CHESAPEAKE, Va. March 1 2019— A Chesapeake deputy is accused of a sexual crime against an inmate, officials said. Timothy Burnside is charged with misdemeanor sexual battery of an inmate by an employee, the Chesapeake sheriff’s office said. Burnside was a deputy with the Chesapeake Sheriff’s Office for 17 years and was assigned to court […]
IBERIA, Mo. February 15 2019 Police said a Missouri prison nurse, intent on marrying an inmate, was charged with poisoning her husband with antifreeze before setting their home on fire. Miller County authorities announced Friday that 40-year-old Amy Murray, of Iberia, has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of her […]
Huntsville TX Feb 12 2019 A 70-year-old corrections officer died by suicide Monday after shooting himself with his service weapon at a Huntsville prison, officials said. Authorities did not release the man’s name, but said that fellow officers found him around 1 a.m. sitting outside the guard picket at the Wynne Unit. He was not under […]
Ontario Canada Jan 23 2019 A federal inmate who says he was shackled in a cramped transport van for almost eight hours — despite a heart condition and other ailments — is suing the government for compensation. Edwin Nott, a 65-year-old inmate who identifies as Métis and uses a walker, is serving a six-year sentence […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. Jan 22 2019 South Carolina officials are hoping to combat the dangers of illegal cellphones behind bars by giving inmates a different technological device to communicate with family, obtain education and even purchase access to approved entertainment services. Corrections Director Bryan Stirling told The Associated Press on Thursday that he’s unveiling a program to […]
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga Jan 3 2018 A Gwinnett County deputy has been arrested after police say she gave her cellphone to an inmate in the county’s jail. According to the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office, an investigation revealed Deputy Natalie Crawford “had furnished her cellphone to an inmate.” Deputies arrested Crawford at the Gwinnett County Jail Monday […]
CAPRON, Va. January 2 2019— At 3 a.m. on a frigid night in January 2017, Susan Van Son, a nurse at the Deerfield Correctional Center in southeastern Virginia, left the prison’s medical department and walked through a series of eight locked doors. At a security checkpoint, she made sure that the normal guards — the […]
Shirley MA December 30 2018 A 35-year-old corrections officer at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security facility in Shirley, is accused of punching an 86-year-old inmate three times earlier this month. Court records obtained by MassLive show Joseph Sampson of Westminster was arraigned on Dec. 21 on a charge of assault and battery with serious […]
New York City NY December 28 2018 His bagel defense survived a schmear campaign. A city correction officer won back his job after a yearlong struggle that all started when he chowed down on some poppy-seed bagels — and lit up a routine drug test with traces of morphine and codeine. The amounts were […]
Alamance County NC December 18 2018 A plot to blow up part of a North Carolina jail was foiled this week when the secret details were accidentally mailed to the wrong address, according to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office. The conspiracy was uncovered after a person in Graham got an odd letter containing building plans […]