Smith County TX September 27, 2024 When Justtice Taylor began working at Smith County Jail last year, the inmates made fun of her, and her coworkers worried she wasn’t mature enough for the job. She was, after all, still a teenager. “People were skeptical of me being so young and coming straight out of high […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 8 2024 A Hendersonville man has died after a physical altercation involving a licensed security guard at a popular Music Row bar, Metro Police confirms. Metro Police report 36-year-old security guard Richard Cornelius of Antioch denied Austin Turner, 26, reentry into Tin Roof when a fight broke out. Cornelius is accused of hitting […]
Washington DC October 31 2023 Five security officers were hurt during a violent brawl inside a secured youth detention facility in Northeast D.C. Sunday evening after two juveniles overpowered a security officer and stole an ID badge, allowing them to open cell doors and release more than 20 detainees, D.C.’s city administrator confirmed to News4. Two […]
Elmore County AL October 16 2023 Alabama is building a new supersize prison that will cost over $1 billion – the most expensive incarceration facility in U.S. history. The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority late last month approved a final price of $1.08 billion for the 4,000-bed prison now under construction in Elmore County. And Alabama […]
Houston TX September 14 2022 A man died after he was shot by a uniformed investigator with the Liberty County District Attorney’s Office who was working security at a restaurant Sunday night, according to the Houston Police Department. This happened just after the restaurant closed around 11 p.m. at 300 Gulfgate Mall near the Gulf […]
HOLDENVILLE, Okla. Aug 2 2022– A corrections officer has died after being attacked by an inmate at an Oklahoma prison, officials said. The attack happened Sunday at the Davis Correctional Facility, which is a privately run prison in Holdenville about 70 miles (115 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City. The inmate attacked the officer while a group […]
Nashville TN July 10 2022 The attack was brutal, and it was caught on video. Federal agents say Tennessee drug traffickers linked to a Mexican cartel kidnapped a 22-year-old woman, drove her around Nashville and then digitally recorded it as they chopped off her left hand with a hatchet. A man spotted her sprawled […]
MARCY, NY Nov 23 2021—An inmate at a Central New York prison violently attacked a state corrections officer after she questioned him about complaints she had received about him, the officer’s union said. The 32-year-old Mid-State Correctional Facility inmate is accused of hitting the female officer multiple times in the face and head, knocking her […]
Pulaski County GA. Nov 18 2021 All five violent inmates who overpowered two guards in a coordinated escape from a jail in Georgia last week have been captured, authorities said Wednesday. The daring escape happened late Friday at the Pulaski County Law Enforcement Center. Pulaski County Sheriff Danny Brannen told WMAZ-TV that only two jailers […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Nov 13 2021 — A critical staffing shortage within Florida’s state prisons threatens the safety of officers, inmates, and the public. The ABC Action News I-Team uncovered the crisis in corrections is also costing taxpayers millions in overtime, reducing programs to educate, and train inmates. It also may trigger a mass release. Beneath unmanned […]