A Pierce County judge handed a one-year suspended sentence Monday to a 40-year-old woman who worked as a guard at the state prison on McNeil Island until she got caught having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.
Gina M. Mann pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of second-degree custodial sexual misconduct and one count of third-degree introducing contraband. Both are misdemeanor crimes. Mann admitted she embraced and kissed the man in 2006 and gave him a ring, according to court records.
Her attorney, Terry Robinson, told Superior Court Judge Lisa Worswick on Monday that his client sought comfort from the inmate after another man incarcerated at the prison began harassing and threatening her.
"An affection grew between the two of them," Robinson said. "I don't know why she let this got on this far, but it did."
Mann, who no longer works for the Department of Corrections, apologized in court.
"I do apologize for crossing that line," she told Worswick. "I damaged my family. I damaged his family."
Worswick put Mann on two years probation and also ordered her not to seek a job in law enforcement during that time.
The inmate with which she had the relationship, who is serving time for manslaughter, was transferred out of state following the revelation of the relationship.
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