Alabama: On February 13, 2026, Jarvis Moore, a former guard at the Morgan County Jail, turned himself in to face seven counts of felony extortion lodged against him following an August 2025 investigation. According to WAFF in Huntsville, Sheriff Ron Puckett accused Moore of threatening prisoners and stealing their property. But Moore maintains the charges are retaliatory, stemming from his suspected involvement in leaking surveillance footage of the in-custody death of John Scott, Jr. in April 2025. As proof that the charges are bogus, Moore said that the “stolen honey buns” cited when he was initially fired were not robbed from detainees but confiscated per a long-standing policy to prevent the production of homemade alcohol.

Alabama: WSFA in Montgomery reported that Kilby Correctional Facility guard Shelley Sharpe III was arrested on March 7, 2026, after fellow prison staffers reported suspicious activity. He was then searched, yielding a significant contraband haul: 67 grams of “Flakka” (alpha-PVP) and 86 Suboxone strips apparently intended for distribution in the Tier 4 prison. The Flakka recovered was especially significant because the synthetic drug has been linked to increased violence and medical emergencies within the state’s overcrowded prison system. Sharpe has since resigned from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and faces felony charges of first-degree possession of a controlled substance and second-degree promoting prison contraband. He had worked as a state prison guard for just under two years at the time of his arrest.

Alabama: WZDX in Huntsville reported that Felix Sylvester Wilder, 37, a former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Aliceville, was charged on March 4, 2026, with sexually assaulting seven prisoners. FCI-Aliceville is a low-security federal prison with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp located 40 miles west of Tuscaloosa. The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged in the eight-count indictment that Wilder abused his authority between May 2022 and September 2024 to subject the unnamed prisoners to aggravated sexual abuse, attempted kidnapping and bodily injury. He is charged with deprivation of rights and could face life in prison if convicted.

Arizona: Over 200 women locked up at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville launched an 18-day hunger strike on February 2, 2026. According to The Appeal, the strike was sparked by a guard’s assault on a 20-year-old prisoner during a cell search. Organizers, including Shajiyah X Iman, presented officials with the state Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) with “21 Polite Requests,” including increased wages, grievance reform, and an end to humiliating strip searches. Iman, a 33-year-old serving a life sentence for murder since 2012, has become known as an advocate for prisoners’ rights. Strike participants reported that DCRR officials retaliated by placing Iman on suicide watch and withholding their communication tablets. But Warden Kathleen Reyes eventually met with Iman and reportedly agreed to review strip-search policies and allow outside oversight meetings.

California: According to KNSD in San Diego, a federal jury convicted former San Diego County Men’s Central Jail guard Aaron Russell on March 3, 2026, of deprivation of rights under color of law and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence in the 2020 shooting death of detainee Nicholas Bils. As PLN reported, the 36-year-old Bils was hitting golf balls for his dog to chase when two park rangers approached him for violating COVID-19 restrictions and having a dog off-leash. They claimed that Bils, who suffered from schizophrenia, brandished a golf club at them, so they arrested him for assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest. Russell, then 23, was working in the jail intake area when they arrived with Bils; when the detainee attempted to flee, Russell shot him multiple times in the back, killing him. San Diego County paid $8.1 million in June 2022 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by Bils’ family. [See: PLN, Oct. 2022, p.26.] Russell was also convicted in state court in 2022 of second-degree murder in Bils’ killing and sentenced to a year in jail, plus probation. He will now return to prison for a mandatory minimum term of 10 years in BOP custody after his federal conviction.

California: KTLA in Los Angeles reported that on March 9, 2026, state prisoner Jon Christopher Blaylock, 56, used an improvised weapon to repeatedly stab an unnamed guard at California State Prison (CSP) in Sacramento, also known as New Folsom. A Crips gang member, Blaylock was serving life without parole for the 2005 murder of another guard, Manuel Gonzalez, at the California Institution for Men in Chino, which PLN also reported. [See: PLN, Jan. 2007, p.14.] The New Folsom guard survived and was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released.

