Juvie Guard Sentenced for Sex with Male Inmates - Updated

(Cleveland, Ohio) Joaneen Graham was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison.

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Juvie Guard Guilty of Sex with Male Inmates
[4/21/09 post bumped]
(Cleveland, Ohio) Last month, a 45-year-old corrections officer at the Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correction Facility, Joaneen Graham, was arrested for performing sexual acts on an 18-year-old male inmate.

Graham was arrested after surveillance video showed her in an empty part of the facility March 24, 2008, performing oral sex on an 18-year-old.

She had taken the teen out of his cell on a "cleaning detail." She also had inappropriate contact with a 16-year-old male inmate, prosecutor's spokesman Ryan Miday said.

Subsequently, Graham pleaded guilty to sexual battery and assault. She was due to be sentenced yesterday but it was postponed at her request until April 28.

Graham faces up to 5 and one-half years in prison and classification as a registered sexual offender.