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After Spike in Jail Deaths, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Under California Department of Justice Investigation

Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Wrongful Death

kilograms of cocaine. Would the Sheriff really have us believe people were getting themselves arrested to smuggle drugs into the jail after a jail guard was nabbed with a huge amount of fentanyl and his ...

News in Brief

Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

guard Joseph Andrade was arrested with Leonard Velazquez-Martinez after trying to buy two kilos of cocaine and 18 kilos of methamphetamine from an undercover cop, the Department of Justice announced ...

Widespread Corruption in L.A. County Jails Leads to Federal Investigation, Indictments

Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Threats by Staff, Police Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Failure to Train/Supervise

, who faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2012 to accepting a bribe for smuggling the cell phone into the jail, began cooperating with the FBI and testifying against other guards. He ...

California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful

Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Overcrowding, Staffing, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Special Masters, Sentencing, Parole, Guard Unions, State Legislation

Prison. Other cases pending involved guard-prisoner sex and staff's smuggling of drugs. Alameida's Investigative Services Director Martin Hoshino wrote a December 29, 2003 memo that ordered agents from ...

The Crime of Being Poor

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

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Racial Discrimination, Crime, Attorney Misconduct, Sentencing, Pardons/Clemency

sentencing for federal money laundering charges on behalf of a huge drug smuggling ring. Sheriff Jenne refuses to talk to media about his friends and political supporters, even when his campaign donors ...

News in Brief

Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019

Filed under: News in Brief

, 2018 drug deal in a McDonald’s parking lot between Colorado prison guard Mark Christian English, 31, and Lora Wilson, 64, the mother of a prisoner at the Sterling Correctional Facility ...

Uprisings at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Escapes

under the front seat. A subsequent voluntary search of the automobile turned up a small bag of pot. On September 17, 2003, CCA guard Constance Edwards, 33, was arrested as she attempted to smuggle two ...

America’s Fortress of Blood: The Death of George Jackson and the Birth of the Prison-Industrial Complex

Article • March 27, 2017

Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Publications/Books

since authorities kept changing their story about the caliber of the gun and its origins. Was it smuggled in or did he wrest it from a guard who was about to kill him? One thing is clear: Jackson ...

Bartered sex, corruption and cover-ups behind bars in nation’s largest women’s prison

Article • July 12, 2017

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct

guards control every aspect of a woman’s life. “What I saw was that some of the girls were truly victims of rape and sexual assault and battery. I believed them when they told me ...

Not Part of my Sentence: The Rape of Washington Prisoners

Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Criminal Prosecution, Boot Camps, Settlements

over 1,000 of whom are women. But Guzman-White says that her time at WCCW has put her through a kind of emotional hardship she says she wouldn't wish on anyone. She alleges that a male prison guard ...

Perfect Storm of Overcrowding, Violence and Staff Shortages in Tennessee Prisons

Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017

Filed under: Overcrowding, Staffing

legislative hearings uncovered a scheme to conceal high levels of violence by misclassifying violent incidents. Also, some TDOC guard cadets were found to be affiliated with gangs, while maximum-security ...

Violence, Security Lapses and Media Attention Lead to Reforms at Georgia Prison

Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Gang Policies, Prison/Jail Murders, Staffing, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Wrongful Death, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Assaults on Staff

murdered within a two-month period that the media began to take notice. Prison officials blamed gangs and contraband cell phones for the spike in violence, but guards faulted their bosses, saying they were ...

Repercussions from Georgia Courthouse Escape, Shootings Continue

Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes, Staffing, Restraints, Court Access, Judiciary, Court Appearances, Guard Unions

, his mother had warned that he might grab a gun if he thought he would be found guilty in his trial on rape and other felony charges. And just two days before his deadly rampage, Nichols had smuggled ...

News in Brief

Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003

Filed under: News, News in Brief

for the mobilization, claiming at least $5,000 was spent, mostly from the prison lockdown and helicopter search. California: On August 12, 2003, Timothy Durel, 37, a married Sacramento county jail guard ...

No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game

Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Esmor/CSC, Staffing, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

and Wyoming) end up in privately run facilities in rural communities. Many of the guards hired for such prisons are under-trained, ill- prepared for their stressful work environments, and are paid fast-food ...

Repeated Oregon Sex Scandals Cost $2 Million and Nine Staff Prosecutions

Article • August 25, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment

, was convicted of CSM I and delivery of methamphetamine for smuggling drugs to a prisoner for sex. He was sentenced to probation. Guard Darcy Aaron Macknight was also convicted of CSM I in 2009 for sneaking ...

News in Brief

Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014

Filed under: News, News in Brief

him in the back of the head and then stabbed him until he was nearly decapitated. California: A veteran prison guard at the California Men’s Colony was sentenced to 30 days in jail in August ...

News in Brief

Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013

Filed under: News, News in Brief

County Sheriff’s Department, confirmed that guards had fired hard rubber “sting balls” and pepper spray to stop a racially-charged brawl that erupted at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility on April 2 ...

Rash of Security Breaches Plagues Nation’s Prisons and Jails

Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Escapes, Security Systems

by staff members indicated that prisoners were attacking guards with hammers and stabbing them with scissors. Pasquotank County Sheriff Randy Cartwright told the Charlotte Observer that the situation could ...

Texas Prisoners Still Dying in Houston Jails, Among Other Problems

Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Skin, Failure to Treat, Prison/Jail Murders, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), Fire Hazards, Overcrowding, Toilets, Sanitation, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

and incarceration at the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas, where he was fatally assaulted by a guard. On New Years Day in 2008, Freeman worked a double shift passing out meal trays at the jail. For his efforts ...