Eight Tennessee Guards Convicted in Prisoners? Beatings, Death
by Gary Hunter
Walter "Steve" Kuntz was beaten to death by jailers in Wilson County, Tennessee. His murder led to a federal investigation, the indictment of nine jailers, six guilty pleas and two convictions.
On January 12, 2003, Kuntz was arrested for ...
Two people died in less than 90 days in Alabama’s Baldwin County Corrections Center. On May 30, 2006, at 11:30 p.m., Ross Paul Yates was found slumped over and unresponsive, in his cell, his hands cuffed behind him to a restraint rail on the wall. He was officially pronounced dead ...
Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa's Post-Apartheid Prisons
by Gary Hunter
Corruption plagues South African (SA) prisons at every level as prisoners suffer violence and torture from both prisoners and warders alike.
Former high court judge Thabani Jali was commissioned, in 2003, to launch an extensive probe of SA prisons. ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study showing that the spread of HIV in prison is extremely low. Of 856 males in Georgia?s prisons who tested positive for HIV in 2005, only 76 acquired the virus inside prison.
The study dispelled the myth that prisons are ...
China's Death Penalty On Wheels
by Gary Bunter
China's death penalty has gone mobile. Death vans are now replacing firing squads as the preferred method of execution.
In the past, condemned prisoners were executed publicly in prisons or court buildings. Kang Zhongwen, designer of the Jinguan Automobile death van, says ...
Sheriff's Deputies Charged in Prisoner's Death; Both Get Prison Time
by Gary Hunter
Jail guards Ronald Eugene Parker and Brandon Gray Huie were charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a prisoner in North Carolina's Davidson County jail, and both received prison terms.
Carlos Claros-Castro, 28, a ...
Two prisoners escaped from Arkansas? Benton Unit prison on July 9, 2006. Tab Delancey and Clifton Sanders were drivers in the prison?s work-release program.
Arkansas was one of the few states that, until recently, allowed unsupervised prisoners to transport other prisoners to and from free-world jobs.
?We can?t do it ...
Former New York Police Chief Bernard B. Kerik, proclaimed hero of 9/11, fell to his lowest point yet after pleading guilty to two unclassified misdemeanor charges on June 30, 2006.
Kerik, also a former Director of the New York Department of Corrections, admitted to improperly accepting $165,000 worth of remodeling ...
The Alabama DOC has launched an innovative program to vaccinate prisoners for Hepatitis A and B. Hepatitis is a disease that damages the liver with the potential to be fatal. Alabama optimistically hopes to inoculate over half of its prisoners during the next year at a cost of one-half million ...
On May 23, 2006, Vermont became the fiftieth and final state to outlaw sex between detention facility employees and prisoners. The proposed measure had been under debate for five years before Governor James Douglas finally signed the bill into law.
Amnesty International has pushed for the measure since 1999 when ...
