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A man who smuggled marijuana into the Bowie County Correctional Center while working as a guard there pleaded guilty Monday and received a 10-year term of probation.

Marquise Dushun Hunt, 21, had been working as a correctional officer for CiviGenics for about two months when he was caught bringing three sandwich bags full of marijuana into the jail. CiviGenics is a private company that contracts with Bowie County to run the jail.

A confidential informant alerted jail officials to the marijuana in Hunt’s possession on March 1, 2007. He was indicted by a grand jury Jan. 3...