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Guards Fornicate, Sell Drugs in Pennsylvania Jails

Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, STDs, Criminal Prosecution

Guards Fornicate, Sell Drugs in Pennsylvania Jails by Guards Fornicate, Sell Drugs In Pennsylvania Jails The Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania is a den of perversion and sexual ...

$1.5 Million Awarded for Failure to Protect Rikers Jail Prisoner Who Was Attacked Repeatedly

Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Settlements

smuggle contraband. At some point he refused a request to smuggle contraband made by the Bloods. The leader of the gang wrote several memos to other gang members placing a hit on Small. After he ...

BOP Guard Pleads Guilty to Sexually Molesting Prisoners at MCC Manhattan

Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Visiting

BOP Guard Pleads Guilty to Sexually Molesting Prisoners at MCC Manhattan by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On March 4, 2020, federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Colin Akparanta pleaded ...

No More Second Chances for New York Jail Guard Convicted of Smuggling

Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Sting Operations

No More Second Chances for New York Jail Guard Convicted of Smuggling by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On April 5, 2022, a former jail guard in Buffalo pleaded guilty to a first ...

BOP Guard Terminated for Making Prisoner Do His Work, Union Blames Staff Shortages

Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022

Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions

. FCI Miami, a minimum-security institution, was also where a guard recently pleaded guilty to taking bribes to smuggle contraband into the prison. For that, Victor DeJesus, 47, was sentenced to 70 months ...

News in Brief

Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019

Filed under: News in Brief

for almost a year. Police identified that man as Paul Scott Thornton, who worked as a guard captain at the CoreCivic-operated Red Rock Correctional Center. Detectives soon determined that Thornton was fully ...

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Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014

Filed under: News, News in Brief

are located apart from the prison population, were reportedly breached. Arizona: Newly-hired Maricopa County jail guard Rachel Harris, 22, was attacked on June 24, 2013 by prisoner Bobby Ruiz as she entered ...

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Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011

Filed under: News, News in Brief

in jail in February 2011. California: Merced County jail guard Anthony Sodini, 27, employed at the John Latorraca Correctional Facility, was arrested on February 9, 2011 on charges of smuggling contraband ...

Love, Sex and Violence KO Oregon Deputies, Jailers and Prison Guards

Article • March 15, 2008 • from PLN March, 2008

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Criminal Prosecution

Love, Sex and Violence KO Oregon Deputies, Jailers and Prison Guards by On August 16, 2007, in separate incidents, two Clackamas County, Oregon sheriff?s deputies were arrested on job ...

South Carolina DOC Investigates Jail After 30 Detainee Injuries, Two Escapes and Five Guard Arrests

Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Acceptance of Responsibility, Relevant Conduct

Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) had dispatched a team to inspect the Richland County jail, after a series of stabbings, escapes and contraband smuggling by guards. The Alvin S. Glenn Detention ...

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Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021

in January 2020 and charged with taking part in a drug-smuggling scheme that also involved five inmates and seven citizens outside the prison, according to a report by AM NY. The guards were Darrington James ...

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Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

: Mia Martinez-Welch, 22, a former guard at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida, was sentenced in October 2019 to an 18-month prison term for smuggling tobacco, methamphetamine ...

CoreCivic Prison at Center of Georgia Drug Trafficking Investigation

Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Misconduct/Corruption, Drug Trafficking Crimes

-run private prison, the Coffee County Correctional Facility. At 41 years of age, charges stated that Burnett smuggled drugs, cell phones, and other items into the prison for gang members. She and 47 ...

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Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012

Filed under: News, News in Brief

killed and 28 wounded in a resulting gun battle with guards. Sixteen prisoners were captured shortly after the break-out; the others remained at large. Prior mass prison escapes occurred in Afghanistan ...

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Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by California: A guard at San Quentin State Prison and one of two outside co-conspirators were arraigned on September 8, 2021, on federal charges they smuggled cellphones ...

Corruption Among Prison Guards in North Carolina Spurred by Low Pay

Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Prison Gangs, Money/Property, Guards/Staff

.” Person said he paid two guards to smuggle him cell phones, liquor, condoms, pornography and marijuana, all of which he sold to other prisoners. The contraband trade can be lucrative inside prisons ...

Sex for Contraband Racket Unravels After Kansas Prisoner Has Abortion

Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault

as his own personal harem. “[A] candy store, so to speak,” said Kenneth Maggard, a former TCF heating and air conditioning supervisor. Maggard had himself been accused of smuggling contraband ...

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Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000

Filed under: News, News in Brief

-max" prison that has been repeatedly cited for human and civil rights abuses by various human rights organizations. FL: In October, 1999, Steven Manning, a guard at the Florida State Prison in Starke ...

Sheriff and Guards Indicted: Sex, Misconduct and Contraband Scandal at Texas Jail

Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct

-count indictment against former Sheriff Bill Keating and ten jail guards, four prisoners and two other people in connection with drug-related offenses, contraband smuggling and sexual misconduct ...

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Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017

Filed under: News in Brief

19, 2017 news release, U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman III said former Stewart County Detention Center guard James Royal, 43, had been sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling marijuana ...