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Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024

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and smuggled cellphones to another. Davis had worked for DPSC since August 2022. Both guards were booked into the Iberville Parish jail. Massachusetts: On August 14, 2024, the U.S. Attorney for the District ...

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Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023

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investigators to suspect former guard Brandon McGaffigan, 29, was smuggling drugs into the lockup. When questioned as he returned from lunch break on January 22, 2023, Gaffigan agreed to a search of his vehicle ...

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Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021

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, after pleading no contest to felony charges of having sex with a prisoner and smuggling contraband to him, according to a report by the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The 12-year veteran guard at the Santa Cruz ...

Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons

Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Dominion Group, Staff-Staff Harassment, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Staffing

Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons by by Matthew T. Clarke There are new troubles at several prisons in Colorado. At a 250-bed GRW-run private prison in Brush ...

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Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024

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. California: On November 28, 2023, a state prison guard at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego pleaded guilty to taking a $5,000 bribe in exchange for smuggling a prisoner’s dental ...

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Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018

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inside his footwear. Neal had worked at the facility since 2015. That was not the first time a guard had been arrested for smuggling drugs into Northpoint. In 2010, guard Jesus Cabrera was charged ...

“Deep-Seated Culture of Violence” and Abysmal Medical Care at Rikers Island

Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Failure to Protect (General), Jail Specific, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides

the smuggling of drugs and weapons into the complex. During his second visit to Rikers in three months, de Blasio, who was surrounded by uniformed jail guards during an hour-long press conference, shied away from ...

Georgia Prison Contraband Investigation Nets 130 Arrests, Guilty Pleas

Article • November 7, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017

Filed under: Crime, War on Drugs, Telephones

reported in February 2016. [See: PLN, March 2017, p.38]. Known as “Operation Ghost Guard,” the investigation targeted contraband in GDOC facilities and crimes perpetuated by prisoners through ...

Four Guards Suspended By CCA Following Their Murder of Prisoner in Tennessee Jail

Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Attorney Client, Excessive Force

at the jail eight months and had passed both a background check and drug screening when he was hired. CCA guard Constance Edwards, 33, was arrested on September 17, 2003, as she tried to smuggle two balloons ...

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Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020

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: A New Jersey jury has convicted a former prison guard of smuggling drugs and other contraband into Southern State Prison, where he worked before his arrest in August 2017. After receiving the guilty ...

Sixth Circuit Revives Claim Over Michigan Prisoner’s Fatal Overdose on Allegedly Smuggled Fentanyl

Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023

Filed under: Drug Overdose, Failure to Protect (General)

was the result of a longstanding drug-smuggling problem in LCF and other DOC prisons. The suit claimed that an unidentified LCF guard who was romantically involved with another prisoner was smuggling drugs ...

Multiple Florida DOC Guards Convicted of Assault, Smuggling and Child Sex Abuse

Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Guard Misconduct

Multiple Florida DOC Guards Convicted of Assault, Smuggling and Child Sex Abuse by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On March 6, 2022, a judge in Citrus County, Florida, handed down a prison ...

Fourth Circuit Holds Private Prison Guards to be Under Supervision of DOJ

Article • August 4, 2016

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct

Fourth Circuit Holds Private Prison Guards to be Under Supervision of DOJ by Derek Gilna Some enterprising prison guards at the River Correctional Institution set up a profitable smuggling ...

Second Former BOP Guard Sentenced in Smuggling Scheme at Brooklyn Lockup

Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024

Filed under: Guard Misconduct

Second Former BOP Guard Sentenced in Smuggling Scheme at Brooklyn Lockup by Former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Quandelle Joseph, 34, was sentenced on July 30, 2024, to 30 months ...

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Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996

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trafficking. Both guards are accused of smuggling drugs into the prison for sale to prisoners. MS : On January 10, 1996, two burglars in the Perry County jail escaped because a new rear door in the jail had ...

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Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015

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Telegraph reported that former prison guard Megan Deaton had entered a guilty plea to attempting to smuggle a cell phone to a prisoner at the Corrections Corporation of America-operated McRae Correctional ...

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Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023

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.), Case No. 5:23-cv-00198. Maryland: Former Prince George’s County DOC guard Danielle Dominique Smith, 34, pled guilty on July 14, 2023, to smuggling controlled substances into a county lockup ...

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Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022

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Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting messages or packages, Couch allegedly coordinated delivery of marijuana ...

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Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022

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in a scheme to smuggle contraband into the prison where he was employed. The guard, Wayne Grant, Jr., 28, pleaded guilty to receiving a bribe in September 2021 and was sentenced in December 2021. Grant ...

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Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017

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for possession by inmates. She was initially held without bond. Georgia: Dooly State Prison guard Tiffany King was arrested on March 19, 2017 and charged with attempting to smuggle marijuana into the facility ...