Alabama: A Jefferson County Jail guard was briefly abducted and assaulted by detainee Reontay Harley, 33, on January 13, 2025. WBMA in Birmingham said that after Harley took the unnamed guard hostage inside a cell, responding jail Extraction Unit guards rescued their fellow guard and restrained the detainee. Both were evaluated and released from a local hospital. Harley now faces additional charges of first-degree kidnapping and second-degree assault, as well as menacing, with bonds for the latter two charges set at $15,000 and $3,000, respectively. He was no longer on the jail’s roster as of April 2, 2025, but County Sheriff Mark Pettway had not updated Harley’s status.

Australia: Golfer Ryan Peake, a former member of the Outlaw Rebels motorcycle gang who served five years in prison for assault, secured a spot in the prestigious British Open with a victory at the New Zealand Open on March 2, 2025. Yet his criminal record shadowed him, delaying his entry into New Zealand for the tournament, AP News reported. Future international travel for tournaments will likely involve navigating complex visa requirements, too. While golf has provided a chance to rebuild his life, Peake, 31, predicted that “[t]here’s never going to be another golfer, bikie, prisoner that plays an Open. It will never happen again.”

California: KPIX in San Francisco reported that Maple Street Correctional Center prisoner Kyle Vincent Harrison died on March 15, 2025, at the San Mateo County lockup, where he was awaiting transfer to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Harrison, 25, was serving an eight-year sentence for his role in a November 2022 car crash that killed the parents of twin seven-year-old girls; for that, he pleaded no contest to two counts of vehicular manslaughter and felony street racing in October 2024. The office of Sheriff Christina Corpus said that staff unsuccessfully administered first aid after he was found unresponsive. His was the jail’s sixth death since January 2023.

Canada: The Goldstream Gazette reported that former Kent Institution guard Jason Kenneth Lee was sentenced to five years in prison on March 7, 2025, for a contraband smuggling operation inside British Columbia’s only maximum-security lockup. Lee, 38, who was only nine months into his career as a guard when busted in September 2023, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, accepting bribes and possessing methamphetamine, cocaine, buprenorphine and MDMA for trafficking. His intricate scheme involved an outside accomplice, Mark Majcher, who prepared contraband packages that prisoners Lucas Thiessen and Jeffrey Tkatchuk were responsible for distributing. The scheme unraveled when Lee accompanied a friend to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) lockup to pick up her boyfriend, who told guards there that his “buddy” was also a guard. That raised their suspicions, and RCMP then investigated, discovering encrypted communications with the prisoners in which Lee detailed payments for smuggled cellphones and warned them of upcoming searches. Surveillance camera footage then confirmed his deliveries to them. A search of Lee’s residence yielded drugs, SIM cards, a cellphone and $60,000 in cash. Prosecuting Crown counsel Kaitlin Kuefler quipped that fellow guards “were entitled to believe that he had their backs, not that he was smuggling in weapons to stab them in the back.” 

Colorado: The state Department of Corrections (DOC) informed Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) officials on March 12, 2025, that Community Parole Officer Nathan Oldorf and Associate Director of Administrative Service John Cribari were under criminal investigation for forgery, KUSA in Denver reported. Details were not provided except that the underlying incident occurred on January 31, 2025. Oldorf and Cribari were two of seven DOC employees on administrative leave, according to The Denver Post. But no reason was provided for the furloughs of the others: Denver Reception & Diagnostic Center and Denver Women’s Correctional Facility Warden Ryan Long, who was previously placed on leave in January; Fremont Correctional Facility Warden Shane Stucker; Sterling Correctional Facility Warden Jeff Long; Program Manager Joshua Dorcey; and Director of Adult Parole David Wolfsgruber. The three wardens oversaw prisons holding a total of more than 4,600 prisoners.

Florida: Newbie state DOC guard Jakaleb Cahree Thomas, 28, was apprehended on March 6, 2025, in a scheme to smuggle narcotics into Suwannee Correctional Institution. According to WUFT in Gainesville, an unnamed criminal informant delivered approximately a half-pound of illegal drugs, including 42 grams of methamphetamine and 211 grams of marijuana, to Thomas at her residence. Surveillance, including a Florida Highway Patrol plane, tracked Thomas’ movements as she retrieved the package from a trashcan shortly after finishing her shift. Investigators said that the 450-pound guard intended to conceal the drugs under her stomach or inside her body after an unidentified prisoner promised to pay $300 for the delivery. Text messages on Thomas’ phone confirmed the drug deal. Employed as a guard just since January 2025, she admitted her involvement in the scheme and was charged with trafficking and possession. Thomas is being held in the Columbia County Jail on a $333,000 bond.

