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Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …
Article • July 15, 2012
Oregon Jail Guard Canned for Repeated Gross Negligence by Luck ran out for Oregon jail guard Judith Lucke, on January 2012, when the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld her termination for "gross negligence." Lucke's six year career as a jail guard for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office was a comedy …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Guard Who Identified Over 100 Prison Rioters Pleads Guilty to Contraband Charge by A Kentucky prison guard who identified more than 100 prisoners who allegedly participated in a 2009 riot was later arrested for bringing contraband into the same facility where the riot occurred. PLN previously reported on the riot …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Pennsylvania Prison Guard Convicted in Drug Probe, Testifies Against Coworkers by Former Luzerne County Correctional Facility guard John Gonda, known as “G-Unit,” was the subject of an investigation called Operation Avalanche after authorities received tips he was selling “large quantities [of drugs] in the Wilkes-Barre area.” The probe targeted the …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Former BOP Guard Convicted, Sentenced in Murder-for-Hire Case by Michael Eugene Rudkin, 41, a former BOP guard employed at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, apparently did not learn his lesson following his first conviction. In 2008, Rudkin pleaded guilty to engaging in oral sex with a female …
Pennsylvania County Prisons Not Reporting Critical Incidents by The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) requires county prisons to submit monthly “extraordinary occurrence” reports as part of the department’s duty to inspect local lock-ups and identify deficiencies. However, the accuracy of the self-reported data has been faulty in some cases and …
Seven Florida Prison Guards Arrested by Seven Florida state prison guards, employed at two facilities at opposite ends of the state, have been charged with criminal misconduct in unrelated incidents. The first four arrests occurred on June 10, 2011, when U.S. Marshals arrested South Florida Reception Center (SFRC) guards Alexander …
Second BOP Guard Convicted in Connection with Prisoner’s Murder by Brandon Sample A second federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard who helped arrange an assault on a prisoner that resulted in the prisoner’s death has been convicted of federal civil rights violations. On July 8, 2010, Michael Kennedy was found …
God’s Own Warden: If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana’s Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus – or regret ever crossing his path by James Ridgeway God’s Own Warden: If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana’s Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus …
PLN Public Records Suit Reveals Litigation Payouts for District of Columbia DOC by Alex Friedmann As the result of a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, litigation payouts in cases involving the District of Columbia’s prison system have been publicly disclosed. In January …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Seattle Federal Halfway House Case Manager’s Reentry Plan for Prisoner Allegedly Included Sex, Heroin by Derek Gilna A former case manager at Pioneer Fellowship House, a halfway house in Seattle, Washington, has been accused of having a sexual relationship with one of the released prisoners she supervised and providing him …
21-Year Veteran Oregon Jail Guard Indicted for Sexual Assault by On February 29, 2012, a longtime Oregon jail guard was charged with sexually abusing a female prisoner in his custody. Eddie James Miller, 59, worked twenty-one years for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office as a guard at the Inverness Jail …
Article • May 15, 2012
Find a Mini-14 Rifle? Oregon Prison Wants it Back! by A lot of crazy things go missing in a prison and nobody ever notices. One would think, however, that someone would have immediately noticed that a semi-automatic .223-caliber Ruger Mini-14 rifle was missing from the prison's arsenal. Apparently not at …
Culture of Abuse Continues at Oregon Mental Hospital Despite Ongoing DOJ Investigation by In June, 2006, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating the Oregon State Hospital (OSH) for patient abuse and deficient care. On November 17, 2010, DOJ officials alerted the state …
Utah Private Corrections Center Employees under Federal Indictment for Evidence Tampering by A federal investigation resulted in criminal charges against two employees of a Salt Lake City, Utah corrections center for federal prisoners. A federal probe targeted Cornell Community Corrections Center, a private corporation that contracts to house prisoners who …
State-by-State Prisoner Rape and Sexual Abuse Round-Up by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke and Alex Friedmann In 2006, Prison Legal News published a cover story, Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight, that presented a compilation of news reports concerning the rape and sexual abuse of prisoners by …
Baca v. Rodriguez, NM, Amended Complaint, Sexual Misconduct, 2012 Case 1:12-cv-00156-BRB-WDS Document 9 Filed 04/05/12 Page 1 of 12 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO CHARMAINE BACA, Plaintiff, v. No. 12-CV-00156 BRB/WDS MORRIS RODRIGUEZ, in his individual c a p a c i t …
Brief • March 30, 2012
Keehn v. Lucas, PA, Settlement, taser guard-inmate assault, 2012 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA GERALD KEEHN, Plaintiff, vs. CIO LUCAS, ELSTNER, CIO CHIPIKITIS, CIO Defendants. } } } } No. 09-16 } } Magistrate Judge Kelly } } } } } } Electronically …
Brief • March 29, 2012
Williams v. Swack, NY, Removal to Federal Court, Complaint, Attica Beating, 2012 ------Case 1:13-cv-00974-WMS-JJM Document 1 Filed 03/29/12 Page 1 of 28 I .I .. '' UNITED STATES DISTRJCT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK I GEORGE WILLIAMS, ! 1552 Plaintiff, v. KEITH SWACK, SEAN WARNER, MATTHEW RADDEMACHER AND ERIC …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Workers’ Comp Claims by Illinois Prison Guards Under Investigation by David Reutter Illinois taxpayers have shelled out over $10 million to settle workers’ compensation claims filed by employees at the Menard Correctional Center (MCC), mainly related to repetitive trauma injuries. However, a study concluded that the job duties guards are …
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