Jail Guard Speaks Out: Judge Mullins Invited Me to Sex Parties
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The courthouse may not have been the only place corruption thrived. A former jail guard told NewsNation’s Brian Entin that the Letcher County jail was “basically a brothel.” She alleged supervisors took inmates home, guards pressured women, and Judge Mullins himself invited her to late-night “parties” with other higher-ups.
Other allegations claim inmates were rewarded with cigarettes, commissary, or extra time outside their cells in exchange for sex. These claims, while unproven in court, paint a disturbing picture of systemic abuse where exploitation was treated as “normal.”
In this episode, I’m joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to explore what happens psychologically when corruption is normalized at a community level. How do group dynamics silence dissent? How does trauma multiply when victims know the community sees and does nothing? And what does it mean for Sheriff Stines to face trial in the same county, under the shadow of these allegations?
We also examine broader problems in America’s prison and jail systems — where oversight is weak, abuse often goes unchecked, and the vulnerable are left unprotected.
If even some of these allegations are true, this isn’t about a bad apple. It’s about an orchard poisoned from the inside.
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