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| Four La. prison officers indicted on sex charges |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/15/2004 |
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Four people who were working as officers at the Basile Detention Center in Evangeline Parish, La., were indicted Friday for allegedly having sexual contact with female inmates. An Evangeline Parish grand jury indicted the four officers on charges of malfeasance in office for sexual conduct prohibited for persons confined in a correctional institution. Kenneth Stenson Sr., Horace Edwards, Frank Lenoir and Jeffery Collins will be arraigned July 1 and if convicted, could face up to 10 years in jail and a $10,000 fine. The indictments follow four days of testimony from investigators, prison officers and 22 inmates at the south Louisiana correctional center. Collins and Edwards were fired after an internal investigation at the prison into the allegations made by female inmates from Alabama. Stenson and Lenoir were placed on administrative leave Friday, said Richard Harbison, vice president of LCS Corrections Services, which runs the prison. The prison's owner, Lafayette-based LCS Corrections Services, had a contract with Alabama to house the inmates as part of that state's attempt to relieve overcrowding in its own prisons. LCS opened in 1990 and operates four prisons in Louisiana. A fifth officer was not indicted by the grand jury but that case will be further investigated, said Brent Coreil, Evangeline Parish district attorney. |
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