Staff report

LEAVITTSBURG — A Cleveland man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to smuggle contraband into Trumbull Correctional Institution while he was employed there.

James P. Jackson, 40, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster after pleading guilty in July to Hobbs Act extortion under color of official right for accepting money to smuggle two packages into a prison using his capacity as an employee of the facility. Jackson was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after imprisonment.

According to court documents, Jackson was employed by TCI from 2022 through 2024, where he served as a corrections officer and later, as a general maintenance worker. His work duties and responsibilities allowed him full access to non-publi

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