Indiana prison social worker Elizabeth Covington loses license after criminal conviction

March 20, 2014

On February 18, 2014, the Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board indefinitely suspended the license of clinical social worker Elizabeth Covington, whose license the Board summarily suspended in July 2012 following an investigation which found that Covington had engaged in sexual intercourse with an inmate of the correctional facility where she was employed and had also trafficked in contraband. On or about May 2, 2013, Covington pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and sentenced to probation.