CLARKSBURG, W.Va. -- A former guard who sold smokeless tobacco to an inmate at a federal prison in Preston County has been sentenced to five months in prison.
U.S. Attorney Sharon Potter says 34-year-old Robert D. Snyder of Oakland, Md., will spend five months on home detention and three years on supervised release after he is released from prison.
Snyder pleaded guilty in October to one count of bribery. He admitted he accepted cash from an inmate in exchange for the contraband.
U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley sentenced Snyder on Tuesday. (article)
I guess I had the wrong idea about prison. Especially prisons in West Virginia. Don't people shank each other, sell all kinds of goods, and get away with it in prison? Something seems a bit fishy here given how minor of an offense this is. Old Bob Snyder must have been a real prick for someone to want to punish him on this one.
I made it a year!!
14 years ago
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