Eight Spokane County Jail guards were placed on paid administrative leave while investigators probed the death of a prisoner under their care, but they werent suspended for long. All were back at work within two weeks.
Benites Salmon Sichiro, 39, was booked into the jail on January 27, 2006 for ...
Corruption in Arpaios Office: AZ County Continues Paying Convicted Sheriffs Sgt.
by Gary Hunter
On August 2, 2005, Maricopa County Sheriff's Sgt. Leo Richard Driving Hawk, Sr. pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in connection with a $78 million swindle perpetrated by his father's bank.
For over three years Driving ...
On February 6, 2006, just weeks after Lonoke Arkansas Mayor Thomas Privett, 68, and Sheriff Jay Campbell, 46, admitted to a state monitoring committee that they had illegally used state prisoners for personal benefit, the two were arrested on multiple charges of corruption.
Arkansas Act 309 program was designed to ...
Nebraskas County Jails Neglect Mentally Disabled
by Gary Hunter
Nebraskas American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has revealed major problems in the state's county jails. Prisoners with physical handicaps, chronic illnesses and mental disabilities receive little or no healthcare in a state where 1-in-33 citizens are arrested each year.
According to ...
Prison Legal News columnist Mumia Abu-Jamal was recently honored by the citizens of Paris, France who named a street in his honor.
The controversial Philadelphia figure has the dual distinction of being a hero in one country and a villain in another.
Convicted of the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia ...
Virginia's General Assembly reneged on their agreement with a prisoner advocate group to substantially reduce phone rates between prisoners and their families.
Virginia's Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) had lobbied for years to have a state-approved prepaid phone system for prisoners calling their families. The newly acquired ...
Coronado Cantu took over the Cameron County Sheriff's office in January 2001. He took up residence inside the Texas jail in June 2005. Cantu was charged with heading a crime ring that included drug trafficking, extortion and prostitution of female prisoners.
Animo was Cantu's watchword. Defined as spirit or enthusiasm, ...
Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's
prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005,
that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair the
police chief's boat and make improvements to his ...
Psychologists will quickly tell you that rape is not about sex. It's about power. It's about imposing one's will on another. It's about masking feelings of inadequacy with intimidation about artificially inflating one's low self esteem by abusing someone else. Sex is just a symptom. So it's little wonder that ...
Prisoner release procedures in the Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) suffer from serious flaws, according to the Intake Processing Unit (IPU). The IPU undertook an audit and review of the way the DOC determined prisoner release dates, and issued its findings in an October, 2005 report. The IPU tested the ...
