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CDCR Employees Investigated, Lose Jobs for Cell Phone Smuggling

Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015

Filed under: Guard Misconduct

cases of serious policy violations closed between January 1 and June 30, 2014, 21 state prison employees – some guards, some administrative or medical staff – were accused of smuggling ...

News in Brief

Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025

Filed under: News in Brief

reported that former Monroe County Jail guard Reginald Thames, 24, and an non-incarcerated accomplice, Beverly Castophney, 37, pleaded guilty on December 19, 2024, to conspiring to smuggle contraband ...

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

Filed under: News in Brief

California jail guard pleaded no contest to having sex with a prisoner and giving him a cellphone, according to a report by the Fresno Bee. Tina Gonzalez, 26, also admitted smuggling alcohol to the unnamed ...

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Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

charges dismissed. In addition to her sentence, she was ordered to pay $31,900 to the Crown. California: A former guard at San Quentin State Prison pleaded guilty to smuggling and bribery charges ...

News in Brief

Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023

Filed under: News in Brief

. Both were charged with conspiracy and contraband, among other crimes. Pennsylvania: A jail guard at the Lackawanna County Prison was arrested on December 23, 2022, on suspicion of smuggling drugs ...

Three Guards Arrested in One Week at Chicago Jail

Article • May 2, 2023

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Arrest/Arraignment

in the back after arguing over Asber’s demand that the guard smuggle contraband into the jail, according to Kettina’s attorney. He was also de-deputized, and his bond was set at $40,000. Sources ...

NYC Claims Prisoners Shoot Themselves to File Suit

Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Excessive Force, Shootings

NYC Claims Prisoners Shoot Themselves to File Suit by New York City commissioners claim that for the last several years prisoners have paid jail guards to smuggle guns in to them, whereupon ...

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Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012

Filed under: News, News in Brief

Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto. New Jersey: Two former prison guards, Ardones V. Livingston, 55, and Latasha Y. Walker, 44, were convicted on June 20, 2012 of accepting $500 to smuggle a cell phone ...

Visitor Search Held Illegal

Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995

Filed under: Strip Searches, Visitor Searches, Vehicle Searches, Crime/Demographics, Informants, Qualified Immunity

contraband. The warden argued that because the guard who told him about Daughertys alleged smuggling was a reliable guard, unlike the anonymous informant letters, he required no corroboration. The court ...

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Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009

Filed under: News, News in Brief

inside the nation’s prisons. Illinois: On October 2, 2009, Jose C. Nava, Jr., a former Cook County Jail guard, was sentenced to three years pro-bation for smuggling marijuana and other contraband ...

Entire Texas Prison System Locked Down to Search for Phones; Prison Cell Phone Problem is Pandemic

Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Prison/Common Area Searches, Criminal Prosecution, Lockdowns, Telephone Access, Death Row, State Legislation

month. Tabler told Whitmire he had paid a guard $2,100 to smuggle the cell phone into death row. That disclosure resulted in prison authorities searching death row at the Polunsky Unit before the TDCJ’s ...

Rikers Island Staffers, Contractor and Detainee Sentenced for Smuggling

Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025

Filed under: War on Drugs, Drug Mixtures/Purity, Mandatory Minimums

in a massive smuggling scheme at the New York City lockup. The group, including three guards and a program counselor, were nabbed along with a former contractor and a detainee, after a trove of contraband ...

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Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006

Filed under: News, News in Brief

. Texas: On June 3, 2005, Joey Janice, 24, a former Tarrant county jail guard in Ft. Worth was sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years probation after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle five grams ...

Texas Guards and Prisoners Rarely Prosecuted for Contraband Cellphones

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Telephones, Cell Phone Access

, the prosecutors may be satisfied if the TDCJ simply punishes the prisoners using administrative disciplinary penalties. The allure for guards to smuggle cellphones is money. Entry-level guards receive an annual ...

News in Brief

Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: Two Alabama jail guards were arrested in just two months for allegedly smuggling cellphones to inmates. In February 2021, 27-year-old D’Mario Jones was fired ...

Fifth Savannah Jail Employee Arrested for Smuggling in Just Over a Year

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

Filed under: Guard Misconduct

Fifth Savannah Jail Employee Arrested for Smuggling in Just Over a Year by A guard at Georgia’s Chatham County Detention Center (CCDC) in Savannah was arrested on March 5, 2024 ...

South Carolina Prison Guard Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Smuggling, Bribery

Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Federal Funds

South Carolina Prison Guard Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Smuggling, Bribery by A former high-ranking guard with the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) pleaded guilty to wire fraud ...

Ohio Prison Employees Involved in Improper Relationships, Drug Smuggling, Sexual Misconduct

Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Work, Prison Labor, Criminal Prosecution

into their improper relationships with prisoners, while in unrelated incidents four state prison guards were accused of sexual misconduct, smuggling drugs and soliciting bribes. The Lorain/Medina Community-Based ...

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Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007

Filed under: News, News in Brief

, 2006, Alice Stapleton, 30, a guard at the US Penitentiary in Big Sandy, was indicted on charges she was paid $1,000 bribes on three occasions to smuggle heroin, marijuana and cell phones to Personne ...

New Epidemic: Contraband Cell Phones in Prison Cells

Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Telephone Access, Cell Phone Access

, the excessive phone rates that are forced on prisoners and their families have spawned a black market for contraband cell phones smuggled in by guards and other prison employees. Nowhere is this problem more ...