Killer At San Quentin Prison Deemed 'Sex Slave,' Awarded $65K

SAN QUENTIN, CA — A convicted murderer at San Quentin State Prison has been awarded $65,000 after jurors deemd he was turned into a "sex slave" by a female prison worker. Inmate William Cordoba filed a lawsuit against vocational instructor Silvia Pulido alleging she coerced him into exchanging sexual favors for her promise to get him a lawyer to help him get out of prison, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday.

The abuse began in 2010 when he became her clerk, Cordoba, 57, said. When he attempted to end the arrangement, Pulido retaliated against him, he said, accusing him of disciplinary violations that put him in solitary confinement for nine months.

Pulido no longer works at the prison. She and her attorneys didn't return the newspaper's calls seeking comment.

Cordoba is serving a life sentence for a 1981 second-degree murder and robbery in San Francisco.

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