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9th Circuit Rejects Prisoner Self-Defense Theory in Assault with Shank by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna The U.S. Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit has declined to permit prisoner Lenny Urena from asserting "self-defense" in his trial for assault with a dangerous weapon against a fellow prisoner. The Court also …
Lying about Possessing a Weapon upon Arrest Booking Violates California Law; Does Not Implicate Fifth Amendment by The California Court of Appeals held that an arrestee who lies to jail booking officers about possessing a weapon violates a law prohibiting introduction of a weapon into a jail. The court also …
Illinois: Prisoner Who Commits Disciplinary Infraction May Also Be Prosecuted In Court by In November 2011, the Illinois Court of Appeal held that a single unlawful act by a state prisoner may give rise to both disciplinary and criminal charges. In August 2000, Anthony Gay, a prisoner at Pontiac Correctional …
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
Former Ohio Sheriff Sentenced to One Year of House Arrest for Theft and Ethics Violations by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna Gerald T. McFaul was Sheriff of Cuyahoga County, Ohio for decades, but the 76-year old Democrat was contrite as he apologized to the people of Cuyahoga County for theft …
Oregon Cop Guilty of Sexting a Minor by On July 22, 2011, former Salem, Oregon police Officer Raul "Rico" Allen Ramirez, 36, pleaded guilty to official misconduct for sending sexual text messages to an underage female police cadet. In February 2011, the cadet emailed Ramirez, requesting to ride along with …
Article • May 15, 2012
Oregon Cop Sexually Abuses Minor, Gets 10 Years by On August 16, 2011, a former Oregon police officer was sentenced to nearly ten years in prison on thirteen sex crimes. Mark Benton Ashcraft, 38, was a police officer in the small northeastern Oregon town of Athena. That ended, however, when …
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 …
Washington Supreme Court Reverses Judge's Indigency Status Denial by The En Banc Washington state Supreme Court reversed a lower court's denial of a judge's motion for indigency status. Soon after he was elected to the Pierce County Superior Court Bench, Judge Michael A. Hecht was convicted of felony harassment and …
Article • May 15, 2012
Oregon Jail Guard Stabbed in the Face with Pencil by On August 7, 2011, two prisoners stabbed a guard in the face with a pencil at the Washington County Jail (WCJ) in Hillsboro, Oregon. Deputy Adam Slater, 27, was working at a desk at about 4 p.m., on Sunday, August …
Article • May 15, 2012
Presidential Death Threat Nets Four More Years; Mentally Ill Oregon Prisoner Continues Murder Plots by On August 3, 2011, a mentally ill Oregon prisoner who pleaded guilty to sending letters threatening to kill President Barack Obama was sentenced to four more years in prison. David Earl Anderson, Jr., 28, suffers …
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 …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
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Texas Prison Guard Gets Five Years for Scalding Child by Alex Friedmann On February 29, 2012, former Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison guard Henry Benson III, 31, was convicted by a state court jury of “recklessly” burning a child he was babysitting. Benson, formerly employed at the Connally Unit …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Georgia Jail Guards Charged in Prisoner Abuse Incident by Three guards at Georgia’s Dekalb County Jail (DCJ) were arrested and charged in connection with a May 15, 2011 altercation involving a pretrial detainee. The prisoner, whose name was not released, had been booked into the DCJ on a disorderly conduct …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Pennsylvania Jail Guard Accused of Stealing from 93-Year-Old Widow by Prosecutors have charged an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania jail guard with theft. Mark Hendrick, 46, was charged with access device fraud, theft and misapplication of entrusted property in April 2011 after it was discovered that he had taken more than $147,000 …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Nebraska Judge Dismisses Charges Against Omaha Jailers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Douglas County, Nebraska District Court Judge Peter Bataillon has dismissed official misconduct charges against jailers who allegedly let a prisoner bleed to death while he begged for his life. Bataillon interpreted Jail Standards Board regulations as putting …
California Syndicalism Statute Not an Act of Congress; Appeals Court Injunction Reversed by The U.S. Supreme Court determined that California Criminal Syndicalism statute stands short of an Act of Congress. John Harris was indicted in a California state court of violating California’s Criminal Syndicalism statute (see Cal. Penal code § …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Federal Halfway House Director Embezzles $213,787 by Mark Wilson A former Oregon halfway house director who embezzled more than $213,000 from the federally-funded facility was arrested in Rhode Island after failing to appear, fleeing and attempting suicide. She later pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing. As previously reported in PLN, Laura …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Former Oregon Prison Nurse Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges by On May 3, 2011, a registered nurse formerly employed by the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) was arrested on misconduct and drug-related charges, according to the Oregon State Police (OSP). The previous month, a Washington County grand jury returned an …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Two Charged with Scamming $2.6 Million from Prisoners and Prisoners’ Families by Two Michigan men have been charged with defrauding thousands of prisoners and their families nationwide out of an estimated $2.6 million. Their scheme targeted black and Hispanic prisoners with direct mailings that offered to provide legal and appellate …
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