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Federal Bureau of Prisons Settles for $1.2 Million on Wrongful Death by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) elected to settle a wrongful death demand letter from the attorney for the deceased’s estate to the BOP. No claim was filed. The deceased, Thomas M. Fitzgerald, was incarcerated under the control …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity to two guards on failure-to-protect claims. Minnesota prisoner Kenneth Young was assigned to Edward Whitefeather’s cell. Almost immediately, Whitefeather threatened Young, telling him that “he would do whatever he wanted …
Article • August 10, 2016
Texas Guards and Prisoners Rarely Prosecuted for Contraband Cellphones by Matthew Clarke According to an investigation conducted by the Texas Tribune, guards and prisoners are rarely prosecuted for the contraband cell phones found within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The investigation discovered that only 5% of the cellphone …
Article • August 10, 2016
Former New Mexico Jail Captain Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Prisoners by Matthew Clarke On April 9, 2014, a New Mexico federal grand jury indicted former Gallup-McKinley Adult Detention Center captain John Greene, 70, on charges related to the sexual assault of three female prisoners at the jail. Greene was charged …
Deaths of Two Pennsylvania Jail Prisoners Being Investigated By Amnesty International by David Reutter Amnesty International is investigating the deaths of two prisoners at Pennsylvania’s Burlington County Jail (BCJ). The Prosecutor’s Office took the unusual step of responding to a letter from Amnesty upon conclusion of its own investigation. The …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Death Row
Federal Guard Has Sex with Coworkers and Impregnated by Prisoner by Gary Hunter Nancy Gonzalez was a guard at New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) when she became pregnant with a prisoner’s baby. The father Ronell Wilson was convicted in 2006, of the point-blank shooting of two undercover policemen. Ms. …
Article • August 10, 2016
Oregon Prison Employees Earn $580,891 for No Work by Mark Wilson In 2013, the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) paid 53 employees $580,891 to stay home, according to public records. ODOC employees may be placed on administrative leave and “duty stationed at home” for a number of reasons, such as …
Article • August 10, 2016
Alabama Jail Guard Receives 4 Years for Sexually Abusing Prisoners by David Reutter An Alabama federal district court sentenced a former guard to four years in prison for sexually abusing male prisoners at the Clay County Jail (CCJ) Guard Jeffrey Cotney 48, ran the prisoner worker program at CCJ. He …
Iowa Jail Guard Who Tased Mentally Ill Woman Missed Training for Three Years by After a guard tased a mentally ill woman in October 2013 to compel her to change her clothes, officials at the Muscatine County, Iowa, Jail are considering requiring less Taser training for guards rather than more. …
Article • August 10, 2016
Guards Outnumber Prisoners, Still Paid Overtime at Illinois Supermax by Prison officials at the Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois, which includes the state's only supermax prison, are having a hard time explaining how staff racked up $884,000 in overtime between November 2011 and November 2012 when the facility’s guard-to-prisoner …
Special Report – The Use of Deadly Force Against Parolee Delvin Wright by CDCR, CA OIG, 2008 SPECIAL REPORT THE USE OF DEADLY FORCE AGAINST PAROLEE DELVIN WRIGHT BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL DAVID R. SHAW INSPECTOR GENERAL BUREAU OF INDEPENDENT REVIEW …
Article • August 9, 2016
Daring MCC Chicago Escape Directs Unwanted Attention on BOP Operations by Derek Gilna The mission statement on the wall of every Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility makes clear the main priority of BOP staff, and it’s not “rehabilitation.” The BOP sees its main duty to keep prisoners locked up, at …
Article • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Another Hawaii DOC Guard Goes To Prison by Christopher Zoukis For the second time in a year, a Hawaii Department of Corrections guard was convicted in federal court after being found guilty on corruption charges. Former Halawa Correctional Facility guard Feso Malufau was found guilty by a jury in the …
Guard’s Report of Prisoner Abuse Came with a Cost by David Reutter The confines of prison render abuse by guards a virtually impossible crime to prosecute.  The few cases that come to light and successfully prosecuted occur only with video evidence or the testimony of another guard.  Florida Department of …
Negligence not Grounds for Prosecution in Deaths of Wisconsin Prisoners by Gary Hunter It was a Thursday in late July 2009 when Myron Weston, a prisoner at Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), drank cleaning fluid from the supplies given to him to perform his janitorial duties. A short time later …
Article • August 5, 2016
Federal Guard’s Conviction for Sexual Abuse of Prisoners Affirmed by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal prison guard’s convictions on four counts of causing another to engage in sexual intercourse by use of force; one count for engaging in sexual acts with a person in detention; one …
Violence in Mississippi Prisons Exacerbated by Guards’ Assistance by David Reutter A contributor, perhaps the most serious one, to violence in Mississippi prisons is the accessory before the fact by guards. Prisoners being able to access cells and cellblocks not their own due to locks being easily overcoming via design …
Two Illinois Jail Guards Indicted in 2011 'Take Down,' Death of Homeless Man by Joe Watson Two former Illinois jail guards who were employed by the Lake County Sheriff's Office north of Chicago were indicted October 29, 2014, on felony charges related to the death of a homeless man booked …
Article • August 5, 2016
Prison Guard Guilty of Stealing Mail by On September  23, 2014, a guard at a Virginia state prison entered a guilty plea to one count of mail theft for stealing mail intended for prisoners. Ezra Lamont Price was employed as a guard at the Danville Adult Detention Center when mail …
Fourth Circuit Holds Private Prison Guards to be Under Supervision of DOJ by Derek Gilna Some enterprising prison guards at the River Correctional Institution set up a profitable smuggling operation for several years, accepting bribes from prisoners to smuggle cell phones and other contraband such as tobacco products into the …
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