by Jo Ellen Nott
When the men and women incarcerated in San Diego County jails awoke on October 6, 2022, the biggest news was also the grimmest: Nothing had changed. A fellow detainee had been murdered the night before, but his was the 19th jail death in just …
by Jo Ellen Nott
With two former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staffers convicted of sexually abusing prisoners and three more charged and awaiting trial — including the former warden — the “rape club” scandal continues to widen at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California. It now …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On October 14, 2022, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported the results of an independent investigation it conducted into the jail death of a homeless man, sharply contradicting reports from both Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn and the Texas Rangers.
On July 31, 2019, …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On August 23, 2022, a guard at New Jersey’s Essex County Jail filed a discrimination lawsuit accusing a high-ranking male supervisor of sexual harassment. The suit claims that Associate Warden Antonio Pires, 48, “manipulated and coerced” the guard, Daniela Argudelo, 32, into a brief …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On October 3, 2022, a Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was arrested after a road rage incident in which he allegedly flashed his DOC badge and used a gun to pull over a woman driving with two other adults and two children near …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On July 21, 2022, at 11:30 p.m., surveillance cameras in a day room at Ohio’s Fairfield County Jail captured an unusual sight: Friendly wrestling matches were taking place between prisoners and two guards, while a third looked on. Another Sheriff’s deputy who does not …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On October 20, 2022, Massachusetts prisoner Roy L. Booth, Jr. 40, was formally charged with armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and mayhem. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced the charge earlier, after Booth allegedly attacked a …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On October 14, 2022, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified the victim of a spectacular con carried out by a Georgia prisoner from his cell.
In June 2020, while serving time at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, Arthur Lee Cofield allegedly used a contraband …
by Jo Ellen Nott
With 39 prisoners dead by September 1, 2022 — despite a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation ongoing since 2016 and two federal court orders — the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) remains unwilling or unable to address hellish conditions in its prisons.
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by Jo Ellen Nott
On Sunday, August 14, 2022, barely one hundred days into her tenure as New Orleans Parish Sheriff, Susan Hutson was confronted with a prisoner takeover of a cellblock in the parish lockup, resulting in a call to the Special Response Team (SRT) from the …
