Corrections officers are concerned about their safety, too Reducing visitor traffic at prisons may help slow spread of the disease to corrections officers, without whom prisons can't run.
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"It&aposs incredibly traumatic even in the best of circumstances for corrections officers to participate in executions," said Tejinder Singh, the attorney who filed the brief on behalf of the corrections officers.
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"Corrections officers administered CPR until paramedics arrived," the agency said.
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The jail tells us their corrections officers don't wear bodycams.
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Yet none of those attacks were reported by corrections officers.
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Corrections officers "really don't like me, I think," he said.
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Dorn says that Michigan corrections officers 'outed' his HIV status routinely.
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We are social workers, EMTs, corrections officers, school custodians and more.
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Keavin Tanner was brought to Angola to train new corrections officers.
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He was concerned about the well-being of the corrections officers.
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Robert Bentley acknowledged that conditions at Holman are dangerous for corrections officers.
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A lot of corrections officers' parents, their fathers worked there, their grandfathers.
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They aren't claiming that the city and corrections officers treated Polanco differently.
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"Teachers are hired to teach – not to be corrections officers," Young said.
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Federal prison employees are considered corrections officers and undergo special law enforcement training, but when prisons run short of staff, they sometimes follow a practice known as "augmentation" to deputize managers, nurses, teachers or utility workers as corrections officers.
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Corrections officers say that foreign syndicates use the biker groups to distribute methamphetamines.
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"I saw two brutally murdered corrections officers, that's what I saw," Sills said.
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Nor was the state interested in helping the widows of slain corrections officers.
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"I saw two brutally murdered corrections officers; that's what I saw," Sill said.
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"They just murdered two corrections officers in a brutal fashion," the sheriff added.
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Corrections officers say they are more concerned for their safety now than ever before.
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Mr. Gupta applied last year to corrections officers for an early discharge from Devens.
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Two corrections officers assigned to Epstein's unit were placed on administrative leave pending investigations.
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"Corrections officers administered CPR until paramedics arrived," according to a statement from the agency.
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Clarification: An earlier version of this article indicated the Gilberts are federal corrections officers.
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While many businesses are encouraging workers to telecommute, corrections officers have no such option.
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Very often I found myself where there were no corrections officers immediately near me.
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We appreciate the care and concern of the Department of Corrections officers and staff.
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And what about the hundreds of corrections officers and civilian employees working at Attica?
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Under the new law, corrections officers could no longer restrain pregnant inmates with shackles.
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The treatment of prison populations, including children, is at the whim of corrections officers.
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At first, she said, she thought the corrections officers were playing a bad joke.
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Corrections officers issue charges, and their superiors in uniform determine guilt and decide punishment.
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The number of corrections officers was down by nearly half over that same period.
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Some 184,000 state and local employees—including teachers, police, firefighters and corrections officers—are affected.
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Abby says it's the corrections officers, and it's a major downside ... based on her experience.
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For two decades, I'd lived life around nothing but angry inmates and vindictive corrections officers.
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Warden Carter Davenport was also stabbed when he and other corrections officers attempted to intervene.
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Corrections officers in the area are also being forced to readjust to life post-Michael.
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Prisoners and corrections officers alike inquired about what was being done to disinfect the facility.
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The ceremony was held in a small room, under the supervision of two corrections officers.
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The two corrections officers were not seriously injured during the escape, according to the sheriff.
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And while Gautz insists that Michigan corrections officers "would not have access to a prisoner's medical file," Dorn tells me that "there are no secrets in prison" and that corrections officers told fellow inmates about his status at the various prisons he was housed.
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Corrections officers who saw the incident talked to their supervisors about it, according to the affiliate.
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In one CCA prison in Idaho, corrections officers let the gangs help them run the facility.
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He spoke well of the corrections officers, and of the state agencies involved in his case.
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About a third of city employees are black, including sixty-three per cent of corrections officers.
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But there's a bigger trigger for the clampdown, and that's the rise of female corrections officers.
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The corrections officers' union encourages members to report even the slightest physical contact as an assault.
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The article explores some reasons corrections officers and families of victims are opposed to the production.
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The nine corrections officers and two medical personnel were treated and released from a local hospital.
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Two corrections officers on duty when Epstein died allegedly fell asleep and are suspected of falsifying records.
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Buses staffed with corrections officers were already being loaded with prisoners at some locations, Mr. Higgins said.
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Nonetheless, official agreed to provide training to corrections officers on how to better treat female Muslim detainees.
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The administration remains committed to protecting public safety and creating a safe environment for our Corrections officers.
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Two corrections officers at the facility have been placed on leave pending an investigation, WBZ-TV News reported.
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The man allegedly demanded better treatment from the corrections officers as well as better rehabilitation and education programs.
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Corrections officers discovered that Adams was missing from the jail during an inmate count Monday, the tweet said.
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Some of the corrections officers have witnessed or overseen multiple executions and some have served as executioners themselves.
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He got into a brawl in November, but corrections officers broke it up before anyone was seriously hurt.
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Corrections officers have been loyal to Mr. Seabrook, who has controlled the union for more than two decades.
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Prisoners are called by their first names instead of by number, and corrections officers are called reintegration officers.
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But, according to his lawyer, Sutton at three different times had saved the lives of corrections officers. Gov.
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Immediately after the guard was injured, Mr. Moore said, corrections officers and prison administrative employees began grilling inmates.
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He was discovered in his cell by corrections officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass.
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Corrections officers might use a prisoner's HIV status against them, threatening to 'out' them as a means of coercion.