Connecticut: Former Hartford Correctional Center guard Scott Robert Tardy, 32, was sentenced for a cyberstalking campaign on March 3, 2026, by a federal judge in South Carolina who remanded him to BOP custody for 80 months, according to WIS in Columbia, South Carolina. As PLN reported, Tardy previously pleaded guilty to using the aliases “connecticut12345” and “slimybanana” while employed as a guard by the Connecticut DOC to target a South Carolina FBI agent, doxxing him by publishing his address and plotting to firebomb his residence while his family slept. [See: PLN, Aug. 2025, p.62.] Investigators also uncovered messages detailing Tardy’s urges to drug and rape women. Bizarrely, prosecutors noted during his 2025 guilty plea hearing that it was unclear how Tardy first identified the agent that he targeted.

Florida: Tipped-off deputies with the Public Corruption Unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) arrested a county jail guard on January 21, 2026, for smuggling contraband into the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach. NBC News reported that Michael Cammallere, 28, who was hired in late 2023, was charged with felony official misconduct and introducing contraband. BSO initially withheld specifics, but investigative journalists learned that the scheme involved smuggling narcotics and cell phones in exchange for bribes made with digital payments. Cammallere was arrested during his shift at the high-volume processing and long-term housing facility, which holds up to 1,020 state and federal detainees and prisoners.

Georgia: Former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey, 86, died of natural causes at Augusta State Prison on March 2, 2026, according to WANF in Atlanta. Dorsey was serving life plus 23 years for orchestrating the December 2000 assassination of the man who defeated his bid for re-election, Derwin Brown; as PLN reported, Dorsey was under investigation for corruption when Brown successfully ran on an anti-corruption platform, only to be gunned down outside his home just days before he was to assume office. A deputy who turned informant to seek leniency in an unrelated killing revealed that Dorsey ordered the hit, using another deputy as a triggerman and even playing the song “I Shot the Sheriff” after Brown was slain. [See: PLN, Dec. 2002, p.21.]

Hawaii: 63-year-old former Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) guard Kenneth Kazuichi Arasato Jr. was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison on March 10, 2026, after he pleaded guilty to possessing over 200 images of child pornography, including some depicting infants, according to the Honolulu Star Advertiser. Arasato, Jr. was listed on the payroll of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as recently as 2022. In addition to his prison term, he was ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to one unnamed victim.

Illinois: Former DeKalb County Jail guard Bartholomew Ilenikhena, 37, was sentenced to two years of probation on February 9, 2026, after he pleaded guilty to felony theft by defrauding COVID-19 pandemic relief programs. As WIFR in Rockford reported, Ilenikhena was employed by the County Sheriff’s Office in 2021 when he fabricated a non-existent business to secure a $18,580 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan and a $10,000 disaster grant. A judge ordered him to pay over $20,000 in restitution on top of his “second chance” probation, which is meant to divert nonviolent first-time offenders from prison. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) lambasted the disgraced guard for exploiting resources intended for struggling businesses. Ilenikhena’s wife, a former member of the County Board of Supervisors, faces similar charges.

Illinois: WRUL in Carmi reported that White County Jail guard Darren Hays, 57, was arrested on March 11, 2026, following a four-month Illinois State Police investigation into allegations that he sexually abused detainees. Hays was charged with six felony counts of custodial criminal sexual misconduct and one count of official misconduct by a person in an authority position. An investigation was launched after County Sheriff Jordan Weiss discovered the misconduct during a routine review of jail surveillance cameras in November 2025. Court records detailed a spree of abuse that was found, including incidents documented on October 14, as well as November 4 and 9 that same year. To avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, Gallatin County State’s Attorney Doug Dhyrkopp is serving as special prosecutor in the case.

