ELMORE, AL June 2 2017 Five correctional officers at an Alabama state prison have been arrested for smuggling contraband to inmates in a bribery scheme used for personal gain. Following a three-month investigation at the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, the ADOC found that the following employees abused their positions as correctional officers to profit […]
Tutwiler, MS June 1 2017 The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics has arrested a Tutwiler prison guard in a continuing heroin investigation, MBN Director John Dowdy said in a news release. MBN agents arrested Cynthia D. Smith, 37, of Clarksdale over the weekend at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, a private prison in Tutwiler run by […]
Placer County CA June 1 2017 Three Placer County sheriff’s officials were arrested Wednesday on charges involving allegations of excessive force against at least six jail inmates and falsifying evidence, the result of what Sheriff Devon Bell is calling “an extensive investigation” that included video recordings and other evidence. The arrests of corrections Sgt. Megan […]
Baton Rouge LA May 29 2017 A shakedown at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola this morning resulted in the arrest of a prison employee for allegedly trying to bring contraband into the prison. Louisiana Department of Corrections investigators were conducting a routine shakedown of 26-year-old Kaelyn D. Franklin of Baton Rouge. She was a corrections […]
CHICAGO IL May 27 2017 How can you get a gourmet Italian pizza delivered right to your door for no more than $7? Get locked up at Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inmates in the jail’s medium-security Division 11 can now order pizzas made with the finest ingredients in the kind of ovens found in […]
Bridge City LA May 24 2017 “I know he’s not a saint because if he was, he wouldn’t be where he was in the first place, but that doesn’t give the facility a right to abuse him,” says Goldie Gibson. Goldie Gibson’s son, Trevon Gibson, was one of several offenders removed from the Bridge […]
SHREVEPORT, La. May 12 2017 – A Mississippi woman was sentenced Monday to 94 months in prison for being part of a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities and causing the refunds to be mailed to post office boxes in Louisiana. Shannon A. Brumfield, 50, of Byram, was sentenced to more […]
Miami Dade FL May 11 2017 If you think working inside a jail is mostly a man’s world — you’re wrong. For the first time, women now outnumber men as corrections officers inside the biggest jail in Miami-Dade County. In our special assignment report, 7’s Brian Entin explains this “Changing of the Guard.” Corp. Knight: […]
LONG ISLAND CITY NY May 3 2017 — A state prison guard fatally shot herself after opening fire on her ex-boyfriend while chasing him down the street outside the Queens prison where they worked Tuesday morning, sources said. The 47-year-old uniformed guard, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was feuding with her ex before chasing him […]