Georgia jailer in jail for giving drugs, other contraband to prisoners

Whitney Ryan Ashmore
Whitney Ryan Ashmore, Polk County Jail

POLK COUNTY, Ga. — Coming in the aftermath of the historic and terrifying prison break of two convicted murderers in upstate New York last month that sent thousands of state and federal agents on a month-long search near the Canadian border, a local jailer is probably going to face severe consequences for providing illicit favors and contraband to inmates.
Whitney Ryan Ashmore is now holed up in the same jail that the jailer once foot-patrolled after Chief Jailer Al Sharp told WSB-TV that Ashmore is accused of giving inmates marijuana, tobacco, cans of dip and rolling papers.
Ashmore is now held without bail inside that jail, about an hour west of Atlanta near the Alabama border.
According to WSB, Ashmore, 39, of Cedartown, Ga., faces charges of violation of oath crossing guardline with contraband, giving inmates liquor, drugs and weapons without consent of warden and trading with inmates without consent of warden or superintendent.

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