US prison guards indicted on bribery charges

More than 40 prison guards and officers in Georgia have been indicted on charges of accepting bribes and drug trafficking, the latest in a federal effort to crack down on contraband and criminal activity in the state’s jails.

Since September, about 130 people — including prison employees, inmates, former inmates, and others accused of helping them — have been indicted.

A majority of those charged were Georgia Department of Corrections officers accused of agreeing to protect a person they believed was a high-level drug trafficker.