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.
Four officers were charged with second-degree murder and a fifth was charged with involuntary manslaughter; the COs were part of the Missouri DOC Emergency Response Team
The Saginaw County Jail officer was fired and later charged with assault and battery
While one CO was seated and writing a report at the Saginaw County Jail, his colleague drew her TASER and used it to deliver a drive-stun under the CO’s arm
Doctors were not yet finished treating Quasaun Smalls, whose father shot him in the torso after allegedly mistaking him for an intruder
Sandra V. Alvarez, 45, of St. Francis, was charged in April with three counts misconduct in office
Nazon Eo’Ne Johnson, 22, was sentenced to four years on probation during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court
Police say 17-year-old Quasaun Smalls was shot in the torso and was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital with non-life threatening injuries
Correctional officer who just transferred to the prison pleads no contest to single count of accepting a bribe
Lawyer for one inmate claims COs gave his client the novel as a joke or attempt to discredit him
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen sentenced former state district Judge Abel Limas, 59, on one count of racketeering in Brownsville, on the border with Mexico
When judge asked CO how long he had been drinking on job, he replied that it had been going on for a couple months
Marlon Taylor has been charged with depriving an unidentified inmate of the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment
Internal investigation found he used excessive force when he pepper-sprayed an inmate in the hand and face while inmate was strapped to chair
Jennifer Owens guilty of federal racketeering charge, could get 20-year term
Faces felony charges of unlawful restraint and criminal sexual abuse
Allegedly refused to take a blood alcohol test
Crescencio Marino Rivero was accused of abuses when he was a top prisons official in Villa Clara province
Edgar Singleton Jr., 61, has been charged with the murder of Montrell Moss, 23
Lucas County Sheriff John Tharp said he plans to accept the resignation of Michelle Vining, a 10-year department employee who was arrested July 20 when she arrived for work
Official: “If there’s abuse happening, we would have to prove it, and we just don’t have the resources and manpower to do investigations like that”
Jailers: She flashed ID for alone time with inmate
The CO is serving a 7-year sentence after pleading guilty to molestation of a juvenile
No evidence that the alleged crimes are connected to the officers’ work within the prisons
40 percent of COs have medical leave protection
William C. Howell is accused of causing serious physical injury that led to the death of Larry Trent July 9 by “striking and kicking” him
Sheriff: Staff made ‘critical errors’
Suit, filed by Amanda Hayes, names the jail, Administrator Mark Westrum, Lt. Richard Thompson and then-corrections officer Brian Bossie as defendants
Accused of giving Styrofoam impressions of a housing unit’s master key to one inmate, and outlines of a key to a back door to another inmate
Used embarrassing photos and correspondance to attain favorable treatment
Alleges he was wrongfully shot while unarmed and in bed
Deputy Richard Stotts was fired after the findings of an internal affairs investigation were sustained by an administrative review board
Juan A. Merritt has also been charged with criminal damage of property in the second degree
Inmates watch every move we make; they see our strengths, but they also see our weaknesses