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Former prison officials plead guilty to bribery scheme
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Accused of smuggling drugs and other contraband into a federal prison, a former case manager and a correctional officer recently pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.
Between March 2018 and March 2019, Stephen Taylor, then a case manager at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Petersburg in Prince George County, Virginia, received over $17,000 in Walmart-2-Walmart transfers from Kim Williams, the mother of an inmate named Dontay Cox. In exchange for the bribes, Taylor received contraband, including Suboxone, marijuana, cellular telephones, and tobacco, from Cox’s girlfriend, Rameesha Smith, and smuggled the illicit items into the federal prison.