Florida: When he was apprehended on March 7, 2025, Jorge Milla-Valdes had spent nearly four decades living under an alias—“Luis Aguirre”—since escaping from a Puerto Rican prison in 1987. The Daily Caller (Your Rebels in the Swamp) reported that Milla-Valdes, 63, established a new life in Florida but also picked up more criminal charges; as “Aguirre,” he was convicted of robbery in Miami-Dade County in 1989 and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1999 for aggravated battery and robbery in Monroe County. But his real identity remained unknown to Florida law enforcement until a tip from Puerto Rican prison officials. Fingerprint analysis then confirmed that “Aguirre” and Milla-Valdes were the same person. When arrested in Fort Myers Shores, Milla-Valdes acknowledged that was his name “about 40 years ago.” He was held in the Lee County Jail while awaiting extradition to Puerto Rico to resume his original sentence for a robbery conviction. He also faces charges for the decades-old prison escape.

Florida: State DOC guard Sgt. Shkebia Stanley, 35, was arrested on March 13, 2025, for possessing contraband at South Bay Correctional Facility. WPEC in West Palm Beach reported that Stanley was put on administrative leave after an unsecured Glock firearm and 50 rounds of ammunition were found during a November 2024 K-9 search of her vehicle parked at the prison, which is privately operated by The GEO Group under contract with DOC. That search also uncovered a six-inch homemade knife, which the guard claimed that she found during a dormitory search and accidentally left in her car, failing to report it. However, state DOC investigators concluded that Stanley knowingly removed a prohibited weapon without authorization. She was being held in the Palm Beach County Jail.

Florida: Leon County Detention Facility guard William Rabon III was placed on administrative leave and charged with misdemeanor simple battery following a dustup with an unnamed detainee on March 7, 2025. According to the County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), the detainee struck Rabon first. The guard returned multiple blows, leaving the detainee with minor injuries. An LCSO spokesperson confirmed there was surveillance video of the incident, but it was not publicly released. Rabon, a 17-year veteran of the lockup, turned himself in at the Wakulla County Jail. Whether his leave will be paid or not was undetermined, pending the outcome of an Internal Affairs investigation.

Georgia: On March 13, 2025, the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision and sustained the firing of former Clarke County Jail guard Cpl. Bryan Jones for brutalizing a detainee. Jones’ body-worn camera captured what happened after Rakeim Hillsman made a medical complaint in February 2022: Jones moved him to another cell, and Hillsman spat toward him. Without supervisor approval, the guard then ordered a restraint chair for Hillsman, though he was handcuffed and secured in a locked cell and posed no immediate threat. When the chair arrived, Jones yanked Hillsman into it and punched him twice, twisting Hillsman’s head. That caused him to cry out. Sheriff John Q. Williams terminated Jones for violating policies regarding restraint chair use and responses to resistance, and cited his incompetence. A hearing officer upheld the termination, finding Jones failed to prove the decision was inconsistent with policies or factually incorrect. The Notice of Intent to Terminate Employment also noted that Jones had seven past violations of jail operating procedures. A state superior court overruled the dismissal, but the Court of Appeals reversed that. The superior court’s error, the Court said, was in not applying the correct “any evidence” standard of review to the hearing officer’s decision. Viewed in the light most favorable to the hearing officer, the evidence was sufficient to support Jones’ termination, the Court said, both for his policy violations and use of excessive force. See: Unified Gov’t of Athens-Clarke Cty. v. Jones, 2025 Ga. App. LEXIS 132 (Ct. App.).

Illinois: On March 5, 2025, an indictment unsealed in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois charged a guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Thomson with having sex with two unnamed prisoners in December 2023 and March 2024. The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) placed Danny L. Spyker, 40, on administrative leave in June 2024, when the allegations surfaced. If convicted, he faces a maximum federal prison sentence of 15 years for each count. See: United States v. Spyker, USDC (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 3:25-cr-50005.

