Recent Corrections News

• N.M. county looks for 'casual' jail guards to address 'perennial understaffing'

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  The part-time hires would make the same starting hourly wage as regular MDC correctional officers — $20.34 per hour and $21.36 after probation — and qualify for a $2,500 hiring bonus

• Inmate charged in metal pole attack on Mass. CO

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  Roy Booth, 40, was charged with crimes including armed assault with intent to murder for the alleged attack on CO Matthew Tidman

• Layoffs possible at two Calif. state prisons as plan to close one moves forward

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  The state outlined a timetable in a memo Tues. for closing the California Correctional Center, which employed about 700 people and held about 2,300 prisoners as of June

• Program aims to address staff, inmate mental health in Idaho prisons

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  $500,000 pilot program is aimed at helping staff members and prison residents deal with trauma, burnout and stress

• Inmate charged with terroristic threats for threatening to blow up Pa. parole office

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  Timothy Koebert, 65, began to write letters in August to the Allentown District Parole Office threatening to kill people, babies and a police officer

• Alabama prisons reduce meals, nix visits amid inmate strike

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  “This is not a retaliatory measure but logistically necessary to ensure that other critical services are being provided,” the department said in a statement

• Police arrest convicted Vegas bombmaker who escaped prison

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  Porfirio Duarte-Herrera was convicted in 2010 of killing a hot dog stand vendor using a motion-activated bomb atop a car parked at the Luxor casino

• Trial begins for two N.M. COs in inmate's 2019 death

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  Defense argued the two performed as trained when confronted with a man who was "delusional, hallucinating, combative" and high on methamphetamine

• Minn. county talks hiring concerns as Sheriff's Office at 'critical' staffing level

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  County is only able to provide service for 22 out of 24 hours coverage in a day, and if the department loses another deputy, they may only be able to provide 20

• Move 7,000 mentally ill inmates from jail to treatment centers, say LA County Supervisors

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  The mentally ill make up about 50% of the entire inmate population of roughly 15,000 people in county jails

• Former N.C. CO pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 20-year-old trans inmate

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  Kyle Harris of Charlotte, N.C. pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of sexual activity by a custodian

• Senators push new oversight to combat federal prison crises

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  The Federal Prison Oversight Act would require the Justice Department to create a prisons ombudsman to field complaints about prison conditions

• NYC's Rikers more violent than jails, prisons elsewhere in US, Correction Department testifies

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  Testimony came during a City Council hearing on a bill to ban solitary confinement at Rikers Island

• Fulton County tries to bypass full jail overcrowding study

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  Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat is pushing back on the need to study the county’s jail population, the offenses for which detainees are booked, and the amount of time inmates are held

• DA: Death row inmate should get new trial over judge's bias

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  Randy Halprin, 45, was among the inmates who escaped from a Texas prison in Dec. 2000, committing numerous robberies and killing Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins

• 14 N.J. COs indicted on charges related to 2021 women's prison raid

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  The indictments are the latest development in a state criminal probe that resulted in significant fallout, including the departure of the state’s corrections commissioner

• Alabama prisoners refusing to work in 2nd day of protest

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  Prisoners including those who provide food, laundry and janitorial services refused to show up for work at major state prisons, leaving staff scrambling to keep the facilities running

• Oklahoma panel rejects clemency for man in baby's killing

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  Attorneys for Benjamin Cole, 57, who killed his 9-month-old daughter, Breanna, in 2002, argued that he is severely mentally ill

• Shortage of COs could force closure of Wash. corrections center

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  Geiger Corrections Center staff are being pulled into service at the Spokane County Jail, as the jail reaches pre-COVID numbers in 2022

• Lawsuit claims woman gave birth alone on MD jail floor

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  Suit alleges jail's contracted medical provider said she was withdrawing from drugs, not in labor, and some jail staffers and medical staff laughed at her

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