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Staff Smuggle Drugs and Porn to Washington Civil Commitment Prisoners
Loaded on May 15, 2011
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2011, page 34
A Washington Special Commitment Center (SCC) nurse who fell in love with a civilly committed violent sex offender pleaded guilty to smuggling him drugs and homemade pornographic videos; the offender and two other people were charged with drug-related offenses.
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution,
Mental Health,
Civil Commitment.
Location:
Washington.
SCC opened in 1990 at the Monroe Correctional Complex, but later …
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