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This follows a project jointly initiated by the ICRC and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) which led to the donation of 18 knitting and sewing machines as well as provision of training to ZPCS officers and inmates. (icrc.org)
In this video, we follow the process of how inmates and officers make a jersey. (icrc.org)
Four Florida correctional officers were arrested and charged with murder in the fatal beating of a handcuffed prisoner who had thrown urine at one of the officers, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced . (cbsnews.com)
After the inmate was removed, even though he was in handcuffs and compliant with officer commands, agents say the officers began to beat him. (cbsnews.com)
An Alabama corrections officers has been placed on leave following a video that appeared to show him beating a distressed inmate who had climbed to the edge of a roof. (fox8live.com)
The video shows Freeman was beaten by at least 10 corrections officers Oct. 5 after he ran naked from his cell. (theologyweb.com)
HONOLULU, Hawaii - On June 10, 2020, a federal grand jury returned a six count indictment against three former correctional officers-Jason Tagaloa, 29, Craig Pinkney, 36, and Jonathan Taum, 48-for their roles in assaulting an inmate housed at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center and for attempting to cover up their misconduct. (hawaiifreepress.com)
Our communities entrust correctional officers to protect detention facilities and the inmates housed within them, and when such officers commit crimes within a detention facility, they will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law," said U.S. Attorney Price. (hawaiifreepress.com)
That is incredibly dangerous, not only for the inmates, the officers, but the community. (kanw.com)
A September 2009 beating by fellow inmates left Brandon so doubtful of correctional officers' ability to protect him that he voluntarily secluded himself in the facility's isolated security ward. (blogspot.com)
The inmate said he would have killed Chauvin had corrections officers not responded so quickly. (startribune.com)
Lancaster, MA - Three Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) officers were transported to the hospital after being attacked and viciously beaten by a mob of maximum-security prison inmates on Friday (video below). (policetribune.com)
The inmates began to scatter as additional corrections officers flooded the dayroom. (policetribune.com)
The U.S. Department of Justice has an ongoing civil lawsuit against Alabama, saying state inmates face unconstitutional levels of violence from inmate-on-inmate attacks and a pattern of excessive force by officers. (alabamanow.com)
A New Jersey correctional police officer at Northern State Prison in Newark was hospitalized after he was badly beaten by an inmate who stole his pepper spray and squirted the chemical at other officers, authorities said Friday. (hotshotinmates.com)
As nearby (response team) officers arrived on the scene, the inmate proceeded to deploy spray at the response team, subsequently emptying the canister," Sullivan said. (hotshotinmates.com)
The sentences handed down in this case show that law enforcement officers who break the law, violate their oaths, and deprive inmates of their civil rights will be held accountable for their actions. (nationofchange.org)

From 2016, inmates in Zimbabwe prisons will keep the cold away by wearing jerseys that they produced themselves. (icrc.org)
In 2016, Whitaker and fellow inmate Perry Eugene Williams challenged the state's execution process , claiming Texas' lethal injection drugs were not quality tested. (dallasnews.com)
In August 2016 the prison governor, Paul Cawkwell, was severely beaten by an inmate in the canteen. (wikipedia.org)

Chris Brown is being harassed in jail, according to reports, as fellow inmates locked up with him apparently don't take kindly to woman beaters. (thehollywoodgossip.com)
In any case, he's behind bars now, feeling like a caged animal and getting badgered by fellow inmates think he has yet to pay the price for his actions. (thehollywoodgossip.com)

The video, circulating on social media, shows what appears to be a distressed inmate on the edge of a roof at a building at Elmore Correctional Facility. (fox8live.com)
Mass testing of inmates and staff at the Waiawa Correctional Facility is almost complete and has found no new cases of COVID-19, and the infection cluster at the state's largest jail is being brought under control, according to the state Department of Public Safety. (civilbeat.org)
Waiawa Correctional Facility inmates inside a compound. (civilbeat.org)
Pearl, Miss. - (AP) - An inmate fatally beat another prisoner at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, state prison officials said Monday. (themississippilink.com)
Lillo Brancato (above), who's doing 10 years in Oneida Correctional Facility, pounded a fellow inmate. (fivefamiliesnyc.com)

Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel, together with The Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Project, filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of Jose Guadalupe, a mentally disabled inmate, who was severely beaten by Rikers Island guards on September 2, 2014. (ecbawm.com)