Indiana: Former Lake County Community Corrections guard Andrea Rebeles, 24, faces a new battery of felony charges with her latest arrest on March 3, 2026. According to the Chicago Tribune, Rebeles was hit with additional Level 4 felony counts stemming from a sexual relationship with a prisoner—who was just 17—which led to her first arrest in January 2026. Affidavits revealed a disturbing quid pro quo: the prisoner allegedly kept those sharing his housing pod “cool” in exchange for fast food, THC vapes and sexual encounters with Rebeles, who disguised them as library visits. The illicit affair, which reportedly resulted in her pregnancy, was exposed after a coworker’s phone was discovered in the prisoner’s cell. Investigators suggested there was a wider conspiracy involving a second guard and prisoners who acted as lookouts, but additional charges have not been filed. Following her most recent arrest, Rebeles faces five counts and up to 12 years in prison if convicted.

Kansas: On February 19, 2026, a military judge sentenced former U.S. Disciplinary Barracks guard Pfc. J Quan Fields, 23, to 13 years at the Naval Consolidated Brig in Miramar, California, following a general court-martial that took place two days prior at the prison in Leavenworth. Fields’ not-guilty pleas to rape and communicating a threat were rejected, and he was convicted of both crimes, plus sexual assault and domestic violence, Stars and Stripes reported. An investigation revealed a pattern of predatory behavior, including strangulation of his pregnant wife and sexual assault of a co-worker. Despite a military protection order, Fields continued his harassment until his 2025 pretrial confinement. Now reduced to the rank of private, Fields faces a dishonorable discharge and mandatory sex offender registration upon release.

Louisiana: WVUE in New Orleans reported that Slidell Police Department Off. Nicholas Engolia, a 10-year veteran guard at the City jail, was arrested on March 2, 2026, following a targeted FBI sting. Engolia, 31, allegedly used digital messaging to solicit sex from a person he believed was a 15-year-old girl, but who was actually an undercover federal agent. The disgraced former guard now faces federal charges of transferring obscene material to a minor and coercion and enticement. Because Engolia’s case falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, he is being housed in a local parish jail that has a federal housing agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service. The coercion charge carries a mandatory minimum term of 10 years in BOP custody.

Louisiana: A high-ranking guard at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola was arrested on March 2, 2026, for allegedly fueling the prison’s black market with smuggled contraband, according to WAFB in Baton Rouge. Maj. Joseph McNeely, 43, an 11-year veteran of the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections, was taken into custody by the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office on one count of introduction of contraband into the penitentiary. He was released from the Parish jail after posting a $15,000 bond. Investigators also found guns and knives inside his vehicle, which was parked outside a prison camp at Angola. McNeely was placed on unpaid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Massachusetts: On February 19, 2026, a Bristol County grand jury indicted state DOC guard Shayne Michael Hetherson, 47, on a litany of charges involving depravity with a minor. According to WCVB in Boston, Hetherson faces four counts of aggravated rape of a child and several counts of unnatural acts and indecent assault, which he allegedly committed while working for the state prison system. The investigation began following a domestic violence arrest on January 5, 2026, which led Swansea police to uncover Hetherson’s double life, one that included an illegal relationship with a minor that lasted from June to August 2025.

Mississippi: A Florida prisoner and a private prison transport guard were killed when a St. Joseph Services (SJS) transport van crashed near Ocean Springs on February 18, 2026. Per reporting by WALA in Biloxi, the van was traveling on Interstate 10 when it slammed without braking into a utility truck and a metal pole. The impact and subsequent fire killed guard Michael Valera and prisoner William Rodman, 34, who was en route from Florida to Georgia to face non-violent fraud charges. Both died of blunt force trauma and severe burns, Rodman while shackled. Driver Javier Arroyo survived the crash with catastrophic injuries, including a broken back. Two other unnamed Florida prisoners were also injured and hospitalized, after emergency crews cut a hole in the burning van to rescue them. One was headed to Georgia and the other to New Jersey, both to face nonviolent criminal charges. Why did a van taking Florida prisoners north detour hundreds of miles west to Mississippi? SJS contract manager Toney Heinz said that the van was headed to collect a prisoner in Harrison County. Another tortuous series of detours that kept Maryland detainee William Karn shackled for 2,000 miles in a Prisoner Transport Services van resulted in a lawsuit that was settled in 2023, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Jan. 2025, p.36.]

