I wonder if you would be so kind as to cite even a single example from the federal system, or even from any state, where someone functioning in a governmental or quasi-governmental capacity has actually been found guilty of any crime involving "civil rights violations" and been "sent to prison."
I’m going to step out on a limb here and site the Rodney King trial federal trial. The officers got nailed on hate-crimes associated with violating his civil rights as I recall. Someone else care to correct me? This is completely from memory.
Here you go.
The relevant paragraph is towards the bottom and concerns one Arthur Sease and his co-conspirators.