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A former supervisor at the Kentucky River Regional Jail in Perry County was sentenced this week to 10 ½ years in federal prison for his role in the fatal 2013 beating of an inmate. (lpm.org)
Newly released video from the Auburn Main Jail in California shows jailers smashing mentally ill inmate Beau Bangert into a wall, punching him and shocking him with a stun gun. (pinacnews.com)
NEWARK, N.J. - Three men have been convicted in the brutal attack of another inmate at Essex County Jail that caused him to suffer a traumatic brain injury, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II said. (corrections1.com)
The beating occurred on September 23, 2021, in Building 3 of Essex County Jail. (corrections1.com)
An innocent man was allowed to be beaten to death while in the custody of the TriCounty Regional Jail in Mechanicsburg. (narsol.org)
Inspectors were also concerned that the healthcare department and reception facilities for new inmates were not adequate for the increased number of prisoners at the jail. (wikipedia.org)

New Jersey corrections facilities have recently released 852 more inmates to ease crowding during the COVID-19 pandemic under a law passed in 2020. (apbweb.com)

A Pinellas County Sheriff's Office deputy in Florida was fired this week after an investigation concluded that he used excessive force on a disabled inmate. (rawstory.com)
According to a press release from the sheriff's office on Tuesday, the incident occurred when 47-year-old Deputy Raymond Ferrio was escorting an inmate to the infirmary on Oct. 1, The St. Petersburg Tribune reported . (rawstory.com)
According to the sheriff's office, the inmate never posed a threat to Ferrio or other staff members. (rawstory.com)
LAPLACE - The St. John Parish Sheriff's Office presented its 10th class for its Opportunity Now Re-Entry Program for inmates during a graduation ceremony last week at the Leonard Robinet Mult-Purpose Room in LaPlace. (lobservateur.com)
The SJSO's Opportunity Now program differs from traditional re-entry programs because it is a collaborative effort between the Sheriff's Office, Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services and Louisiana Department of Corrections, providing work readiness, job placement and other self-sufficiency services to qualified inmates, Opportunity Now director Joe Lewis said. (lobservateur.com)

The guards were removing the inmate from a cell in the mental health unit of a Miami-Dade County prison on February 14 to transfer him to a north Florida prison. (cbsnews.com)
Thirteen guards from a North Texas prison were fired or resigned after a brutal beating in September left an inmate in a coma, likely for the rest of his life. (kanw.com)
Some inmates and former staffers say an acute shortage of guards is leading to more violence in some Texas prisons, and they warn it may only get worse. (kanw.com)
FLAHIVE: McMillan says three of the guards who have now been fired were known for joking about beating inmates. (kanw.com)

Virginia law requires an inmate to pick between death by injection or electrocution, leaving injection of lethal drugs as the default. (newsmax.com)
Indian police and security forces have allegedly tortured hundreds of Kashmiris as WikiLeaked evidence shows the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against detainees from 2005 to 2007. (truthdig.com)

A firing squad would beat lethal drugs for his execution, suggested a Virginia death row inmate who is protesting in federal court against his scheduled January date with fate. (newsmax.com)
Some Utah inmates on death row, who were convicted before 2004, have still been able to choose firing squad. (latimes.com)
Ronnie Lee Gardner, a convicted murderer who shot and killed a lawyer during a prison escape attempt, was the last inmate executed in Utah by a firing squad in 2010. (latimes.com)

The video showed a lone corrections officer as he spoke with several inmates inside the heavily-populated dayroom area. (policetribune.com)
Seconds later, one of the prisoners suddenly punched the corrections officer in the face, relentlessly delivering multiple blows as the corrections officer fell backwards and more inmates jumped in. (policetribune.com)
A second corrections officer was attacked by another group of inmates when he ran in to help him, but he managed to break free and raced towards the initial officer. (policetribune.com)
A third corrections officer was attacked from behind by an inmate as he jumped into the fray, the video showed. (policetribune.com)
Two Alabama corrections officer have been charged with kicking and beating an inmate and then making false statements about the assault, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. (alabamanow.com)

A 31-year-old inmate who officials said had committed suicide at the Kandal Provincial Prison was in fact beaten to death, and more than 10 inmates are expected to be charged after the investigation is completed early this week, according to a source close to the case. (phnompenhpost.com)
At OCCC, which was the site of the largest cluster of COVID-19 infections in the state, officials have identified 19 inmates that now have the virus, while 288 who were previously infected have now recovered. (civilbeat.org)
A third inmate, Isaad Jackson, was convicted of weapons offenses in the attack, officials said. (corrections1.com)

The statement said that Ferrio punched and kicked the inmate while he was on the floor. (rawstory.com)

A 2015 KyCIR investigation featured Trent's death and revealed myriad problems in jails across the state, including preventable inmate deaths, inadequate or nonexistent health care and oversight failures at all levels of government. (lpm.org)

The 30-year-old Karatsev was seeking his fourth title and first since he beat Andy Murray in Sydney in 2022, but with 20 unforced errors the Russian struggled to get any momentum in the match and challenge Shelton. (cbs42.com)

