The Hoglawyer

Betsy Wright, formerly Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff when he was governor, has been charged with 51 counts of providing contraband items to a death-row inmate in the Varner Unit in Jefferson County. The criminal case summary can be found here. She claimed that she found a package of Doritos in the bottom of the machine and had idea a knife and tattoo needles were inside the package. It actually sounds very plausible to me, but who knows. I do know that she has irritated officials at the ADC in the past. She has complained about the costs inmates' friends and families are charged to talk to inmates on secured phone calls and the lack of quality of those phone calls. In any event, she has focused on treatment of death-row inmates for several years and I have no doubt some officials at ADC would not mind seeing her inmate visitation privileges revoked because of this incident.