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 sheriff said all Broome County Correctional Facility staff will undergo formal training on use of force, de-escalation and duty to intervene
The CO was working at Essex County Correctional Facility when he was charged in March of last year after getting caught in a sting operation
Three current and former Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies conspired with an inmate to bring hollowed-out pens filled with Suboxone strips into the jail, officials said
The cartoon depicts a jail official as a clown who gives ridiculous reasons for refusing to book a suspect brought in by a police officer
Richard Bradberry, 54, is suspected of abusing inmates
Inmates said they regularly played Truth or Dare when he was on duty
Two inmates, Alejandro Alvarado Rucz and Sergio Bustamante, will be formally charged with homicide
Officer at state prison has been arrested and accused of intimidating another officer at the alleged victim’s home
Cpl. Jerry Melbert is accused of pulling the zipper on a woman’s blouse and placing his finger in the woman’s cleavage
Surveillance video shows alleged mistreatment by Ottawa police
Prosecutors say Alfred Casas smuggled hacksaw blades in several tacos in exchange for two bottles of Xanax
A Hamilton County jailer was booked into the same lockup he normally guards after being accused of molesting a woman on a dance floor
When a Monroe prison official was killed in the facility’s chapel earlier this year, a co-worker assigned to monitor the area was actually working in a separate part of the complex
Mark Walker pleaded guilty to using his position to force one of the women to have sex with him
State determined getting fired was punishment enough
Correctional Officer Jerome Prusa and Heriberto Viramontes’ girlfriend Kira Lundgren were arrested minutes after the cannabis was taken into the facility
Officer allegedly spanked a female inmate there after inquiring if she was a “bad girl”
The Southern Center for Human Rights claims a group of prison officers punched, stomped on, kicked and knocked several of the men unconscious
The department in June 2005 established a policy to punish prison employees arrested on suspicion of drunken driving
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating the alleged incident between Jeremy Essary and a female inmate since June 28
Another 10 officials have also been arrested, including Ruben Jose Gonzalez Heredi, the deputy director of an adjacent prison
Belinda Stewart makes $102,000 a year as a director for the DOC
Under state law, it is a felony for a corrections officer to have sex with an inmate
A senior prison officer demanded that a frightened inmate perform a sex act with him, telling her “it’s an order’’, a court has heard
Officials say nurse was taking drugs from prison hospitals
The CIA’s inspector general has reopened its investigation into a botched 2003 operation in which a vacationing German citizen was snatched and sent to a secret prison
Because federal prosecutors allege two of the incidents involved aggravated circumstances, he faces up to life in prison if convicted
Officer was alleged to have touched an inmate’s breast and let her out of a cell to perform oral sex on him
As a result of the FBI probe, more than 30 people have had their convictions overturned or were released from prison based on false arrests
A federal appeals court ruled that a woman’s intimate search of a male inmate - which was filmed and watched by dozens - was unreasonable, but the court refused to take the case
Clifford Arlen Matherly, 35, was arrested at a gas station in Chewelah, Wash., on Monday, according to the FBI.
In court paperwork, Janice Emery claims that her supervisor made lewd comment and requests for sexual favors to her
A deputy was accused of being part of a human trafficking ring that smuggled illegal immigrants from Arizona to California