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Romance with Jail Guard Lands Sex Offender Back in Prison
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2008
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2008, page 52
Once described as the most-watched prisoner in Texas, Wesley Wayne Miller has managed to make the news again. Miller, 45, is the state’s first prisoner to be committed under the Sexually Violent Predator Program. He was convicted of murder in 1982 and was suspected of several rapes. Two years after …
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Civil Commitment.
Location:
Texas.
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