From: AP/Star-Telegram
BEAUMONT, TEXAS. A federal prison chaplain has admitted taking bribes from inmates in return for smuggling cigarettes and tobacco into the Southeast Texas facility.
Eric S. Patrick of Nederland, Texas was chaplain at the maximum-security U.S. Penitentiary near Beaumont. He pleaded guilty Thursday before a federal magistrate in Beaumont to one count of bribery of a public official.
