Prison Shrink Gets Off Easy For Making the Jailhouse Rock

Magdalena Sanchez, the prison psychologist convicted of having sex with an inmate last year and then lying about it to the Justice Department, was able to walk out of the courthouse yesterday with a mere sentence of probation. Sanchez was arrested last spring for having an affair with reputed Bloods gang member Demetrius Hill who was under her care. She even went so far as to put him on suicide watch so she would have unfettered access to him in an area that had no surveillance cameras. Her husband Josh Spitz, a Lehman Brothers investment banker who must really be having a tough week, was present for the sentencing and had written a letter to the judge asking him to be lenient on his wife. The judge said that Sanchez would not have to perform community service as part of her sentence since she already volunteers in various capacities including at a suicide hotline.

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By Billy Parker in News on September 13, 2008 11:08 AM

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takethecanoli

It seems her first name is appropriate.

officeninja

Yes, "suicide hotline" indeed.

Maybrick2001

Could our judicial system be any more of a joke than it is??? I think NOT!

NannyState

She should have been made to man the suicide hotline at Lehman Brothers.

Barbj8

"Community service"? So that's what the kids are calling it these days!

adm

"She even went so far as to put him on suicide watch so she would have unfettered access to him in an area that had no surveillance cameras."

Can someone explain why the suicide *watch* area has no cameras?

I guess it's because there's supposed to be someone sitting in the room with you the whole time, and this lady would come in for relief visits?

gimme

uh, i assume the cuckold dude will be filing for divorce unless they both get off together on this whole scenario

and why did that bloods guy spill the beans? does he realize this is the only real female action he's going to get for a long while? damn foo