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New York Prison Scrutinized, Employees Charged Following High-profile Escape

Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Corrections Audits, Escapes

;s vaunted security was no match for employee corruption and collusion. The ensuing investigation exposed widespread smuggling of contraband into the prison by guards and other staff members ...

CCA Prison Under Gang Control: Death and Injury Suits Filed

Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Gang Policies, Failure to Protect (General), Wrongful Death, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Accidents

for Amani's family, says that Amani was forced to join USO and "was being used by the gang as a mule to smuggle drugs." He points to the fact that Amani had no prior history of drug use and that his death ...

Smoking on the Chain Gang

Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021

Filed under: Chain Gangs, Smoking

black market. That market is fed in various ways. FDC bureaucrats will tell you that tobacco enters prisons via smuggling by persons entering its visiting parks. On a small scale, that is the truth. Yet ...

News in Brief

Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: News in Brief

; the bill went to the governor for his signature in May 2018. Indiana: Putnamville Correctional Facility guard Stephany Dawson was caught on July 28, 2017 smuggling drugs into the prison and admitted ...

States Implementing New Technology to Fight Contraband Smuggling Via Drone

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

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Security Systems

States Implementing New Technology to Fight Contraband Smuggling Via Drone by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Prison Legal News has reported several times on the trend of prison contraband ...

Georgia Prison Disturbance Linked to Contraband Cell Phones

Article • April 15, 2013

Filed under: Telephones, Cell Phone Access

to be a guard's uniform. While it is possible, of course, that fact, by itself, does not establish that cell phones were used, as Commissioner Owens believes, to "synchronize and coordinate" the various activities ...

West Virginia Prisoners Protest Visit/Phone Restrictions

Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000

Filed under: Prison Industries, Prison Rebellion, Work Strikes, Prisoner Privileges, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

about the restrictive visiting policies, contending that they were being punished for mistakes made by guards who allowed a woman to smuggle in a gun without searching her properly. The telephone ...

Identity of Prisoner Who Smuggled Gun into New Jersey Facility Revealed by Appeals Court

Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008

Filed under: Gang Policies, Crime/Demographics, Escapes, Ad-Seg Hearings

Identity of Prisoner Who Smuggled Gun into New Jersey Facility Revealed by Appeals Court by Gary Hunter Identity of Prisoner Who Smuggled Gun into New Jersey Facility Revealed by Appeals ...

News in Brief

Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017

Filed under: News in Brief

that she intended to smuggle the hundreds of cigarettes she was found with, but had become frightened so she didn’t follow through with the plan. Georgia: Rutledge State Prison guard Antonio Lewis, 46 ...

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Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief: by California: Former San Quentin prison guard Robert Alioto, 48, pleaded guilty on December 5, 2011 to smuggling drugs into the facility. Alioto was a warehouse supervisor ...

Puerto Rico DOC Fires 97 Guards, Suspends More Than 100

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

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct

Department of Corrections announced plans to terminate 97 guards and suspend more than 100 others due to illegal drug use, contraband smuggling or unjustified absences from their jobs. Sheila Padin ...

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Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006

Filed under: News, News in Brief

in uniform, to smuggle or transport 1,474 pounds of cocaine in exchange for bribes. Seven of the total arrested were Arizona Department of Corrections guards. Arizona: On June 14, 2005, Gabriel Saucedo, 36 ...

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

Filed under: News, News in Brief

: On November 9, 2007, Federal Correctional Institution-Cumberland guard Robb Phillips, 33, pleaded guilty in federal court to accepting over $14,000 in bribes from prisoners in exchange for smuggling tobacco ...

Violence and Corruption at Rikers Island; Called a “Battle Camp for Kids”

Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Injury -- Misc., Criminal Prosecution, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons

, they are sometimes part of it. On April 24, 2008, seven current and former guards were arrested for accepting money to smuggle drugs into the jail. A 16-month investigation that involved detectives posing as prisoners ...

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Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998

Filed under: News, News in Brief

: On September 23, 1998, former Bureau of Prisons guard Stephen Mills, 43, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for beating Florence prisoner Fred Davis. Mills claimed he didn't know Davis was handcuffed ...

News in Brief

Article • September 2, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018

Filed under: News in Brief

; Indiana: The Westville Correctional Facility issued a press release detailing the January 20, 2018 arrest of guard Paul Farkas as he was caught in an attempt to smuggle drugs into the prison. According ...

Opioid Epidemic Keeps Climbing at California Prisons, and Claiming Lives of Released Prisoners as Well

Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020

Filed under: Medication, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

have made little impact. The former finance chairman of the guards’ union, Joe Baumann, blamed loopholes in the process. The scanners do not detect drugs smuggled inside orifices, which he said ...

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Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief: by California: On April 20, 2007, John Whittle, a former guard at the Mule Creek State Prison was sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling methamphetamine to prisoners ...

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Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016

Filed under: News in Brief

been charged with bribery for smuggling tobacco; former guard Michael Harston pleaded guilty in May 2016 for a similar conspiracy. Additionally, seven people were charged earlier this year in connection ...

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Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019

Filed under: News in Brief

, Jarrett Tolley, who was on probation at the time, reportedly smuggled in hacksaw blades. The indictment accuses former guard Megan Jones of bringing in cell phones, tampering with evidence and having sex ...