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| Guard going to prison, but what one will it be? |
| By ocala.com |
| Published: 10/29/2009 |
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It was hard to overlook the irony when a former federal corrections officer was sentenced to life in prison earlier this week. Once assigned to oversee inmates in the maximum-security unit of the nation's largest prison complex, Erin Sharma soon will become a federal prison charge herself. With a conviction that rests heavily on the abuse of power she committed while a corrections officer, it is upon other officers that her safety and security soon will depend. It is too early to know where Sharma will be placed. Bureau of Prisons officials said it normally takes between days and weeks to locate the appropriate federal facility, based on the pre-sentencing report and a host of other factors. It's likely Sharma, a onetime Ocala resident, already had a specific prison in mind shortly after she was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Patricia C. Fawsett at the Orlando federal courthouse on criminal charges of depriving an inmate of his civil rights. She was convicted of deliberately arranging to move an inmate who had bruised her arm into the cell of another notoriously violent inmate in retribution. Read More. |
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