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Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : On April 1, 1998, former Perryville prison warden Thomas Sullivan was convicted by a Maricopa county jury of raping three girls, ages 8-16. A 16 year Arizona DOC employee, Sullivan was arrested in March, 1996, when DOC employees reported the allegations to superiors. One …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
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News in Brief by CA : On January 8, 1998, Lancaster state prison guard Elizabeth Begaren was shot and killed by four men while driving on a freeway. The assailants chased Bergaren's vehicle and forced it to stop on an on ramp in Anaheim where she was shot in front …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
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News in Brief by Brazil: On January 10, 1998, eight prisoners at the Linhares prison in Espirito Santo state were killed in a brawl. Francisco Assis Rangel, the prison operations chief, said "They killed one another with metal bars and pieces of wood." No details were given as to the …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : In November, 1997, the state DOC announced that the construction of a 4,150-bed prison complex at Gila Bend, a 200-bed juvenile prison at the same location and an 800-bed addition to a Yuma prison was $19 million over budget. The combined projects were supposed …
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
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News in Brief by CA : Joe Sandoval, 60, resigned as secretary of California's Youth an Adult Correctional Agency on August 15, 1997, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. Upon his resignation governor Pete Wilson appointed Sandoval to the state's Narcotic Addict Evaluation Authority. The position …
Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998
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News in Brief by AL : On October 3, 1997, a fight between two unidentified prisoners at the Holman prison in Atmore escalated into a brawl involving 18 prisoners that left two seriously injured and five slightly injured. Prison spokesman Tom Gilkson said the fight began as a dispute over …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
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News in Brief by AK: In October, 1997, Alaska state police announced they were searching for Virginia parolee Wil Adams, AKA Skip Adams Taylor, on felony gun charges. Adams served 16 years in Virginia prisons for murdering a young woman. Paroled in 1995 Adams moved to Barrow and was hired …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
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News in Brief by AR: The DOC announced plans to convert the Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility into a women's prisons as the legislature refuses to provide funds to build one. Hiland currently houses 230 male sex offenders undergoing treatment. During a 1-year transition, the prison will be co-ed, housing male …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
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News in Brief by AL: On June 30, 1997, Jerrick Snell, already sentenced to 20 years in prison for cocaine possession was resentenced to life in prison after he told judge Lawson Little to perform oral sex on him when Little walked past his cell. Little ordered Snell gagged and …
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
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News in Brief by AK: On July 2, 1997, Allen Compton, chief justice of the Alaska supreme court resigned after being privately reprimanded by the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct. The allegations giving rise to the reprimand were not made public. Compton remains on the court as an associate justice. …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
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News in Brief by AL: On June 11, 1997, former state governor Guy Hunt was pardoned by the state parole board of his 1993 convictions for looting his tax exempt 1987 inaugural fund of $200,000 which he used to buy cattle and pay personal expenses. Hunt had been sentenced to …
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
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News in Brief by CA: On May 8, 1997, 11 year Sacramento County deputy district attorney Pete Harned was charged in federal court with 19 counts of receiving, transporting and possessing child pornography over the Internet. This included felony receipt of a CD Rom titled "The Boy Lovers." A search …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
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News in Brief by Brazil: On February 28, 1997, police stormed the Anibal Bruno prison in Recife where three prisoners were holding two guards and 20 prison visitors hostage in an escape attempt. When negotiations stalled the prisoners killed the guard hostages after which police stormed the prison, killing the …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
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News in Brief by AZ: On March 7, 1997, prison guard Brent Lumley, 33, was found stabbed to death in the control room of the Perryville state prison. A shank, presumably the murder weapon, was sticking out of Lumley's neck. Seven prisoners were considered suspects in the case. CA: In …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
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News in Brief by CA: In December, 1996, prison psychiatric counselor Massoud Shadzad was arrested while fondling a female prisoner at the Elmwood Correctional Center for Women in Milpitas and charged with sexual battery. The investigation began when Shadzad promised a female prisoner cigarettes in exchange for her panties and …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
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News in Brief by Albania: On January 26, 1997, two prisoners were killed in a riot at the Bardhor jail as part of a wave of protests that swept the small Balkan nation as pyramid savings schemes collapsed. At the jail prisoners set fire to their cells and battled guards …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
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News in Brief by CA: In the August, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the March 29, 1996, rebellion by immigrant detainees at the navy brig at the Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego. The government stated that the rebellion, sixteen days after the jail opened, will cost at …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
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News in Brief by AZ: On October 20, 1996, six Alaska prisoners at the Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence, a private prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America, escaped by cutting through three wire fences. Four prisoners were recaptured shortly afterwards and the warden insisted the prison was secure. …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
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News in Brief by CA: Former L.A. Rams cornerback Darryl Henley and Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) guard Rodney Anderson were indicted in June, 1996, on charges of conspiring to kill federal judge Gary Taylor and former Rams cheerleader Tracy Donoho. The indictment states that Anderson smuggled a cellular phone into …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
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News in Brief by AZ: In September, 1996, the DOC terminated its military style boot camp, stating it did not work. A study indicated that only 22% of those who complete the four month boot camp in lieu of serving traditional prison time were not re-arrested after graduation. That was …
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