Texas Reinstates Prison Guard Who Was Facebook Friends With Inmate
With more than 1 million people in Texas currently in prison, on parole, or on probation, and some 40,000 employees working in prisons in the state, the law of averages dictates that some prison employees, guards, and parole officers were bound to be Facebook friends with convicts, so it is no longer a cause for termination in the state.
With more than 1 million people in Texas currently in prison, on parole, or on probation, and some 40,000 employees working in prisons in the state, the law of averages dictates that some prison employees, guards, and parole officers were bound to be Facebook friends with convicts, so it is no longer a cause for termination in the state.
The Austin American-Statesman reported the news following the reinstatement of Prison Sgt. Heath Lara of Huntsville, who was fired last April for being Facebook friends with Gary Wayne Sanders, who is serving 72 years for a Fort Worth murder in 1990, in the prison where Lara worked.
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