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Ex-captain Sentenced for Raping Subordinate at Virginia Prison

Loaded on July 6, 2016 published in Prison Legal News July, 2016, page 21
Filed under: Staff-Staff Assault, Guard Misconduct, Assaults on Staff, Failure to Protect (Staff). Location: Virginia.

Lloyd G. Samuels, a former captain employed by the Virginia Department of Corrections and a naturalized U.S. citizen from Jamaica, was sentenced on March 11, 2016 to 10 years in prison with six years suspended for raping a fellow prison employee in a staff barracks. Samuels’ unidentified victim has remained ...

 

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