Alabama: Former state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Henry Guice, Jr., 46, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on September 9, 2024, for his role in a drug smuggling conspiracy at Staton Correctional Facility. The Birmingham News reported that a fellow guard was inspecting the prison parking lot in June 2023 when a K-­9 dog alerted to Guice’s vehicle, where 145.8 grams of methamphetamine were found. Guice was arrested and resigned before pleading guilty in May 2024 to possession with intent to distribute the drugs. Prisoner Brad Elliott Gordon, 48, was also charged in the conspiracy. He is serving a life sentence for hitching a ride in 2004 with Kathy Dick, then 40, and raping her, the Randolph Leader said. Gordon’s trial on charges related to the smuggling is currently set for February 2025.

Alabama: After waiting almost two years for trial, Limestone County Jail detainee Nathan Harville allegedly attacked an unnamed guard on September 14, 2024. Quad Cities Daily News reported that the guard was performing a cell check when Harville pushed him into an open cell, punching him and choking him with the cord to the guard’s portable radio. The guard managed to hold onto the device and used it to radio for help. He was cut in the face, requiring 10 stitches. Harville had been awaiting trial on drug charges for 670 days, during which he picked up nine additional charges, including escape, assault and possession of contraband weapons.

Arizona: Pima County Jail guard Ayden Escarrega, 20, was arrested on September 4, 2024, when he was accused of punching an unnamed detainee several times as he was being booked into the lockup the previous weekend. The Tucson Sentinel reported that Escarrega was placed on administrative leave and booked into the jail, where he had worked for 19 months. He was then released on his own recognizance to await trial for aggravated assault. No information about the detainee’s injuries was provided by Sheriff Chris Nanos.

California: An unnamed state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) guard was stabbed multiple times in the head at Pelican Bay State Prison on August 24, 2024, the Turlock Journal reported. Prisoner Devanae Price, 33, was being escorted to his restricted housing unit cell when he slipped from his handcuffs and assaulted the guard with an “inmate-­manufactured weapon.” Other guards intervened and disarmed him. The injured guard was treated at a hospital and released. Del Norte County prosecutors were considering charges for Price, who is serving a life term for the November 2017 second-­degree murder of Falane Jones, 37, in Turlock, plus another 100 months added for offenses committed in prison.

California: Santa Ana City Jail guard Esteban Gonzalez, 39, was charged on September 25, 2024, with falsifying jail logs to cover up missed cell checks before detainee Darryle Marcell Samuel, Sr., 28, fatally hanged himself in June 2021. The community blog New Santa Ana reported that Samuel had been held about a month on suspicion of armed robbery. He told staff with NaphCare, the jail’s contracted medical provider, that he was bipolar and schizophrenic, and that he suffered PTSD and depression; he also admitted a prior suicide attempt but denied feeling suicidal. The day that he died he placed four calls to his pregnant girlfriend, threatening suicide because he feared that her baby was another man’s. A fellow detainee returning from lunch then found Samuel hanging from a bedsheet in his cell. While staff attempted lifesaving measures, surveillance video captured Gonzalez as he altered electronic logs; those then showed he had completed required cell checks, but the same video proved none was ever performed. Ironically, the jail’s website claims it is a “beacon of progress” in criminal justice reform.

Connecticut: On August 14, 2024, former New Haven Correctional Center guard Nicholas Kosa, 29, was sentenced to three years in state prison, followed by three years of probation, after pleading guilty to smuggling drugs in June 2024. Tipped-­off investigators searched his duffel bag in August 2023 and found 3.7 grams of cocaine and 31 Suboxone strips hidden in a blue latex glove, the Darien Times reported. Kosa admitted that the contraband was intended for an unnamed detainee but insisted he was smuggling it for free. WTNH in New Haven added that Kosa had worked at the lockup just six months before the incident. Details of his subsequent separation from the state DOC were not provided.

