{"id":167503,"date":"2026-03-18T18:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:27:36","slug":"brooklyn-mdc-correction-officer-arrested-for-sexually-abusing-inmate-in-chaplains-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167503\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn MDC correction officer arrested for sexually abusing inmate in chaplain’s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0correction officer at Brooklyn\u2019s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center<\/a> has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a male inmate \u2014 including one time in the prison chaplain\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

James Johnson allegedly sexually abused the inmate on multiple occasions, directing him to private areas of the jail where the officer forced him to perform oral sex.<\/p>\n

Johnson, 36, \u201cleveraged his position as a correctional officer to take advantage of a man he was supposed to be protecting in his capacity as a prison guard and used his access to gratify his own sexual desires,\u201d United States Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said.<\/p>\n

Concealed by a collection of stacked chairs at the chaplain\u2019s office, the officer also attempted to have intercourse with the \u201cJohn Doe\u201d inmate, but the victim refused, officials said.<\/a><\/p>\n

Another time, in a remote area in a rarely used suite of offices, the officer forced the inmate to perform oral sex again. Federal agents later recovered semen from the victim\u2019s prison jumpsuit, and after obtaining a search warrant, determined that the two samples matched, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Authorities said the abuse occurred last year and Johnson had denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

In addition to sex abuse, Johnson is charged with making false statements to federal law enforcement officers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0correction officer at Brooklyn\u2019s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a male…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-167503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}