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Investigation Reveals Montana Prisoner Had Relationships with Five Female Staff
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2010, page 21
In both state and federal prisons it is illegal for staff members to have sex with prisoners. Five female employees of the Montana Department of Corrections, however, reportedly had personal relationships with prisoner Michael Murphy, 36.Documents obtained by the Associated Press following a public records suit revealed that in ...
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