On December 12, 2025, Marerllis Nix, a former BOP Correctional Officer previously assigned to the Federal Medical Center Carswell (FMC Carswell) in Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced in the Northern District of Texas to 27 months of imprisonment, 60 months of supervised release and ordered to pay a $200 special assessment. According to the evidence presented at trial, from on or about May 1, 2021, through on or about July 4, 2021, Nix engaged in two sexual acts with an inmate who was at the time in official detention and under his custodial, supervisory, and disciplinary authority. The investigation was conducted by the OIG’s Dallas Office.
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