Nearly 50 Georgia correctional officers arrested for drug trafficking - CNNPolitics.com

(CNN)The FBI arrested 46 current and former correctional officers from the Georgia Department of Corrections system at at least eight different state institutions, two federal law enforcement officials said Thursday.

The officers are alleged to take bribes to deliver drugs outside of the prisons, according to the officials.

"Allegations range, of course, from smuggling in contraband to our inmates here, but also using their official capacity as officers to protect what they believe to be drug transactions and drug shipments traveling through Georgia," Ricky Myrick, director of the Office of Investigations and Compliance at the Georgia Department of Corrections, told WSB-TV.