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 Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employees allegedly disguised the theft by replacing stolen cash with check disbursements from the Inmate Trust Fund bank account
Prosecutors allege that the inmate leveraged his influence to bring sex and drugs into the Durham County jail and used an illegal cellphone to arrange drug deals outside the facility
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Nine were accused of having part-time deputies work their shifts
Federal trial is set to begin for six Macon State Prison employees accused in an alleged conspiracy to violate inmates’ civil rights
The rule: if an inmate fights with a deputy, that inmate ends up in the hospital
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A 26-year-old corrections officer at a privately run state prison in Alamo was arrested earlier this month in an alleged phone scam that tried to dupe people in New Jersey into paying fictitious fines
The officers were placed on leave two weeks ago for allegations that they encouraged fights between inmates
Video shows Delia Daly-England slam woman to ground, drag her by hair
Accused of teaming up with law enforcement to search probationers’ homes without warrants
Busted on charges he ignored the cries of an inmate who swallowed poisonous cleaning supplies and later died
Former and current workers at Dade Correctional Institution allege that guards made “sport’’ out of brutalizing mentally-ill inmates
A correctional officer charged with having sex with an inmate also regularly communicated with inmates on social media
William Feaster was charged with gun possession and menacing after being denied entrance to the event
Dallas County’s probation officers did not follow court or department policies more than two out of three times when handling “technical violations” by probationers
He acknowledged in a January plea deal that he watched others assault inmate Kenneth Davis and then conspired to cover it up
The family of inmate Ronald Spear has decided to not press charges
A fired Hennepin County CO, a school’s cook and a man charged in a shooting that wounded an 8-year-old girl are among those indicted
County spokesperson declined to say if terminations were related to incident where employee brought gun into facility
Janet Weinstein, whose husband, Sheldon Weinstein, was beaten to death by other inmates in April 2009, filed a notice of intent to sue shortly after his death
The fugitive state corrections officer accused of shooting a man multiple times Wednesday night was caught at about 2:30 p.m. in Fort Worth
A corrections officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is currently wanted for the alleged shooting of his neighbor
A Suffolk County correction officer has been charged with collecting wages for hours he wasn’t working for more than 2 1/2 years
Charges raise questions about the screening process used to hire the 1,300 full-time and part-time civilian jailers
NC prison ousts 7 employees over inmate death
Police arrested the state corrections officer on Wednesday after he admitted that a game of horseplay led to sex with his teenage relative
Mitch Morrow, deputy director of the Oregon Corrections Department, will stay in his job while facing a new investigation into whether he abused his office to help his son
Seven employees at a Taylorsville prison have lost their jobs in an ongoing investigation into the death of a mentally ill inmate who had been held in solitary confinement
A correctional officer at a federal prison in southwest Missouri has been sentenced to six years without parole for hiring someone to kill his wife’s ex-husband
Rhode Island State Police has been asked to investigate allegations of potential criminal activity by key correctional officials
Fayette County jail employees who are under investigation for violations will no longer be placed on paid leave
The “real punishment” is that the man will no longer be able to serve as a corrections officer