Prison guards convicted in sex-for-contraband plot (Jeb's Florida)

[seafan]

Prison guards convicted in sex-for-contraband plot

Sun, Nov. 05, 2006

TALLAHASSEE -- (AP) -- A jury found a male prison guard guilty of bribery and another guilty of witness tampering Friday in a sex-for-contraband scheme that ended with a deadly shootout at a federal prison for women.
A U.S. District Court jury convicted Gregory Dixon of three counts of bribery and Alan Moore of witness tampering. The jury also found both guilty of conspiracy to accept illegal gratuities after deliberating nearly eight hours. Moore was also convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity.

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Three other guards previously had pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges. A sixth guard, Ralph Hill, was killed in the June 21 gunfight that he started at Tallahassee Correctional Institution when federal agents came to arrest them, officials said.

Justice Department special agent William ''Buddy'' Sentner also was killed and a prison officer assisting in the arrests was wounded.

Judge Robert Hinkle set sentencing for Jan. 10. Dixon could face up to 47 years in prison, while Moore faces 14 years. Hinkle threw out the most serious charges of conspiracy to commit extortion and mail fraud, citing insufficient evidence, and the jury acquitted both men of conspiracy to commit bribery.

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More than a dozen current and former inmates, some in prison uniforms and chains, testified against the two guards during the weeklong trial. Some said they traded sex for such commonplace items as cigarettes, cigars, gum and cosmetics. None of them claimed to receive drugs or alcohol.

Others said they acted as lookouts or paid guards for contraband.

[jonnywishbone97]

1. Jebs Florida has the worst law enforcement in the country

In Bay county they just like to suffocate juvenile offenders to death..

[Dirty Hippie]

2. No fan of Jeb

but these were Federal Correctional officers.

[seafan]

4. "Jeb Bush hiring decisions questioned after ex-prisons chief scandal"

This is all one big stinking mess under Jeb Bush.


Jeb Bush hiring decisions questioned after ex-prisons chief scandal

[ret5hd]

3. I'd say these women were lucky...

(no, of course i don't believe they were lucky)

they weren't here, in my town, in the federal womens prison:

read about the torture, mistreatment, and negligence at the Carswell facility here:
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=4112

and here:
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=3980

and here (excellent story):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=3881

and here (at bottom of page):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=3792

and here (another excellent article):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=3325

and here (another excellent article):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=2691

and here (about Susan McDougal's stay there):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=671

and here (seventh guard at Carswell convicted of sexual abuse)
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=1479

and here (guards and doctors sexually abuse inmates at Carswell):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=2119

and here (nuns protesting "School of the Americas" sentenced to Carswell):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=2211

and here (more Carswell prison rape):
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=2489

[Judi Lynn]

5. My God. Just finished your first link. Have to wait some before reading

the others. It doesn't look as if it's going to get easier, if these all refer to the same prison!

The first link was excellent, telling things most people never have heard. It's about time we got some light directed into these dark, secret rooms of our government, for christ's sake.

[ret5hd]

6. It gets worse and worse...all from same prison. (nt)

[NOLADEM]

7. EVERY DAY in EVERY prison in America

Always has been, always will