Nebraska: Former Scotts Bluff County Detention Center (SBCDC) guard Christopher Schlosser, 55, was arrested January 16, 2026, following a Nebraska State Patrol investigation into sexual encounters he had with a prisoner, per reporting by KOLN in Lincoln. Surveillance video captured Schlosser and the unnamed prisoner entering a laundry room toilet and staying for extended periods in October 2025. She admitted to having sex with him twice, giving the lie to Schlosser’s claim that the two merely “talked” inside the bathroom. After a brief administrative leave, he resigned and was charged with second-degree sexual abuse of a prisoner. He was then booked into the same lockup that he once guarded on a $25,000 bond.

Nevada: Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) guard Gevaughn Murphy, 35, was arrested on March 4, 2026, and booked into the same Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD)lockup where he worked since 2023. Murphy, who was assigned to the CCDC’s North Tower Bureau, faces a litany of violent domestic abuse charges, including four felony counts of coercion with threat or use of physical force. According to KVVU in Henderson, the “peace officer” was also charged with felony child abuse or neglect and four misdemeanor counts of domestic battery. LVMPD suspended Murphy without pay on the day of his booking.

New Jersey: According to WKXW in Trenton, former Passaic County Jail guard Jose Gonzalez, 47, was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release on March 2, 2026, for the 2021 assault of a pretrial detainee. After the unnamed detainee squirted urine on them, Gonzalez and fellow guards Lorenzo Bowden and Sgt. Donald Vinalesled him in handcuffs to a surveillance camera blind spot to deliver a retaliatory beating. The trio failed to file required use-of-force reports and later conspired to lie to federal investigators. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to depriving the victim of his civil rights and conspiring to obstruct justice. His co-defendants, who are awaiting sentencing, also no longer work for Sheriff Thomas Adamo.

New York: The U.S. House Oversight Committee asked former BOP guard Tova Noel, 37, to appear for a transcribed interview on March 26, 2026, as part of an investigation into billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Miami Herald reported that scrutiny of Noel intensified after newly declassified FBI records and financial forensics on Epstein were released on March 6, 2026. Those records included a handwritten transcription of an FBI interview that recorded a chilling exchange between Tova and a fellow guard, which was overheard by an unnamed Special Housing Unit (SHU) prisoner at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan on the day that Epstein fatally hanged himself there in August 2019. After staff discovered Epstein’s body, the witness said that the other guard remarked, “Dudes, you killed that dude,” to which Noel replied, “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up … my guards [are] going to have an alibi.” That alibi mirrored the phony log entries that led to Noel’s 2019 indictment for falsifying records; he and fellow guard Michael Thomas then pleaded guilty in a deal that included no jail time, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Jan. 2022, p.34.] The newly released evidence revealed that Noel conducted Google searches for Epstein’s status minutes before his corpse was officially discovered. Noel also made a $5,000 cash deposit shortly after Epstein’s initial suicide attempt earlier that year and received thousands of dollars in untraceable Zelle payments. Additionally, FBI briefings identified Noel as the “mysterious orange shape” seen on surveillance video delivering linens to Epstein’s MCC housing tier, in violation of protocol. Despite forensic evidence suggesting that Epstein could have been strangled, Noel remains uncharged in the death. He has been “permanently separated” from federal service since 2021.

North Carolina: WPDE in Florence, South Carolina, reported that a flow of contraband into the Scotland County Correctional Center in North Carolina was traced to guard Teon Blue, who was arrested for felony drug offenses on February 20, 2026. According to the warrants, Blue was caught with 147 grams of suspected marijuana wax intended for delivery to prisoners. Investigators further alleged that Blue used his 2022 Dodge Durango as a mobile base for keeping and selling the Schedule VI controlled substance. Three days after the bust, Blue resigned from the state Department of Adult Correction. According to the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office, Blue was released on a $25,000 bond.

