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.
There is bi-partisan agreement that the BoP “needs significantly more funding” for staffing and addressing a $2 billion maintenance backlog
These offenders not only tarnish the reputation of honest officers but also the agencies they represent
Witnesses at trial testified that the CO repeatedly punched and kicked the inmate, who was on the ground and not resisting
Matthew Andrews faces up to six years in prison
Federal authorities have charged 14 more corrections officers with corruption
Official: “It was just a way of life inside the facility”
Allegedly forced inmates to fight one another for special privileges
Federal jury found dozens of Sheriff’s Department supervisors and deputies “engaged in malicious and sadistic conduct” against inmates at Men’s Central Jail in 2008
Deputy Celeste Wagoner, 40, confessed to bringing cigarettes into the Detention Center and giving them to inmates. She also admitted to possesing an inappropriate photo of an inmate
Michael Hart, 43, was charged on Wednesday with aggravated battery and official misconduct in connection with the incident
Twenty-six-year-old Kimberly Dennis of Baltimore entered the plea Tuesday in federal court
Agreement ends lawsuit Jordan Sand filed earlier this year over his treatment by former corrections Officer Marlon Taylor
The U.S. Department of Justice is declining to prosecute after a three-year investigation into allegations of possible criminal civil rights violations at Idaho’s largest private prison
HPD officers arrested Harris County employee Tawatha Lamark Wednesday on felony injury to a child charges that were filed Tuesday
Deputies extracted prisoners “with such extreme and excessive force that eight inmates had to be hospitalized”
Arii Metz could receive 41 to 51 months in prison for pleading guilty to entering the cell of David Kipp on Oct. 13, 2010, and punching him several times.
The officer was transferring his gun from one holster to another
Argument began over comments one CO believed another made about his girlfriend
The bizarre long-distance run of Andre Darnell Burgess began near Tallahassee
Jasmine Thornton pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge Thursday, following Jasmin Jones, who pleaded guilty to the same charge Tuesday
Charged with possessing a refrigerator, two generators, a Wacker tamper, a Stihl chain saw and scaffolding
Accused of extorting a work release inmate
Admin: “We don’t want one negative incident to define everybody here at the jail”
Accused jail officials of illegally accessing medical records after COs missed work
CO was walking inmate back to cell following a disturbance
Received explicit photos from a coworker for eight months
The Department of Correction arrested the four after their vehicle was searched at the prison
Inmates were allegedly forced to strip down and sit front to back for long periods
Katera Stevenson, 25, had child with BGF gang leader
Sentenced to 8 years behind bars
Deputy Garry Jackson, 52, of Rochester Hills did not speak, except for offering his address when asked, as he was arraigned on three counts of criminal sexual conduct
Video evidence shows prison rounds started later than indicated by the log
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