Staff Misconduct
This topic features news, training and information related to cases involving potential or perceived misconduct in corrections. This section serves the important function of pointing out, not pointing fingers, when a CO has gone outside the lines.
Messiah Nantwi resisted being handcuffed and grabbed a CO’s vest during an emergency response call, leading several COs to strike the inmate, the indictment says
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The officers, Sgt. Christopher Michael Jernigan, 37, and Officer Donald Dwight Sims Jr., 21, were arrested Monday
A former Valdosta State Prison corrections officer was indicted Friday on a charge related to attempting to smuggle tobacco to an inmate
A corrections officer in northern New Jersey has pleaded guilty to accepting a $1,000 bribe in exchange for smuggling contraband
Mentally ill inmate was left unattended and alone in his cell for weeks with insect-infested food containers, a feces-clogged toilet and ropes from his shredded jail uniform hanging from the ceiling
Defense attorney Christopher Urbano said that he expects Blair County Prison officer Lloyd Gene Rogers Jr. to be exonerated
Deputy has been indicted by a federal grand jury
Deputy crashed his personal vehicle and left the scene of the accident
Ricky Bell was charged with falsifying documents and fraud
Pair accused of leaving mentally ill inmateunattended for weeks
None of the 16 employees were recommended for criminal prosecution, but all face possible disciplinary action
Florida prisons chief Julie Jones says she knows of no further Ku Klux Klan activity
Florida correctional officers are accused of plotting to kill black inmate
Officials said the supposed hit man was an FBI criminal informant who recorded scenes over the past year
Inmate left the van to buy drugs but never returned
Were members of the KKK and planned to kill black inmate
Richard “Rick” Pilarski Jr. resigned Saturday after he acknowledged the Facebook exchange with family and friends in which he threatened to shoot gays
Four deputies have been accused of staging gladiator-like fights between inmates and gambling on the outcomes
Carlos Manuel Perez Jr. was slain with his hands cuffed behind his back, attorney Alexis Plunkett said
The U.S. Department of Justice and state lawmakers have been taking a close look at DOC operations in the wake of a year in which inmate deaths spiked to new heights
Thirty-four-year-old Lenard Fleming of District Heights, Maryland, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington
Four former Macon State Prison officers were sentenced in federal court Wednesday for their part in the beating of inmates in 2010 and subsequent cover-up
Jill Curry implicated an unnamed sheriff’s deputy of having a sexual relationship with Jang-Li Delgado Galban
A correctional officer with the Refugio County Jail has been terminated after taking an inmate out of the jail to help run errands and to lunch
A state correctional officer has been arrested after allegedly ordering one inmate to assault another inmate the officer wanted hurt, according to a warrant
A federal judge meted out prison sentences for two former jail administrators convicted more than a year ago of violating the civil rights of Muskogee County inmates
Vehicle caught on surveillance camera matched correctional officer’s car, which had damage on the front end
Ronald E. Snodgrass admitted that he illegally took possession of a John Deere zero turn mower, which was recovered stolen property
A man is suing officers who he says beat him while he was being held at the Las Cruces Police Department
Former Sgt. Ivette Garcia lied in the 13-page report due to feeling rushed to get the report done
Three corrections officers charged with seriously injuring an inmate during a beating at Attica state prison in 2011 have pleaded guilty
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