Former Prison Worker Sentenced for Accepting Bribe

KANSAS CITY, KN—Jacob Roscoe, 34, Leavenworth, Kan., a former recreation specialist at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for accepting a bribe, Acting U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker said today. After he completes his sentence, he will be on supervised release for two years.

In January 2009, Roscoe entered a guilty plea. In his plea, Roscoe admitted that he made an agreement with an inmate to smuggle items including marijuana and jewelry into the prison. In return, the inmate agreed to pay him $1,400. The inmate gave Roscoe a contact number for a woman who would pay him and provide the items for him to smuggle into the prison.

Parker commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberley Hare and Assistant U.S. Attorney David Smith for their work on the case.

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