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Record Number of Texas Prison Guards Arrested

Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Racial Discrimination, Crime, Staffing

Record Number of Texas Prison Guards Arrested by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke It has often been said that it?s hard to tell the cops from the crooks. In Texas this may be true ...

Florida Guards Sentenced in Bribery Scheme

Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014

Filed under: Guard Misconduct

orders totaling $1,455 from prisoners in exchange for smuggling contraband into CCI between March 7 and June 7, 2012. Notably, none of the three guards involved in the bribery scheme was required to serve ...

News in Brief:

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

Filed under: News, News in Brief

with handcuff keys; a jail guard charged with smuggling cell phones into the jail for prisoners to use; a jail guard being arrested on armed robbery charges and two female guards being charged with sexually ...

South Dakota Juvenile Detention Center's Blanket Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons

of offense they were arrested for or whether there was a reason to believe that the minors had weapons or contraband. JDC's written policy required a guard to escort the juvenile to the JDC's shower room ...

Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online

Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliatory Transfers, Prison Gangs, Failure to Protect (General), Cell Phone Access, Photos, Media, Internet, Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons

p.m., but guards did not check on Berry until 9:45 p.m. that night, she stated. Although prison personnel were slow to respond and, according to Harris, never notified Berry’s family about ...

$5.75 Million Payout in Death of Rikers' Prisoner Denied Medical

Article • January 3, 2018

Filed under: Corizon, Diabetes, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

stayed for 38 days before transferring to the mental health unit at Rikers. Soon thereafter, Ballard was placed on lockdown for dancing “inappropriately” in front of a female guard. According ...

Arizona CCA Prison Found 'In Turmoil'

Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Gang Policies, Failure to Protect (General), Staffing, Failure to Protect (Staff)

on prisoners and guards, drug trafficking, and having sex with female INS detainees held at the Florence prison. Two Hawaii prisoners died at Florence in April 2001, including one alleged gang member who ...

California Appeal Court Won’t Let Prisoner Use Legal Mail to Send “Kites”

Article • June 22, 2023

Filed under: Legal Mail, Censorship, Prison Mail

attempted to mail correspondence to his attorney. But first it was inspected with all other outgoing mail by a guard searching for contraband. As soon he touched the envelope, he noticed it was &ldquo ...

High Profile Escapes from Two Pennsylvania Jails Blamed on Staffing and Infrastructure Problems

Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023

Filed under: Escapes, Conditions of Confinement, Staffing, Guards/Staff

. As of October 11, 2023, the jail is down one more guard. Antoine Williams, 27, was arrested that day and charged with smuggling drugs to jail detainees. The plot unraveled when Williams allegedly gave Suboxone ...

COVID-19 in the Country’s Largest Female Prison

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: COVID-19

,” and further denied that any prisoners were placed in 503 before testing positive for COVID-19 and stressed that 503 is kept clean and that guards wear masks along with other personal ...

News in Brief

Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002

Filed under: News, News in Brief

, a former guard at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont, was sentenced to 122 years in prison for smuggling cocaine and heroin into the prison. Galloway had been a BOP guard since 1997. Utah ...

News in Brief

Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998

Filed under: News, News in Brief

, Jack Bearce, a state prison guard at the Florence prison, was arrested for smuggling drugs into the prison. Bearce had a balloon filled with drugs when arrested. Bearce has been charged with promoting ...

News in Brief:

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

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief: by Arizona: On June 6, 2007, Phoenix police arrested Loren Williamson, 33, a guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix on charges that he raped a girl ...

New Jersey Women’s Prison Again Under Investigation for Staff Sexual Abuse

Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Sexual Harassment

New Jersey Women’s Prison Again Under Investigation for Staff Sexual Abuse by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In April 2019, an eighth guard at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional ...

DOJ Finds “Horrific and Inhumane” Conditions in Georgia Prisons

Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025

Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Conditions of Confinement, Staffing, Cruel and Unusual Punishment

as the norm.” While prison systems throughout the U.S. struggle with staffing levels, the DOC mines new lows: Current statewide guard staffing levels are below 50%, and 30% or lower at 10 of the state ...

California Prisoners Entitled to Contact Attorney Visits

Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997

Filed under: Visitor Searches, Attorney Client, Visiting, Attorney Visits

search of his leg would suffice. Upon arriving at the prison Lindner was told he could not visit Roark unless he removed his leg and allowed guards to disassemble and search it. Lindner declined to do ...

South Carolina Guards Plead Guilty in Sex Cases

Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution

South Carolina Guards Plead Guilty in Sex Cases by In the April 2001 issue of PLN we reported at length on a series of investigations into allegations of drug smuggling by staff, as well ...

Qualified Immunity for Body Cavity Search of Prison Guard

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Body Cavity Searches, Employee Searches, Immunity/Liability, Qualified Immunity, Employee Litigation

Qualified Immunity for Body Cavity Search of Prison Guard by The plaintiff correctional employee was subjected to a visual body cavity search after a prisoner informant said ...

Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days

Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Lockdowns

Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days by In January 2010, a Canadian prison tactical unit held prisoners at gunpoint during a search of British Columbia’s Kent ...

Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, Says Oklahoma DOC

Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Smoking

for the DOC, smoking by minimum-security prisoners does not significantly increase health care costs because such prisoners generally are not incarcerated for long. Massie also indicated that guards had more ...