Four inmates have chosen lethal injection. (latimes.com)
The other inmate, Douglas Stewart Carter,convicted of stabbing 57-year-old Eva Olesen to death during a home-invasion robbery in 1985 has chosen lethal injection. (latimes.com)

After the assault, Hickman and Howell had other inmates clean up Trent's blood from the floor and walls outside of his cell. (lpm.org)
The facility was immediately placed on lockdown, and six inmates were removed from the unit where the assault occurred, according to WJAR . (policetribune.com)
The inmate began his assault by unexpectedly punching and kicking an officer faced away from him, landing several strikes to the head and face before a distress signal could be called," PBA Local 105 President William Sullivan said in a statement. (hotshotinmates.com)

Inmates, including McMillan, say the state's extreme understaffing set the stage for this and other violent incidents. (kanw.com)

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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating after an inmate died at 201 Poplar. (wreg.com)
Although a DOC spokesperson declined to comment on the incident, citing an ongoing investigation, Watson publicly confessed to beating the two convicted child molesters to death and gave an exclusive, detailed report about what went down to Mercury News . (wordifysites.com)

After a California inmate beat two convicted child molesters to death with a walking cane, he decided to speak out about what went down behind bars. (wordifysites.com)
Jonathan Watson, a 41-year-old California inmate, attacked David Bobb, 48, and Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, NBC Los Angeles reported. (wordifysites.com)

Smith allegedly told investigators that he beat Majors because he feared Majors and others planned to harm him. (themississippilink.com)

To investigate the characteristics of HIV co-infections, and to evaluate the molecular heterogeneity of HIV, HBV and HCV in prisoners, we carried-out a multicenter cross-sectional study, including 65 HIV-1-infected inmates enrolled in 5 Italian detention centers during the period 2017-2019. (bvsalud.org)

A Pennsylvania prison beat an infringement lawsuit over a patent on technology used to scan prisoner's mail, convincing a federal judge the patent covers an idea not eligible for protection. (sternekessler.com)

The inmate was beaten so badly he had to be carried to the transport van," the department said in a news release. (cbsnews.com)

And then Nixon says he saw the most brutal beating he's seen in his 33 years in Texas prisons. (kanw.com)

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The plaintiff is Chawn Kaili, then an inmate at Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz., alleging essentially the same set of facts on the same date. (hawaiifreepress.com)

CHRISTIAN MCMILLAN: What about the culture that promotes this type of incident, this type of action towards inmates? (kanw.com)
The correctional officer monitoring his dorm walked away for eight minutes, allowing a group of teens all the time they needed to enter his room unnoticed and beat him, according to a Feb. 2 letter sent to his mother outlining the incident. (blogspot.com)

The victim was walking in the cell when he stepped on the foot of another inmate who became angry, prompting the beating, the source said. (phnompenhpost.com)
Saroeun said her son told her that the other inmates beat the victim because he didn't sleep and seemed agitated. (phnompenhpost.com)
He witnessed the victim being beaten by the suspects. (fox2now.com)

Brandon's case is not the first time failure to provide adequate staffing at Evins left inmates unsupervised and resulted in violence , something that clearly hasn't been resolved by ongoing federal litigation. (blogspot.com)

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) - A MetroLink beating captured on video is now lighting up social media in St. Louis. (fox2now.com)

Two years after the fatal beating, the state Department of Corrections' own records characterized Trent's death as an "altercation" and the cause of death as "pending. (lpm.org)
There are currently eight inmates on death row, according to the state Department of Corrections. (latimes.com)
The 3,000-mile distance between the islands and Saguaro exacts a heavy cost for inmates, their loved ones and the state. (civilbeat.org)
Five inmates at Coastal State Prison have died after contracting the virus. (iheart.com)
As of Monday morning, Coastal State prison reported 41 inmates had tested positive and one staff member. (iheart.com)
In prison facilities across the state, nearly 500 inmates have tested positive for the virus and 185 staff members since the state began tracking the information. (iheart.com)
Autry State Prison near Pelham has reported the most cases - 74 inmates having tested positive for COVID-19. (iheart.com)
Georgia Diagnostics and Classification State Prison in Jackson has the second highest number of inmates with 70 reported cases followed by Calhoun State Prison in Morgan with 51 inmates who reportedly contracted the virus. (iheart.com)

The TBI said an inmate died while in the custody of the Shelby County Sheriff's Department Wednesday night. (wreg.com)

However, family members have identified the inmate as 33-year-old Gershun Freeman. (wreg.com)

Prosecutors said the two assaulted the inmate by striking him with their feet and with a collapsible baton. (alabamanow.com)

Three Placer County jailers were charged in connection with the beating and all three were fired. (pinacnews.com)

