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  New York Prison Guard Nailed with DNA Evidence
  Loaded on Feb. 15, 1999
  
  
    
      published in Prison Legal News
      February, 1999, page 8
    
  
  
  
  
    
      
    
    
      
        Aformer New York state prison guard was sentenced in September, 1998, to three years imprisonment after admitting he forced a male prisoner to perform oral sex. 
  
    
        Filed under:
          
          Staff-Prisoner Assault,
          
          Guard Misconduct,
          
          DNA Testing/Samples,
          
          Crime/Demographics,
          
          Criminal Prosecution.
          
    
    
      Location:
      
        New York.
      
    
  
  
Michael W. Roberts was a guard at the Adirondack Correctional Facility in upstate New York when he guided prisoner Al Waxter into an employee ...
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