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Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Afghanistan: On December 17, 2004, troops of the American puppet regime stormed the Pul-e Charkhi jail in Kabul where four prisoners, three Pakistanis and an Iraqi, had attempted to escape by killing and disarming a jail guard and using his automatic rifle to …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Arizona: In April, 2004, Department of Corrections employee Paul Lamprill was fired after using his state supplied DOC computer to send more than 8,000 e mails to campaign on behalf of former Arizona DOC director Terry Stewart who was running for president of …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Alaska: On August 4, 2004, Charles Rubin, 41, the manager of the Cordova Center, a half way house in Anchorage which is operated by Cornell Corrections, a private, for profit prison company, was arrested in charges that he lured a 23 year old …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
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News in Brief by Alabama: In March, 2004, Jefferson county jail guard Antonio Allums was charged with misdemeanor assault for attacking jail prisoner Michael Boler in the jail by choking him, slamming his head against a wall and then trying to cover it up. Boler was attacked for no apparent …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
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News in Brief by Argentina: In May, 2004, army Lt. Colonel Guillermo Bruno Laborda, 50, was arrested after he complained about not being promoted to full colonel. In his letter of complaint, Laborda gave details of personally murdering political prisoners on orders from his superiors and setting their bodies on …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
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News in Brief by California: On April 11, 2004, Matthew Jacquot, 28, a guard at the Orange County jail, was arrested in San Diego on felony vandalism, battery and being under the influence charges after he ran into a Seven Eleven store, broke doors, ripped out a sink and overturned …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
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News in Brief by Arizona: On June 1, 2004, over 20 prisoners in the Yavapai county jail became very ill after an unidentified person put industrial soap in the dinner meal's iced tea. One prisoner was in critical condition and several others were hospitalized afterwards. Police were investigating. Brazil: On …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
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News in Brief by Alabama: On February 3, 2004, Phillip Brown, 23, a former state prisoner, boarded a work release bus transporting prisoners to work and abducted prisoner Okoni Lattimore, 28, at gunpoint. Lattimore later turned himself in to prison officials. He suffered a severe beating, including the loss of …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
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News in Brief by Bolivia: Protesting bad conditions and long sentences, two prisoners at the Palmasola prison in the capital of La Paz were crucified on February 11, 2004. Prisoners Fredy Acosta and Walter Ortiz were nailed to crosses in the prison. The protest was filmed by local television crews …
Article • February 15, 2004 • from PLN February, 2004
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News in Brief by Ecuador: On January 15, 2004, president Lucio Guitierrez declared the nation's prisons to be in a "state of emergency" and would immediately appropriate funds to be used to upgrade the nation's overcrowded, violent and dilapidated prison system. On January 12, 2004, rioting prisoners at two prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
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News in Brief by Alabama: On August 22, 2003, state supreme court chief justice Roy Moore was suspended from the court for his refusal to obey a federal court judge's order that he remove a two ton monument of the ten commandments from the rotunda of the state supreme court's …
Article • December 15, 2003
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News in Brief by Alabama: On September 2, 2003, Cedric Bothwell, 39, a guard at the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of selling marijuana to prisoners at the facility. Prosecutors dropped four other charges related to Bothwell's alleged crack cocaine smuggling …
Article • December 15, 2003
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Arkansas: In April, 2005, an unidentified sergeant was fired by the state DOC after the February, 2005, death of Wrightsville Unit prisoner Victor Wright, 28, while on a work detail. Wright complained to the sergeant that eh was not feeling well while on …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
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News in Brief by Alabama: In August, 2003, 163 prisoners on death row at Holman Prison were allowed to have small fans to relieve the heat in their cells. The prison has no air conditioning. Fans had been allowed but were banned on death row in 1995. In 2002 the …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
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News in Brief by Alabama: In April, 2003, St. Clair Correctional Facility guard Cedric Bothwell, 39, was fired after being indicted in federal court on extortion charges. Bothwell is accused of selling crack cocaine to a prisoner in exchange for $4,000 and when the prisoner couldn't pay an additional $3,500 …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
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News in Brief by Brazil: On June 23, 2003, a 12 hour riot among prisoners in a jail in Manaus in the Amazon left 13 prisoners dead. Forty visitors and four jail guards were taken hostage during the uprising but were released unharmed. No cause for the riot was given …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
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News in Brief by California: On May 2, 2003, Gary Culverson, 25, and Van Kopp, 37, were arrested on charges that they assaulted Casey Humphrey, 18, a prisoner at the Monroe Detention Center in Yolo County. Culverson and Kopp were employed as guards at the jail's intake area but the …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
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News in Brief by Arizona: On March 20, 2003, the Shiprock Detention Center on the Navajo reservation was closed for failing to correct health code violations, chipped paint and overcrowding with prisoners sleeping on the jail's floors. The Navajo Office of Environmental Health inspected the 40 year old jail in …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
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News in Brief by Arkansas: On March 25, 2003, Fulton county jail prisoners Bobby Woodrum and Brian Shanckle, both 19, escaped from the jail by handcuffing a female jail guard to a chair, stealing guns and ammunition and running off in the jail's jeep. They were recaptured without incident ten …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
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News in Brief by Afghanistan: In December, 2002, two prisoners being interrogated by US forces at the Bagram base near Kabul were beaten to death by their captors. Prisoners at the base are routinely kept naked, hooded, shackled and deprived of sleep for days on end while being beaten for …
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