TX Prison Guards indicted in inmates assault

In this article two former state correctional officers have been indicted on federal charges of assaulting an inmate, Robert Tanzini in November 2002. Eugene Morris Jr., 39, of Huntsville and Tracy Dean Jewett, 35, of Huffman are both accused of not giving an inmate his civil right to be “free of cruel and unusual punishment”. Morris is accused of kicking and injuring Tanzini, and both are accused of making a false entry into a corrections "use of force" report with the intent of obstructing justice. If they are convicted they will receive up to 10 years of prison and a fine of $250,000. This assault was witnessed by other sergeants and correctional officers, but the case was dismissed in 2004 because Tanzini was representing himself and wasn’t able to file the required court documents.
I think this case is ridiculous. This should have been taken cared of a long time ago. If this assault was witnessed by others, not by inmates but by correctional officers and sergeants, then these two “correctional officers” should have been sentenced back in 2002 when this assualt occurred. I thought there was some kind of law giving inmates the right to trial? Why did Tanzini have to be represent himself, isn’t the law supposed to offer him a lawyer? Tanzini didn’t come out of the assualt with just a couple of bruises, no we’re talking about him having to go to a nearby hospital in critical condition suffering from skull fractures and other injuries because of this correctional officer. Regardless of what provoked the officer to commit such an assualt shouldn’t matter, I mean it should to an extent but he shouldn’t have allowed himself to get this far carried away. If I were the judge of this case I would take away both Jewett and Morris’s privileges as a correctional officers, sentence them to prison for 10 years, fine them $250,000 and offer some help to Tanzini’s family with his future health bills.