Illinois: Peoria County Jail guard Ezekiel Hidden, 25, was fired and charged with felony counts of introducing contraband into a penal institution and official misconduct on March 13, 2025, for allegedly providing marijuana to an unnamed detainee. WMBD in Peoria reported that an informant tipped off staffers of County Sheriff Chris Watkins that Hidden had taken payment multiple times to smuggle a vape pen containing cannabis. Hidden was questioned and admitted to accepting $1,000 via CashApp to smuggle the pen and a battery to the detainee. He faces up to five years in prison. Hidden had been employed at the jail since June 2024.

Louisiana: On January 17, 2025, a federal judge rejected a plea from BOP prisoner Len Davis, 60, who wanted to reject a commutation of his federal death sentence to life in prison. The clemency was granted to the corrupt former New Orleans cop by former Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in December 2024, NBC News reported. In his handwritten motion, Davis argued that the clemency was unconstitutional because he never requested it. Rather, he wrote, he “has always maintained that having a death sentence would draw attention to the overwhelming misconduct” of which he accused officials in the federal Department of Justice (DOJ). He also continued to maintain his innocence in the 1994 contract killing of Kim Groves, which he was convicted of ordering in 1996. He further contended that the federal court lacked jurisdiction over his case. Davis, known as the “Desire Terrorist,” led a ring of corrupt cops that protected drug dealers and incited violence against their rivals, falsifying evidence that led to some wrongful convictions. He ordered Groves killed after she reported his brutality. Davis’ fellow prisoner at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, Shannon Agofsky, also opposed a sentence reduction that Biden gave him. Most legal experts agree that presidential commutation does not require consent and is irreversible.

Massachusetts: An unnamed detainee at the Ash Street Jail in New Bedford was the intended recipient of a drug smuggling attempt by Brittany Hanley, according to charges on which she was arraigned on March 19, 2025. South Coast Today reported that Hanley, 32, was arrested following the discovery of contraband, including suboxone strips and crack cocaine, that was thrown over the jail’s perimeter wall—twice. During the week before the second drop, Bristol County Sheriff’s Office investigators were able to identify the detainee involved and set up surveillance. They then observed Hanley circling the jail in a rented vehicle as she chatted on a cellphone with her boyfriend—the detainee, whose call was being monitored and recorded as the two coordinated the drop. After guards stopped her, Hanley admitted purchasing 40 suboxone strips, which a K-9 search of the vehicle found. An additional 8.5 grams of suspected fentanyl that she intended to throw over the wall was also found. Hanley faces multiple felony charges, including intent to distribute a Class B substance and attempting to deliver drugs to prisoners. Her boyfriend was placed in administrative segregation pending further investigation.

Michigan: Ethan Eversman, 25, a former guard at the Eaton County Jail, was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison on March 4, 2025, for distributing child pornography. The unnamed victim was 13 and living in New York when Eversman convinced her to create and send sexually explicit videos starting in 2021; two videos coerced from the then-15-year-old in 2024 were shared with an unnamed recipient online that same year. Eversman was employed by Sheriff Tom Reich at the time; he was fired before charges were filed. The FBI and Michigan State Police conducted the investigation under Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative against child exploitation. See: United States v. Eversman, USDC (W.D. Mich.), Case No. 1:24-cr-00111

New Jersey: State prison guard Lt. Timothy Morris, 58, a 28-year DOC veteran who had been the agency’s firing range master since 2008, was charged on March 11, 2025, with official misconduct, theft and structuring financial transactions, the Asbury Park Press reported. Morris allegedly exploited his position to order excessive ammunition for the range, selling the excess on the secondary market and pocketing the proceeds. An investigation by the corruption bureau of the state Office of Public Integrity and Accountability revealed that Morris illegally earned over $475,000 since January 2019 by selling the surplus ammunition for cash and checks from a gun supply store. He is also accused of evading bank reporting requirements by cashing multiple smaller checks so as not to trigger mandatory reporting of transactions exceeding $10,000. Morris, who earned nearly $178,000 last year, was suspended without pay. The charges carry potential prison sentences ranging from three to 10 years, plus significant fines.

New Mexico: For allegedly abducting and beating a man they then delivered to the Santa Fe County Jail, Edgar Luna, 31, and Kevin Fonseca, 19, were arrested on March 13, 2025, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. According to a probable cause statement, the pair admitted to acting as self-styled vigilantes avenging the sexual assault of an unnamed woman when they picked up the victim, also unnamed, and transported him to the jail against his will. They punched the man and threatened him with a gun. For that, they were booked into the same lockup on kidnapping and aggravated battery charges. Both were released on bond while awaiting trial. No charges have been filed against the victim for the alleged sexual assault.

