detainees/inmates,” the marshals report says.

One use-of-force incident detailed in the report says the FBI is investigating an officer who used force as punishment against an inmate.

It’s unclear whether the incidents involving Hayes and Perdue are included in the FBI’s inquiry. But records obtained by cleveland.com sheds more light on incidents two incidents described only in vague details in the marshals report.

Seven inmate deaths spurred the marshals' investigation. One of the deaths prompted a criminal investigation into the actions of a now-fired corrections officer who is accused of ignoring the dying inmate. None of those inmates died as a result of excessive force, but the marshals' interviews with inmates uncovered numerous alleged abuses by corrections officers.

Officer attacked Muslim inmate as he prayed

Perdue, who has been a corrections officer for one year and is a member of the Special Response Team, is accused of attacking a 27-year-old Muslim inmate while he was praying, according to the records.

The incident happened about 9 p.m. Nov. 3 as the inmate prayed between two beds in a cell that wasn’t his so he could face east, the records say.

Perdue asked him to move and gave him several other areas to pray, the records say. Perdue asked for help from a supervisor as the inmate refused to move. Perdue told investigators that the inmate challenged him to a fight and rammed his shoulder into the officer, the records say. That, however, was not captured on surveillance or body camera video and several witnesses told investigators the inmate never hit Perdue.

Surveillance video showed that the inmate gathered up his belongs and when Purdue grabbed him in a choke hold by the throat and lifted him up off the ground, the records say.

Purdue walked the inmate, still in the headlock, about 30 feet to the pod’s door. He tried to unlock the door, then slammed the inmate to the ground after other officers arrived to help him, according to the records.

Purdue told investigators that he had the only set of keys for that pod, but investigators noted that the keys were located elsewhere in the jail.

“Since the inmate posed no immediate threat, OFC Perdue should have walked away from the inmate and opened the pod door so pack-up could gain entry,” the report says.

Purdue said in a written statement provided to investigators that the inmate was “argumentative” and that he tried to use verbal deescalation techniques. He also said the inmate had attacked him first and that he was alone in a pod with 55 other inmates when the altercation happened, leading him to believe that the use of force was necessary.

Several inmates who witnessed the incident gave written statements to investigators saying that the inmate never fought back during the attack and that Perdue had initially asked the inmate “nicely” to move before the two argued.

Perdue remains employed with the county and is not on restricted duty.

In a letter the inmate sent to the Council on American-Islamic Relations and read at a public meeting on conditions at the jail in December, the inmate wrote that he was in fear for his life and called the attack a hate crime.

He also wrote to the CAIR that he believe he was attacked because he interviewed with the U.S. Marshals led team.

“Seven people have been killed, and I pray I’m not the eighth,” the inmate wrote. An eighth inmate died in a suspected hanging at the jail after the inmate wrote the letter.

Ohio Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Attorney attorney Adam Chaloupka said Perdue twice told the inmate to move, gave him time to do so and the inmate still refused. The inmate also threatened Perdue. He also said that the inmate hit the guard first, although it may not have been captured because of the way the surveillance cameras are located in the jail.

“The refusal of the verbal orders authorized officer Perdue to use some level of force,” Chaloupka said. “Officer Perdue gave him other. This inmate threatened to assault our officer. We don’t think there’s enough there for any discipline.”

Inmate ends up in wheelchair after officer him while shaking from Tourette syndrome

Hayes, who has been a corrections officer for five years, is accused of grabbing an inmate suffering from Tourette Syndrome. His attorney, Michael Rendon, said the inmate is confined to a wheelchair and is going through physical therapy to learn how to walk again.

The incident happened Oct. 16. The inmate, who uncontrollably twitches as a result of Tourette Syndrome, was holding on to a nurse who was escorting him to the car where the nurse hands out medicine to inmates, the records say.

The inmate was holding onto the nurse and twitched, the records say. Hayes, who was working on a day off and was unfamiliar with the inmate’s condition, thought he had grabbed the nurse, according to the records.

He ran up to the inmate and grabbed him with one hand across his torso and another across the back of his neck, according to the records. The pills that the nurse handed him went flying, the records say.

The nurse told the officer to release the inmate and explained why.

Hayes responded: “I’m not used to this. I’m used to laying people out when this happens,” the records say.

Hayes never reported the incident, which he is required to do. A doctor examined the inmate the next day because of neck pain, according to the records.

Two days later, Hayes said he didn’t remember the inmate. He told the investigators that he held an inmate who was shaking.

Hayes later said in a written statement that he grabbed the inmate for the inmate’s own well-being, the records say. He said he didn’t believe what he did amounted to a use of force and didn’t think it was significant enough to warrant reporting it to a supervisor.

“He thought that the inmate was becoming violent or agitated, and simply tried to restrain him,” OPBA attorney Leffler said.

The inmate told investigators that Hayes firmly gripped his neck and choked him, according to the records. He also said his neck had been in pain since the incident, the records say.

Three witnesses also said that Hayes grabbed the back of the inmate’s neck.

OPBA attorney Dan Leffler, who is representing Hayes, said Hayes mistakenly believed the inmate was becoming violent.

Rendon said Hayes since the attack has been confined to a wheelchair. He said his client has a hard time moving one of his legs after the attack, but that he has not yet received all the medical records for his client.

Rendon said he plans to conduct his own investigation and pursue a lawsuit.

“He definitely came out differently than he came in,” Rendon said. “When you’re in the custody of the sheriff’s office, you don’t expect to come out with this type of injury. Hopefully we can make some changes on how some of the guards treat the inmates. There’s some very good officers in there that treat inmates with respect. But having said that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”