Prison official jailed in sex case

The director of a detention house who took two prisoners out to buy sex is now a prisoner himself.

The director, surnamed Hua, was charged with abusing the power of his post and sentenced to a year and a half in prison.

"Whether Hua himself bought sex or not is not important, as taking two detainees out for entertainment was enough to support the accusation," said Jin Li'an, the head of the research office for the Jianye district court in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province.