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
Offenders thought they were paying court ordered fines and fees, but CO kept the money for his personal use
Closing arguments centered on “human social network” within the state’s prison system and inmates whose testimony was “all written from the same script.”
Allegedly allowed others into the cell of an inmate for a retaliation attack
Promised to provide extra amenities if they flashed him
Admitted in court documents to beating the inmate, who later died of his injuries
Claims that male senior staff would not communicate with her directly
Report says man wouldn’t drop knife after police find him arguing with relative
Defense accused prosecution of presenting the case unfairly
Heath Ray pleaded not guilty Tuesday after being charged with pointing the unloaded gun at his wife
Jury deliberated 40 minutes before acquitting him of a felony
Allegedly TASERed nurse for playing prank with his lunchbox
Dog owner wants officer held responsible
Detectives allegedly found at least three messages sent to the woman, two that said “I love u”
Back in September, several Pima County COs were arrested after they were accused of beating up 4 people outside a bar
He faces 89 counts ranging from official oppression to institutional sexual assault
Pleaded guilty to use of obscene matter to seduce a minor
Was fired by in October after an internal investigation of his attack on an inmate
Pleaded to choking and beating inmate
Charged with two first-degree attempted robbery
Murder suspect was on the run for more than a month after being released
Derek A. Storms, 25, was a probationary officer at the Steuben County Jail when he allegedly participated in the robbery attempts last week
Mass. state law makes it illegal for anyone employed at a correctional facility to have sexual relations with an inmate being held there
Seeking damages in an undisclosed amount
Was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, as well as strangulation causing wounding or injury.
He was charged with six counts of imposition of sexual acts on a person incarcerated or under supervision
Convicted in 2010 after witnesses testified that he was on duty when he supplied a drug dealer with marijuana stolen from a department evidence locker
He was fired after an investigation found he used excessive force in a September incident
Officer Jennifer Korb was suspended without pay for 15 days for testing positive for drugs
Witnesses told them the beating happened “with no aggressive manner from the inmate”
The state Justice Department filed multiple charges against 41-year-old Kim Hoenisch on Friday, including felony drug possession and misconduct in office