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Now Under Federal Receivership, New York City’s Rikers Island Jails Still Have No Plan to Improve, No Firm Date to Close by Chuck Sharman With its sixth and seventh detainee deaths of the year coming just minutes apart on June 20, 2025, New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex eclipsed …
Suit Filed Over Fatal Beating of New York Prisoner That Sparked Massive Guard Strike by Chuck Sharman A federal civil rights complaint filed on January 15, 2025, accused the New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) and over a dozen of its officials of violating the Eighth Amendment …
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Former Maine Prison Guard Arrested and Detained by ICE Agents by Gratien Milandou-Wamba, 32, fled to the United States on a tourist visa in 2023 from the Republic of the Congo; he applied for asylum several months later, claiming that he had been tortured in his home country because of …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Former California Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Planting Contraband He Pretended to Discover by Avelino Ramirez, 52, worked at the San Quentin State Prison from 2013 to 2022, according to his plea agreement. In 2022, he was promoted to K-9 sergeant and transferred to the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. …
News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Former New Jersey Jailers Plead Guilty to Beating Detainee for Tossing Urine by Three former jail guards from Passaic County, New Jersey could face years in prison after they pleaded guilty on May 21, 2025, to assaulting a detainee and lying about it. The guards, Jose Gonzalez, Donald Vinales, and Lorenzo …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years Prison Legal News has reported extensively on the rape of prisoners around the country. In 35 years of publishing, about every 4- or 5-years prison systems have a major scandal at their local women’s prison where it comes to light that …
New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New Jersey judiciary came to an end when the state Supreme Court held that the failure of former prison …
14th Alabama Sheriff’s Employee Pleads Guilty in Jail Detainee’s Death by Freezing by A guard pleaded guilty in June 4, 2025, in connection with the death of a man held at an Alabama jail who died in freezing conditions in January 2023. The guard, Braxton Kee, 23, pleaded guilty to …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Former Wisconsin Warden Gets No Cell Time, $500 Fine After Prisoner Deaths by Former Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) Warden Randall Hepp took a deal before his sentencing on April 28, 2025, accepting a $500 fine in exchange for his no-contest plea to a misdemeanor charge of violating state and …
News in Brief by Alabama: Kadarius Shermaine Todd, 28, a new guard still on probationary status at the Madison County Jail, was fired on April 4, 2025, after allegedly attempting to smuggle contraband into the lockup. He was apprehended upon arrival to meet a contact with a package containing Suboxone, …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Former Jail Guard Accused of Having Sex with Detainee Now Vice-Chair of Florida GOP by The newly installed vice-chair of Florida’s Republican Party was previously convicted of providing contraband to a detainee he was accused of having sex with while working as a jail guard, according to reporting by Fresh …
$1.3 Million for Massachusetts Prisoner Stabbed by Guard in Connecticut Lockup by Douglas Ankney On October 21, 2024, after a trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, judgment was entered awarding former state prisoner Justin C. Mustafa $1.3 million on his claim that he was repeatedly …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Three New York Guards Plead Guilty to Beating Black Prisoner in “George Floyd Challenge” by A third New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard pleaded guilty on April 23, 2025, to assaulting a Mid-State Correctional Facility prisoner and lying about it to cover it up. Brandon Montanari, …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Seven TDCJ Prison Guards Arrested in Alleged Smuggling Ring by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced on April 9, 2025, that arrest warrants were issued for seven guards at the Telford Unit who are accused of running a contraband smuggling ring at the prison. Seven search warrants were …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Trio of Guards Fired and Arrested for Smuggling at Louisiana Jails by A rash of smuggling at Louisiana jails put at least three guards in handcuffs in less than a month, beginning on April 17, 2025. That’s when 18-year-old Bossier Parish jailer Colton Davis was arrested on two counts of …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Two Guards Arrested in Two Weeks at Texas Jail by Two jailers were arrested in two weeks at Texas’ Hays County Jail, beginning on April 25, 2025, when guard John Duran, 45, was accused of sending a detainee to shower and watching her bathe on surveillance video. An investigation was …
New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths by A suit filed in federal court for the District of New Jersey on February 19, 2025, accused officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of failing to protect prisoner Phillip Kellerman from …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
South Carolina Jailer Gets 10 Years for Sexually Assaulting Nine Detainees and Co-Workers by A former jail guard in South Carolina’s Berkeley County was sentenced on March 18, 2025, to 10 years in state prison, after he admitted to sexually assaulting nine detainees and coworkers at the Hill-Finklea Detention Center …
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