JONESBORO — A Clayton County Corrections officer and a jail nurse were arrested Friday, May 26 for giving contraband to inmates.
According to a Nixle alert sent by the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office Friday night, Officer Tabitha S. Clifton was arrested for violating her oath of office when she “willfully and intentionally violated the terms of the oath as prescribed by law by operating outside of her lawful duties by furnishing prohibited items to inmates otherwise known as contraband.”
A jail nurse, Jessica Castellanos, was also arrested Friday for obstruction of an officer and furnishing prohibited items to inmates.
According to Clayton County Jail records, Clifton, 31, of 503 Oxford Circle, Hampton, was booked into the jail at 3:31 a.m., May 26. She is charged with violation of oath of a public officer and giving inmate guns, drugs, or alcohol.
The arrests come a day after a corrections officer was arrested for planning an attack on an inmate.
According to Clayton County Jail records, Sean William Hollinshead, 34, of 3680 Woody Hill Drive, Lithonia, is charged with violation of oath of a public officer and criminal negligence.
According to the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, Hollinshead planned and orchestrated what was described as a “vicious attack” of an inmate in his custody.
The CCSO said Hollinshead “knowingly, recklessly, and without disregard for the safety of the inmate” placed him in a high-risk housing unit, causing the inmate to receive life-threatening injuries and did not render aid as the beating and stabbing was taken place.
“Let me be crystal clear, I locked up one of my own tonight and will continue to surgically remove any officers or deputies from my rank and file that places citizens, inmates, or employees at risk,” Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen said in a Nixle alert sent out…
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