Burl Cain, the legendary warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, entered into business partnerships a few years ago with two men who had close ties with state inmates, despite Department of Public Safety and Corrections policies designed to limit relationships between prison officials and relatives and friends of the offenders they oversee. Cain, 73, was trying to develop a subdivision in West Feliciana Parish, near his home in Jackson and about 30 miles from the nation's largest maximum-security prison, which he has overseen as warden for two decades. He transacted with two businessmen, one the stepfather of a double-murderer and the other a friend of a killer who helped underwrite the convict's appeals. State law does not specifically address whether wardens can do business with family and friends of inmates. But personnel rules for corrections officials ban "nonprofessional relationships with offenders or with offenders' families or friends." The rules frown on even minor interactions, like writing letters or making phone calls to such people. They require that "mail or phone calls received from offenders or their families outside the normal course and scope of the employee's job duties must be reported at the earliest opportunity to the employee's… Read full this story
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