Pleaded guilty to sexual abuse, other charges involving inmate
Apr 30, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN A former prison guard here has been sentenced for sexual abuse of a ward, accepting bribes and smuggling contraband to an inmate.
Barbara Davis, 47, of Youngstown, was sentenced to five months imprisonment and five months of home confinement by U.S. Judge Sara Lioi in Akron.
Davis, a former Northeast Ohio Correctional Center correctional officer, pleaded guilty in January to sexual abuse of a ward, accepting bribes and providing a cellphone and tobacco to an inmate.
“Exploiting a position of trust by sexually abusing an inmate and receiving bribe payoffs for smuggling contraband into a correction center threatens to undermine the public’s trust in our criminal justice system,” acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan, said in a news release Thursday. “Let this matter be a reminder to the public that anyone who seeks to harm and exploit inmates or detainees can and will be held acc
Apr 29, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN A former prison guard here has been sentenced for sexual abuse of a ward, accepting bribes and smuggling contraband to an inmate.
Barbara Davis, 47, of Youngstown, was sentenced to five months imprisonment and five months of home confinement by U.S. Judge Sara Lioi in Akron.
Davis, a former Northeast Ohio Correction Center correctional officer, pleaded guilty in January to sexual abuse of a ward, accepting bribes and providing a cell phone and tobacco to an inmate.
“Exploiting a position of trust by sexually abusing an inmate and receiving bribe payoffs for smuggling contraband into a correction center threatens to undermine the public’s trust in our criminal justice system,” said acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan, in a news release Thursday. “Let this matter be a reminder to the public that anyone who seeks to harm and exploit inmates or detainees can and will be held accountable.”