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Tennessee Prisoner Escapes Privatized Medical Jail Care to Obtain Surgery by To obtain needed surgery, a prisoner escaped from Tennessee’s Trousdale County Jail (TCJ). Prior to being booked into TCJ to serve a probation violation sentence, Don R. White, Jr. 31, was scheduled for hernia surgery. “When I walked in, …
Article • November 1, 2016
Filed under: Work Release, Escapes
Florida Supreme Court: Unauthorized Absence from Work is 'Escape from Custody' for Work Release Prisoner by Lonnie Burton In a decision handed down on September 3, 2016, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the escape conviction of a man who left his work site without permission while he was on work …
Kansas Supreme Court Holds State Immune from Suit Over Murder by Escapee by Matthew Clarke On April 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that the son of a woman murdered by an escaped state prisoner could not sue the state for her personal injuries and wrongful death. The …
Article • October 27, 2016
Former Prison Guard Escapes from Texas State Jail by Charlie Davis, Jr.--a former Texas prison guard--escaped from the Wheeler State Jail in Plainview, Texas, on October 27, 2014. Davis, 36, worked as a guard at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Clements Unit in Amarillo, a maximum-security prison, from April …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Michigan Courthouse Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, 2 Injured by Larry Darnell Gordon, 45, was being transported to a Berrien County court proceeding on July 11, 2016 when he overpowered a deputy, stole his gun and tried to take hostages during an escape attempt. Gordon fatally shot two bailiffs in the …
Twelve Killed as Eighty-One Escape From Iraqi Prison by During the evening of September 27, 2012, prisoners at an Iraqi prison in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein which is about 80 miles north of Baghdad, broke into a storeroom where weapons are kept. They seized the weapons and engaged …
Escapes and Crime at New Jersey's Privately-Run Halfway Houses by Matthew Clarke New Jersey has embarked on a grand experiment – shifting state prisoners from expensive state prisons into less expensive, privately-run halfway houses. The state prison system bas less than 25,000 beds while the around two dozen halfway houses …
Article • August 23, 2016
Texas Judge and District Attorney Allegedly Bribed to Let Killer Escape by Matthew Clarke In a case that is beyond the pale of the usual high level of corruption in south Texas, a state district judge, the District Attorney of Cameron County and an attorney who was formerly a state …
Article • August 23, 2016
Hurricane Sandy Facilitates Mass Escape from New Jersey's Logan Hall by Matthew Clarke Hurricane Sandy and a lack of preparation or training for unusual weather helped prisoners at the notorious Logan Hall halfway house to run rampant, including a mass escape of fifteen prisoners. Although designated a "halfway house," Logan …
Article • August 10, 2016
High-Profile Escapes from New Haitian Prison Highlight Country's Problems by Derek Gilna The recent daring escape of prisoner Clifford Brandt from Haiti's prison in Crois-des-Bouquet was yet another embarrassment for the country's criminal justice system.  Beset by rampant corruption, nepotism, financial problems, and incompetence, the prison suffered the biggest jailbreak …
Article • August 9, 2016
Daring MCC Chicago Escape Directs Unwanted Attention on BOP Operations by Derek Gilna The mission statement on the wall of every Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility makes clear the main priority of BOP staff, and it’s not “rehabilitation.” The BOP sees its main duty to keep prisoners locked up, at …
Shoatz v. Wetzel et al, PA, Settlement, 8th Am escape prolonged isolation, 2016
Troubled North Dakota Jail to be Reviewed by Feds by The Lake Region Law Enforcement Center (LEC) in North Dakota is a multijurisdictional jail supported by six entities, including the City of Devils Lake and the counties of Benson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey and Towner. The center rents office space to …
Article • May 12, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
Colorado Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced for Helping a Prisoner Escape by Colorado Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced for Helping a Prisoner Escape      On April 7, 2013, Colorado prisoner Feliz Trujillo walked out of the Denver Detention Center unchallenged, dressed in a police uniform. Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Andrews supplied Trujillo with the disguise …
Hawaii Prisons Experience Security Failures, Other Troubling Incidents by David Reutter Operations and management at two Hawaii prisons are under scrutiny following a series of incidents over the past several years that have ranged from prisoner deaths and escapes to sexual harassment by staff members and the beating of a …
Publication • February 16, 2016
Audit of Marshals Service Prisoner Tracking System, IG, 2004 REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE’S PRISONER TRACKING SYSTEM U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Audit Division Audit Report 04-29 August 2004 REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE’S PRISONER TRACKING SYSTEM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States …
Publication • February 16, 2016
Filed under: Escapes
Incident Review Report - Monroe CC WA State Reformatory Chapel Escape, WA DOC, 2011 MCC-WSR CIR 000001 MCC-WSR CIR 000002 MCC-WSR CIR 000003 MCC-WSR CIR 000004 MCC-WSR CIR 000005 MCC-WSR CIR 000006 MCC-WSR CIR 000007 MCC-WSR CIR 000008 MCC-WSR CIR 000009 MCC-WSR CIR 000010 MCC-WSR CIR 000011 MCC-WSR CIR 000012 …
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Filed under: Escapes, Statistics/Trends
Texas Prison Escapes Down Since “Texas Seven” by Matthew Clarke Texas Prison Escapes Down Since “Texas Seven” by Matt Clarke Officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) say the number of escapes from state prisons dropped sharply after seven prisoners staged a brazen break-out in 2001. Since 2012 …
Article • October 9, 2015
Prisoner Calls 911 on Escapees by Prisoner Calls 911 on Escapees On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Joshua Silverman was one of eight prisoners being transported to their respective destinations, in different states, by the Prison Transport Service. (PTS) The van transporting the prisoners parked at a hospital while the drivers …
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
10th Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Halfway House Escape Charge by Derek Gilna 10th Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Halfway House Escape Charge by Derek Gilna A federal prisoner without any detainers (“holds” placed by other law enforcement agencies) can generally count on a period of community confinement at the end of …
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