Four former prison officials have been sentenced to prison for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Leavenworth Detention Center, a maximum-security federal prison in Kansas, officials stated.
Janna Grier, 36, of Horton, Kansas, was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for conspiracy to solicit bribes and provide contraband to inmates of a federal prison.
According to court documents, Grier used her position as a correctional officer at Leavenworth to smuggle contraband into the prison and also solicited other prison officials to use their positions to smuggle contraband into Leavenworth.
Jeane Arnette, 61, of Leavenworth, was sentenced to six months in prison today for conspiracy to provide contraband to inmates of a federal prison.
According to court documents, Arnette used her position as a nurse at Leavenworth to smuggle contraband — including cell phones — into the prison.
Jacqueline Sifuentes, 26, of Laredo, Texas, and Cheyonte Harris, 29, of Raytown, Missouri, each used their position as a correctional officer at Leavenworth to smuggle contraband — including methamphetamine, marijuana, and tobacco — into the prison in exchange for bribes from inmates and their associates.
Sifuentes was recently sentenced to 14 months in prison, and Harris was recently sentenced to 20 months in prison.
The FBI investigated the cases.
Trial Attorneys Rebecca M. Schuman, Jacob R. Steiner, and Lauren Castaldi of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section prosecuted the cases.