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Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006

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lockbox in the courthouse. Georgia: On August 9, 2006, Jimmy Butler, 30, a Dekalb county jail guard, pleaded guilty to smuggling marijuana and other contraband to jail prisoners. He was sentenced to six ...

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Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

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to the local paper disparaging fund raising practices at the prosecutor’s office for the upcoming election of a new district attorney. California: State prison guard Domingo Garcia, 40, pleaded guilty on March ...

Seven TDCJ Prison Guards Arrested  in Alleged Smuggling Ring

Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Searches, Prison Conditions

Seven TDCJ Prison Guards Arrested  in Alleged Smuggling Ring by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced on April 9, 2025, that arrest warrants were issued for seven guards ...

In-Prison Filmmaker Prepares Next Release

Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011

Filed under: Organizing, Prisoner Media, TV/Movies

In-Prison Filmmaker Prepares Next Release by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Compact video cameras smuggled into prison have allowed New Jersey prisoner Omar Broadway to become an amateur ...

Rikers Island Guard Accidentally Records Himself Planting Shiv in Prisoner’s Cell

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

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Fabricated Evidence, Fabrication of Evidence

again attempted to smuggle contraband to Hinds at the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Metropolitan Detention Center. Fellow guard Katrina Patterson took more than $34,000 in bribes to smuggle drugs ...

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Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012

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, 3 months of house arrest and two years of supervised release after pleading guilty to smuggling cellphones and cigarettes into the jail. A third former guard, Marvie Trevino Dingle, Jr., 34, pleaded ...

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Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021

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. The former prisoner, 32-year-old Terry McClendon, was being held at the jail on federal firearms charges in 2017 when he approached guard Laron Williams with an offer to pay him a bribe to smuggle drugs ...

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Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015

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jail guard Angel Rafael Vargas, 40, was sentenced on April 18, 2014 to five years in prison followed by five years’ probation for smuggling marijuana and other contraband to a prisoner. Vargas ...

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Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011

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News In Brief by Arizona: A Maricopa County deputy and two jail guards were arrested in May 2011 and charged with drug offenses, money laundering and human trafficking. One of the guards ...

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Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021

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News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle ...

Lawsuits Challenge Conditions at Tennessee Jail; Five Charged in Bribery and Smuggling Scheme

Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Food, Overcrowding, Vermin

Department. In related news, a grand jury issued an indictment charging five people, including an MCJ guard, with bribery and drug smuggling at the jail. The indictment was the culmination of a year-long ...

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Article • August 4, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018

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: On December 8, 2017, Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) director John McKechnie said two guards at a private prison operated by Serco were suspended pending the outcome of a drug smuggling investigation ...

Seventh Circuit Orders Disciplinary Hearing Due Process, Attorney Access, Legal Materials Returned

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Work Strikes, Disciplinary Hearings, Disciplinary Litigation, Notice of Charges, Notice of Hearing, Counsel, Legal Materials, Attorney Visits

with attorneys only through glass was without merit. Guards must bring facts to support their suspicions that not only is contraband being smuggled but that the attorneys are smuggling the contraband. The fact ...

Maryland Prisoner Subject to “Hit” by Gang-Affiliated Guard Receives $40,000 Settlement

Article • January 13, 2015

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings

people, including 13 guards, were indicted by a federal grand jury in a contraband-smuggling conspiracy at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC). Prisoner Michael Smith, aka Michael E. Reed, Jr ...

More Drugs Seized by Florida DOC During COVID-19 Lockdowns Than Before

Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023

Filed under: COVID-19, War on Drugs, Lockdowns

lockups supported a general consensus that guards regularly found drugs and cellphones, but they did not issue disciplinary reports. Realizing that the lockdown would point blame for smuggled contraband ...

Federal Prison Guard's Drug Smuggling and Sexual Activities Warrant 46 Month Sentence

Article • August 15, 2008

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

Federal Prison Guard's Drug Smuggling and Sexual Activities Warrant 46 Month Sentence by Former federal prison guard Celeste Akers appealed her sentence after smuggling drugs into a Bureau ...

More Than 200 Convicted of Corruption at Baltimore Department of Corrections; More Charges Announced

Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct

episodes of corruption within its prison system. In a contraband smuggling scheme, prosecutors stated that the Black Guerrilla Family used guards to gain control of the prison. [PLN, April 2015, p. 30 ...

Florida Law Enforcement Officials on the Wrong Side of the Law

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

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Health Services, Armor Correctional Health Services, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Police Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Escapes, Crime, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Wrongful Death, Murder by Escapees, Juvenile Prisons

Sauer that had been smuggled into the facility. He took guard Gerson Roche hostage and forced him to change clothes, in an apparent attempt to walk out of the facility in disguise. The escape was thwarted ...

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Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012

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News in Brief by Indiana: Lynsey Stangel, 26, formerly employed as a federal prison guard at Terre Haute, pleaded guilty on May 2, 2012 to having sex with a prisoner in a patrol car while ...

The Elusive Dream: Closing Rikers Island

Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Prison Reform, Jail Specific

people were arrested as part of a takedown of a Rikers Island smuggling operation. The investigation uncovered two operations run by three NYDOC employees. The largest scheme involved guards Kevin McCoy ...