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.
A total of eight Walker County Jail employees have entered plea agreements related to the death of Tony Mitchell
The Southern Regional Jail COs admitted each face up to 30 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 after pleading guilty to a federal civil rights violation
The CO and inmate threw fluids at five Cuyahoga County corrections officers and supervisors, including the jail’s warden
Sergeant settles case involving improper use of police database
Wasn’t sentenced to jail because his son has extreme anxiety disorder
Eavesdropping resulted this week in the dismissal of seven felony charges against an inmate
Accused of contacting and meeting up with female inmates right after they were released
Jermaine Lamb claims that Officer Glen Trammel told the Crips to attack him on Oct. 19, 2012
Harold Bush Walbey III faces up to 57 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines
Sentenced to 90 days in jail
Officer said he thought he was going to be punched and didn’t have time to call for help
Correctional officer recently was charged with having sex with three female participants
The investigation at Lanesboro Correctional Institution was spawned by a separate SBI inquiry into the September 2012 stabbing death of inmate Wesley Turner
State corrections secretary Gary D. Maynard announced that he will step down, saying his department had “stabilized” the Baltimore jail in the wake of a corruption scandal
Casey Forbes of Hot Springs was sentenced in Augusta County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to two charges of bribery of a public official
18 current and former LA County sheriff’s officials have been charged with beating inmates and jail visitors, falsifying reports, and trying to obstruct an FBI probe of the nation’s largest jail system
Allegedly assaulted another corrections officer
Prosecutors recommended that John Follo be given three years in prison when he is sentenced next month
Misspent $348,000 on personal mileage and poorly documented expenses
James Miracle, 42, was fired Friday for falsifying tool control forms, forging a signature, and failing to control tools “which compromised or undermined the security of the institution”
Matthew Andrews faces up to six years in prison
Federal authorities have charged 14 more corrections officers with corruption
Official: “It was just a way of life inside the facility”
Allegedly forced inmates to fight one another for special privileges
Federal jury found dozens of Sheriff’s Department supervisors and deputies “engaged in malicious and sadistic conduct” against inmates at Men’s Central Jail in 2008
Deputy Celeste Wagoner, 40, confessed to bringing cigarettes into the Detention Center and giving them to inmates. She also admitted to possesing an inappropriate photo of an inmate
Michael Hart, 43, was charged on Wednesday with aggravated battery and official misconduct in connection with the incident
Twenty-six-year-old Kimberly Dennis of Baltimore entered the plea Tuesday in federal court
Agreement ends lawsuit Jordan Sand filed earlier this year over his treatment by former corrections Officer Marlon Taylor
The U.S. Department of Justice is declining to prosecute after a three-year investigation into allegations of possible criminal civil rights violations at Idaho’s largest private prison
HPD officers arrested Harris County employee Tawatha Lamark Wednesday on felony injury to a child charges that were filed Tuesday
Deputies extracted prisoners “with such extreme and excessive force that eight inmates had to be hospitalized”
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