Ecuador: Intercepting her car on the way to a hospital on September 12, 2024, armed gunman assassinated María Daniela Icaza, director of the Penitenciaría del Litoral, the country’s largest prison, Voz Media reported. An unnamed prison guard was also killed. It was the second slaying of a high-­ranking prison official in as many weeks; a Sucumbios prison director, Alex Guevera, was killed when his car was attacked by armed gunmen on September 3, 2024, Barron’s reported. Two unnamed guards were also wounded in that attack. As PLN reported, Pres. Daniel Noboa declared the country in “armed internal conflict” in January 2024, when prison gangs took 178 staffers hostage at seven prisons. [See: PLN, Mar. 2024, p.62.] The crew of a popular TV show was also taken hostage on-­air. The violence was touched off by the December 2023 indictment of 30 judges, prosecutors, cops, prison guards and defense attorneys, who were accused of abetting 22 prison-­based gangs running drugs through the port of Guayaquil. Business has burgeoned there since smuggling routes through neighboring Colombia fell under greater scrutiny when the government’s five-­decade conflict with rebels ended in a 2017 peace deal.

Georgia: By September 18, 2024, three state prisoners had been murdered in as many weeks in a central Georgia lockup. That’s when Eric Whitehead, 29, was killed in a fight with a fellow prisoner at Telfair State Prison, WMAZ in Macon reported. Another fight at Telfair claimed the life of prisoner Henry Crump on September 2, 2024. A third fight at Macon State Prison killed prisoner Keith Green, 44, on August 31, 2024. None of the killers were named. UPI News said that Whitehead had served 12 years of a life term for murder that he received in 2011, two years after the then-­14-­year-­old woke from a dreamed argument with stepsister Patricia Troglen, 22, and fatally shot her. Crump and Green were also serving life sentences for murder. No information was available about Crump’s sentence, but WTOC in Savannah said that Green was sentenced in 2023 for fatally stabbing the mother of his children in 2019. That was five years after he attacked her while paroled from a manslaughter sentence that he’d received for fatally shooting a 17-­year-­old Jenkins High School student in 1996.

Indiana: On September 26, 2024, a state prisoner serving time for dousing her dad with gasoline and lighting him afire was charged with throwing heated shaving cream in a guard’s face. WTHR in Indianapolis said that the incident unfolded in June 2024, when the unnamed Indiana Women’s Prison guard saw prisoner Nina Holbrook, 43, using a microwave to heat something. She then threw it in his face and burned him, but he managed to restrain her. Voices told her to hurt him, she later said, also claiming that she didn’t remember doing it. Holbrook was charged with battery of a public official and resisting arrest. She is serving time for burning her father to death in 2011 at their shared Milton home. After lengthy treatment for competency restoration, she pleaded guilty in 2015 and was sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Indiana: Delaware County Jail guard Angela Nedra Dildy, 41, was arrested on August 5, 2024, after she admitted taking an unspecified payoff to smuggle THC edibles and a cellphone to jail detainees. Neither the detainees nor the outside accomplices who paid the bribe were named in the report by the Muncie Star Press. Dildy was released after posting a $15,000 bond. She was put on administrative leave by the office of Sheriff Tony Skinner.

Kentucky: Former BOP guard Jacob Salcido, 40, entered a plea agreement on September 13, 2024, in which he admitted to having sex with three prisoners at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Lexington between September and December 2020, the Lexington Herald reported. Salcido resigned in July 2024. At sentencing set for December 2024, he will head to federal prison for 100 months, according to the agreement. Two victims have filed suits against the government, which were stayed pending resolution of Salcido’s criminal charges. PLN will update developments as they are available. Victim Andrea Rudd, 45, is represented by attorneys with Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in Louisville and Lexington, as well as Busch Mills & Slomka LLP in Milton, Ga. See: Rudd v. United States, USDC (E.D. Ky.), Case No. 5:22-­cv-­00201. A second plaintiff identified as “C.J.” is represented by attorneys with David Bryant Law in Louisville and four West Virginia firms: Calwell Luce diTrapano and Forbes Law Offices, PLLC in Charleston; and John & Werner Law Offices, PLLC and McCamic Law Firm, PLLC, in Wheeling, W.Va. See: C.J. v. United States, USDC (E.D. Ky.), Case No. 5:23-­cv-­00039.

Louisiana: Tangipahoa Parish Jail guard Tajah Phillips, 21, was fired and arrested on August 27, 2024, for allegedly smuggling unspecified contraband to unnamed detainees. WAFB in Baton Rouge said that the office of Sheriff Gerald Stickler conducted an investigation to confirm the allegations, after “multiple” tips from “members of the public.” Phillips had worked at the jail only since June 2024; she was charged with introducing contraband in a correctional facility and malfeasance in office.

