Six months is all the time a 52 year old ex-guard at the Corrections Center for Women was sentenced to by Pierce County Superior Court Judge Sergio Armijo.
More from the Tacoma News Tribune's Former guard sentenced in sex case:
[Terry Michael]Mikelson pleaded guilty in October to one count of custodial sexual assault. He admitted in court documents that he had sex with the woman in June 2006 while she was incarcerated at the women’s prison in Purdy.
The consensual liaison took place in a property storage room at the prison, according to court records. Mikelson told the woman he’d grant her special privileges if she had sex with him, the records state.
“She did allow him to have sex with her, but afterwards she felt violated,” according to the records.
The woman saved evidence of the sexual activity and later turned it over to authorities.
Mikelson resigned in January 2007 after a nearly eight-year career with the Corrections Department, agency spokesman Chad Lewis said. The woman served her time and was released, Lewis added.
Mikelson’s sentencing came less than a month after corrections officials held a news conference to report that seven male workers were sent home on paid leave after a four-month investigation into allegations of sexual assault at the women’s prison.
Four women claimed they were coerced into sex or fondled by seven correctional officers, and there has been a lawsuit filed on behalf of abused female inmates.
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