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News in Brief

Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017

Filed under: News in Brief

of Investigations Commissioner Mark Peters described the reaction of Rikers Island guards when fellow staffer Mey Lim was arrested for taking bribes to smuggle contraband into the facility. “We arrested her ...

News in Brief

Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005

Filed under: News, News in Brief

refused to leave the dining hall after a fight between two prisoners in the yard. When guards tried to break up the fight, prisoner bystanders threw rocks and water bottles at them. Guards fired "stinger ...

Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight

Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault

from thirteen former Alleghney County jail guards. The guards were implicated in a sex-for-favors scandal that resulted from an investigation of contraband being smuggled into the jail. George V ...

News in Brief

Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003

Filed under: News, News in Brief

into the jail for prisoners. Florida: On April 9, 2003, Manatee county jail guard Jesse Penaloza was arrested on charges of smuggling Easter candy, soda pop and cigarettes into the jail. France: On April 14 ...

News in Brief

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: In April, 2003, St. Clair Correctional Facility guard Cedric Bothwell, 39, was fired after being indicted in federal court on extortion charges. Bothwell is accused ...

Almost $2.4 Million in Settlements For Seven Suicides at New Jersey Jail

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

Filed under: Settlements, Suicides

medical vendor, CFG Health Systems, LLC. Four guards were also criminally charged in three of the deaths. Suicides have kept the jail under scrutiny since 2018, when the People’s Organization ...

Louisiana Prison Writer Free After 44 Years

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Death Penalty, Prisoner Media

. “They didn’t believe in books neither. On death row you could read the Bible. It was bread and water if they caught you with anything else.” Even so, some of the white guards smuggled books to Rideau, so he ...

Michigan Visiting Rules Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings), Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison

broad restrictions on the number of visitors prisoners could have. The Department was responding to prison overcrowding, alleged drug smuggling into prisons by visitors, and allegations that prisoners had ...

Inspection Finds Improvements at CCA-Owned Ohio Facility Following Rocky Start

Article • November 8, 2014 • from PLN November, 2014

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Arrest and Booking

at the facility, though the audit did not specifically address those areas. They also noted that most of the CCA guards who were interviewed reported low or very low morale due to low wages. Violations discovered ...

Pennsylvania Prisoners’ Cigarette Stashes to Go Up in Smoke

Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019

Filed under: Money/Property

, the bartering of things increased. Guys went to the hole for smoking. Guards were going through it, too, because they couldn’t leave the premises to smoke.” The prison economy has long been based ...

$7,500 Settlement Reached After Georgia Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment

Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024

Filed under: Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Retaliation for Organizing

a peaceful “sit-in” at Autry State Prison (ASP), refusing to go to work or to lock down. In response, guards deployed tear gas and began rounding up participants for transfer to other DOC prisons ...

Pennsylvania County Commissioner Barred from DA’s Email After Own Prison Record Is Purged and Jail Key Copied

Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023

Filed under: Jail Misconduct

to find out how she obtained a key to administrative offices at the prison. She says she doesn’t recall. Her election in 2020 coincided with the rise of Krista Purvis, 45, from a guard sergeant ...

From the Editor

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

Filed under: Editorials

refer to it as a Pyric Defeat: on its own terms it fails so miserably it succeeds. But for the war on poor drug users, the millions of police, prison and jail guards, lawyers, court staff, customs ...

Unreliable Drug Tests Standard for Law Enforcement and Prisons

Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021

Filed under: Drug Testing, junk science

prisons and jails. To combat smuggling, many state and federal prisons use field test kits to evaluate substances introduced into the facilities. These kits allow prison officials to detect the presence ...

From the Editor

Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021

Filed under: Editorials

began to take hold. The story has been updated and despite the pandemic, with visiting suspended at nearly all prisons and jails, staff and guards continued to avail themselves of the opportunity ...

News in Brief

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: News, News in Brief

as improvised weapons. Two prisoners were hospitalized with head injuries and 13 others were inured. The three prison guards on duty required reinforcements from the California Highway Patrol and the San ...

Alabama Forced to Confront Criminal Justice Reform

Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corizon, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Hygiene Supplies, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Train/Supervise, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)

dozens of incidents where guards have smuggled drugs, and claims methadone, heroin and methamphetamine use is widespread among prisoners. As a recent example, three former guards at the Bullock ...

Federal Supermax Terrorist's New Home and Bargaining Chip; $1 Million Cells Planned

Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

to be well-behaved, respectful towards guards and rarely show hostilities. In fact, in early 2003 a group of ADX political prisoners went on a peaceful hunger strike and were force fed for weeks through tubes ...

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Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: News, News in Brief

arrest. Indiana: On November 24, 2005, Durand Huggins, 27, a guard employed by Corrections Corporation of America at the Marion County Jail II in Indianapolis, was arrested on charges of smuggling ...

The Ultimate Humiliation: Guards Sexually Assault Prisoners Throughout the U.S.

Article • August 22, 2016

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Threats by Staff, Jail Misconduct, Statistics/Trends

The Ultimate Humiliation: Guards Sexually Assault Prisoners Throughout the U.S. by Matthew Clarke Despite federal legislation aimed at preventing the rape of prisoners and the adoption ...