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.
The CO is accused of recording about 2,000 bogus hours — both overtime and regular pay hours — on time sheets between July and December 2023
While wiretapping to detect drone drops, investigators overheard conversations indicating that COs were aiding a Valdosta State Prison inmate in moving drugs and more
The union stated that certain health officials should be fired because of jail-condition issues, negligence and for allegedly creating a hostile work environment
Prior court testimony and records show Eric Cureton obtained a check from the fund, scanned it into a laptop rented by a cohort and used software to create counterfeit copies
Authorities say 43-year-old Molly Gross sexually assaulted the victims at the Indiana County Jail
Jim Hammond said the department’s excessive force policy may be revisited after two corrections deputies did not follow procedure with an intoxicated inmate
Officer was sentenced to 30 months probation
Joe Kirby confessed after his June arrest, saying that he had been receiving $150 for every cellphone he smuggled into prison
Some deputies were allowed to remain working in the county’s lockups after being convicted of crimes or found guilty of serious misconduct
Molly Gross is being held in the jail she once guarded, according to police
Jacob Olson admitted to officers that he was a regular heroin user
Jayme Biendl was killed in the chapel of the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe
Suspects are accused of involvement in a ring that was trying to traffic automatic rifles, handguns, stolen cigarettes and slot machines
William Grady Sims, who’s the mayor of Walnut Grove and the former warden of Walnut Grove Transition Center, was indicted on two federal charges last week
Robert Alioto, a warehouse supervisor who was not a sworn correctional officer, was arrested at San Quentin
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Majority of detention officers are hardworking
Offender was jailed in 2009 for involuntary manslaughter
Offender got mixed in with a group of inmates who were to be released and was set freed with them
Sgt. Thomas Messina said he often felt his authority was being undermined
Mark Jordan sued the state last year after he was suspended without pay following the March 2010 fight
Brian James Brown was arrested for the fraudulent possession of a financial transaction card and the misuse of public funds for personal use
The inmate said she had sexual contact with one of the deputies while the other deputy was nearby
A federal grand jury is investigating abuse-of-power allegations against him
Miguel Angel Rosario, 44, was arrested Friday and police found more than a half an ounce of cocaine in his apartment
Deputies allegedly carved racist initials into one inmate’s head and broke the jaw of another inmate
In addition to being fired, the author of those posts, Scott Thompson, was subsequently convicted of criminal harassment
Civil suit in prison rapes faces delays
Director: “Here at the detention center and as far as breaking the law, we have a zero-tolerance policy”
A sheriff’s rookie who graduated at the top of his recruit class resigned after only a few weeks on the job, alleging that a supervisor made him beat up a mentally ill jail inmate
A letter written by Knox gives details of the manipulation and sexual intimidation she says she endured while in prison
A Bay Area federal CO who said she was harassed and repeatedly assaulted by a male co-worker after breaking up with him sued the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, alleging that it ignored her many pleas for protection
The unidentified inmate says suspended guard Harry Nicoletti of Coraopolis was the ringleader of a group that targeted inmates who are homosexual or transgender,