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A Matter of Fact

Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends

to smuggle drugs into prisons. The amounts smuggled by visitors are usually very small. By contrast, one Ohio state prison guard was caught bringing in a pound of marijuana into Warren Correctional Institute ...

Pennsylvania Prisoner Smuggles Cellphones, Federal Prosecutor Breaches Plea Bargain

Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024

Filed under: Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet, Breach of Plea/Coop./Immunity Agreements

, the Court found. As PLN reported, Cruz bribed a guard to smuggle cellphones into the Dauphin County Prison while held there awaiting trial for attempted murder between October 2015 and January 2016 ...

Overdoses Skyrocket in Tennessee Prisons During Pandemic Despite Visitation Restrictions

Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022

Filed under: Drug Overdose, COVID-19, Visiting

. The arrests of numerous guards and other employees have also failed to staunch the steady flow. Or maybe just not enough smuggling guards have yet been caught and arrested. Sources: The Marshall Project ...

News in Brief

Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018

Filed under: News in Brief

and partied together until Martin was recaptured. Delaware: Two guards who formerly worked at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center were sentenced for their roles in a widespread drug and cell phone smuggling ...

News in Brief

Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016

Filed under: News in Brief

, was working as a guard at Oakwood Prison when he plotted to smuggle steroids into the facility. On November 14, 2015, he was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison after admitting to the scheme. His co ...

News In Brief

Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015

Filed under: News in Brief

into the involvement of numerous jail guards in a contraband smuggling scheme with the Black Guerilla Family gang. [See: PLN, April 2015, p.30]. In July 2015, Governor Larry Hogan ordered the closure of the Baltimore ...

Former Oregon Prison Guard, Accused of Contraband Smuggling and Sexual Misconduct, Files Suit Alleging Racism

Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Racial Discrimination, Employee Litigation

Former Oregon Prison Guard, Accused of Contraband Smuggling and Sexual Misconduct, Files Suit Alleging Racism by Mark Wilson An ex-Oregon prison guard who resigned in 2007 was hired ...

Watchdog Finds “Serious Safety and Security Issues” at Oregon BOP Lockup

Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024

Filed under: Security Systems, Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

. Ironically, the report was released just weeks after a former guard at the lockup was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a drug-smuggling and bribery conspiracy at the prison. Nickolas Carlos Herrera ...

Contraband Cell Phones On The Rise In U.S. Prisons

Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Access

who requested anonymity. Three guards were subsequently indicted for smuggling in phones, cigarettes, and drugs in exchange for money. In Washington, three cell phones were found between mid-2002 ...

Two Die during Latest Angola Escape Attempt

Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes, Media, Prisoner Media, Censorship

Two Die during Latest Angola Escape Attempt by Two Die During Latest Angola Escape Attempt by Dan Pens A guard and a prisoner were killed December 28, 1999 at Louisiana's maximum ...

News in Brief

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief by WA: Dean Wilkins, a Kitsap county jail guard, resigned on January 20, 1995, after county detectives investigated a complaint that he had had consensual sex with a female ...

News in Brief

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003

Filed under: News, News in Brief

, a guard at the Caledonia County Work Camp was arrested by state police on charges that he accepted $300 to smuggle morphine sulfate and syringes to a camp prisoner. Virginia: On December 17, 2002 ...

White Supremacist Groups Continue to Infest Florida DOC

Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Racial Discrimination

—prosecutors alleged that “corrupt law enforcement officers and state employees” including prison guards abetted the gang in collecting intelligence on the investigation and smuggling ...

No Safety or Security for Maryland Prisoners

Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prison/Jail Murders, Failure to Protect (General), Transportation, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Wrongful Death, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Guard Unions

in contraband smuggling and other corrupt activities uncovered by officials investigating McGuinn’s death. The guards’ integrity is important to the state’s case against the prisoners accused of killing McGuinn ...

Repatriated Federal Prisoner's Sentence Properly Calculated Under American Law

Article • January 15, 2008

Filed under: Parole, International, Prisoners-International, Transfers-International

grinding over 7,000 grams of cocaine so it could be smuggled into the U.S. He cooperated with Panamanian authorities in another prosecution but was tortured and beaten by Panamanian guards for two years ...

CA Prisoner's Convictions for Conspiracy to Smuggle Drugs Vacated for Bad Jury Instructions

Article • January 15, 2008

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Conspiracy, Jury Instructions, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

CA Prisoner's Convictions for Conspiracy to Smuggle Drugs Vacated for Bad Jury Instructions by Jaime Jasso, a California state prisoner, made several phone calls to someone outside of prison ...

California Criminalizes Cell Phone Smuggling, Seeks Technology to Block Cell Phone Calls from Prisons

Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Cell Phone Access

California Criminalizes Cell Phone Smuggling, Seeks Technology to Block Cell Phone Calls from Prisons by In April 2011, Matthew Cate, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections ...

News in Brief

Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016

Filed under: News in Brief

guard who had worked at the Southern Desert Correctional Facility was arrested for smuggling cell phones and drugs into the prison. Michael James joined five other men who were implicated in the scheme ...

News in Brief

Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

to be guarding at the jail. Smith was placed on administrative leave while her case plays out. Baldwin, a 12-year veteran, no longer holds her job. In between their arrests, on September 23, 2020, another ...

Oklahoma Prisons Suffer Crisis of Violence and Mismanagement

Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Criminal Prosecution, Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes, Failure to Protect (General), Staffing

of guards in Oklahoma's state prisons, set the stage for an increase in prison violence. Thus, it was no surprise when in 2005 violence exploded in Oklahoma prisons with three state prisoners murdered by mid ...