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GEO Group private prison guard gets year in jail for smuggling contraband

A former corrections officer at a privately run prison in South Bay was sentenced this morning to a year in jail following her convictions earlier this year for introducing contraband and conspiring to introduce contraband into the facility.

Michelle Terrien, 34, was the center of a bizarre triangle within the South Bay Correctional Facility run by the GEO Group. An inmate with a homemade bomb — honey bottles filled with gasoline and connected to batteries and wires — took Terrien hostage last year claiming she never delivered to him $4,000 that she had received from his sister…

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