A former supervisor at the Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Casper will serve six months in jail followed five years of probation after admitting that he groped a female inmate while he was working. District Judge Thomas Sullins sentenced John R. Gallagher Friday morning in Natrona County District Court. Gallagher pleaded guilty in August to … Read more
GOOCHLAND, VA. – Victoria Addison was sifting through boxes of her biological mother’s belongings from prison when she came across the handwritten pleas for help. “I still can’t keep anything down and my throat is still hurting me,” Jennifer Addison, 44, wrote March 6 on an emergency grievance form inside the Virginia Correctional Center for … Read more
CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County has agreed to pay nearly $180,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by four former juvenile detention inmates who claimed guards forced them to fight for their own entertainment. The suit claims the fights, referred to as “Fight Nights,” were a long standing tradition inside the detention center. At least one of … Read more
CANON CITY, Colo. – A 25-year-old former Fremont County corrections officer who admittedly fell in love with an inmate and smuggled drugs into the jail facility multiple times will spend less than two full months in jail for her crimes. Sarah Nicole James was caught bringing meth and opiates into the Fremont Correctional Facility in … Read more
Michigan – Over and over again, the man protested: “You got the wrong guy.” But the police didn’t listen. They arrested him at work in front of his colleagues, hauled him off to jail and held him for 15 days believing he was someone else: a fugitive wanted for attempted murder. Six years later, the … Read more
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A pardon is not enough. In a letter to President Trump, disgraced former Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold wants not only a pardon, he also asks for prison reform. He says it’s a prison reform that he says will save taxpayers millions and, conveniently, would also lead to his release. Arnold already … Read more
A Brooklyn man who spent the last 24 years behind bars walked free Friday after a judge tossed out the indictment that put him there. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Sharen Hudson ordered Shawn Williams’ case dismissed, and his immediate release, after prosecutors joined a defense motion asking the jurist to set aside Williams’ conviction and … Read more
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A former CoreCivic correctional officer was arrested for allegedly pepper spraying an inmate at the Metro Detention Center. According to the police affidavit, Oluwatobi M. Ola pulled the inmate, James R. Nelson, from bed in the middle of the night and started an argument with him in the sally port. A video … Read more
Guards at California prisons violated policy in nearly half the instances they used force on inmates during a six-month period in 2017, state investigators have concluded. In a 47-page report released this week, the California Office of Inspector General said prison staff failed to follow the rules in 48 percent of the 3,709 incidents reported … Read more
A lawsuit filed by a man who spent 25 years in prison for a 1992 murder he didn’t commit claims a pair of former Detroit police detectives fabricated evidence in order to get a conviction. Desmond Ricks, 52, who was released from prison last year after Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy dropped the charges, has … Read more
New Jersey’s Bloomfield Township has agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a wrongly convicted Black man whose violent arrest by officers was caught on police dashcam. Marcus Jeter reached an agreement with the township Wednesday, July 4, agreeing to drop his suit in exchange for the $1.6 … Read more
COLLEYVILLE, Texas – As Karen Lucchesi looked through a box filled with photos of a difficult time in her life, it became clear that pictures aren’t necessary to jog her memory. The simple bunk beds and stark white sheets she lived in for more than five years are things she will never forget. “I remember … Read more