New York: The Daily News reported that former Wyoming Correctional Facility guard James D. Sutton, 40, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on March 7, 2025, for distributing child pornography. He was also ordered to serve 30 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender. Sutton was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2023, for using his cellphone to upload 22 kiddie porn videos to the social media app Kik in October 2021. Starring prepubescent minors under the age of 12, the clips also featured violence. Sutton was additionally charged with possessing sexual images involving prepubescent minors on multiple cellphones when arrested in February 2023. He had faced a maximum prison term of 20 years. See: United States v. Sutton, USDC (W.D.N.Y.), Case No. 1:23-cr-00043

New York: Four-time convicted felon Walter Balkum, Jr., 49, who was already incarcerated on a manslaughter charge for beating his girlfriend to death—in front of her nine-year-old daughter—was charged on March 21, 2025, with assaulting a fellow detainee at the Monroe County Jail. WHAM in Rochester reported that Balkum and a third detainee, Antonio Williams, allegedly and repeatedly punched detainee Richie Johnson, bruising his face and injuring his knee in February 2025. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle said that Balkum was then found guilty on April 7, 2025, of fatally beating girlfriend Melikah Bruner, 43, in August 2024 in front of Bruner’s young child. He was convicted as well of second-degree assault for stabbing Bruner and her adult son in June 2024; it was after that attack that she obtained a protective order against Balkum, which he violated when he was released from custody and his electronic monitoring device was removed just before he returned to kill her.

New York: For stabbing Onondaga County Justice Center guard Erik Francis five times on January 10, 2025, detainee Jeffrey Tillman, 37, was charged with attempted murder. More notably, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported, he went through a body scan and strip search when booked into the jail on an assault charge—meaning the weapon remained hidden in a body cavity for the intervening 92 days. County Sheriff Toby Shelley said that the weapon slipped past the scanner because it must have aligned with the zipper on Tillman’s pants. The Sheriff offered no explanation why it wasn’t found during the strip search, either. But he said that body scans will now be conducted from two angles, and two guards will review each scan instead of one. Tillman was moved to another lockup in Oneida County. Footage reviewed from his months in custody provided “zero indication” of his motive for stabbing Francis, the Sheriff added.

North Carolina: A guard at Wake County’s John H. Baker Jr. Public Safety Center was arrested during his shift on March 18, 2025, for allegedly smuggling contraband to detainees. WNCN in Raleigh reported that the guard, Devin Williams, 33, faces multiple felony charges, including conspiracy and trafficking of opium/heroin; possession with intent to sell Schedule II and VI controlled substances; providing contraband to an inmate; and possession of a controlled substance on jail premises. County Sheriff Willie Rowe said that the charges resulted from an investigation undertaken immediately after his office learned of the allegations. Williams, hired in March 2023, was held at the Wake County Detention Center under a $2 million bond.

North Dakota: For allegedly impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent at the Williams County Correctional Center, Shane Al Randall, 53, was arrested on a Class A misdemeanor charge on March 24, 2025, the Williston Herald reported. The underlying incident unfolded after Mauricio Ixcoy Mejia was picked up for driving with a suspended license and held at the jail on an ICE detainer. When jailers informed Mejia that an ICE agent would collect him, he contacted Randall, who then arrived at the lockup and falsely claimed to be the ICE agent sent to collect the detainee, signing his own name on Mejia’s release forms. Ever-vigilant jailers realized that they had been duped about 20 minutes later, but by then the pair had left. However, they were swiftly located and apprehended. Mejia was transferred to the Ward County Detention Center. The office of Williams County Sheriff Verlan Kvande said that security protocols were reinforced following the unauthorized release. But he promised no staff discipline, explaining that “[t]hey’re pretty dejected by this failure, and I certainly don’t see something like this happening again.” Randall’s bond was set at $3,000.

