An East Feliciana Parish corrections officer has been arrested and fired from his job after confessing to bringing contraband into the parish prison, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Jaylon Turner, 21, of Zachary, was booked into prison on counts of introducing contraband into a penal institution and malfeasance in office, the department said in a news release.
After getting a tip that Turner had been conspiring with an inmate and one of Turner’s relatives to bring contraband into the prison, the sheriff’s office began an investigation that ended with Turner’s arrest Monday night…