Donald Lykon used to shake down inmates for contraband. On Monday, he was told to join them for selling it to them. Senior U.S. District Judge James M. Munley sentenced the former corrections officer at United States Penitentiary-Canaan to 18 months in federal prison for smuggling contraband into the high-security Wayne County prison and taking thousands of dollars in bribes. Joined by his wife, Kimberly, who was also sentenced for her role in the scheme, Lykon blamed his addiction to drugs for his lapse in judgement - surreptitiously hauling marijuana, cellphones, and cigarettes into the prison for inmates so he could line his pockets with cash.
"I am deeply sorry for what I have done," he told Munley before his sentence was handed down.
Munley offered a blunt assessment of what Lykon had done to the criminal justice system, as a corrections officer who is supposed to uphold the law.
"I just want you to know how low of a conduct this is," Munley bellowed. "There is no compassion."
Lykon's choice to smuggle contraband into a prison "eats away at the whole damn system" of law and order and puts other corrections officers at risk, the judge said.
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