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Buford prison employee sentenced in drug smuggling case
Kitchen worker gets 41 months
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A kitchen employee at Phillips State Prison in Buford was sentenced for her role in a drug-smuggling scheme with inmates, according to court documents. Charonda Edwards, of Riverdale, was sentenced to 41 months in prison Tuesday. She had been charged in September 2015 with one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana and one count of interfering with commerce by extortion.