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.
After being left unattended for nearly two hours, one inmate was able to break a window in the van and unlock the doors, allowing all seven to get out and call for help on an intercom
Prosecutors say Lt. Chad Lester ordered false reports and threatened fellow officers after the 2022 in-custody death of Southern Regional Jail inmate Quantez Burks
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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
No where does it say the cook and cook supervisor are essential
The sheriff’s department says it became aware of the release more than 24 hours later
Inmates Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac Duong, 43, escaped Central Men’s Jail on Jan. 22
States say the laws protect companies that fear retaliation for their association with the death penalty
Their need for strong tools to cut their way out had led to investigators believing they must have had help
The assault is the basis of a federal lawsuit filed today by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of the juvenile
The nine-member task force was created by Congress two years ago to recommend changes to the corrections system
The inmate was thrown into a steaming hot shower
That brings the total of staff resignations to five
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