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Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Escapes, Murder by Escapees
Alabama Prisoner Who Escaped With Jail Guard Lover Charged in Her Death on the Run by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On July 12, 2022, the District Attorney (DA) for Alabama’s Lauderdale County announced murder charges against a former detainee in the county jail who escaped with the help …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Escapes
California Fire Crew Prisoner’s Escape Attempt Leaves Trail of Destruction by A California prisoner who tried to escape in a stolen fire truck left “half a block of destruction.” He was caught shortly after he tried to carjack another vehicle. On July 5, 2021, the prisoner was working on the …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Escapes
Oregon Suspends Outside Prisoner Work Crews After Prisoner Escape Sparks International Incident by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 22, 2021 Oregon prison officials suspended outside prisoner work crews “in order to review any potential changes following a walk away earlier this year” according to an internal memo sent …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Ohio Jails Under Investigation by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A pattern of deaths, escapes and alleged civil rights abuses statewide have spurred investigations of at least two major county jails and increased oversight of 313 detention facilities in Ohio, local media revealed in January 2020. Governor Mike DeWine admitted …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Escapes
North Carolina Prisoner Escapes to Flee Coronavirus Death Sentence by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Fearing his existing medical condition could transform his sentence to death if he caught COVID-19, federal prisoner Richard Cephas elected to escape. After nearly a month on the run, Cephas turned himself in on …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Escapes, Qualified Immunity
Guard Who Failed to Prevent Escape Entitled to Qualified Immunity by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on September 18, 2019 that a guard cannot be held liable under the Constitution for failing to prevent an escape. In an attempt to apparently …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Filed under: Escapes
Tennessee Prisoner Captured After Killing Prison Employee, Escaping by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter After five days of searching, authorities apprehended escaped Tennessee prisoner Curtis Ray Watson. He was then sent to the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Watson was serving a 15-year sentence for especially aggravated …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Private Prisoner Transport Firm Closes After Escape; Problems Continue to Plague Industry by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2019, Texas Prisoner Transportation Services (TPTS) informed its customers that it would cease operations that same month. CEO Ryan Whitten blamed the closure on new insurance rates that meant the …
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 …
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