A former staff member of the Mississippi Adolescence Center in Brookhaven was sentenced to prison for abuse of a vulnerable person.

Bryan Harris, 23, of McComb, appeared before Judge Michael Taylor in Lincoln County Circuit Court Monday, where he entered a guilty plea.

Judge Taylor sentenced Harris to three years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections with one year and 364 days suspended and one year and one day to serve followed by one year and 364 days of supervised probation. Harris was ordered to pay a $250 fine, $250 to the Mississippi Crime Victims Compensation Fund and $250 to cover the cost of the investigation.

Harris committed the crime at the Mississippi Adolescence Center where the attorney general’s investigation revealed that he struck a 16-year-old and a resident of the facility with a shoe, causing injury.

The Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit handled the case.