Recent Corrections News

• Ga. sheriff to provide 24/7 mental health services to inmates

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  Sheriff Craig Owens said his office will be the first in the state of Georgia to implement this service

• Alaska governor welcomes COs, cops fired due to vax mandates

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  "Alaska's law enforcement community invites you to consider the 49th state where we back the blue," Gov. Mike Dunleavy said

• Ohio county's one-day hiring event nets 126 CO job offers

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  An expedited application process combined with a new starting salary of $24 an hour may mean the county meets its hiring goal

• NYC COs suffer broken bones in assault by detainees on Bronx jail barge

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  A recently released city report shows that more than 1,200 COs have been assaulted this year

• Playing cards depicting victims of local cold cases removed from Ohio jail for 'security reasons'

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  The playing cards, designed to elicit new leads, are being used to compromise locking mechanisms, the sheriff said

• Calif. inmate gets more than a decade for plot to smuggle drugs inside pair of shoes

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  Investigators said they learned about the plan by listening to recorded jail calls

• New S.C. Juvenile Justice chief lays out major changes for troubled department

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  One of the most significant early changes involves moving administrative staff back "behind the fence"

• CO union pushes back after N.Y. prisons offer vax incentives for inmates

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  "The state is using valuable resources to bring taxpayer-funded Happy Meals into facilities," said NYSCOPBA President Michael B. Powers

• Something interesting showed up on body scan of Ala. inmate

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  “Yes, we have just as many questions as you do,” the sheriff’s department said in a Facebook post

• More than half of Oregon’s most serious juvenile offenders may seek parole, get out early under governor's commutation plan

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  “These are pretty extraordinary cases that include sexual assault, rapes, murder,” said District Attorney John Wentworth

• Attorney who represented George Floyd's family now seeking charges for officers involved in S.C. inmate's death

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  Jamal Sutherland died in January after deputies repeatedly used stun guns and kneeled on his back to restrain him

• NYC COs among city workers now required to get COVID vaccine

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  Rikers Island employees will be subject to the mandate on Dec. 1

• The "smooth shift": The dream of every correctional officer

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  Correctional officers want nothing more than a "smooth shift," which requires firm, fair and consistent inmate interaction

• Beyond detox: N.Y. county inmates to be offered medication-assisted treatment for drug addiction

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  The focus of the new program will be on the use of Sublocade, which is given as a monthly injection rather than in strips

• Video: Denver deputy fired for slamming handcuffed man into courthouse floor

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  "I feel that I handled it the exact way that I was taught to handle situations like this," the officer said; city officials disagreed

• 'We basically gave this guy a death sentence,' Ariz. sheriff says of inmate's COVID death

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  Sheriff Chris Nanos believes low staff vaccination is the primary driver of infection within the jail he oversees

• Hawaii inmates to receive $50 if they get COVID-19 vaccine

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  The department received $615K in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to pay for the program

• Feds launched emergency search for gun at NYC federal jail

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  A source confirmed that a firearm was discovered on the 6th floor of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn

• Judge denies Mass. correction officers union bid to stop state vaccine mandate

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  Gov. Charlie Baker's mandate went into effect Sunday

• Mental health professionals, not deputies, will soon respond to behavioral crises in Denver's jails

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  The Denver Sheriff Department hopes the new Crisis Response Team will minimize deputies' workloads and provide better service to people in the jail

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