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Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Military-Style Attack on Brazilian Prison Kills 20 Prisoners, One Guard by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On April 10, 2018, a group of gunmen attacked the Santa Izabel Prison Complex near the northern Brazilian city of Belem. The state security service said 21 people were killed in the military-style assault …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
U.S. Marshals Capture Fugitive Former Prison Guard After 10 Years on the Run by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin William F. Lawrence, a former Utah Department of Corrections guard, apparently thought that hiding out in a tropical paradise would spare him from a prison term after he pleaded guilty to …
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
NC Escape Attempt that Left Four Dead Leads to Reforms, Increased Punishment by Four employees at North Carolina’s Pasquotank Correctional Institution were killed during an ill-conceived escape attempt last year. The four prisoners involved in the incident, who were caught before they left the prison grounds, have been charged with …
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
$55,000 Settlement in Rape of Missouri Jail Prisoner by The City of Ferguson, Missouri has paid $55,000 to a pretrial detainee who had sex with a guard, who in exchange allowed her to escape. On October 9, 2013, while driving through Ferguson, a woman identified as “J.W.” was pulled over …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Escapes, Security Systems
Previous NY Escapee Fails to Negotiate Privileges in Exchange for Revealing Security Flaws by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna New York state prisoner David Sweat became famous – or rather infamous – when he and fellow prisoner Richard W. Matt escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Federal Prisoner’s Custody Status Continues While “on Loan” to Face State Charges by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on November 21, 2017 that a federal prisoner remains in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General despite being held on behalf of state officials. Bud Ray Brown was serving …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Rash of Security Breaches Plagues Nation’s Prisons and Jails by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A review of recent news reports has revealed a recent spate of security breaches by both jail detainees and state and federal prisoners across the country. In October 2017 alone, escapes were reported in ten …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Escapes, Food
Innovative Use of Peanut Butter by Alabama Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When prisoners tire of the same fare they are given to eat, day after day, they become creative to make it more palatable. A dozen pre-trial detainees at the Walker County Jail (WCJ) in Alabama, …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Two Georgia Prison Transport Guards Slain by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 13, 2017, a pair of Georgia prisoners being transported from the Baldwin State Prison near Milledgeville to the state’s Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson breached a partition on the prison bus. Within seconds they …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
California Billionaire Pushes States to Adopt “Marsy’s Law” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke California billionaire Dr. Henry T. Nicholas and his mother entered a grocery store in 1983, a few days after his sister, Marsalee, was murdered. There they ran into her boyfriend, who had been arrested for the …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Escapes, Magazines
$4,000 Awarded to Subject of Esquire Article by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Timothy Murphy and Joe Hoffman dug a makeshift tunnel in an attempt to escape from Michigan's Kinross prison in March 2007. While their effort was ultimately foiled at the last minute, a feature article in the August …
Article • December 27, 2017
Eighth Circuit: Prior Convictions Not Relevant to Escape by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Leonard Lester Slaughter III was serving a 115-month sentence at a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility when he escaped. After pleading guilty to the escape, the District Court concluded that two prior convictions were not "relevant …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
USP Atlanta Escapes Result in Convictions by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin PLN previously reported the February 3, 2017 arrest of federal prisoner Justin B. Stinson, who was caught sneaking back into the minimum-security prison camp at USP Atlanta carrying a duffel bag filled with a cell phone, scissors, two …
Brief • November 21, 2017
Filed under: Escapes, Chain of Custody
US v. Brown, WA, Opinion, Attempted Escape, 2017 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BUD RAY BROWN, Defendant-Appellant. No. 16-30143 D.C. No. 2:16-cr-00019JLQ OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington Justin L. …
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: Escapes
Washington: Sentence for Escape Conviction Can Only be Enhanced by Other Escapes by Division III of the Washington State Court of Appeals held on June 21, 2016 that a sentence for a conviction of “escape from community custody” may only be enhanced or increased by other escape convictions. Washington state …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Prisoner’s Escape from Illinois Jail Aided by Former Guard, Incompetence by Christopher Zoukis A convicted murderer’s brazen escape from an Illinois jail was aided by a former guard who provided him with information that “substantially assisted him,” as well as apparent incompetence among jail staff, according to the Kankakee County …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Escapes
Georgia Prisoner Caught Sneaking into Prison Charged with Escape by FBI Special Agent James Hosty wrote in a recent federal criminal complaint that “Since in or about January 2013, the Atlanta Police Department ... has been investigating instances of inmates temporarily escaping from the prison camp at USP Atlanta and …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Escape is Latest Problem at Troubled Privately-run Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke In October 2015, Phillip Henry Freeman disappeared from the Liberty County Jail near Houston, Texas. He was recaptured living in a wooded area in Arkansas in late January 2016. His escape was the latest in a slew of …
Pennsylvania: $99,000 Settlement for 22 Years in Solitary Confinement by David Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court held that general issues of material fact required a jury to determine whether a prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement for over 22 years. …
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
New York Prison Scrutinized, Employees Charged Following High-profile Escape by Derek Gilna The June 6, 2015 escape of two New York state prisoners from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora revealed troublesome issues that will not soon go away. While many news outlets focused on the spectacular nature of the …
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