Overview

• Vickie Lynn Frantz, 56, faces felony counts of attempted custodial sexual assault and unauthorized trading with inmates after being caught half-naked in her office with an inmate on June 30
• Prosecutors allege she accepted $50 in exchange for smuggling five packs of cigarettes into the Atlanta Transitional Center
• She was arrested and terminated by the Georgia Department of Corrections on July 7 and waived her first court appearance in Fulton County
• A judge set her bond at $30,000 and she remains in custody at the Fulton County Jail pending further hearings
• Her public defender asserts she was threatened with violence and will argue that coercion forced her compliance