Authorities say Lockett and Watson beat a 22-year-old inmate with a microwave and other objects including a large beverage dispenser and broom. (corrections1.com)
Watson unashamedly admitted to their murders after Bobb died en route and Luis-Conti was pronounced dead three days later. (wordifysites.com)
In the hours before launching the attack, Watson said he tried to avoid it, alleging he made an "urgent" request for a transfer with a prison counselor, telling them that he would soon attack an inmate if he wasn't moved. (wordifysites.com)
Although he didn't refer to Bobb or Luis-Conti by name in his letter, he explained that he reached his breaking point when "Molester #1" began watching PBS Kids in full view of other inmates, which he and others took as a taunt, and it left Watson sleepless. (wordifysites.com)
Just two hours after Watson had spoken with the counselor, he had beaten a man. (wordifysites.com)
Authorities were shockingly unaware of either beating until Watson himself located a guard, confessed what he had done, and led him to the bloody scene, he said. (wordifysites.com)

Kent Whitaker embraces his wife Tanya as his brother Keith Whitaker waits in support at back right, after reacting to the his lawyer Keith Hampton reading an email from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which voted unanimously to recommend clemency for death row inmate Thomas Whitaker, Kent's son, who was found guilty of setting up an ambush that killed his mother and brother in 2003. (dallasnews.com)

Many inmates also suffer from preexisting conditions . (findlaw.com)

Supervisors reprimanded him for abusing an inmate just months after he started his deputy jailer job. (lpm.org)

Inmate Christian McMillan says the violence has only gotten worse. (kanw.com)
2011).Street codes as formula stories: How inmates recount violence. (lu.se)

So far 229 inmate tests at the minimum security Waiawa prison were negative for the coronavirus, and 97 of 98 staff tested negative as well, according to the department. (civilbeat.org)
Mass testing has found no COVID-19 cases among the inmates or staff. (civilbeat.org)
These inmates will be facing internal discipline and DOC staff will provide the Worcester District Attorney's office with all available facts and evidence relating to the assaults. (policetribune.com)
The staff works diligently to rehabilitate inmates so that when they return to their community they can experience success. (lobservateur.com)
Of those inmates who have contracted the virus, 32 have recovered along with the one staff member, according to the department of corrections. (iheart.com)

Mut Linan, 31, who was said to have committed suicide, was actually beaten to death at the Kandal Provincial Prison. (phnompenhpost.com)
Investigators determined the death was not suicide or an accidental fall, the source said, adding that more than 10 inmates will be charged. (phnompenhpost.com)

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A 56-year-old inmate serving life for a 2008 murder in Hinds County has died in prison. (themississippilink.com)

The inmate was placed alone in what authorities described as a secure compartment inside the van. (cbsnews.com)

It has also brought in law enforcement inspectors for every shift, reduced inmate population to temporarily alleviate staffing challenges, and sent each officer to "additional mandatory use of force and ethics training. (cbsnews.com)

Shortly later, he was fired for wrongly releasing an inmate. (lpm.org)

Saroeun said her son told her that those who beat Linan to death were inmates in the same cell. (phnompenhpost.com)
The indictment alleges that, on June 15, 2015, Defendants Tagaloa, Pinkney, and Taum, along with a fourth correctional officer designated "Officer A," physically assaulted an inmate in the jail's recreation yard, that Tagaloa later assaulted the same inmate in a holding cell, and that both assaults resulted in bodily injury. (hawaiifreepress.com)
Following the beating, Mr. Guadalupe was left in a hot cell for nearly six hours, going in and out of consciousness, before he was finally transported to a nearby medical center where he was treated for injuries including a concussion, bruises to his ribs, facial swelling, lower back pain, dizziness, and cuts to his lip and right eyebrow. (ecbawm.com)

While Evins has taken substantial steps toward improving its record of protecting inmates' civil rights in the past four years, problems still persist at the facility, a recent federal audit shows. (blogspot.com)
And NPR recently reported on the death of a third federal inmate in Oakdale, Louisiana, due to COVID-19. (findlaw.com)

A source speaking on condition of anonymity said the prosecutor had gone to the prison three times and asked the inmates to re-enact what happened. (phnompenhpost.com)
An officer walks across the roof and drags the inmate back from the edge, before appearing to punch him three times. (fox8live.com)

During the attack, the inmate stole the officer's OC canister "to spray his face and use as a weapon," the statement said. (hotshotinmates.com)
In his statement, Sullivan said PBA Local 105 is calling for the Department of Corrections to "issue individual charges for each officer this inmate sprayed. (hotshotinmates.com)

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Jeremy Roebuck at the McAllen Monitor has the sad story of a teen convicted of a felony graffiti offense who was sent to TYC then victimized by inmates with more serious criminal histories (" DOJ: Youth prison continues to improve conditions for inmates ," May 21). (blogspot.com)

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