Ohio: During a preliminary hearing in Portage County Municipal Court on March 6, 2026, a judge found probable cause to move forward with a case against County jail guard Austin Paul Wilson. His suspicion of third-degree felony extortion and fifth-degree felony dissemination of private images then moved to the Portage County Grand Jury for formal indictment. The Akron Beacon Journal reported that whilelooking into a tip regarding the misconduct of three other jail guards, investigators discovered that Wilson allegedly threatened to leak a victim’s nude photographs to compel her to send him more explicit content. The February 23 incident occurred at the Portage County Justice Center in Shalersville Township, but the Sheriff’s Office has not confirmed if the victim is a prisoner or a fellow employee. Wilson, 29, was transferred to Trumbull County and released on a $1,000 bond. He has been placed on unpaid leave.

Ohio: Former Columbiana County Jail guard David James Ferguson-Grantz, 27, avoided trial on March 12, 2026, when he pleaded no contest to attempted assault. Per WKBN in Youngstown, the charges stemmed from a brutal use-of-force incident in September 2024, when Ferguson-­Grantz slammed a detainee to the floor, knocking him unconscious and driving a tooth through the man’s lip. Despite a record of prior detainee assaults, the former guard received just a 90-day sentence, with all but 37 days suspended—even though the attack was so severe that jail medical staff initially refused to admit the victim, saying he needed to go to a hospital.

Pennsylvania: Federal and local authorities were investigating a major security failure at the Allegheny County Jail after a newly trained guard bypassed security screening while carrying a firearm on February 25, 2026, less than a week after her academy graduation. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the unidentified guard carried a handgun in her purse through the employee entrance, which is equipped with X-ray machines and metal detectors. Jail Oversight Board member Bethany Hallam revealed that multiple staff members were suspended for failing to report the breach through proper channels. The new guard claimed the incident was a mistake, but Allegheny County Police launched a criminal investigation.

Pennsylvania: Cumberland County authorities arrested Christopher Raymond Wilson, 31, on March 3, 2026, following a disturbing allegation against the County prison guard by an 11-year-old victim, WHP in Harrisburg reported. He was hit with an extensive list of felony charges, including rape of a child, statutory sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault. County Child Advocacy Center investigators found a pattern of abuse beginning in January, with Wilson allegedly attempting to buy the victim’s silence. During a police interview at his Carlisle residence, Wilson reportedly confessed to the assaults. County Judge Michael Sanderson denied bail after the arrest, citing the severity of the charged offenses.

Pennsylvania: A federal jury convicted Philadelphia Department of Prisons (PDP) guards Jahaan Andrews, 34, and Lt. Georgia Malloy, 58, on March 4, 2026, for the 2020 beating of a pretrial detainee at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said that the assault, sparked by a dispute over a jumpsuit color, left the detainee requiring emergency surgery for facial, rib and scrotal injuries. Andrews and fellow guard Oneil Murray, 31, who previously pleaded guilty, brutalized the victim while Malloy orchestrated the administrative coverup, filing false reports that exaggerated the prisoner’s aggression and minimized the staffers’ use of force. The three further conspired to obstruct a subsequent FBI probe. A fourth guard PDP accused in the incident, Mumin Hart, 43, was found not guilty. See: United States v. Andrews, USDC (E.D. Pa.), Case No. 2:25-cr-00403.

South Carolina: On February 28, 2026, former Chesterfield County Detention Center guard Shyheim Ledbetter, 23, escalated a verbal dispute during meal service by drawing his department-issued Taser on an unnamed detainee. Ignoring direct orders to stand down and exit the housing pod, Ledbetter returned and discharged the device, according to WCNC in Charlotte. The blast struck a detainee, another guard and two additional staff members, who were attempting to de-escalate the situation. Ledbetter, sworn in just the month before, surrendered on March 6, 2026, to face counts of third-degree assault, battery and misconduct in office.

South Carolina: The State reported that a 21-year-old former state DOC guard was criminally charged for a sexual relationship with an unnamed prisoner that morphed into a lucrative contraband smuggling scheme. Zoe Maple, formerly a guard at Wateree River Correctional Institution, was arrested on February 26, 2026, following an investigation by the DOC Office of Inspector General (OIG). Warrants allege that between August 2025 and January 2026, Maple sent obscene videos of herself to the prisoner’s cellphone. She also reportedly smuggled bottles of Everclear disguised as water to detainees, pocketing $140 in bribes per bottle. After confessing, she was charged with misconduct in office, dissemination of obscenity, and providing contraband. Maple was then released from the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center on a $20,000 bond. It was unclear when or how her employment with the DOC ended.

