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Help Wanted: 31,000 Prison Guard Jobs Open Nationwide by David Reutter The efficiency and functionality of every enterprise rests largely upon the staff put in place to carry out its operations. But at the heart of the most dysfunctional prisons PLN has reported on over the last 35 years is …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Former Maine Prison Guard Arrested and Detained by ICE Agents by Gratien Milandou-Wamba, 32, fled to the United States on a tourist visa in 2023 from the Republic of the Congo; he applied for asylum several months later, claiming that he had been tortured in his home country because of …
New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New Jersey judiciary came to an end when the state Supreme Court held that the failure of former prison …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
11th Alabama Sheriff’s Employee Pleads Guilty in Jail Detainee’s Death, Admits Stomping Him in Genitals by A deputy sheriff in Alabama’s Walker County Jail pleaded guilty on April 1, 2025, to a federal charge of depriving the civil rights of a mentally ill detainee with a brutal kick to the …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Watchdogs Fault Nebraska Prisons for Suicide Response, Overpaid Staff by Boris Bastidas On August 20, 2024, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released a report detailing its investigation into three prisoner suicides, finding that DCS did not provide psychological autopsies after …
$62,500 For Idaho Prisoner Raped by Guard Who Later Committed Suicide by Anthony Accurso An apparent error by attorneys for a former Idaho prisoner limited her recovery to just $62,500 after she was raped by a guard. In a letter to PLN on August 30, 2024, the Idaho Department of …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
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Top Rikers Island Jailers Logged Overtime Equal to 14-Hour Days With No Days Off by The top New York City Department of Correction (DOC) employees in 2024 overtime averaged over 40 extra hours weekly—enough to fill every week with 14-hour workdays all year, with no days off. For the year, …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
New York Lowers Minimum Age for Prison Guards by An approved bill in New York state will lower the minimum hiring age of its prison guards from 21 to 18, following a strike that resulted in over 2,000 guards being fired earlier this year [See: PLN, March 2025, p.61.] The …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Trump Guts BOP Guard Union by An executive order signed by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) on March 27, 2025, stripped collective bargaining rights from federal unions, including those representing guards working for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The guards had already lost most or all of their incentive …
New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases by Faced with ongoing short-staffing after firing 2,000 prison guards for their wildcat strike, New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello announced on April 1, 2025, that the agency would …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Self-Harming Wisconsin Prisoner Settles Failure-to-Protect Suit for $7,000 by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution has been plagued by prisoner deaths and suicides, the most of recent of which are reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, Apr. 2025, p.33.] One of those who survived a suicide …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
New York Suspends Solitary Ban to Woo Back Striking Prison Guards by Under a deal reached at the end of February 2025 with striking state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) agreed to a 90-day suspension of a law limiting use of …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Peters Fights Dismissal from BOP, Guards Lose Bonus Pay by The election of Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) has thrown the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) into turmoil. As PLN reported, former Director Collette Peters resigned just hours after the inauguration on January 20, 2025. [See: PLN, Feb. 2025, p.10.] …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Ohio Guard Killed by Prisoner in Christmas Day Attack by On December 25, 2024, Ohio prisoner Rashawn Cannon, 27, was accused of killing Ross Correctional Institution guard Andrew Lansing, 62. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director of the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), said that Cannon veered off from a group …
Eleventh Circuit Tells BOP Prisoner in Georgia: Bivens Is On “Endangered Species List” by On October 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit told a federal prisoner in Georgia that he could not hold the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) liable for damages caused by …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Arizona DCRR Ordered to Fill Prison Medical Staff Vacancies—Again by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2024, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) was ordered to implement a pilot program that would immediately bring two state prison complexes up to medical staffing levels recommended by …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Plea Deal Falls Apart for Accused 9/11 Masterminds by On August 2, 2024, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked a plea agreement that military lawyers reached with three high-profile detainees accused in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. As a result, they will soon mark 22 years of confinement …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Allegheny County Settles Suit, Lifts Media Gag Policy for Pittsburgh Jail Employees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 17, 2024, Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County settled a lawsuit brought by a Pittsburgh journalist challenging policies and practices that prevented employees of the county’s Bureau of Corrections (BOC) from speaking about …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Ninth Circuit Reverses Federal Prisoner’s Conviction for Assaulting Guards at California Prison by On April 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction of a federal prisoner for assaulting two guards. The Court concluded that Gabriel Mirabal should have been permitted to present evidence …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Former Warden at Troubled Illinois Lockup Promoted to Run BOP Training Academy by Overlooking a troubling record of overseeing abusive conditions, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) promoted Andrew Ciolli in July 2024 to serve as director of the agency’s Management and Specialty Training Center (MSTC) in Aurora, Colorado. Ciolli …
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