The Management & Training Corporation operates two federal prisons and 20 more state/local prisons around America; previously, it has been censured by Arizona for its role in deadly prison riots; now, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center are suing the state of Mississippi over the violence, neglect, and rampant human rights abuses at Management … Read more
JOHNSTOWN – Former Fulton County Sheriff’s Department Corrections Officer Eric D. Sweet pleaded guilty to misdemeanor official misconduct as part of a plea arrangement instead of the felony he faced. Sweet, 47, of 347 W. State St. Ext., town of Johnstown, was offered a plea arrangement in City Court on March 13 and was given … Read more
A former inmate has filed suit against Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County over its prison facility’s “unending sexual harassment and sexual assault of female inmates,” claiming the “highest-ranking officials” were aware of the scope of the abuse. This is the third federal lawsuit and the fourth plaintiff in the county’s prison sexual-assault scandal, which has involved more … Read more
Atlanta, Georgia – Gregory McLeod, 44, of East Point, Georgia, and a former correctional officer and supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta (USP Atlanta), was sentenced today in federal court to one year and eight months in prison, followed by three years supervised release, for using excessive force against an inmate in 2016, and … Read more
Tennessee awarded a man $1 million after he spent nearly 32 years in prison for a crime that DNA evidence cleared him of. Lawrence McKinney, 61, was imprisoned in 1978 for rape and burglary before freed in 2009. The Tennessee Board of Claims granted him the compensation on Wednesday. Nashville Attorney David Raybin, who has … Read more
10/30/2014 Prisoner John Steckley looks like he might have been mouthing off as he walked out of the visitors’ room at Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, but he appeared to be posing no physical threat to the guard standing at the door. Even so, the corrections officer coldcocked Steckley in the face and then, along with … Read more
Apr.26.2016 A Georgia sheriff’s deputy was fired and arrested Monday after she restrained and pepper-sprayed an inmate who spit in her face, authorities said. Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Charlesetta Hawkins was charged with cruelty to an inmate after she was caught on video pepper spraying inmate Jonathan Mahone, the sheriff’s office said in a … Read more
Louisiana – An employee shakedown at Louisiana’s most famous prison has revealed guards having sex with inmates and smuggling drugs into the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. One guard even had an offender’s name tattooed on her arm and her name was tattooed on his, Louisiana Corrections Department officials said following their investigation. In all, … Read more
California – Sheriff’s homicide investigators and the county Medical Examiner’s Office are conducting separate investigations into the death Wednesday of a suspect at the Vista Detention Center. The Sheriff’s Department acknowledged the death hours after The San Diego Union-Tribune learned of the case and requested details. The incident is the latest in a string of … Read more
A Hennepin County corrections officer is under investigation after a female inmate at the Plymouth detention facility where the guard works called into a radio program over the weekend to accuse the guard of sexually assaulting her. A spokeswoman for the county said Tuesday that she could only confirm that there was an open investigation … Read more
PHOENIX — Maricopa County has tentatively agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death of a mentally ill man that alleges he was beaten and shot with a stun gun by law enforcement officers in an unprovoked attack at one of the jails run by then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The amount of the tentative settlement over … Read more
DUNMORE, Pa. — Seven prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing inmates in what the Pennsylvania attorney general said Thursday was an effort to stop a “persistent culture of abuse” that has plagued a scandal-ridden lockup for more than a decade. Current and former guards at Lackawanna County Prison in Scranton abused their positions … Read more