Tuesday, April 15, 2008

OK prison guard charged with sexual "relationship" with inmate

Dean Craig Jimison, 49, a former Eddie Warrior Correctional Center guard, was charged with rape and sodomy for ongoing sex with a female inmate serving time for her own sex offense conviction. The Ft. Gisson resident is free orn $20,000 bond on three charges of rape and three charges of sodomy each.

Jimison was a sergeant and guard at the time, according to the charges. He is no longer employed at the prison, a prison employee said.

The alleged offenses were revealed by the former inmate to a counselor in her sex offender treatment class, said Nikki Baker-Dotson, Muskogee County assistant district attorney.

The 33-year-old woman had been serving 30 years for rape convictions from Washington County, according to Oklahoma Department of Corrections records. She also had been given 15 years on probation out of Washington County and a 10-year suspended sentence for a Tulsa County rape conviction, records show.

While the victim said that the sex acts were consensual, there is no true consent between guards and prison inmates. Sodomy in Oklahoma carries a maximum 10 year term, and rape carries between 1 and 15 years.

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