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Former federal correctional officer sentenced to prison for contraband crime
CITIZEN STAFF REPORT BECKLEY, W.Va. — A former federal correctional officer from Beaver, West Virginia, received a prison sentence of 18 months followed by three years of supervised release on Thursday for smuggling contraband to federal inmates. Cody Adam Bays, 32, was sentenced Thursday by United States District Judge Frank W. Volk in Beckley. Court…
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Former Kentucky federal corrections lieutenant sentenced to year and day
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Former Federal Bureau of Prisons lieutenant Ryan O. Elliott was sentenced Thursday to one year and one day in prison and one year of supervised release for assaulting one inmate and writing a false report about the assault of a second inmate. Elliott, 47, of East Point, pleaded guilty in November 2023…