NATION IN BRIEF : MONTANA : Dinner With Killer Costs Official’s Job
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A prisons official who took a jailed murderer to dinner bowed to pressure and resigned, Gov. Marc Racicot said. Mickey Gamble, an administrator of Montana’s Corrections Division, came under fire after it became known that he had taken three female prisoners--including a convicted murderer--out to the Red Lobster restaurant in Billings as a reward for good behavior. “I made a serious judgment error and there are consequences for such action,” Gamble wrote in a resignation letter.
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