The FBI has charged yet another inmate with escaping but returning to the prison camp adjacent to the U.S. Penitentiary with alcohol, cell phones, drugs and other items that are allegedly sold to other prisoners.
On Thursday night, however, inmate Deldrick Jackson told federal agents that this time he left prison grounds so he could have sex, not to fetch valuable contraband to sell.
Jackson was charged Friday with escape and his fiancée, Kelly Bass, was charged with helping him.
According to an affidavit filed with a federal criminal complaint, Jackson and Bass had been running a shuttle service for inmates who wanted to go to restaurants, nearby hotels and residences. Using a telephone app, FBI agent James Hosty wrote, about $4,000 was transferred from the accounts of prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary in southeast Atlanta into Bass’ bank account, using the app Square Cash, to pay for the services the couple provided.
Assistant U.S. attorney Jeff Davis told a federal magistrate Friday that for months Bass had been running “what can be described as an inmate Uber.”
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