Saturday, March 13, 1999
Ex-football player moved from prison
BY STEVE KEMME
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — Former Princeton High School football captain Wayne A. Brandon Jarrett entered the Community Correctional Center in Lebanon Friday after spending five months in a state prison.
Mr. Jarrett, 18, was sentenced in October to a year in prison after pleading guilty to two felony drug charges.
He was moved from the Ross Correctional Institution at Chillicothe to the less restrictive Community Correctional Center on a Feb. 4 order from Judge Anthony Valen of Butler County Common Pleas Court. At that hearing, Mr. Jarrett had sought to be released from prison to a halfway house and allowed to re-enter Princeton.
But Judge Valen, who has since taken a seat on the 12th District Court of Appeals, ordered him to be sent to the Community Correctional Center on Friday.
The center, operated by the Talbert House in Cincinnati, is a dormitory-style, lock-down facility with an extensive rehabilitation and education program.
Mr. Jarrett's case received national attention because he played football last fall at Princeton after pleading guilty to trafficking in cocaine and possession of cocaine. Princeton officials said state regulations prevented them from barring Mr. Jarrett from playing sports.
He had tested positive for marijuana the day before Princeton's Sept. 3 football game and before his Oct. 15 sentencing hearing. Princeton officials said they had not been informed of the Sept. 3 test results.
Mr. Jarrett's juvenile record included a misdemeanor conviction stemming from a March 15, 1998, incident when he allegedly threatened to kill police officers and charged at them.
Judge Valen said in February that if Mr. Jarrett stayed out of trouble, he would be released from the Community Correctional Center in time to go to high school in the fall.
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