Former prison counselor guilty of smuggling - News - Progress-Index

Former prison counselor guilty of smuggling - News - Progress-Index: "Kevin John Erickson, 50, was found guilty by a federal jury of a single count of conspiracy to provide contraband to inmates, to accept bribes, and to commit assault and one count of soliciting a crime of violence, according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Erickson was a correctional counselor at the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg. The evidence at trial established that Erickson allowed select inmates to charge other inmates for cell and bed assignments. Erickson also smuggled contraband in to the prison for two of these inmates, including a cell phone. In return, the inmates would carry out assaults on other inmates at Erickson's direction. Erickson also solicited an assault on an inmate Erickson feared was cooperating with the investigation, according to authorities. He also provided a set of barber's shears to another inmate to carry out that assault, though that inmate did not commit the assault."