by Jo Ellen Nott
On January 31, 2023, a veteran Delaware prison guard was indicted by a state grand jury on a felony count of first-degree assault, for recklessly confining and causing the death of a law enforcement animal that was under his control. Darrel Wiley, 45, was also charged ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On January 14, 2023, the violence at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex began early, when a guard saw one detainee slashed by others. In a separate incident later that day, a second detainee was stabbed in the chest. Plus, around midday, a prisoner in ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
After a review of public records from Michigan, online magazine and video channel Motherboard found that the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) has restricted prisoner access to at least 1,000 books between 1998 and April 2022. Michigan is not alone in banning titles from its prisons, ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A former guard and a former nurse at a prison in the United Kingdom – who both fell for “flirty” calls on a contraband cellphone from a “Romeo inmate,” British tabloids proclaimed – are now paying for their involvement with the convicted drug dealer. The one-time ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Justin Reeder, 32, died alone in a restraint chair at North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) on September 17, 2022. That night, staff could not control a spell of aggressive agitation Reeder was experiencing. So they strapped him into a four-point mechanical restraint chair, wheeled him to ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On December 21, 2022, after a year of records requests and research by criminal justice nonprofit The Marshall Project, a database of 54,000 banned books was compiled from prisons in 18 states. In news no one should find surprising, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On April 9, 2022, family members and friends of men held at the Civil Commitment Facility (CCF) in Littlefield, Texas, protested the injustices which occur within the razor-wire fences of the former prison. Decrying the state’s “failed sex offender treatment program,” the protestors called the operation ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On November 30, 2022, nearly two years after a 44-year-old Alabama prisoner died, an amended complaint filed by his sister claims he “literally baked to death in his cell” where a broken heating system went unrepaired at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility (CF). But the gruesome ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A convicted drug trafficker who broke out of a Kansas City-area jail was back in custody on December 30, 2022 – along with his mother, who was charged with abetting his escape.
Trevor Scott Sparks, 33, escaped from the Cass County Jail on December 5, 2022, ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
In early January 2023, five prisoners escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Thomson, Illinois, according to the union representing the prison’s guards. Local 4070 of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said all five were recaptured by January 13, 2023. But Local President Jon Zumkehr ...
