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News in Brief

Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001

Filed under: News, News in Brief

Guatemala City in the country's biggest prison escape in recent years. The prisoners used grenades and assault rifles smuggled into the prison to escape by shooting one guard and one policeman, killing ...

CA Guard Plants Ammo

Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct

CA Guard Plants Ammo by California prison guard, Mark B. Hardisty, not satisfied with his share of gravy from the state trough, decided he'd get himself some extra overtime pay ...

Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit

Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Suicides

into walls, and made to kneel on the ground after guards discovered that she had smuggled a phone into her cell. In the settlement, Val Verde County and GEO will pay $200,000, $85,000 of which will go ...

Third Guilty Plea Entered in Massive Aryan Brotherhood Drug Conspiracy in California Prisons

Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022

Filed under: Conspiracy, Trading Drugs for a Gun

member pleaded guilty to posing as a paralegal for an allegedly corrupt lawyer in a scheme to smuggle methamphetamine into the California State Prison at Folsom. Kristen Demar, 47, pleaded guilty ...

Five Years After Limiting Personal Visits and Banning Mail, Drug Use Worse in Pennsylvania Prisons

Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023

Filed under: War on Drugs, Mail Regulations, Visiting

shown it.” John Eckenrode, of the union representing Pennsylvania guards, believes that the incidence of staff smuggling is small. Instead he blames legal mail – which is exempt from scanning ...

New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths

Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Drug Overdose, Cell Searches, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Drug Courier or "Mule" status

by “routinely turn[ing] a blind eye” to “a pervasive and systemic pattern and practice” of drug-smuggling guards and prisoners. The prisoner lay dead “awhile” before any ...

News in Brief

Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

guard Grant Vance was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III in August 2019 to three months in federal prison for smuggling buprenorphine into the prison. Gregory Paradis, his prisoner ...

Arizona Prisoner Receives $175,000 after Guards Read His Legal Mail, Shared it with FBI and Prosecutors

Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Settlements, Legal Mail

Arizona Prisoner Receives $175,000 after Guards Read His Legal Mail, Shared it with FBI and Prosecutors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 7, 2019, Maricopa County, Arizona agreed to pay ...

News in Brief

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 ...

News in Brief

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: News, News in Brief

. This is the latest in a series of hunger strikes and riots and other protests seeking better prison conditions and more efficient processing by the courts. California: On February 15, 2004, Linda Brock, 43, a guard ...

Former New Mexico Guard Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Prisoner, Suit Filed

Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Retaliation, Whistleblowing

Former New Mexico Guard Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Prisoner, Suit Filed by A month after a former guard pleaded guilty to sexually abusing her, a prisoner at Western New Mexico ...

News in Brief

Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019

Filed under: News in Brief

by taking four guards hostages and using smuggled explosives to blast through five doors. He remained at large for more than a month. Illinois: Teresa M. Guzman, 36, was in the Lake County jail ...

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Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011

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News In Brief: by Arkansas: During a search for contraband at the Greene County Jail, three guards and a sheriff’s deputy were locked in a cell by prisoner Jacob Rodden. The October 10, 2010 ...

Sudden Rise in New Jersey Prison Guard Firings

Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Guard Unions

to smuggling drugs and cell phones in to prisoners. Guards also mishandled weapons, both on and off duty. One discharged a shotgun in the armory while another drove drunk with a firearm on his lap. A third, who ...

News in Brief

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

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and an Iraqi, had attempted to escape by killing and disarming a jail guard and using his automatic rifle to escape the prison. The four prisoners and four guards were killed in the escape attempt ...

News in Brief

Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief by News in Brief: Arkansas: In 2001 prison guards used force 12 times to remove prisoners from their cells. By 2005 they did it at least 40 times. Prison officials attribute ...

News in Brief:

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

Filed under: News, News in Brief

as a jail guard for carrying out the murder. Georgia: On September 2, 2005, Latrell Richardson, 36, a prisoner in the Gwinnett County jail, escaped from a local hospital by climbing through its air vents ...

Guard’s Suspension for Dragging Injured Maine Pretrial Detainee Upheld

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Cell Phone Access

, guards caught bringing contraband phones can expect to be prosecuted. Orleans Parish guard Tyrell Sutherland, 28, pleaded guilty to smuggling cellphones and marijuana in federal court. His June 11, 2014 ...

Lawsuit Claims Seattle’s King County Jail Shows Little Improvement in Quarter Century Since “Hammer Agreement”

Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Failure to Protect (General), Jail Specific

guard Mosses Ramos, along with five others, was indicted on charges of conspiracy, bribery, and possession with intent to distribute on November 1, 2023, for allegedly smuggling meth and fentanyl ...

$850,000 Settlement in Florida DOC Prisoner’s Gassing Murder

Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020

Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death

into FDOC, gang members at Jefferson Correctional Institution tried to recruit Aparo to help guards smuggle contraband, including cell phones, into the prison. Aparo and another prisoner provided information ...