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.
The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employees allegedly disguised the theft by replacing stolen cash with check disbursements from the Inmate Trust Fund bank account
Prosecutors allege that the inmate leveraged his influence to bring sex and drugs into the Durham County jail and used an illegal cellphone to arrange drug deals outside the facility
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Prosecutors were accused of hiding a deal with the detainee, who alleged the Cook County corrections officer used excessive force during a jail altercation
A total of eight Walker County Jail employees have entered plea agreements related to the death of Tony Mitchell
The Southern Regional Jail COs admitted each face up to 30 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 after pleading guilty to a federal civil rights violation
The CO and inmate threw fluids at five Cuyahoga County corrections officers and supervisors, including the jail’s warden
Faith Rose Gratz and an inmate ran a drug operation at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater for three months in 2022 while in a romantic relationship, prosecutors said
The CO allegedly smuggled contraband into San Quentin and Vacaville prisons, placed it in various areas and “pretended to discover said contraband,” the indictment said
The CO admitted conspiring with other officers to assault the inmate as retaliation at the Southern Regional Jail, according to court documents
Federal prosecutors said the CO stood by during two separate attacks on men incarcerated at Bayside State Prison in December 2019
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Five senior COs and one sergeant are accused of filing false reports regarding an incident that took place in April 2020 at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility
CDCR should have dismissed, not demoted, a high-ranking administrator over his misconduct, the Office of the Inspector General stated
An inmate at the Virginia Beach jail died from “positional and mechanical asphyxia due to restraint with neck and torso compression,” according to the medical examiner
The former COs, who all worked at Riverbend Correctional Facility, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison to be followed by five years on probation
The coroner ruled Anthony Mitchell’s death a homicide, citing hypothermia and sepsis “resulting from infected injuries obtained during incarceration and medical neglect”
One of the COs observed that Tony Mitchell’s condition “would ultimately result in serious harm or even death” without medical intervention, according to her plea deal
The CO was inside the Saginaw County Jail control tower when she walked behind a co-worker and used her TASER to deliver a drive-stun under the CO’s arm
Conditions of confinement in Georgia’s prisons violate the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, the DOJ said
About two minutes into the pursuit, the CO fired three rounds, wounding a passenger in the BMW, federal prosecutors said
The plea deal revealed the former Walker County CO “admitted that ‘collectively we did it. We killed him,” following an inmate’s death from hypothermia
The ex-Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office deputy admitted that he smuggled drugs and a phone into an inmate, including fentanyl and cocaine, for distribution among other inmates
Three bags of “crystal like substance” were discovered in the Staton Correctional Facility CO’s vehicle after an officer and K-9 conducted a sniff search in the facility’s parking lot
The DeSoto County jail employee was charged with conveying articles useful for the escape of a prisoner, the Mississippi DOC said
The Westmoreland County warden said the preliminary report wrongly claimed the inmate stuffed paper into the lock, misleading COs to think the door was secure
The incident occurred when the officer tried to force the allegedly intoxicated arrestee to stand still for an X-Ray photo; the officer has been sentenced to 4 years in prison
The two former Southern Regional Jail employees pleaded guilty to violating the inmate’s civil rights by not protecting him from being physically assaulted by other COs
The sheriff said all Broome County Correctional Facility staff will undergo formal training on use of force, de-escalation and duty to intervene
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