Massachusetts: Former state DOC guard Joao Gomes, 49, was indicted in state court on September 4, 2024, on charges of raping an unidentified prisoner at Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Framingham, WBTS in Boston reported. In addition to four counts of rape and three counts of indecent assault, Gomes faces three counts of delivering articles to prisoners—because he allegedly plied intended victims with gifts of underwear. WHDH in Boston said that he no longer works for DOC, but details of his separation were not provided.

Massachusetts: Norfolk County Correctional Center guard Jean Guirand, 40, was charged on August 23, 2024, with conspiring to smuggle 238 Suboxone strips into the lockup, WBTS in Boston reported. County Sheriff Patrick McDermott valued the drugs at $47,600. Guirand was hired in April 2024 and placed on leave after his arrest. Detainee Dante Clark, 25, was accused of setting up a drop in the jail parking lot in July 2024, where surveillance cameras captured Guirand taking the drugs in a Wendy’s bag from non-­incarcerated co-­conspirator Amaya Rogers, 27, the Boston Herald said; Avalina Faustin, 20, who was supposed to make the drop but sidelined with car trouble, was charged in the scheme, too. Detainee Cornel Bell, 29, was also charged, after tipped-­off investigators found the drugs hidden in his cell as well as Clark’s. Surveillance video also showed the guard entering the jail with the bag—which was not inspected, in violation of policy—and hiding it between trash bags; he later admitted leaving it for the detainees to retrieve. Bell and Clark were among seven men accused of the August 2022 murder of Jordan Wiggins, 32, outside his Quincy apartment, Boston’s WCVB reported.

Michigan: Former Eaton County Jail guard Ethan Eversman, 24, was charged in federal court on August 28, 2024, with sexual exploitation of a minor, WILX in Lansing reported. He was fired in June 2024 when FBI agents showed up at the jail and found sexually explicit images of a teenage girl on his phone. Eversman had allegedly spent much of the preceding three years grooming her to send the photos and videos, which he also shared online. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in federal prison. Related state charges against him were dismissed.

Michigan: WDIV in Detroit reported that former BOP guard Cara Wozniak, 33, pleaded guilty on September 12, 2024, to having sex with an unnamed prisoner, smuggling him tobacco, and buying him a gold necklace to wear at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Milan. As PLN reported, Wozniak was charged in May 2024 with committing a sex act with a ward and providing contraband in prison for allegedly having sex with the prisoner in September 2023 and smuggling him contraband between April and November that same year. [See: PLN, Aug. 2024, p.64.] It was unclear when her BOP employment ended. Sentencing is set for February 2025.

Minnesota: State DOC guard Lindsey Melissa Adams, 43, was charged on September 10, 2024, with conspiring to smuggle drugs into Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault, Rice County Attorney Brian Mortenson said. Surveillance video captured Adams passing something to an unnamed prisoner when he came to the prison gym for a pass to get a haircut. Investigators then found she had pills and a rock of meth, which she admitted taking from an unnamed co-­conspirator whom she met in a grocery store. His text and voice messages about the scheme were also allegedly found on her phone. CBS News said that her DOC employment had ended, though when and how were not reported.

Mississippi: DeSoto County Jail guard Ronnie Hunt, 32, was arrested on August 28, 2024, for allegedly abetting the escape of detainee Joshua Zimmerman. Jail surveillance video showed that Zimmerman walked out of the lockup on June 14, 2024, dressed in street clothes, not his jail-­issued jumpsuit, AP News reported. “The notion that he had help, that’s false,” Sheriff Thomas E. Tuggle II insisted at the time. “The notion that he had an extra set of clothes, that’s false. This is a career criminal. He knew what he was doing.” But Tuggle had to eat those words when state cops concluded their investigation and charged Hunt with “conveying articles useful for the escape of a prisoner.” Zimmerman was eventually recaptured after a 15-­hour standoff with Chicago cops at a restaurant where he was working, blocks from the site where delegates to the Democratic National Convention were nominating Kamala Harris for President. At the time of his escape, Zimmerman was awaiting extradition to Houston for the fatal shooting of Keyanna Mercer at a motel in September 2023. Before that he jumped a $200,000 appearance bond in Connecticut, which was granted after a 2022 arrest for felony sexual assault. He remains in custody of U.S. Marshals. Sheriff Tuggle fired Hunt after charges against him were filed.

