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Texas Warden Axed for Whistleblowing Awarded $300,150 by A Texas prison warden who was fired for reporting corruption was awarded $300,150. Terry Terrell was warden of the Beto I Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in Tennessee Colony, Texas. In May 1991, he wrote the Chairman of …
CCA Attempts Cover-Up of Assault by Warden at Tennessee Prison by Alex Friedmann Late last year, a prisoner at the CCA-operated Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF) in Tennessee notified PLN that the prison’s warden, assistant warden and internal affairs officer had either resigned or been fired or transferred. The staff …
California DOC Federal Master: Continued Court Oversight Needed on “Code of Silence” by Marvin Mentor John Hagar, the Special Master assigned by the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) to monitor the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) staff investigations and disciplinary process has opined, in an October 2007 Final …
Prison Doctors, Tainted by Regulatory Board Discipline, Administer Wisconsin Prisoner Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Whenever prisoners complain about inept healthcare, prison officials accuse them of being manipulating whiners, or assert they are being administered the ?community standard of care? by competent medical professionals. A review by …
Three Murders in Three Months at Mississippi Control Unit Lead to Improvements And New Consent Decree by "Taken as a whole, I am convinced the conditions in Unit 32 are as bad as anywhere in the whole country," observed Margaret Winter, a lawyer with the National Prison Project of the …
Iowa Prisons Fined $92,000 For Prisoner Workplace Accidents by Fines totaling $92,000 were levied in January 2007 by Iowa?s Occupational Safety and Health Bureau against the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC). In March 2006, a Fort Madison prisoner severed a finger in a table saw in the Prison Industries workshop. …
Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Mining Scandal Movie review and Director Interview by Brandon Eng Filmmaker Kelly Duda’s first documentary, Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, chronicles the decades of abuse towards prisoners and patients from blood mining in search of profits. Traveling back to his home state …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Prison by Alan Prendergast Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick prisoners and trouble. by Alan Prendergast History Lesson #1 In 1829, William Bent headed west to join his older brother in the fur business. William …
Food Deprivation & Pink Clothing Imposed for Violating South Carolina Prison Rules by David Reutter by David M. Reutter South Carolina?s Commissioner of Corrections, Jon Ozmint, has embraced hardcore disciplinary methods to deal with prisoners who violate prison rules. Such punishments include depriving prisoners of food and requiring them to …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
Retired Canadian Football-Star-Turned-Prison-Official Faulted by Gary Hunter Ron Stewart endeared himself to Canadian citizens during his years as a star halfback for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He later entered into public service where be served for 26 years, including as a prison oversight official, until he retired in 2004. It …
Audit Reveals Continuing “State of Chaos” at Hawaii Youth Prison by Audit Reveals Continuing "State of Chaos" at Hawaii Youth Prison The Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF) is in non-compliance with most of the American Correctional Association (ACA) "Standards for Juvenile Correction Facilities," according to a 2007 security audit. HYCF, …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
Hawaii Youth Prison Financial Audit Finds Excessive Overtime/Leave Abuses by A 2007 financial audit of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF) found significant overtime costs and sick leave among guards, with 35 percent of gross compensation being earned through overtime pay in fiscal year 2004-2005. Intense scrutiny of HYCF, the …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
California’s Mother-Child Alternative Prison Centers Investigated by California's Mother-Child Alternative Prison Centers Investigated by John E. Dannenberg California has five alternative prison centers housing 140 women with their children as the mothers serve prison terms for non-violent crimes. Contracted out to Center Point, Inc. of San Rafael, CA, the five …
Former Illinois DOC Director, Former Prisoner Advocate, Others Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges by The former Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2007 on charges of taking $50,000 in kickbacks from health care vendors that received state prison contracts. …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Former Florida Prison Officials Sentenced to Federal Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Former Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) Secretary James Crosby and his protégé, Allen Clark, have been sentenced to federal prison terms for accepting kickbacks from profits generated from prison visiting park canteens. PLN has previously …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Sudden Rise in New Jersey Prison Guard Firings by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The number of New Jersey state prison system employees terminated for disciplinary reasons rose from 33 in 2005 to 69 in 2006. 52 of the 2006 firings are final; 17 are on appeal. The reasons for …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
FBI Investigates Arkansas Guard Violence by In June 2006, the FBI began a civil rights investigation into a prisoner's beating administered by guards at the Maximum Security Unit in Tucker, Arkansas. The investigation, surprisingly, was requested by prison officials. The officials were investigating an incident that occurred in the prison's …
California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program “A Complete Waste Of Money” by Marvin Mentor California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program "A Complete Waste Of Money" by Marvin Mentor California's Inspector General Matthew Cate issued a scathing 52-page report in February 2007 which …
MDC Brooklyn: Sex Scandal and 11 Staff Indicted for Beating Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 12, 2007, eleven guards at the federal Bureau of Prison's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York " including a captain and three lieutenants" were indicted for abusing prisoners. At …
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