Skip navigation

Search

27100 results
Page 120 of 1355. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 ... 1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 | Next »

Article • May 31, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19 “Wonderful” to Oklahoma County Jail by Kevin Bliss By Kevin W. Bliss Audio released on February 8, 2022, captured Oklahoma County Jail (OCJ) administrator Greg Williams and Oklahoma County Detention Center communications director Mark Opgrande in a discussion two months earlier about how the COVID-19 pandemic had benefitted the …
Article • May 31, 2022
Overdoses Climb in Colorado Prisons and Jails With Drugs Smuggled by Mail, Uber Eats by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A Denver jail guard was fired on April 29, 2022, after an investigation revealed he allowed deliveries from Uber Eats in which drugs were hidden and later used by a …
Article • May 31, 2022
Mentally Ill Detainee Paralyzed in Brutal New Jersey Jail Beating Files Suit by Edward Lyon By Ed Lyon A lawsuit was reportedly filed in New Jersey Superior Court for Essex County on April 26, 2022, on behalf of a mentally ill man left paralyzed from a brutal beating he suffered …
Article • May 31, 2022
Filed under: Staffing, Mental Health
BOP Raises Hackles With Ad Using Prisoners’ Mental Illness As Selling Point to Recruit Psychologists by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott In advertising for staff psychologists which appeared on Facebook in April 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) played a new trump card: the prevalence of mental …
Article • May 23, 2022
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
“Master Jo,” Florida Prison Employee, Arrested for Trafficking in Contraband and Soliciting a Hit from Undercover Detective by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On April 11, 2022, an academic instructor at a south Florida lockup managed for the state Department of Corrections by private prison contractor GEO Group, …
Article • May 23, 2022
“Jailhouse Politician” Withdraws from Indiana Race, But Another Wins in DC by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On May 18, 2022, an Indiana jail detainee who had advanced in the GOP primary for the Clinton Township Board—while being held in the Boone County Jail without bond—signed to formally …
Four Florida Guards Charged in Fatal Beating of Elderly, Mentally Ill State Prisoner by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On April 29, 2022, nearly ten weeks after the death in transport of an elderly and mentally ill state prisoner, a fourth guard with the state Department of Corrections …
California Jail Guard Criminally Charged for Assaulting Detainee with Scalding Water by Edward Lyon By Ed Lyon A Sheriff’s Department deputy in California’s Orange County has forfeited a 20-plus-year law enforcement career by assaulting a mentally ill detainee at the county lockup. The deputy, Guadalupe Ortiz, 47, was fired on …
Article • May 16, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Spring COVID-19 Outbreak Sickens Hundreds at Washington State Prisons by Brooke Kaufman By Brooke Kaufman  In early April 2022, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) reported the largest COVID-19 outbreak seen in its prisons since the pandemic began over two years earlier. At Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, 20% of its 1,800 prisoners …
Four BOP Employees, Eight Prisoners Indicted in Widening NYC Federal Jail Smuggling Scandal by Casey Bastian By Casey J. Bastian On March 18, 2022, a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard was indicted in federal court in New York City on charges he smuggled a loaded gun into the now-shuttered …
Article • May 16, 2022
South Carolina DOC Coughs Up $920,000 for Prison’s Water and Sewer Bill by Ashleigh Dye By Ashleigh Dye In October 2021, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) paid $920,000 to settle a four-year-old lawsuit filed against the small town of Ridgeland after it threatened to cut off water and …
Article • May 16, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
Be “Good Bitches”: New Mexico Prisoners Sue Over Sexually Degrading Abuse by Brooke Kaufman By Brooke Kaufman A lawsuit filed by 14 state prisoners in the District of New Mexico federal court on April 4, 2022, alleges their civil and constitutional rights were violated with “intentionally punishing strip searches” while being held by the …
Article • May 9, 2022
Immigrants in California CoreCivic Detention Center File Complaints Over Staff Mistreatment, Sexual Misconduct by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman Four men held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by private prison firm CoreCivic at its Otay-Mesa Detention Center in San Diego filed complaints after a staff member allegedly ogled …
Article • May 9, 2022
Three Whistleblower Claims Filed Over Leaked Video of LA Deputy Kneeling on Detainee’s Head, Sheriff Forced to Walk Back Threats Against Reporter by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman On April 26, 2022, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva walked back comments made at a press conference hours earlier, when he …
Article • May 9, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
Guard Accused of Organizing Prisoner “Sex Shows” at Tennessee Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman A former jailer was fired and the sheriff is now being sued after two women detained at the Grainger County Jail complained they were forced to stage “sex shows” at the Tennessee lockup on …
Article • May 9, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat, COVID-19
Antiviral Pills to Fight COVID-19 Sitting Unused in Pharmacies, But Prisoners Go Wanting by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman Roughly one-third of the U.S. supply of Paxlovid, an antiviral pill to fight COVID-19, were still sitting unused on April 26, 2022, according to the New York Times. But few if …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Ninth Circuit: Error to Instruct Jury to Defer to Medical Staff’s Asserted Security Justification for Terminating California Prisoner’s Morphine Prescription Without Tapering by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 15, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a federal district court in California erred …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Food, Religious Diet
Preliminary Injunction Granted to Illinois Prisoner to Receive Non-Allergenic Kosher Meals by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court issued a preliminary injunction in favor of a state prisoner on October 12, 2021, requiring prison officials to provide him fresh or frozen kosher meal entrées because …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Connecticut Supreme Court Rules That Prisoner Was Denied Due Process with Sex Offender Classification by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On July 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of Connecticut held that when the state Department of Corrections (DOC) classified him as a sex offender despite not having a conviction on …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Washington State Supreme Court Holds that Denying Wheelchair-Bound Prisoner Access to Water and Toilet Facilities Violates State Constitution by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney In an opinion issued on October 7, 2021, the Supreme Court of Washington ruled that holding wheelchair-bound prisoner Robert Rufus Williams in a cell that lacked …
Page 120 of 1355. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 ... 1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 | Next »