Women in Corrections
The Women in Corrections topic provides news, articles, and tactical tips to help female corrections staff. There was a time that a female CO was a rarity among the ranks, but today thousands of women serve, instruct, and lead in the profession.
The adult community CO becomes the youngest female to swim the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland
The California state prison system aims to increase the female workforce from 17% to 30% by expanding recruitment efforts
More than half of the employees at Coffee Creek feel it is “not a psychologically safe facility for staff,” the researchers wrote
The CO convinced a jury she was illegally discriminated against for being a Muslim while at her job at a low-security prison facility
The inmate waited for the CO to have her back turned to him when he ran directly at her and grabbed her throat
The teen attacked two COs, punching one man repeatedly and strangling a woman, police said
The woman, who helped transport prisoners, accused the state of dismissing reports of discriminatory behavior and ultimately forcing her to seek another job
The former CO said the DOC failed to address a hostile work environment after she accused another CO of sexually assaulting, stalking and harassing her
In addition to the payment to the 12 women, the sheriff’s office will be required to implement a series of specific changes at the jail to reduce sexual harassment
Making prisons more “normal and humane” will also create better work environments for correctional officers, the Bureau of Prisons director said
Former CO Asia Love attested in a 2019 affidavit that Jeroid Price, then an inmate at Lieber Correctional Institution, saved her co-worker’s life
The agreement will end the DOJ’s lawsuit which alleged the sheriff’s office allowed female COs at the Mobile Metro Jail to be exposed to sexual harassment from inmates
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Yesenia Sanchez vowed to reform Santa Rita Jail while inviting greater community input as the county’s new sheriff
Je’Leslie Taylor, 50, was doubted when she said she would be a warden one day, but she proved everyone wrong.
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