Oklahoma call center supervisor and IT manager Corey Fore was recently caught uploading and downloading child pornography while on the job, directly from his work computer. Despite admitting to investigators what he had been up to, Mr. Fore was not arrested. The reason might surprise you: Corey Fore was not arrested because he was already in prison, serving eight life sentences for child sex offenses.
The details of Fore's previous felonies, including child sex abuse, lewd molestation, and exchanging child pornography while working for Ardmore City Schools are gut-wrenching and no laughing matter. Despite this, somebody, somewhere, thought it would be a good idea to give him unsupervised access to a computer for eight hours a day.
According to a report from OKCFox.com, supervisors at the James Crabtree Correctional Center allowed Fore to obtain a job through Oklahoma Correctional Industries, a program managed by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
Court documents reveal Fore's job was working as an IT manager for a telemarketing call center for Case Energy Partners. FOX 25 obtained the emails that show how he was given full admin privileges on the computer, with Case Energy and his supervisors agreeing to grant access without question.
According to OCI's website, the program is a "self-supporting entity that employs offenders that lack marketable job skills." What? Serving eight consecutive life sentences for child sex crimes isn't a marketable skill? OCI averages an employment base of 1,200 offenders, which allows them the ability to "offer customers quality products at a reasonable price and results in significant overall tax savings to the general public."
If this were an old-timey prison movie, here's where you would expect a short clip of guys in striped pajamas hammering on license plates or maybe members of a chain gang picking up roadside litter. Instead, Fore was working as an IT manager for Case Energy Partners, a Texas-based oil and gas investment company that hires inmates as telemarketers through the OCI program.