Nigeria: After weeks of rain and heavy flooding caused walls to collapse at lockups in Borno state on September 15, 2024, officials with the national Correctional Service (NCS) raced to evacuate prisoners—281 of whom escaped in the process, CNN reported. NCS spokesman Abubakar Umar said that seven prisoners were recaptured that same day. He added that NCS had biometric data on the rest, whose identities were being publicized. Among the damaged buildings were the Medium Security Custodial Center Maiduguri and NCS staff quarters.

North Carolina: Durham County Detention Center guard Sgt. Jade Shanicia Lanique Robertson, 27, was fired by Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead on September 9, 2024, for allegedly having sex with an unnamed jail detainee in August 2023. The Raleigh News & Observer reported that Robertson had worked at the jail since October 2019 and had received 11 pay raises in that time. She was charged with sex activity by a person having custody of a victim in a governmental institution. The former guard remained free on an unsecured $25,000 bond. Within days of Robertson’s firing, a second unnamed jail contract employee was accused of having sexual activity with someone in custody and charged on September 12, 2024.

Ohio: For attacking a Stark County Jail guard while awaiting trial there earlier in the year, Prince Toussant R. Trammell, 25, was convicted of attempted aggravated murder and sentenced to 12-­to-­15 years in state prison on September 4, 2024, the Canton Repository said. At the time of the February 2024 assault, Trammell was being held for blockading an unnamed woman in her bedroom and preventing her from calling 911. In the jail assault, he then sucker-­punched the guard, who fought back and subdued him, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, May 2024, p.61.] For that he pleaded guilty to disrupting public services; he also pleaded guilty to unlawful restraint for the earlier incident in the woman’s home. Both convictions were included in his sentence.

Oregon: Josue Perez, 33, a former guard at Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facilities (NORCOR), was sentenced to 60 days in jail on September 6, 2024, after pleading guilty to Class C Felony Custodial Sexual Misconduct for having sex with an unnamed detainee, Columbia Community Connection reported. Perez got credit for time served in the Umatilla County Jail, where he was held after his February 2024 arrest. That followed a five-­and-­a-­half-­month investigation into the August 2023 assault. As part of his plea agreement, Perez gave up a DNA sample and his right to own a gun. He also agreed to 36 months of supervised probation and 80 hours of community service, in addition to paying the victim a $1,000 compensatory fine. In addition, the disgraced former guard promised to leave the state.

Pennsylvania: On August 23, 2024, a suspected outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease had infected at least one prisoner at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Phoenix, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. DOC Spokesperson Maria Bivens said that the prison water system was cleaned with a high-­temperature flush, followed by additional testing and “proactive remediation.” Montgomery County Spokesperson Megan Alt said that the county Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health was notified.

Pennsylvania: Former Erie County Prison guard Mark A. Lindsay, 44, appeared in state court on September 9, 2024, to face second-­degree misdemeanor counts of official oppression and simple assault plus another count of harassment for allegedly reaching through a cell door food tray slot to punch Habib Ali Sharif, 28—while the detainee was shackled. The Erie Times-News reported that Sharif had been restrained in a “containment cage” for two weeks after smashing a pulse oximeter and spitting on an unnamed jail nurse on June 11, 2024. Lindsay then allegedly turned off his body-­worn camera and punched the detainee on June 25, 2024. The guard, a 12-­year veteran of the jail, was criminally charged and fired the following month. The charges that originally landed Sharif in jail were not detailed. Lindsay was freed on an unspecified bond.

Pennsylvania: The Delaware County Times reported that former George W. Hill Correctional Facility guards Adham Diab, 44, and Lina Tarrad, his 35-­year-­old wife, pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the lockup and were sentenced to two years of probation—Diab on September 17, 2024, and Tarrad the month before. The drugs were for their own use; at their January 2024 arrest, they claimed their requests for drug abuse treatment had been stonewalled, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Mar. 2024, p.62.] Both agreed to undergo substance abuse counseling in their August 2024 plea deals. Another jail guard, Jazzmaine Lancit, was arrested on smuggling charges in August 2024, as PLN also reported. [See: PLN, Oct. 2024, p.62.] Also in September 2024, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, prisoner Harvey Weaver, 59, and his wife, Michelle Morse, 61, were charged with another drug smuggling attempt. Morse allegedly hid narcotics amid divorce paperwork and photos of their grandkids before giving it to Weaver’s attorney, John Baldini; he then unwittingly muled it into the jail, where guards discovered it. Weaver was serving a 23-­month sentence for an August 2022 burglary, plus a weapons conviction added while awaiting trial. Morse was freed on $200,000 unsecured bail.

