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Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Brazil: More than 40 prisoners escaped from a jail in Sao Paulo on August 15, 1999 after twenty men overpowered, beat and tied up the guards and unlocked the cell doors. A shoot-out with police left one of the jailhouse liberators dead. CA: A July 10, …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
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News in Brief by CT: In October, 1999, the state DOC announced it would send 900 prisoners to the Wallens Ridge State Prison in Virginia to relieve overcrowding. Wallens Ridge is a "super-max" prison that has been repeatedly cited for human and civil rights abuses by various human rights organizations. …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
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News in Brief by AR: On August 11, 1999, a Lafayette Co. jail guard received a 5 year suspended sentence for having forcible sex with the wife of a prisoner as "payment" for letting her have a private visit with her husband. Michael A. Null, 38, pleaded guilty to felony …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
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News in Brief by Brazil: In early August four men armed with automatic weapons overpowered guards and broke into the Tremembe jail near Sao Paulo, and stole money that jail prisoners were planning to send home. CA: In 1998 15 state prisoners were killed. Three were shot to death by …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
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News in Brief by Brazil: A riot involving 320 prisoners erupted at a facility in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina state, on May 7, 1999. One prisoner was killed and 4 injured during the disturbance, in which rioters chased away the guards and set fire to mattresses and tires. Brazil: Three hundred …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
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News in Brief by AZ: On January 30, 1999, prisoners Jeffrey Camper and John Lofton escaped from the state prison in Douglas by cutting through two perimeter fences with wirecutters from the prison's yard. Both men were serving life sentences for murder. They were recaptured five hours later by police …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
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News in Brief by Bolivia: On April 27, 1999, more than 1,500 prisoners in seven prisons went on hunger-strike to protest overcrowding, delays in case processing and the denial of good time credits. At least five prisoners sewed their lips shut, 19 tied themselves to prison bars in a mock …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
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News in Brief by AR: Little Rock parole officer William Lambert was arrested March 17, 1999 after police found 10 grams of methamphetarnine in his possession. He was charged with intent to deliver and released on a $52,500 bond. AZ: Robert Wayne Vickers, sentenced to death for killing fellow death …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
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News in Brief by News In Brief Antigua: A fire started by prisoners at the centuries-old Her Majesty's Prison in St. John, capital of the former British colony, sent 17 people to a hospital with minor injuries on Jan. 28, 1999. AZ : On Feb. 18, 1999 charges against three …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
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News in Brief by AR : On October 13, 1999, Mark Lucas escaped from the Miller County jail in Texarkana by sawing through a cell lock and running through open fire escape doors. Lucas, awaiting trial on murder charges, was later recaptured. CA : In December, 1998, Sacramento sheriff's deputy …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
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News in Brief by Azerbaijan : On January 8, 1999, 11 prisoners at the Gobustan prison camp rioted and took 28 guards hostage. Government officials agreed to the prisoners' demand of being flown out of the country. When the prisoners and their hostages boarded a bus they believed was going …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
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News in Brief by Costa Rica : On December 3, 1998, 500 prisoners at La Reforma prison in San Jose rioted to protest the shooting death of one prisoner and wounding of six others who had attempted to escape. The escapees had dug a tunnel outside the prison. Waiting guards …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
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News in Brief by CA : On October 1, 1998, about 100 prisoners at the privately run Victor Valley Community Correctional Facility were involved in a fight. Three prisoners required hospital treatment for minor injuries. The prison is run by Maranatha Private Corrections. CA : On September 19, 1998, the …
Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
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News in Brief by AL : In September, 1998, Madison county (Huntsville) prisoners Rodney Baker, Antonio Davidson, Steven Dillard and Nara Lemons, were charged with murder for allegedly beating prisoner Robert Sevigny to death. AL : Mario Centobe (32) is the Mississippi prisoner who escaped from a prison van when …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : On July 30, 1998, Tempe Jailer Chris Perry was suspended for 16 hours after an internal investigation found he had punched prisoner Jon M. Harding on the head three times after Harding bit him. Perry was cleared of excessive force charges arising from two …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
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News in Brief by CA: Effective September 1, 1998, smoking and tobacco possession by prisoners is banned at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco and 12 state prison reception centers. The tobacco ban was ordered by Governor Pete Wilson as a first step towards ending smoking by prisoners throughout the …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : In early 1998, 16 DOC guards were fired or quit for sexually harassing other employees or engaging in sexual misconduct with other employees at the Florence prison complex. Eight other guards were disciplined. The misconduct included guards having sex with each other in towers; …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : In July, 1998, a jury acquitted Bruce Howell, a Perryville prisoner, of murder and all charges but one related to the killing of prison guard Brent Lumley. Howell faces a second trial on a single charge of deadly assault by a prisoner. AZ : …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
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News in Brief by Brazil: On May 28, 1998, 22 prisoners were killed by other prisoners at the Barretto Campelo prison. Designed to hold 400 prisoners, the prison held 1,200 at the time of the incident. Police claim the killings occured as a group of prisoners sought to avenge the …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : On March 17, 1998, Michael Garvey, executive director of the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency was fired for sexually and racially harassing employees. Francine Williams, a former board employee, filed suit claiming Garvey had repeatedly and frequently made sexually offensive and suggestive remarks. Williams, …
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