BUTTE (AP) — A former correctional facility nurse has been convicted of 48 charges including two counts of sexual intercourse without consent for having sex with an inmate.

An Anaconda jury on Friday deliberated five hours before convicting 45-year-old Tisha Ann Brunell.

By law, inmates cannot consent to sex.

The jury also found Brunell guilty of three counts of felony transferring of illegal items and 43 misdemeanor counts of unauthorized communication. The illegal items included drugs and chewing tobacco.

Prosecutors said Brunell had sex with an inmate at the Sanction, Treatment, Assessment, Revocation and Transition Center in Butte, then talked about it in recorded phone calls.

Defense attorneys countered that it was only phone sex.

Jurors listened to nine hours of the explicit phone conversations between Brunell and the inmate, including several conversations where the inmate expressed concern he wasn’t well endowed enough.

Brunell responds with statements such as “God was good to him.”

“Does that sound like some sort of medical diagnosis to you?” Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka said to jurors during closing statements.

Brunell’s attorney, Victor Bunitsky told jurors that Brunell was doing her job as a nurse.

“This all started because she wanted to help somebody,” Bunitsky said.

“She thought she could help rehabilitate him by showing him some kindness.”

But Krakowka argued that Brunell’s job was to help offenders, making her actions worse.

“The defendant was in a position of power over these inmates,” he said.

Brunell is being held in the Anaconda jail.

She faces another trial in May on witness tampering charges.