CUMBERLAND — The last of four former state correctional officers convicted recently of inmate brutality charges was sentenced Thursday to serve three months in the Allegany County Detention Center.

Jason Weaver, 36, of Cumberland, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit assault during a jury trial Sept. 1, was sentenced in Allegany County Circuit Court by Judge Gary G. Leasure to six months in jail with three months of the sentence suspended.

The judge also ordered Weaver to be placed on two years of supervised probation upon completion of the jail sentence.

Weaver’s wife, Deborah, and at least eight correctional officers attended the hearing in support of Weaver, who served as a correctional officer in Maryland for eight years achieving the rank of sergeant.

Baltimore attorney Shaun F. Owens said, “On behalf of my client and his family, we continue to maintain his innocence and we shall determine whether or not an appeal in this instance is appropriate.”

Maryland Assistant Attorneys General Franklyn G. Musgrave and Jason Abbott declined comment.

At the conclusion of the sentencing, Weaver spoke briefly with his wife and thanked his fellow officers with a slight smile before he walked from the courtroom with a county correctional officer to begin serving his sentence.

The charges stemmed from brutality of inmates at the North Branch Correctional Institution on March 7, 2008. Six former correctional officers were charged and four were convicted of assault, including Richard Robinson, 36, of Cumberland; Kenneth Platter, 37, of Cresaptown; and Tony V. Nery, 42, of Chambersburg, Pa.

Robinson and Platter are serving six-month sentences at the detention center in Cresaptown where Nery is serving a five-month sentence. All three men were sentenced by Leasure in separate hearings on Oct. 30.

Two other officers were charged in the assaults. Ryan Dolan, 28, of Rawlings was found not guilty of assault and conspiracy to commit assault and charges were dismissed against Sherman Jones, 40, of Fort Ashby, W.Va.

All the cases were prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office. The cases were investigated by Maryland State Police.