Sent to prison at 16 for attempted robbery, Durbin was flattered when the tall, 33-year-old prison officer told her that he enjoyed seeing her smile.

"One of the things that first attracted me to Jeff was the way he seemed to notice me," she wrote. "I hadn't sought him, he found me -- and out of a crowd of hundreds of people. That, in and of itself, in my 19-year-old mind meant something."

Violating prison rules, Barcenas revealed personal information to Durbin, such as his birthday, first name and dream of becoming an airline pilot.

Durbin fell in love with Barcenas, but she also feared his authority, according to her written account, compiled when she was locked up at Oregon's women's prison in Wilsonville.

"To be honest, aside from being curious and maybe even a little infatuated with Jeff, I was also scared of him," she wrote. "I felt like we were getting really close and that made me very happy, but I still didn't let go of my fears. I feared segregation, I feared that he would turn against me somehow -- and he being a Lieutenant there was not much I could do to really prevent the worst from happening."

Personal talks led to trysts in a glass-enclosed control room Barcenas used for an office, and within a locked storage room to which he had a key.

Barcenas broke off the sexual relationship in May 2003 after he was confronted by corrections officers who told him that people were talking, investigative reports show.

Durbin was devastated. Her emotional distress intensified during August 2003. That month, while working in the prison kitchen, Durbin had multiple sexual encounters with Christopher Randall, the prison's food services coordinator. She later alleged in court papers that it was unwanted, coerced sex, because she worked under Randall's supervision, feared him, and had nowhere to turn for help.

Sent to the prison's mental-health unit and placed on a suicide-precaution watch, Durbin's fragile condition drew the attention of a female counselor.

"She was visibly distressed, looked like she had not had sleep for some time," the counselor wrote. "She returned to her bed and curled up into a ball."

Back in the general inmate population, Durbin began to confide in the counselor. She told the counselor that she loved Barcenas and that he loved her. Durbin eventually wrote a 16-page narrative retracing their relationship, from chats to prohibited sex.

By her account, Durbin was torn about implicating Barcenas in a career-destroying scandal. "The truth was that I would give up anything for him. I loved him completely," she wrote.

At first, Durbin only disclosed information about her relationship with Barcenas. She wasn't yet ready to talk about what happened between her and Randall, but she hinted about it.

"She talked about being very frightened for her life, that she had information but could not talk about it," the counselor wrote. "She said she trusted me because I could see her sadness."

The counselor suggested to higher-ups that a female captain be assigned to investigate "because I believed that neither Durbin nor any other potential witness would be willing to provide information to a male officer."

They didn't believe her, records show. They told Durbin to drop it and focus on completing her sentence. By some accounts, the captain threatened to send Durbin to segregation if she disobeyed his "no talk" order.

Durbin was incensed by the officials' defense of Barcenas and their disbelief of her. She stormed out of one meeting. The counselor remained supportive, safeguarding Dur-bin's written materials and arranging for her to get medication to ease her distress.

"I kept an eye on her, checking her weekly," the counselor wrote. "I let her know that if she changed her mind and wanted to pursue any of this at CCCF, I would help with the things I could help with. She continued to ask 'Why? and stated over and over, 'No one believes me. This was all pushed under the rug.' "

In a memo to the prison security manager, the counselor warned that Durbin was prepared to seek justice elsewhere. "I advised him that this issue was not over," the counselor wrote.

About that time, Durbin's allegations began to get a second look from prison-system investigators. The DOC's Special Investigations Unit eventually referred the case to state police for a criminal probe.

When prison officials offered to share the results of their inquiries, state police detectives declined the offer. They started their own interviews in January 2004.

A state police polygraph examination suggested that Barcenas was lying. His credibility took another hit when his DNA was linked to semen found on blankets in the prison storage room.

In a civil suit filed in November 2004 in U.S. District Court in Portland, Durbin said she was being treated for Rape Trauma Syndrome, panic disorders, pain and suffering, humiliation, embarrassment, fright, fear, shock, wounded feelings and other forms of emotional distress.

The suit alleged that prison investigators "conspired to punish and gag" Durbin for reporting sexual wrongdoing and that they threatened to place her in solitary if she disobeyed the order.

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