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In 2006, Randy Lavespere, a Louisiana doctor, was convicted of buying $8,000 of methamphetamine in a Home Depot parking lot with intent to distribute. He served two years in prison, and his medical license was revoked. But even though he had been convicted of a felony and barred from practicing medicine in most circumstances, he was allowed to treat patients in at least one setting: Louisiana state prisons.
In November 2009, just one month after the Louisiana State Medical Board reinstated his medical license and put him on indefinite probation, Lavespere was hired as a physician at the largest maximum security prison in the country, Louisiana State Penitentiary better known as Angola, after the plantation on which it was built. Lavespere rose through the ranks at the prison, becoming the institution’s medical director in November 2014, less than three weeks after his license was fully reinstated. Earlier this year, he was promoted again, and now serves as the top doct
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A combination of broken cell doors and chronic understaffing created the circumstances under which a Louisiana prison inmate raped a female corrections officer at knifepoint last summer, the woman said in a recent interview.
Deshunta Miller alleges she was raped on the job at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel. Video surveillance shows an inmate approach her from behind and forcefully drag her into a nearby bathroom, according to police.
A grand jury nonetheless found insufficient evidence of a crime, choosing to drop charges against the inmate and indict Miller instead. She has been charged with malfeasance in office for an alleged sexual relationship with another inmate.