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.
Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed in prison and is now serving his sentence in a different facility
A search of the now-former Pocahontas State Correctional Center CO’s home led to the seizure of more than $150,000 worth of narcotics in prison value, a handgun and $1,000 in cash
The Department of Juvenile Justice says a toxic workplace culture at Mayfield enabled sexual activity while COs were on duty and youth fights hidden from cameras and supervisors
A former Canon City corrections officer admitted to locking two inmates inside a cold, walk-in refrigerator to teach them a lesson
Officers are accused of arranging a fight between two inmates and challenging them to participate in dares
Authorities say Derrick Smart took more than $500 from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 97 between 2008 and 2012
Deputy is accused of spraying pepper spray on a slice of Domino’s pizza and then offering that pizza to an inmate
Kevan Caliper, 42, of Swansea was charged on Saturday by St. Clair County State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly
A former correctional officer has been indicted in Barnstable Superior Court for allegedly having sex with an inmate
Former CO faces 10 years in jail for running family off road during a domestic dispute
Derland Blake wants to post $50,000 bail and faces a “significant” risk of harm from other jail inmates
Charged with driving on a suspended license
Muscogee County Jail correctional officer turned himself in to police and will be terminated following a violent, off-duty domestic dispute
Accused of failing to heed two state Supreme Court rulings on prison sentencing, leading to the miscalculations
A former corrections officer is among seven people accused of helping smuggle cellphones into prison for Las Vegas Strip shooting suspect Ammar Harris.
A corrections officer at the Lucas County jail who also coached high school basketball was fired this week after he allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman he had driven home from the jail
Daniel Lanigan, 29, of Levittown, is charged with one felony count and one misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a controlled substance
Marion County Jail is coming under scrutiny again for mistakenly releasing inmate Scott Snyder earlier last week
Convicted of official misconduct and evidence tampering charges in a case surrounding a 2010 fight at the jail where an inmate was stabbed in the neck with a pencil
Government lawyers this week reported that corrections officers in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex systematically violated the civil rights of male teenagers
Derrick Antonio Daniels faces five official misconduct charges
Tisha Ann Brunell, 45, faced a term of two to 100 years or life imprisonment for each of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent
Prison protocol dictates that inmates be isolated when they express fear for their lives, at least until their complaints can be evaluated
Federal marshals were looking for the officer’s brother, who is a fugitive in a federal drug case
A federal appeals court is taking a second look at the case of a Mississippi prison guard who was cited for recklessness during a 2007 fight in which an inmate died and two others were injured
The mother of a 23-year-old man shot and killed by a Cook County Jail correctional officer last year has filed suit against the officer and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office
Of 40 allegations, Corrections Officer Joseph Beahm is named in 28
Emails in connection with the death of a mentally ill inmate at Dade Correctional Institution two years ago show that the prison’s staff told conflicting stories about what happened
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis against various prison officials, says Eugene Kenneth Jones was too poor to afford the item
A former inmate who claims he was assaulted by a Richland County corrections officer won a $750,000 settlement with the county
Warden Jerry Cummings’ suspension is the agency’s latest response to growing allegations of abuse and cover-ups in the prison system
Captain Moises Simancas and COs April Jackson and Tyrone Wint are charged with beating an inmate into unconsciousness with a baton and then falsifying documents to cover up the act
The deaths bring the total open, in-custody state prison death cases under scrutiny to 10 — nine of them being handled by the FDLE