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| S.C. Governor Fires Prison Official |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/19/2001 |
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Gov. Jim Hodges fired South Carolina's prisons director recently after two correctional officers were charged with allowing inmates to have sex at the governor's residence. The new charges deepened a prison sex scandal that has already involved convicted child killer Susan Smith. “I've lost confidence in the leadership of the agency,'' Hodges said in firing Corrections Department Director Doug Catoe. On January 10, Richland County chief prosecutor Barney Giese said two prison officers were charged with allowing inmates to have sex at the Governor's Mansion complex and at the governor's temporary residence in a Columbia neighborhood. The charges involved four minimum-security inmates who worked at the governor's mansion complex and temporary residence, handling maintenance, housecleaning and cooking. According to an affidavit, officer Freddie Priester left his post at the temporary residence while inmates Nancy Mulwee and Antoine Frazier had sex. Priester and co-worker Demont Gilbert are also accused of failing to report sexual encounters between those prisoners and two other inmates. The encounters began in April and ended in December, the affidavit said. Mathias became pregnant, and Priester tried to arrange an abortion for her, the affidavit says. Gilbert allegedly advised her to drink bleach to induce an abortion. The Corrections Department has been under fire since last year, when an officer was accused of having sex with Smith, who is serving a life sentence for drowning her two sons in a lake in 1994. About a dozen employees have already been fired.Neither officer charged was accused of having sex with the inmates, and prisoners told investigators they did not use the governor's bedroom or have encounters while the governor's family was home. Barkley said women prisoners will no longer be assigned to the governor's home or buildings on the mansion grounds. |
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