Vice President’s Son Discharged from Navy Due to Drug Use
by Christopher Zoukis
In an embarrassing coda to Vice President Joe Biden’s long career as one of the chief architects of the War on Drugs, one of his sons was booted from the U.S. Navy after testing positive for cocaine. ...
Tennessee Jail Considers Charging for Toilet Paper, Underwear
by Christopher Zoukis
On August 19, 2013, commissioners in Anderson County, Tennessee approved a resolution authorizing an expansion of pay-to-stay fees at the county jail. The resolution included a $50 daily fee for prisoners serving misdemeanor sentences, the removal of the existing ...
ACLU Awarded $50 Million to Help End Mass Incarceration
by Christopher Zoukis
On November 7, 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union announced it had received the largest grant in the organization’s history: $50 million from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. The donation will fund an eight-year campaign to slash America’s ...
Pell Grants for Prisoners: New Bill Restores Hope of Reinstating College Programs
by Christopher Zoukis
It’s been over 20 years since Jon Marc Taylor, Ph.D., a Missouri state prisoner and author of the Prisoners’ Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada, published an op-ed in the ...
San Diego Deputies Faulted for Jail Death
by Christopher Zoukis
A civilian review board found that sheriff’s deputies lied and failed to take steps that could have saved a prisoner who swallowed meth before being booked into a San Diego Jail.
A sheriff’s official said jail staff thought Bernard Victorianne ...
North Carolina prisoner with a history of mental illness who was found dead in a transport van after being transferred to another prison died due to dehydration, according to the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office.
However, the state pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Michael Anthony Kerr, 54, said records ...
Forty Defendants, Including 24 Guards, Convicted in Widespread Corruption Scandal at Baltimore City Jail
by Christopher Zoukis
The confessed leader of a powerful gang inside the Baltimore City Detention Center was the government’s star witness at the trial of eight remaining defendants in a widespread racketeering, drug smuggling, bribery, extortion ...
Transgender Prisoner Denied Adequate Treatment Hangs Herself
Petersburg, Virginia: At approximately 2:30 PM on February 24, 2015, Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg Medium inmate Ashley Jean Arnold (given name: Steven Roy Arnold), 32, ended her life by hanging herself in her prison cell. Arnold had sought medical and psychological care for ...
Florida Prosecutor Suspended for Ex Parte Contact with Judge During Murder Trial
by Christopher Zoukis
A Florida prosecutor who engaged in text messages, cell phone calls and dinner dates with the judge presiding over a capital murder trial has been suspended for two years by the Florida Supreme Court. The ...
Missouri Prisoner Exonerated in 1983 Prison Murder; Brady Violations Cited
by Christopher Zoukis
Reginald “Reggie” Griffin, 53, was sentenced to death for the July 12, 1983 stabbing of James Bausley in a yard at the Moberly Correctional Center (then known as the Missouri Training Center for Men). In August 2011, ...
