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According to the spokesperson for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, Chrysti Shain, a former corrections officer, reportedly posed as a convicted killer’s sister in order to try and visit him in prison. Although now retired, Asia Love’s attempt was both shocking and unsettling, considering the killer, Jeroid Price, she attempted to visit had just been released.
Love filed an application to see convicted Jeroid John Price back in May of 2012. As reported by WCSC, she worked as a prison guard for the South Carolina Department for five years but didn’t disclose her employment status in the visitation application.
Love actually lied and listed that she was the convict’s sister in an attempt to sway her request to be accepted. Fortunately, it ended up being denied. Court documents detailing the incident said that Love claimed she attempted to see Price because he deserved to “receive an award” for saving the life of a fellow corrections officer in 2010. Love contended that Price subdued a fellow inmate when they escaped their cell and tried to attack the prison guard with a broomstick unprovoked. Shain also confirmed that Price assisted the corrections department by informing them about an inmate who escaped prison a few years ago.
Questions surrounding Price and Love’s relationship arose after the corrections department released Price after serving only 20 of his 35-year sentence. South Carolina Supreme Court documents unsealed after the early release revealed that the state attorney general is motioning for issuing a bench warrant to put Price back in prison. The Attorney General, Alan Wilson, questioned the procedure surrounding Price’s early release.
He pointed out that the order to release Price was signed by Judge Casey Manning, who, according to reports, is no longer on the active South Carolina Supreme Court circuit roster; this means that he shouldn’t have had the authorization to do so.
Jeroid John Price was arrested and charged with the murder of Carl Smalls Jr., a college football player, in 2002.