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| Star Witness Dies In Alleged Sex Behind Bars Scandal |
| By KPRC |
| Published: 11/12/2002 |
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KPRC reported Thursday night that a Texas woman's death may have been a cover-up because she reportedly told officers that jail officers were having sex with prisoners. Some of those investigating the case said they're afraid other witnesses could turn up dead. And if not, they're afraid those witnesses will clam up because one is already out of the picture after making a videotape. The videotape comes from the dashboard camera of a Montgomery County constable's patrol car. The videotape starts out with 20 minutes of small talk, but then a deputy constable steers the chat another way. 'I wish we'd never ended ... never found out about that deal that happened to you in that jail,' the unidentified deputy constable said in the videotape. The former inmate in the videotape was shaping up to be the star witness in the a case involving jail corruption -- her name is Sharon Courtney, a 37-year-old who's been in and out of the Montgomery County Jail many times. 'It's wrong the way they do the women in Montgomery County,' Courtney said in the videotape. 'It's dead wrong.' Montgomery County Constable Travis Bishop said that he was just starting to investigate reports that several deputies in the jail are having sex with female inmates, sometimes even driving them off prison grounds for the encounters. 'It just developed into what I believed enough people were saying there was some substance to the matter,' Bishop said. Courtney had told authorities and her lawyer that she feared she'd be killed if she told everything she knew. The deputy constable in the videotape finally got Courtney to talk and say that jailers had sex with her in exchange for jailhouse privileges. Days later, Courtney's body was found at her secluded trailer home. Montgomery County District Attorney Mike McDougal said that he wants to know if she was killed as part of a cover-up. 'We're trying to run down every bit of information that we can because there's a lot of innuendo, a lot of accusations, a lot of stuff floating around out there that needs to be straightened out,' McDougal said. A preliminary autopsy has ruled out trauma for Courtney's death and blood tests will be back later this month, authorities said. |
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