McCormick: Former prison guard charged in sex case

A former South Carolina prison guard has been charged with having sex with an inmate.

The State Law Enforcement Division said Thursday that 27-year-old Jesse Reid, of Hephzibah, Ga., was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexual misconduct with an inmate.

SLED said Reid admitted in August to having a sexual relationship with an inmate at McCormick Correctional Institution, a maximum security all-male facility about 80 miles west of Columbia.

A spokesman for the prison system said Reid was hired as a guard in December 2006 and fired in October because of inappropriate relations with an inmate.