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 union stated that certain health officials should be fired because of jail-condition issues, negligence and for allegedly creating a hostile work environment
Only “a small group” of women were still being held at FCI Dublin, with the majority of its 605 inmates having been sent to other federal facilities
The CO is asking the court to reverse the board’s decision, removing the termination letter from his personnel file and giving him back pay
The incident escalated into a fight in which the CO and inmate ‘started swinging closed fist(s) at one another’
A medical examiner concluded that the inmate died of a heart condition
State records list him as a corrections officer I in 2014
The escapees’ biggest mistake was traveling north to Albuquerque instead of south to the Mexican border
The deputies, who are free on bail, could get life in prison if convicted
If you as a prison employee are involved in illegal activities with inmates you may be the cause of a fellow employee or an inmate being injured or killed
Human trafficking is not just limited to the streets, it can also happen behind a secured wall
The alleged fights were one of several setbacks suffered by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office
The measure aims to restructure penalties for drug possession
The inmate drove the van into a parked vehicle before slamming into the main gate
The sheriff declined to release the name of the suspended deputy
Inmates are worried about contaminants in the other mothers’ milk
Clearly the problems at Wash. DOC run deeper than just a failure to fix one computer problem
The former head stepped down two months before the erroneous early release of thousands of prisoners was made public
They have pleaded not guilty to murder and assault charges that could put them in prison for life
A judge sentenced him to six months in jail and about $5K in fines
The lawsuit seeking class action status represents six women on behalf of an estimated 2K women in state custody
At least two deaths have been tied to the early releases
Random tests actually had stopped several years ago when the prison budget started getting tight
Prosecutors allege that the officers cooked up a plan on how to explain inmate’s injuries
Of her first 29 months in jail, Hailey served about 27 alone in a 6-by-10-foot cell
He was caught selling heroin to undercover cops
A majority of those charged were Georgia DOC officers accused of agreeing to protect a drug trafficker
Justice of the Peace Rodney Burr gave authorities two weeks to move Wright to California
Cory Lee Henderson was held at the prison after being arrested Oct. 3, 2015, on drug and weapons charges
Under the previous policy, only inmates who came into the system already taking hormones could continue doing so
In the five months since Michael Tyree’s death, at least eight corrections officers have been removed from duty
A software coding error led to the early release of up to 3K prisoners since 2002
The county used contracted investigators to review the incident, and turned over their investigation to state police
Corrections officials sometimes will move an employee to a different facility or have them work from home
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