By Associated Press - Thursday, March 9, 2017

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) - A corrections staffer has been accused of exchanging unauthorized emails with a Tecumseh prison inmate.

Online court records say 28-year-old Chelsea Guiffre (GUHF’-ree) is charged with unlawful acts by a corrections employee.

Beatrice radio station KWBE reports (https://bit.ly/2mFcfFb ) that Guiffre told Judge Steven Timm that she wanted to enter a plea Wednesday of not guilty. But Timm told her he wouldn’t take her plea until after she’d been able to meet with a lawyer.

Corrections spokeswoman Dawn-Renee Smith said Thursday that Guiffre has been suspended without pay from her job as a case manager at the Tecumseh prison.

A court affidavit says Guiffre used the name Gemma Jansen to exchange emails with inmate Troy Giles, who’s serving a sentence of 15 to 20 years for an assault in Douglas County.

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Information from: KWBE-AM.

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