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Library-Book Drug Smugglers SentencedA Fort Worth, Texas, inmate and his girlfriend, who were convicted in April of smuggling methamphetamine into the prison in the spines of books that the prison library received via interlibrary loan from local public libraries, were sentenced August 6. Edmond Wright, who worked for part of 2005 in the education department of the Federal Correctional Institute in Seagoville, Texas, while serving 18 years for two other convictions, was sentenced to an additional 30 years in federal prison, the Associated Press reported August 7. Sherry Matthews, who was named a co-conspirator, received a five-year prison sentence. Prisoners have attempted to use library books to smuggle contraband before, as in a scheme discovered in Michigan last year before any drugs had entered the Carson City Correctional Facility. Posted on August 10, 2007. |
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