Three Hamilton County corrections officers are suspended amid allegations that one carried on a months-long relationship with an inmate and another two “roughed up” an inmate during booking.
Jail Chief Ron Parson said an internal affairs investigation into the relationship between a female corrections officer and an inmate was launched Friday.
“We intercepted some phone call conversations between her and an inmate that were sexual in nature,” Parson said. “We soon found out that this had been going on for months.”
Investigators will review tapes of phone calls made from the inmate to the officer’s cell phone that date back to May, Parson said.
The two male jailers were suspended after allegations surfaced that they had been too rough with an inmate charged with public intoxication as they took him to a holding cell last week.