Portugal: Five prisoners escaped Vale de Judeus prison outside Lisbon on September 7, 2024, BBC News reported. The national prison service said that they had “external help” in getting a ladder “to scale the wall and access the outside.” But Frederico Morais, head of the guard’s union, said that short staffing left surveillance towers unmanned at the high-­security lockup. Three of the prisoners were foreign nationals. Rodolfo Lohrmann, 61, of Argentina, Shergili Farjiani, 42, of Georgia, and Mark Roscaleer, 37, of the U.K. were serving sentences for theft, robbery and kidnapping. So were Portuguese escapees Fabio Loureiro, 34, and Fernando Ferreira, 63, whose 25-­year terms included drug trafficking and criminal association convictions.

South Carolina: Former state DOC guard Arieyelle Shiquise Coulette, 25, was arrested and charged with misconduct in office on September 9, 2024, for allegedly exchanging money with unnamed Turbeville Correctional Institution prisoners. The State in Columbia reported that investigators found she received $22,879 from prisoners via Cash App between August 23 and September 27, 2021, sending them $6,790, as well. She resigned in November 2023. She was booked in the Clarendon County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond.

South Carolina: On September 19, 2024, state Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents arrested Kershaw County Detention Center guard Kionté Willis Hayes, 24, on charges that he had sex with an unnamed detainee. The September 2022 incident was captured on surveillance video and corroborated by the victim and witnesses, The State in Columbia reported. Hayes’ employment status was unclear, and Sheriff Lee Boan made no public comment. Hayes is now behind bars in the same jail he previously guarded, SLED said.

Switzerland: Former Guatemalan Police Chief Erwin Sperison, 54, who holds dual Guatemalan and Swiss citizenship, was convicted by a court in Geneva on September 12, 2024, of killing seven prisoners during an uprising at Pavon prison, along with three more prisoners who had escaped a different Guatemalan lockup. The Swiss Broadcasting Corp. said the crimes predated 2007, when Sperison fled to Switzerland. His first two murder convictions were overturned, as was a third accessory-­to-­murder conviction. He was sentenced this time to 14 years, but he has spent over 11 years in prison already. He has also vowed another appeal.

Tennessee: Former Davidson County Detention Center (DCDC) guard Charles Kelley, 23, was among three people indicted on September 5, 2024, in connection with the fatal September 2023 fentanyl overdose of detainee Daniel Prisco, 18, the Nashville Tennessean reported. Kelley, who had moved on to work at the Rutherford County jail when arrested, was charged with conspiracy to commit second-­degree murder and fentanyl delivery. State prisoner and former DCDC detainee Matthew Calhoun, 27, was also charged, along with jail detainees William Sigsby, 28, and Joshua Young, 38. A July 2024 indictment also charged detainee Emmanuel Webb, 30, and an alleged non-­incarcerated co-­conspirator Devin Popejoy, 28. The dead teen’s grandmother, Mary Prisco, filed suit in September 2024, alleging staff smuggled the fatal drug dose into the lockup and failed to protect detainees. Her Madison attorney, Christopher Pianto, called out lax security and “operational failure” at the jail. PLN will update developments as they are available. See: Prisco v. Metro Gov’t, Tenn. Cir. (Davidson Cty.), Case No. 24C2151.

Texas: Former BOP guard Justin Matthew Gonzalez, 26, pleaded guilty on August 27, 2024, to accepting $1,600 in bribes to smuggle cigarettes to prisoners at FCI-­Three Rivers. KRIS in Corpus Christi reported that Gonzalez was found with 16 packs of smokes when he reported for work in February 2021. Details of his separation from BOP were not provided. When sentenced in November 2024, the former guard faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000. See: United States v. Gonzalez, USDC (S.D. Tex.), Case No. 2:24-­cr-­00130.

