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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums13 corrections officers indicted in Md., accused of aiding gang’s drug scheme
This could have bad ramifications. At worst, it lets the Private, For Profit Prisons get their foot in the door.... 'See?, The Government can't control their own prisons or staff!'
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By Ann E. Marimow and John Wagner, Apr 24, 2013 12:32 AM EDT
The Washington Post Published: April 23
More than a dozen Maryland state prison guards helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Thirteen female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders, prosecutors said. The officers were charged Tuesday in a federal racketeering
.The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers became pregnant by one inmate. Two of them got tattoos of the inmates first name, Tavon one on her neck, the other on a wrist.
The guards allegedly helped leaders of the Black Guerilla Family run their criminal enterprise in jail by smuggling cellphones, prescription pills and other contraband in their underwear, shoes and hair. One gang leader allegedly used proceeds to buy luxury cars, including a Mercedes-Benz and a BMW, which he allowed some of the officers to drive.
The inmates literally took over the asylum, and the detention centers became safe havens for BGF, said FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt, using shorthand for the prison gangs name.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/thirteen-correctional-officers-indicted-in-maryland/2013/04/23/6d2cbc14-ac23-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
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13 corrections officers indicted in Md., accused of aiding gang’s drug scheme (Original Post)
Ghost in the Machine
May 2013
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Thanks for the link... I didn't see the story last week, just came across it after watching the cops
Ghost in the Machine
May 2013
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alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)1. Tavon? Sure it wasn't Avon? Barksdale!
Also, note that this is a follow-up on THIS story: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2754654
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)2. Thanks for the link... I didn't see the story last week, just came across it after watching the cops
in the gun battle post earlier...
Peace,
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madville
(7,412 posts)3. Happens all the time here
It's usually just one or two at a time here though. It's usually female officers here because we have two state men's prisons in this county, they get coerced into sex, smuggling in contraband, etc. A high school friend works at a female prison in the next county over, he says the prisoners try nonstop to get the guards to do something stupid.