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Article • December 15, 2003
Accounting Errors Plagued California Criminal Justice Agency by A defunct California agency charged with distributing grant money for crime prevention and victim aid may have cost the state millions in federal funds due to poor accounting practices, state auditors said on February 2, 2005. Lawmakers knew something was wrong at …
Article • December 15, 2003
Audit Faults Oregon Prison Trust Fund System by An audit of the Oregon Department of Connection (ODOC) prisoner trust fund system found internal control weaknesses related to cash reconciliations, check stock and document retention. ODOC awards for prison labor and programming are credited to prisoner trust accounts and all funds …
Article • December 15, 2003
State Auditor: Illinois DOC Kept Sloppy Records of Guns and Money by According to a state auditor's report covering a two-year period ending June 30, 2002, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) failed to keep proper track of all of its weapons. One weapon on the DOC inventory could not …
Florida Juveniles Get Lost among Transfer Shuffle, Extending Stays in Wasting Money by Florida Juveniles Get Lost among Transfer Shuffle, Extending Stays in Wasting Money By David M. Reutter Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) regularly transfers its wards among several programs, resulting in extended terms of incarceration, which has …
Corruption Catches Up With Georgia Corrections Chief by by Gary Hunter Bobby Whitworth, former Corrections Commissioner and Parole Board Member, was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Friday, July 25, 2003. Charged with felony public corruption, Whitworth, 56, is the first such official ever to be indicted on corruption …
Article • December 15, 2003
Audit Finds Colorado DOC Loses Large Quantities of Drugs by by Matthew T. Clarke A $436,484 shortage in the Colorado Department of Corrections's pharmacy budget in 2003 prompted an internal audit. The audit found that close to a half-million dollars worth of drugs have been lost by the prison system. …
Over 600 Prisoners Brutalized by New Jersey Prison Guards by Gary Hunter On April 25, 2003, acting Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced he would reopen a criminal investigation in which New Jersey prison guards reportedly brutalized over 600 prisoners. When guard Fred Baker was stabbed to death in 1997, …
Court Reporter Jailed for Botching VitaPro Trial Transcripts; Convicted Prison Chief Still Free by The latest development in the unsavory Texas VitaPro scandal is the jailing of a court reporter for botching the transcripts in the VitaPro trial. In 1995, George W. Bush was the governor of Texas and James …
Scandal-Ridden, Bankrupt MCI WorldCom Wins No-Bid California Prisoner Phone Contract by Marvin Mentor A renewed four-year no-bid prisoner phone contract was awarded in June, 2002 by the California Department of General Services to MCI WorldCom, a telephone conglomerate whose recent bankruptcy exposed the largest accounting fraud in US business history …
Honduras Prison Massacre: What Really Happened by On April 5, 2003, 68 people were murdered inside the walls of the El Porvenir prison in Honduras. The story that initially came out of that country said that 59 of the dead were gang members who shot at other prisoners, then barricaded …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Justice Department Report Decries Smuggling in Federal Prisons by Justice Department Report Decries Smuggling in Federal Prisons The U. S. Justice Department has issued a report decrying the ability of smugglers to get regular shipments of drugs even into the highest security federal prisons. The report blames visitors, mail, and …
North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton After four separate lawsuits were filed by prisoners serving sentences at two North Carolina juvenile facilities alleging a wide range …
Sexual Harassment Scandal Rocks Connecticut DOC by by Matthew T. Clarke The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) has been rocked by allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and illegal sex between guards and prisoners. The scandal began on August 8, 2002, when 15 female guards filed two separate federal class-action …
Murder, Mayhem, Corruption and Snitches: BOP Florence Exposed by Bob Williams Located in the gently rolling hills of Southern Colorado, dotted with juniper, poplar and cedar trees, Florence is a quiet, small town that was once a prison town without a prison. At just over 5,000 town residents, Florence shares …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Arizona Guards Continue to Rape Prisoners by Michael Rigby Two guards at Arizona's Perryville prison are facing numerous charges, substantiated by internal investigations, of sexual misconduct with prisoners. Derrick Renard Allen was indicted in late April 2002 by a state grand jury on 8 counts of sexual assault and 2 …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Scrubbing Abu Ghraib Away by Mumia Abu-Jamal SCRUBBING ABU GHRAIB AWAY by Mumia Abu-Jamal If persistent news tips are correct, the U.S. Army's report on the barbarities at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison will lodge blame for the events there at the rank of colonel and below, and no real bigwigs …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Mismanaged, Money-Losing Folsom City Prison Closed by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Faced with losing $1.4 million in the following year, the City of Folsom, California, closed its 14 year-old, 380 bed minimum security prison and laid off most of the 70 city workers on June 30, 2003. …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
North Carolina DOC Supervisor Implicated in Scandal by The Chief of Security for the North Carolina Department of Corrections, Charles K. Stewart, allowed his friend, Oscar "Pappy" Adkins,to bilk the state out of tens of thousands of dollars for training services, alleges an internal audit report completed in June 2002. …
System Examined in Death of Washington Prisoner by Angela Galloway By the time the guard helped him, the 32-year-old burglar's eyes and skin glowed yellow. Curled up on his metal bunk at McNeil Island Correctional Center, Phillip Montgomery's lanky, athletic body lay weak from days of pain and vomiting. A …
Audit Shows Folsom Prison Mismanaged by Gary Hunter In December 2001, the state inspector general concluded an excoriating audit of a city-run prison in Folsom, California. The audit was the result of a six-month investigation that met a great deal of resistance from Folsom officials. It "revealed deteriorating buildings, broken …
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