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.
Faith Rose Gratz and an inmate ran a drug operation at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater for three months in 2022 while in a romantic relationship, prosecutors said
The CO allegedly smuggled contraband into San Quentin and Vacaville prisons, placed it in various areas and “pretended to discover said contraband,” the indictment said
The CO admitted conspiring with other officers to assault the inmate as retaliation at the Southern Regional Jail, according to court documents
Arii Metz could receive 41 to 51 months in prison for pleading guilty to entering the cell of David Kipp on Oct. 13, 2010, and punching him several times.
The officer was transferring his gun from one holster to another
Argument began over comments one CO believed another made about his girlfriend
The bizarre long-distance run of Andre Darnell Burgess began near Tallahassee
Jasmine Thornton pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge Thursday, following Jasmin Jones, who pleaded guilty to the same charge Tuesday
Charged with possessing a refrigerator, two generators, a Wacker tamper, a Stihl chain saw and scaffolding
Accused of extorting a work release inmate
Admin: “We don’t want one negative incident to define everybody here at the jail”
Accused jail officials of illegally accessing medical records after COs missed work
CO was walking inmate back to cell following a disturbance
Received explicit photos from a coworker for eight months
The Department of Correction arrested the four after their vehicle was searched at the prison
Inmates were allegedly forced to strip down and sit front to back for long periods
Katera Stevenson, 25, had child with BGF gang leader
Sentenced to 8 years behind bars
Deputy Garry Jackson, 52, of Rochester Hills did not speak, except for offering his address when asked, as he was arraigned on three counts of criminal sexual conduct
Video evidence shows prison rounds started later than indicated by the log
Allegedly stole from Daytona National Speedway and sold the merchandise on Ebay
Kept up a secret relationship with a female inmate awaiting trial for the alleged murder of her 6-year-old daughter
Illegally collected $6,059 in temporary disability benefits by falsely creating and reinforcing the impression that she was disabled and unable to work
Yvette Randolph has been a city correction officer since 2002, was assigned to the Bellevue Hospital prison ward
Firefighters were on scene within minutes after getting the call Thursday morning, officials say
David Anderson, 56, Jay Nair, 46, and David Willis, 30, all of McAlester, were charged in January with second-degree manslaughter
Pleaded guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and distributing and possessing images of child pornography
Doctors were not yet finished treating Quasaun Smalls, whose father shot him in the torso after allegedly mistaking him for an intruder
Sandra V. Alvarez, 45, of St. Francis, was charged in April with three counts misconduct in office
Nazon Eo’Ne Johnson, 22, was sentenced to four years on probation during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court
Police say 17-year-old Quasaun Smalls was shot in the torso and was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital with non-life threatening injuries
Correctional officer who just transferred to the prison pleads no contest to single count of accepting a bribe
Lawyer for one inmate claims COs gave his client the novel as a joke or attempt to discredit him