Ex-Corrections Officer Gets 1 Year For Smuggling Contraband

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- A former detention center officer who pleaded guilty to smuggling cigarettes and cellphones into a county jail has received a year-long sentence.

Twenty-seven-year-old Catherine Windsor of Lothian, who was sentenced Tuesday in Anne Arundel Circuit Court, will serve 90 days in a different detention facility from where she worked. She will serve the remaining time on house arrest.

Windsor was a detention officer at the Jennifer Road Detention Center in Annapolis. Prosecutors say Windsor, who was in debt, agreed to smuggling contraband into the facility for money.

Her lawyer said Windsor was "young and naive" and she was conned into doing the smuggling, The Capital of Annapolis reports.

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