Oklahoma: According to KXII in Sherman, Texas, a fire at the nearby Pushmataha County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) in Oklahoma on March 20, 2025, left five with minor injuries and displaced all county jail detainees. Sheriff B.J. Hedgecock reported that two guards sustained minor injuries while another employee was sent to a hospital for a check-up. The fire, which resulted from an explosion, caused smoke and water damage to one PCSO facility and minor damage to a separate building nearby that houses the jail. Hedgecock said that the jail damage was cleaned up quickly. Meanwhile, detainees were temporarily transferred to lockups in neighboring Choctaw and Atoka counties. The state Highway Patrol said it would handle all law enforcement calls for Pushmataha County while investigators determined the origin of the fire.

South Carolina: Former Columbia Police Department (CPD) Officer Caleb Hickmon-Payne, 26, was fired and arrested on March 12, 2025, the same day that former detainee Taylor Ishmal filed suit accusing him of sexual assault. The State reported that Hickman-Payne was charged with second-degree assault and battery and misconduct in office, after Ishmal said that he sexually propositioned her during transport to Richland County’s Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center; Hickman-Payne had pulled her vehicle over for a traffic stop on January 31, 2025, when he discovered an active warrant and took her into custody. But he deviated from a direct route to the jail, extending the 19-minute trip to 41 minutes, also failing to log his mileage as required. During the trip he deactivated his body-worn camera, too, and his in-vehicle camera. When Ishmal reported the assault, a CPD Internal Affairs investigation utilized dispatch records, radio transmissions, camera footage and GPS data to confirm enough misconduct that Hickmon-Payne was fired. The state Law Enforcement Division then conducted an independent investigation, resulting in the charges. CPD Chief Skip Holbrook promised that Hickmon-Payne, who was hired in December 2022, would not serve as a police officer again. Ismal’s suit seeks to hold the city and CPD liable for her alleged sexual assault by the former cop. See: Ishmal v. City of Columbia, S.C. Comm. Pleas 5th Jud. Cir. (Richland Cty.), Case No. 2025-CP-4001643.

South Carolina: Former W. Glen Campbell Detention Center employee Christian Javuon Jackson was arrested by fellow Darlington County deputies on March 20, 2025, after a search of his vehicle turned up trace amounts of marijuana. WMBF in Myrtle Beach reported that a K-9 alerted to Jackson’s vehicle in the employee parking lot during a facility-wide contraband shakedown, leading to discovery of 28 grams of marijuana in the passenger seat and trunk. Jackson was arrested and fired and charged with simple possession. He was briefly held at the same detention center before his release on a $615 bond. It was the second arrest of a guard in three days on contraband-related charges. Pierre Gardner, Sr. was charged with prohibited contraband and misconduct on March 17, 2025, for allegedly delivering food to detainees from outside the lockup between January 22 and March 7, 2025.

Tennessee: In a mysterious shakeup, Hardeman County Correctional Facility Warden Chance Leeds, was quietly removed from his post at the CoreCivic-operated state prison on March 2, 2025, the Chattanooga Free Press reported. Just weeks earlier, on February 10, 2025, Warden Vince Vantell of Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC)—Tennessee’s largest prison—was placed on administrative leave with no explanation, the Nashville Banner said. CoreCivic declined to explain whether the moves were tied to misconduct or an ongoing DOJ investigation into TTCC conditions. Vantell had served only since March 2023. Despite such problems, state DOC Commissioner Frank Strada has requested a $6.8 million pay boost for the giant private prison operator, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Mar. 2025, p.36.]

Texas: Former Montgomery County jail guard Oscar Vasquez was arrested on February 27, 2025, on felony charges of improper sexual activity with a person in custody. Houston Public Media said that the arrest followed a criminal investigation into allegations involving a detainee at the jail. Vasquez, a six-year veteran of the office of Sheriff Wesley Doolittle, was suspended immediately when the investigation began on February 21, 2025; he then resigned during the inquiry. Details of the allegations were not released.

Texas: Smith County contract medical employee Jessica Riley, 41, was arrested on March 21, 2025, for allegedly providing contraband to a detainee at the county lockup. Riley, a medication technician, was charged with possession of a prohibited substance in a correctional facility after investigators reviewing surveillance video reportedly saw her passing an item to detainee Tyirese Dews, 24. KLTV in Tyler said that Dews, already incarcerated on unrelated charges, was found in possession of Seroquel, an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, bipolar depression and major depressive disorder. For hiding two pills under a pillow in his bunk during a cell search, he was given an additional charge of possessing a prohibited substance in a correctional facility. Judge Debby Gunter set Riley’s bond at $150,000 and Dews’ additional bond at $250,000. Riley was booked into the Gregg County Jail, standard procedure for those formerly employed at the Smith County facility. Dews remained at the Smith County Jail.

