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Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Former BOP Guard Gets Light Sentence for COVID-19 Fraud by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 17, 2023, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City, Mississippi, got a light sentence for defrauding the U.S. of $12,586 in loans she swindled from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
California Supreme Court Remands Guards’ Overturned Murder Convictions In Detainee Death At Santa Clara County Jail by On May 31, 2023, the Supreme Court of California vacated and remanded to the Court of Appeal a decision handed down in August 2022, overturning the second-degree murder convictions of three guards who …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Two Dead and $4.675 Million Paid After Deputies’ Alleged Misconduct in California’s Sonoma County by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian A coroner’s report on March 14, 2023, confirmed that an undocumented worker was fatally shot by a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD) deputy after a foot chase the previous …
San Diego County Pays $4.35 Million After Jail Guards Failed to Stop Detainee From Blinding Herself by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The County of San Diego agreed on September 14, 2022, to pay $4.35 million to settle a lawsuit alleging a guard at the county lockup stood by …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Senators Slam “Egregious” Prisoner Sexual Abuse by BOP Employees by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “I was sentenced and put in prison for choices I made,” said Briane Moore. “I was not sentenced to prison to be raped and abused.” She was testifying at a hearing of the U.S. Senate …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Life Sentence for Alabama Jail Escapee After Suicide of Guard Lover Who Helped Him by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 8, 2023, a judge in Alabama’s Lauderdale County handed a life sentence without parole to a state prisoner for escaping the county lockup with his jail-guard lover, who …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Former Illinois Guards Sentenced for Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On March 16, 2023, Judge Sue Myerscough of the federal court for the Central District of Illinois sentenced former state prison guards Alex Banta, 31, and Todd Sheffler, 54, to 20 years in prison for the …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
$15,001 Verdict Against Delaware Guard for Gaping Prisoner’s Butt During Strip Search by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On February 6, 2023, Judge Paul Wallace in Delaware Superior Court upheld a jury’s $15,001 award for damages against George Pyle, a guard with the state Department of Corrections (DOC), in a …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
L.A. County Watchdog Takes Aim at “Deputy Gangs” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a letter sent to 35 deputies withtheLos Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) on May 12, 2023, county Inspector General Max Huntsman demanded they report for questioning about their involvement in deputy “gangs,” including showing their …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Fifth BOP Staff Conviction and Sixth Arrest in California Prison ‘Rape Club’ by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Sexually abusive guards and their former warden are falling like dominoes as prisoners brave retaliation to report sexual abuse at the Federal Correction Institute (FCI) in Dublin, the federal Bureau …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
New York City Stops Reporting Rikers Island Deaths Amid Rampant Guard Misconduct by Kevin Bliss, Chuck Sharman, Benjamin Tschirhart by Kevin W. Bliss, Chuck Sharman and Benjamin Tschirhart On May 31, 2023, Luis Molina, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction (DOC), announced his agency would no longer …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Fourth Circuit Revives Virginia Prisoner’s Challenge to Discipline for Allegedly Sexually Harassing Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Virginia prison officials, in a civil rights complaint …
No Charges for Georgia Guards Who Allegedly Abetted Attack That Left Prisoner Dead by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On September 30, 2022, nineteen-year-old Quafabian McBride was fatally stabbed in the heart during a fight between rival gangs at Georgia’s Phillips State Prison. McBride and fellow “Rolax Bloods” member Dejuan …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
70 Months for Former Warden of BOP ‘Rape Club’ in California by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Ray Garcia was warden for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California. He served as supervisor at the lockup for regular audits conducted under the Prison …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Imprisoned Former Head of New York City Jails Guards’ Union Granted Release by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 23, 2023, a federal judge who had earlier refused to reduce the sentence of the former head of the New York City jail guards’ union convicted in a costly bribery …
Article • June 13, 2023
Florida Prison Guard Arrested in Apparent Love-Triangle Shooting by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman An off-duty Florida prison guard was arrested on June 7, 2023, after he allegedly shot a woman several times outside her home. Wilner Cyprien, 31, a state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard at Martin Correctional Institution …
Article • June 7, 2023
Former Prison Guard Hit With $2.5 Million Judgment in Suit to Force Painter to Acknowledge Painting He Did Not Create by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Over 10 years ago, when former prison guard Robert Fletcher heard from a friend that a painting he owned was an early untitled work …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Staffing
No More Naps for Massachusetts Guards by Eike Blohm, MD By Eike Blohm, MD After two years of negotiations between the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC), an agreement was reached on December 20, 2022, to fix atrocious mental health care in state prisons, …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Hawaii Guard One of Four Convicted in Smuggling Scheme at Honolulu Prison by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A guard and a prisoner at Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu were among four people convicted on federal conspiracy charges in a drug-and-gun-smuggling scheme at the lockup. All but the guard …
Article • June 1, 2023
Convicted Murderer Released 16 Years Early Is Ordered Back to Prison by South Carolina High Court by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott At an emergency hearing on April 26, 2023, the South Carolina Supreme Court found a legal rationale to countermand the release of a convicted killer 16 …
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