Baton Rouge LA October 17 2021 Five juvenile inmates escaped from the Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention Center Thursday night, Baton Rouge Police said. The escape happened shortly after 9 p.m. By approximately 10:40 p.m., one inmate had been taken back into custody at 2860 Jay Street in Baton Rouge, Sgt. L’Jean McKneely, police spokesperson, said. […]
TRENTON NJ October 14 2021 – Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck and Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée M. Robeson today announced the arrest of a correctional police officer on charges that he sexually assaulted an inmate at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. Senior Correctional Police Officer Tyrell Harris-McLaughlin, 28, of Jersey City, N.J., was […]
Grover Beach CA Sept 17 2021 A corrections officer with the California Men’s Colony was arrested for allegedly beating a Wells Fargo bank manager and calling him racial slurs after the officer was asked to wear a mask in the building, police said. On Tuesday, the Grover Beach Police Department announced it had arrested James […]
Sacramento CA August 6 2021 California prisons are preparing to require more correctional officers to wear body cameras through an expansion of employee oversight programs funded in the state budget Gov. Gavin Newsom signed earlier this month. The budget includes $90.6 million in funds aimed at installing fixed security and body-worn cameras at five state facilities […]
Orangeburg County SC July 31 2021 An Orangeburg County inmate was taken back into custody early Saturday after he emerged from the woods and asked for clothes, according to Orangeburg County Administrator Harold Young. “I’m glad we were able to apprehend him and get him behind bars,” Young said. The escape is still under investigation. […]
RIDGEVILLE, S.C. July 27 2021– Investigators from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are looking into a death that occurred at a state prison in Dorchester County on Monday. “SLED is investigating the death of an individual employed at Lieber Correctional Institution,” SLED spokesperson Tommy Crosby said. “The death does not appear to be suspicious […]
Anamosa CA March 25 2021 A nurse and an officer working at an Iowa prison have been killed after an inmate attacked several employees and prisoners. The attack took place at around 10:15am on Tuesday in the infirmary of Anamosa State Penitentiary, which is a maximum and medium-security prison that houses around 950 inmates and […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Dec 19 2020— One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times higher than the general population. In some states, more than half of prisoners have been infected, according to data collected by The Associated Press and […]
Clinton New Jersey July 5 2020 A corrections officer at a New Jersey prison repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed female prisoners while demanding sexual favors for everyday items like toilet paper, a former inmate claims. Marianne Brown, a former inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, said a guard had a question […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 3 2020 A group of shoppers at Jefferson Mall helped a corrections officer track down an armed suspect after a fight broke out Thursday afternoon, LMPD confirmed. Daniel Johnson, the president of the Corrections Union, said it was one of their officers, Ronald Harris, who helped apprehend the suspect. LMPD confirmed no […]