South Carolina: Lieber Correctional Institution guard John Charles Meyers, 30, was arrested for smuggling on October 28, 2025, The Post and Courier reported. Meyers was intercepted at the maximum-security prison with a contraband haul including 10 grams of fentanyl, nearly half a pound of marijuana, THC wax and an iPhone 17 Pro. The DOC OIG charged him with felony fentanyl trafficking and criminal conspiracy. He was fired immediately upon his arrest and released the same day on a $50,000 bond from the Dorchester County Detention Center.

Tennessee: The state DOC was reeling after 35-year-old prison guard Dustin Pedigo was fatally stabbed by a prisoner at the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCC) on February 24, 2026. WRCB in Chattanooga identified the assailant as Reginald Steed, a prisoner serving 27 years for aggravated assault, especially aggravated robbery and attempted voluntary manslaughter. The prison remained on lockdown as investigators tried to determine how Steed obtained the weapon. A 2024 ice pick attack that left guard John Evans with permanent nerve damage in his arm earned MCCC prisoner Shawn Tate an extra 10 years behind bars earlier in February 2026, Ninth Judicial District Attorney Russell Johnson announced.

Texas: Authorities are investigating a potentially catastrophic medical error at the McLennan County Jail after an unnamed nurse allegedly exposed a dozen diabetic prisoners to HIV. Per reporting by KWTX in Waco, a vigilant jailer observed the nurse using a single vial of intravenous medication on multiple detainees on February 13, 2026, after first injecting one who was HIV-positive. The nurse involved in the incident is an employee of CorrHealth, a private medical contractor. Following the report, jail officials scrambled to administer post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), a high-intensity 28-day anti-retroviral regimen, to those affected. Sheriff Parnell McNamara has remained silent regarding the incident and a subsequent investigation.

Texas: The USAO for the Eastern District of Texas announced that former BOP guard Martel Devante Gilliam, 22, was sentenced to 120 months in prison on March 11, 2026. Gilliam, who worked at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Complex, was caught operating a mobile drug bazaar out of his vehicle. During a March 2024 “open-air sniff,” K-9 units alerted to Gilliam’s car, where fellow guards found 125 grams of methamphetamine, cocaine, synthetic marijuana, tobacco, $5,700 in cash and a pistol. While the DOJ touted the arrest as part of “Operation Take Back America,” the conviction points to the BOP’s persistent failure to properly screen guards.

Wisconsin: The Dane County Jail provided a high-risk detainee with the very tools needed to violate court orders and intimidate witnesses, according to WMTV in Madison. Paul Van Duyne was jailed on charges of attempted homicide and stalking related to an alleged poisoning plot, and his bond was set at $10 million. He then allegedly used a jail-issued laptop to make nearly 300 illicit calls to his co-defendant, Andrea Whitaker. While jails routinely provide digital access to discovery documents on laptops, the devices are supposed to be “air-gapped”—i.e., restricted to offline use. But Van Duyne, 43, accessed the internet to create aliases and communication accounts, allowing him to circumvent the jail’s monitored phone system and a no-contact order.

Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Law Journal reported that former Waupun Correctional Institution guard Jamall Russell, 40, pleaded no contest in Dodge County Circuit Court on March 11, 2026, to three misdemeanor counts of violating the laws of a state institution in connection with the death of prisoner Donald Maier, 62. As PLN reported, guards turned off the water to Maier’s cell after he flooded it in February 2024 and never told him it had been turned back on before he died of dehydration five days later. [See: PLN, July 2024, p.36.] While the medical examiner ruled Maier’s death a homicide, prosecutors allowed Russell to dodge felony abuse and misconduct charges. Surveillance footage proved Russell falsified logs for cell checks he never performed. 

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