ME- Worker jailed for sex with inmate

7-23-2005 Maine:

BANGOR — A former kitchen worker at the Penobscot County Jail has been ordered to spend 30 days behind bars for having sex with an inmate. Dawn Chambers, 44, pleaded guilty Thursday in Penobscot County Superior Court to one count of gross sexual assault. She admitted that she had sex on two occasions last winter with a 27-year-old inmate who was under her supervision in the kitchen.

Accepting the prosecution's recommendation, Justice Kirk Studstrup sentenced Chambers to two years in prison with all but 30 days suspended, along with one year of probation following her release. Because it is a felony in Maine for jail or prison employees to have sex with inmates, even if the inmate consents, Chambers also will have to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

The victim, now serving nine months at the Maine Correctional Center for a probation violation, urged the judge to give Chambers a longer jail term. "She made advances to me and brought in drugs," he said. "The same drug I had used (before going back to jail)." ..News Source.. by Maine Today