Texas: A riot erupted at the Liberty County Jail on February 27, 2025, KTRK in Houston reported. Sgt. Oscar Martinez of the County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said that 45 detainees in two dorm sections could face additional charges after they became agitated during a “routine” contraband shakedown, breaking windows and throwing objects at the 15 on-duty guards, who retreated and called in backup. Two hours later, when additional staff arrived, they deployed nonlethal gas and regained control. One prisoner was hospitalized with non-serious injuries; no guards were harmed. LCSO Lt. John Bennett said that detainees “don’t want the stuff they are bringing in to be taken away from them.”

Texas: On March 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit tossed the murder conviction of condemned state prisoner Brittany Marlowe Holberg, 50, after she spent 27 years on death row for the brutal November 1996 murder of A.B. Towery, an 80-year-old sex client. Holberg has maintained that she killed him in self-defense after he found her smoking drugs in his Amarillo home and attacked her with a frying pan. The Court found error in the failure to inform jurors that damning testimony given by jailhouse snitch Vickie Kirkpatrick was apparently rewarded when her charges were dropped on the same day. The majority’s decision remanded the case over the vigorous dissent of Judge Kyle Duncan, an appointee of Pres. Donald J. Trump (R), who insisted that no matter Kirkpatrick’s testimony, “[n]o jury in its right mind would believe that a 23-year-old cocaine-addled prostitute ‘defended’ herself against a frail old man by (1) stabbing him 58 times, (2) bludgeoning him with various objects including a steam iron, and (3) ramming a lamp base down his throat while he was still alive.” See: Holberg v. Guerrero, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 5381 (5th Cir.).

United Kingdom: BBC News reported that a manhunt was launched for prisoner Jamie Cooper, 33, after he faked a medical emergency and assaulted a responding guard to escape from a privately contracted prison van during a transport on March 19, 2025. The van’s owner, GEOAmey, said that Cooper was en route to Lancaster Magistrates Court to face charges of assaulting a police officer and causing criminal damage when he “overpowered” staffers, forcing them to pull the van off the highway. As he fled, an eyewitness shot video of the prisoner running through nearby fields. Lancashire Police shared that footage and issued a description to enlist public help in locating him. He was found the following day in the passenger seat of a car in Lancashire and taken back into custody. There was no word on the van staff from GEOAmey, a joint venture between Amey UK, PLC and U.S. private prison giant The GEO Group Inc.

United Kingdom: HMP Featherstone administrative assistant Jada Wilson, 25, and her mother, Ezerine Manning, 44, were sentenced on March 20, 2025, for a plot targeting a prisoner who was a suspected “snitch.” Birmingham Live reported that Wilson accessed the prison’s database (NOMIS) at her mother’s request to locate convicted drug smuggler Hekta Autsa, finding he was held at HMP Belmarsh. Manning then passed the information to Ashley Wilkin, 38, who reportedly sought “retribution” against Autsa for providing police intelligence that disrupted a multi-million-pound methamphetamine smuggling operation; in intercepted messages, Wilkin vowed that Autsa would “go back to Thailand in a body bag.” After admitting to conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office, Wilson received a 28-month prison sentence. Manning was sentenced to 26 months. Birmingham Crown Court Judge Sarah Buckingham emphasized the potentially serious harm they caused, though Autsa remained safe. Wilkin will be sentenced later.

Washington: On March 14, 2025, former state DOC guard Danielle Alexandra Lucas, 33, pleaded guilty in state court to second-degree custodial sexual misconduct, the Tacoma News Tribune reported. Lucas admitted to having sex with an unnamed prisoner in a restroom during tier checks at Washington Corrections Center for Women. Their relationship began in August 2022 and lasted for several months—during which other prisoners reported observing that they were close. Lucas allegedly provided the prisoner preferential treatment and gifts, including nail polish and perfume. Investigators then found notes that the couple passed and confirmed their fingerprints were on them. Lucas was placed on home assignment and resigned in October 2022. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Philip Sorensen sentenced her to six months in jail, at the low end of the recommended range, noting that she had no prior criminal record but that her relationship with the prisoner was illegal, even if consensual.  

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