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Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
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News In Brief by Hawaii: On April 7, 2011, former Oahu Community Correctional Center guard Ryan Malasig, 44, wept at his sentencing hearing after pleading no contest to sexually assaulting a transgender prisoner in 2009. Malasig had forced the prisoner to perform oral sex on him; the prisoner kept a …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
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News In Brief: by Arkansas: During a search for contraband at the Greene County Jail, three guards and a sheriff’s deputy were locked in a cell by prisoner Jacob Rodden. The October 10, 2010 incident occurred after Rodden ran out of the cell, closed the door behind the guards who …
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
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News In Brief: by California: Tonya Henderson, a former guard at the California Institution for Men in Chino, resigned in May 2010 after she was arrested for stealing $3,000 worth of merchandise from a Target store, including a steam cleaner and a big-screen TV. She was in her prison uniform …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
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News In Brief: by Arkansas: Garland County deputy Garvin Todd Reid, 27, was fired in February 2011, then arrested on charges that he raped a female trustee in a supply room at the county jail. “There were no actual witnesses. There was a detention deputy who had come in as …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
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News in Brief: by Arizona: Corrections Corp. of America officials announced on December 24, 2010 that they had identified 43 prisoners who were involved in a riot a day earlier at CCA’s Red Rock Correctional Facility near Eloy. The prisoners, all from California, were placed in administrative segregation pending an …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
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News In Brief: by California: Over 226,000 pounds of hamburger meat was recalled from prisons in California and Oregon due to concerns that it was spoiled. The meat, shipped in 20-pound boxes from One Great Burger in Elizabeth, New Jersey, had been flagged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture but …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
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News in Brief: by Arizona: Infamous Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, best known for his harsh and humiliating treatment of prisoners, staged a Christmas carol contest on December 21, 2010. Ten prisoners sang for a chance to get a full traditional dinner on Christmas Eve, with Arpaio judging the contest …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
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News In Brief: by Arizona: When Clayton Thornburg, 24, tried to escape from the Durango Jail in Phoenix on September 29, 2010, he left his clothes – and dignity – behind. Thornburg climbed over five fences topped with razor wire, which shredded his black-and-white striped jail clothes and left him …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
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News In Brief: by Arkansas: Sebastian County jail prisoner Gary Van Wolf, 64, awaiting trial on sex charges involving children, was strangled to death and left in his cell on September 16, 2010. According to a report by the Sheriff’s Office, jailers had left prisoners unsupervised for about an hour …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
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News in Brief: by Afghanistan: An Afghan prisoner being held at a U.S. military base attempted to escape on August 7, 2010, grabbing a rifle and fatally shooting two Marines before being killed by return fire. The location of the base was not disclosed. Alabama: On August 17, 2010, Steven …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
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News in Brief: by Arizona: On July 25, 2010, the troubled Corrections Corporation of America-run Saguaro Correctional Center was placed on lockdown after 30 prisoners from Hawaii were involved in a scuffle over an Xbox. During the melee the prison’s “gang intelligence officer” was beaten and suffered a broken nose, …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
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News in Brief: by California: Beverly Hills attorney Michael H. Inman was charged on June 17, 2010 with attempting to smuggle heroin into a secure area of the downtown L.A. criminal court building. The 48-year-old lawyer was caught with approximately 14.25 grams of black tar heroin in a plastic bag …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
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News in Brief: by Australia: In May 2010, guards at the Mobilong prison in South Australia discovered a fake gun made of matchsticks. Prison staff searched an unnamed prisoner and found the faux weapon after they noticed him behaving suspiciously. Authorities described the matchstick gun as highly realistic; it was …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
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News in Brief: by Argentina: Prisoners Maximiliano Pereyra, 25, and Ariel Diaz, 28, escaped from a maximum security facility in early April 2010. The men eluded capture by stealing full sheep skins and blending in with a large herd of sheep on a nearby ranch. Police said spotting the pair …
Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010
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News in Brief: by California: Contra Costa County’s top homicide prosecutor, Harold Jewett, was placed on administrative leave for allegedly punching his supervisor, assistant district attorney Paul Sequeira. The incident, which took place on March 8, 2010 during a staff meeting and sent Sequeira to the hospital for stitches, occurred …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
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News in Brief: by Arkansas: On February 22, 2010, Little Rock attorney Jack Kearney, a former director of the Arkansas Ethics Commission, was arrested and charged with furnishing $1,300 in cash to a Pulaski County jail prisoner. A Sheriff’s report stated the unnamed prisoner was discovered with the contraband cash …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
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News in Brief: by Australia: Ipswich resident Kurt James Milner, a former security guard, pleaded guilty in January 2010 to charges of possessing cartoon pornography. Police recovered 64 images of “cartoon child exploitation material” from Milner’s com-puter, including X-rated cartoon images of child characters from The Simpsons, The Incredibles and …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
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News in Brief: by Alabama: On October 30, 2009, Richard Hawthorne, 51, a member of the Escambia County School Board, was in-dicted on seven charges stemming from allegations that he fondled female prisoners at the Escambia County Detention Center where he formerly worked as a guard. Two female prisoners reported …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
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News in Brief: by California: On June 29, 2009, Richard Henry Kase, 41, was sentenced to 90 years to life for the first-degree murder of his cellmate, 28-year-old Randy James Rabelos, at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy. Kase repeatedly told Rabelos, a convicted child molester, to be quiet one …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
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News in Brief: by Brazil: At least five prisoners died and around 40 others were injured in a fire at the Joao Pessoa jail in northeastern Brazil in October 2009. According to a military police spokesman, prisoners had set the fire to protest another prisoner’s transfer to a high-security facility. …
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