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If the Shoe Fits: Did Colorado Prison Officials Look the Other Way While a Guard's Fetish Turned Vio
If the Shoe Fits: Did Colorado Prison Officials Look the Other Way While a Guard's Fetish Turned Violent?
by Alan Prendergast
Suppose that you're the warden of a women's prison. Among your valued employees is a prison guard named Dave, whose job puts him in charge of dozens of female …
by Alan Prendergast
Suppose that you're the warden of a women's prison. Among your valued employees is a prison guard named Dave, whose job puts him in charge of dozens of female …
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More from this issue:
- Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails
- Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts, by David Reutter
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- 8th Circuit Invalidates BOP Halfway House Policy; 7th Circuit Says Challenge Not Cognizable on Habeas
- Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC
- Florida Prisoner's Disciplinary Challenges Reversed for Further Proceedings
- BOP's Failure to Provide Adequate Medical Treatment Nets Downward Departure Sentence
- Seventh Circuit Reverses Judgment on Denial of Methadone
- Second Circuit Upholds Guard's Rape Sentence Under Federal Guidelines
- Washington DOC Must Ship Prisoners' Property For Free
- Maryland's PHS Prison Health Care Under Fire, New System Implemented
- 2005 Audit of California Parole Board Reveals Ongoing Deficiencies
- Habeas Hints: How to Get DNA Testing, by Kent Russell
- Prison Reform Revisited: The Unfinished Agenda, Pace University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2
- Arkansas Considers Prison Rape Law, Problems Evident
- Florida's Privatization of Prisoner Canteen Services Under Scrutiny
- Oregon Criminalizes Sex with Prisoners; & Other Legislative Developments
- If the Shoe Fits: Did Colorado Prison Officials Look the Other Way While a Guard's Fetish Turned Vio, by Alan Pendergast
- New York Prisoner Attacked On Bus Awarded $600,000
- Whistleblowers Nail Cheating California Corrections Employees
- Florida DOC's No Bid Pharmaceutical Contract Scrutinized and Criticized
- Bait and Snitch: The High Cost of Snitching for Law Enforcement
- Chicago Settles Another Jail Brutality Suit for $362,500
- Federal District Court Awards Missouri Prisoner $2,500 For Excessive Force
- Nebraska Native American Prisoners' Religious Program Reinstated, by John Dannenberg
- All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
- California and Connecticut Reinstate Jobs of Fired Guards
- Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Busine
- Kentucky Prisoner Injured In Transport Vehicle Awarded $9,000
- Florida Jury Awards $225,000 in False Arrest/Malicious Prosecution Claim
- American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access
- U.S. Supreme Court: Faretta Does Not Establish Right Of Pro Se Defendant to Law Library Access
- Massachusetts Prisoner Awarded $250,000 for Assault During Strip Search
- Shackling of Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Ended In California
- Poor Substance Abusers Imprisoned En Masse Without Treatment, by Michael Rigby
- Prisoners Labor at Wisconsin Wal-Mart Site
- Utah DOC Settles Wrongful-Death Suit Involving Exonerated Suspect For $150,000
- Georgia DOC Settles Failure-To-Protect Suit for $15,000, by Michael Rigby
- Company Uses Prison Slave Labor for $100 Million Military Contract
- NY State Prisoner Receives $400,000 Liver Transplant
- Registered Sex Offenders Murdered By Vigilante in Washington
- New York Prisoner Awarded $2,500 for Delayed Eyeglasses
- News in Brief
- Low Pay Drives Tennessee Guards to Smuggle Drugs, Contraband into Prisons
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- ICE Stops Reporting Deaths of Recently Released Detainees, July 1, 2026. Misconduct/Corruption, Medical, Conditions of Confinement, Immigration Law/Offenses, Civil Rights Actions or Offenses/Bivens Actions.
- New York Governor Appoints Ex-Prisoner to State Oversight Role, July 1, 2026. Classification, Misconduct/Corruption, Conditions of Confinement, Prison Legal News documents, Prisoners' Rights.
- BOP Supervisor in Colorado Indicted for Smuggling Over 400 Vapes, July 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bribery/Extortion/Theft.
- Colorado Prison Wardens Participated in Longstanding Racist, Homophobic Group Chat, July 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Racial Discrimination, Gay/Lesbian, Employee Litigation.
- New Jersey Lawmakers Pass “Female Incarcerated Person’s Rights Protection Act”, July 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Staff Training, Mothers in Prison.
- Rikers Island Captain Nicknamed “Terror of the Tombs” Indicted for Extortion, Wage Theft, July 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, Threats by Staff, DOC/BOP misconduct, Bribery/Extortion/Theft, Fraud and Deceit.
- Multiple Detainees Escape from Dilapidated North Carolina Jail, July 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Staffing, Jail Specific, Security Systems, Criminal Justice, Prison Conditions.
- $3.25 Million Verdict in New York Against Jail Medical Profiteer Armor Health, July 1, 2026. Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Medical, Conditions of Confinement, Civil Rights Actions or Offenses/Bivens Actions.
- Federal Conviction, Guilty Pleas for Jail Guards Responsible for Oklahoma Detainee’s Death, July 1, 2026. Misconduct/Corruption, Medical, Conditions of Confinement, Excessive Force, Civil Rights Actions or Offenses/Bivens Actions.
- Video Shows Guards Watched as Oklahoma Detainee Died in Cell, July 1, 2026. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Failure to Protect (General), Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).

