*Updated 9/15/21 at 4:29 p.m. – As part of the TBI’s ongoing investigation, an arrest warrant was issued for former Henry County Correctional Officer Richard Sanders on a count of Sexual Battery by an Authority Figure involving a female inmate. Today, TBI special agents arrested Sanders and booked him into the Henry County Jail on $10,000 bond.
PARIS – An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in the arrest of a Henry County Correctional Officer on charges of having inappropriate contact with an inmate.
At the request of 24th District Attorney General Matt Stowe, today, TBI agents began investigating a report of a Henry County Correctional Officer having inappropriate contact with a female inmate inside her cell over the last week.
As a result of the investigation, Richard Wade Sanders (DOB: 5/27/00) was arrested this afternoon and booked into the Henry County Jail on three counts of Sexual Contact with an Inmate. His bond is set at $25,000. Sanders is no longer employed by the Henry County Sheriff’s Office following an internal investigation.
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