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.
Body camera video, released by the state attorney general, shows multiple Marcy Correctional Facility COs striking Robert Brooks, who later died in a hospital
The New York AG called the video of Robert Brooks’ death “shocking;” 14 Marcy Correctional Facility COs and employees were fired in response
The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employees allegedly disguised the theft by replacing stolen cash with check disbursements from the Inmate Trust Fund bank account
Seven employees at a Taylorsville prison have lost their jobs in an ongoing investigation into the death of a mentally ill inmate who had been held in solitary confinement
A correctional officer at a federal prison in southwest Missouri has been sentenced to six years without parole for hiring someone to kill his wife’s ex-husband
Rhode Island State Police has been asked to investigate allegations of potential criminal activity by key correctional officials
Fayette County jail employees who are under investigation for violations will no longer be placed on paid leave
The “real punishment” is that the man will no longer be able to serve as a corrections officer
A jail guard supervisor accused of violating the rights of an inmate by ignoring his pleas for medical attention in the hours before his death was arrested by federal authorities on Monday
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agents charged a Trousdale County corrections officer with misuse of information Friday night
Corrections Department officials say they aren’t ready to pull the plug on the $145-million, three-year deal yet
Six officers at the Wake County detention center have resigned or been fired amid accusations that they fraternized with inmates
Christopher Anello, 28, of Norwalk, was charged Tuesday with second-degree threatening and second-degree breach of peace
Three-member commission was unanimous in its decision to uphold the termination of Jesus Gomez
Mitchell County District Attorney Joe Mulholland says one of the suspects is accused of destroying the videotaped recording of the violence
With recent technological developments come increased opportunities for staff to “do the wrong thing”
Gordon Chavez pleaded guilty to groping and fondling a female probationer
Two former state correctional officers are going to federal prison for conspiring in the severe beating of an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution near Hagerstown in 2008
4 COs have been indicted on charges they beat up a Rikers Island inmate and then covered up the assault
Nancy Gonzalez claims she had sex with at least eight co-workers, including two supervisors
Under investigation after police say she left a loaded gun on the floor of the women’s restroom in the waiting room of OU Children’s Hospital
For years, corrections officers and all other staff have not gone through contraband detection machines before entering the facility
Officers are told on the spot that they must be tested at that moment
Two state corrections officers arrested within days of each other in separate incidents are now unemployed
Pleaded guilty in November to federal drug charges in a deal for five years, but the sentence had been in question
Pinellas County deputy was arrested Monday for striking a 15-year-old inmate last summer and lying about his motives
A Lebanon Correctional Institution worker allegedly derailed a months long criminal probe into drug dealing at the prison when he accessed confidential files and alerted co-workers about the investigation
Nancy Gonzalez was convicted of having sex with inmate Ronell Wilson in an effort to keep him from the injection chair
An Albany County jail officer who moonlighted as a bookie pleaded guilty to a felony Tuesday for his role in an Internet gambling ring in which bets were placed at the jail
Prosecutors filed a notice Tuesday in Baltimore that they will move to dismiss the two counts against Josh Hummer
Charlie Broaderick to surrender law enforcement certificate
State CO is jailed after being arrested in tax fraud scheme that allegedly netted him and 4 accomplices thousands
Former CO Leodagario Buan claims there was no misconduct or unlawful act
MOST POPULAR
- Derek Chauvin update: Prison stabbing, appeals, sentence length and where he is now
- NY jail workers to face charges in inmate beating
- Claims of sexual misconduct at prisons, jails costing W. Va. millions
- Ex-corrections officers drop efforts to reclaim jobs, apply for ARD program
- Lawmakers to hear from Md. corrections official