August 5, 2011
Private prison guard guilty of sexual assault
A former Texas detention center guard is about to get a different view of lockup after he pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual abuse of a female detainee, the Justice Department announced this week. Contract security Officer Edwin Rodriguez, 30, was assigned to pick up meal trays from the various housing “pods” inside the detention center. Rodriguez encountered the victim outside one of the pods as she dropped off empty trays from her pod. Rodriguez pulled the woman into the guard’s bathroom located adjacent to the victim’s pod and assaulted her. The female detainee immediately reported the sexual abuse to two individuals, including a former female contract security officer supervising the pod. The abuse occurred at the Willacy Detention Center in Raymondville...
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