Texas: Jefferson County Correctional Facility guard Aliea Michelle Hemphill, 24, was indicted on August 28, 2024, for allegedly smuggling paper sprayed with “K2” synthetic cannabinoids to an unnamed detainee. KBMT in Beaumont reported that the guard was caught with the contraband when reporting for work on December 8, 2023, by fellow guards who had intercepted her communication with the detainee. Hemphill was freed on a $20,000 bond, according to Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens. Her current employment status was unclear.

Texas: Seven BOP prisoners at FCI-­Seagoville were charged with smuggling contraband on September 23, 2024. Irving Weekly reported that prisoners Isaac Martinez and Abdullah El Hage were charged with possessing methamphetamine. So was Matthew Rodriguez, who was also charged with possessing a cellphone. Nicholas Evans, Hugo Castaneda and Deaunte Lakeith Johunkin were charged with possession with attempt to distribute meth, Suboxone and “K2” synthetic cannabinoids. A seventh prisoner, Richard King, was charged with possessing not drugs but sexually explicit photos of young girls. Two other BOP prisoners at FMC-­Fort Worth were convicted of smuggling after guards found a drone-­dropped mesh bag of cellphones and marijuana. For that, Reza Ayari was given an additional 50 months on April 25, 2024, and Joseph Mora got an extra 58 months on June 7, 2024. Both prisoners were also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment and serve three years of supervised release. See: United States v. Mora, USDC (N.D. Tex.), Case No. 4:24-­cr-­00008.

Virginia: Former state DOC guard Kenneth Owen, 24, pleaded guilty on September 12, 2024, to muling drugs to a Buckingham Correctional Center prisoner in December 2019 and January 2020, WRIC in Richmond reported. Co-­conspirator Sathtra Em was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for mailing him MDMA and Suboxone, along with a $1,600 bribe to deliver them to prisoner Michael Mao, who pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing in November 2024. As PLN reported, a fourth co-­conspirator, Samantha Yut, was sentenced to 15 years in October 2023, after pleading guilty to using Em’s mortgage payments on their shared house in Lowell, Massachusetts, to launder drug proceeds from the One Family Clique crime ring that Yut ran there. [See: PLN, Oct. 2024, p.62.]

Virginia: Robert Theodore Sanford, Jr., a former guard at Fairfax County’s Adult Detention Center (ADC), was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison on September 18, 2024, for smuggling drugs to a detainee and tipping him off in advance of cell searches. Fairfax Now reported that Sanford also gave drugs to prostitutes he was pimping out of a Baltimore apartment that he leased. The scheme began in December 2022 and ended in May 2023, when the tipped-­off detainee, Javonte Smallwood, was nevertheless found with fentanyl, cocaine and Suboxone during a strip-­search. A contraband cellphone was also recovered. Sanford immediately wiped his identity from a Cash App account used to receive $1,630 in bribes for muling the contraband, also deleting texts exchanged with Smallwood over the contraband cellphone. The guard resigned from the Sheriff’s Office in June 2023, citing fictitious childcare burdens. Smallwood also pleaded guilty in the scheme in June 2024, but his case was dismissed after he was found dead in his ADC cell on August 11, 2024. See: United States v. Sanford, USDC (E.D. Va.), Case No. 1:24-­cr-­00110.

Washington: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) guard Darren Bowannie, 34, was federally charged with deprivation of rights under color of law on September 10, 2024; he allegedly threatened and sexually assaulted a detainee he was transporting between BIA lockups on the Colville Reservation in Wellpinit and the Spokane Reservation in Nespelem, KHQ in Spokane reported. No other information about the February 2024 incident was provided. If convicted, Bowannie faces up to life in prison; after any sentence less than that, he also faces up to five years of supervised release.

Wisconsin: Green Bay Correctional Institution prisoner Jackson Vogel, 24, was charged with homicide on September 5, 2024, in the death of cellmate Micah Laureano, 19. The Wausau Pilot and Review reported that Vogel faces hate crime and repeat offender enhancements for the alleged fatal strangling, just hours after Laureano arrived at the lockup on August 28, 2024. Asked for a motive, Vogel reportedly told investigators from the office of Brown County Sheriff Todd. J. Delain that he was bored and that Laureano was Black and gay. Laureano was serving a three-­year prison term for carjacking, robbery, reckless endangerment and battery, while Vogel was serving 20 years for the attempted first-­degree murder of his mother, according to WHBY in Kimberly. Though not scheduled to be released until 2036, his bond was set at $1 million cash.  

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