DA VANCE AND DOI COMMISSIONER PETERS ANNOUNCE SENTENCING OF CORRECTION OFFICER TO SIX YEARS IN STATE PRISON FOR SMUGGLING PRISON CONTRABAND (The New York County District Attorney's Office)

(Source: The New York County District Attorney's Office) Defendant Smuggled Cell Phones and Other Contraband into Manhattan Detention Complex Co-Defendant Khalilah Mattocks Also Pleaded Guilty to Providing Contraband To Be Smuggled Inside Jail Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and New York City Department of Investigation ('DOI') Commissioner Mark G. Peters today announced the sentencing of PATRICIA HOWARD, 44, a former Department of Correction ('DOC') Officer, to six years in state prison and five years' post-release supervision for smuggling dangerous and other prison contraband into the Manhattan Detention Complex ('MDC'). On March 31, 2016, the defendant pleaded guilty to...