MADISON, WI (WSAU) – A Wisconsin Rapids woman will spend a year in federal prison for having sex with an inmate at a federal prison in Oxford where she worked.
44-year-old Amy Ziemann pled guilty in March to making a false statement to investigators and to soliciting false testimony before a grand jury. Investigators say Ziemann was bribed $200 to bring tobacco, alcohol, pornography and a sexual stimulation device to the inmate between July 2013 and February 2014. Another prison worker, Stacy Lenorud, helped Ziemann provide those items.
According to a release from Acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Anderson, the inmate was a known gang member. U.S. District Judge William Conley was quoted saying Ziemann had “lost her moral compass.”
Ziemann must serve two years on extended supervision after release. She could have spent a maximum of twenty years in prison for the most severe of her original charges.