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Mr. Seabrook on Tuesday tried to explain away the beating, saying that corrections officers were merely doing their jobs.
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Investigators from the inspector general's office interviewed 173 people for the report, including corrections officers, their supervisors and inmates.
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During Ramadan in 2003, corrections officers instructed Mr. Holland to drink water so they could collect a urine sample.
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But the corrections officers who had initially opposed it changed their minds after they began to see positive results.
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I've seen and been told that the corrections officers are interacting with the inmates in a more positive manner.
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Three corrections officers have been attacked and at least one inmate has been stabbed since the report was issued.
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He stared in disbelief at the corrections officers in an upstate New York prison where he was serving time.
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Corrections officers had sprayed Jordan-Aparo with chemicals, even though he suffered from a disorder that compromised his lungs.
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Corrections officers also said they "owed their lives" to him for rescuing them from being attacked by other inmates.
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Corrections officers entered his cell, forced him into a mechanical restraining chair and pepper-sprayed him, the suit says.
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It's too afflicted by gangs, by drugs, by guns, and by brutal corrections officers protected by a corrupt union.
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Several corrections officers have been arrested over the past year and charged with crimes including bribery and drug trafficking.
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The jail has 22 beds and employs nine full-time corrections officers, four females and five males, Champlin said.
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Now, a guard at Rikers has been infected, according to the union representing corrections officers in New York City.
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Since then, corrections officers have had to commute there to work, a seven-hour drive, for two-week stints.
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Morgan also slammed the corrections officers for not breaking up the fight soon enough and for perpetuating unsafe conditions.
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While two corrections officers responded quickly, they were outnumbered and unable to stop the assault on their own, Shallat said.
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"Even under less demanding circumstances, carrying out an execution can take a severe toll on corrections officers' wellbeing," they wrote.
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The Justice Department's watchdog is looking into whether corrections officers conducted routine checks on Epstein as required, the sources said.
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Sometimes, corrections officers limit his time in the barbershop to 15 to 20 minutes, he testified, according to the ruling.
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In contrast with Germany, where corrections officers get two years of training, guards in California receive 12 weeks, he said.
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Prosecutors said the charges came after a 10-month investigation into corrections officers at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility.
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I was told of instances where two corrections officers would remove an inmate from solitary after years of involuntary isolation.
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Special Fed, as the team is often called, has great success in defeating suits against the police and corrections officers.
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Videos captured his rapidly deteriorating health in the hours before his death as he pleaded with corrections officers for help.
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As corrections officers led him past segregation cells where inmates were kept alone in concrete boxes, prisoners yelled to him.
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Some of the corrections officers who oversaw Ms. Dockery have resigned or now work in other jobs in the county.
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His only interactions were with corrections officers and medical staff who seemed to have no experience working with quadriplegic inmates.
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A precise accounting is not possible because state confidentiality laws prohibit the release of names of corrections officers who are disciplined.
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Among the first to die were corrections officers held as hostages, as well as the prisoners who had been guarding them.
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But Republican lawmakers and corrections officers accused the governor of trying to sneak the closures under their noses, endangering public safety.
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The real question is does the Bronx district attorney have the spine to prosecute the corrections officers who let this happen.
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Yet the corrections officers had arrived with handcuffs, saying a urine test showed that Mr. Kearney had used a prescription painkiller.
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Earlier, Morris had introduced me to the unit's major, a large man with a broad smile, and to several corrections officers.
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The inspectors also alleged that Jordan-Aparo had committed no disciplinary infractions; he had angered corrections officers by demanding medical attention.
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These types of requests typically fall to corrections officers, who have a large amount of discretion in dealings with incarcerated people.
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Barzee, 72, refused to attend her parole hearing last month, instead informing corrections officers that she did not wish to be transported.
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He reportedly lit his mattress on fire, spat at corrections officers, and was caught possessing drugs and a cellphone in his cell.
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In Oklahoma in July, two corrections officers were taken hostage during a mele involving about 400 prisoners at Great Plains Correctional Facility.
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He had been arrested after punching, kicking and throwing chairs at the police and corrections officers, though never for carrying a firearm.
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At Fishkill, corrections officers began conducting frequent bed counts at night, to ensure that no inmates were missing, often waking Mr. MacKenzie.
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His agency employs about 3,500 police and corrections officers, and patrols a land area larger than Connecticut, much of it unsettled desert.
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Within hours, however, he complained of chest pains, and corrections officers sent him to a jail ward at Bellevue, Mr. Englemayer said.
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The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, another inmate advocacy group, has also framed corrections officers' absences at Holman as an expression of protest.
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Inmates took control of an entire dorm and refused to comply with a team of corrections officers that arrived in riot gear.
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Firefighters, corrections officers, and overnight warehouse workers pack the place for steaks and beers, a boisterous happy hour as the sun rises.
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His death came two days after corrections officers found Gabriel Carmen, 20183, hanging in his cell at Parchman, the county coroner said.
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The statute forbids the release of personnel records used to evaluate police officers, firefighters and corrections officers for continued employment or promotion.
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Corrections officers are still reporting to work each day and air passengers are not yet facing overly long security lines in airports.
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There'd be an assortment of sightings, that would send a small army of corrections officers and law enforcement response to a particular area.
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The men were among five corrections officers who were indicted on civil-rights charges this week in three separate incidents at the jail.
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Since the inauguration, Clarke has drawn protests in Milwaukee for taking steps to allow corrections officers to conduct immigration enforcement in his jails.
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Solitary confinement likely only exacerbates vulnerability to staff sexual violence since with no one else around, corrections officers can sometimes act with impunity.
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Hostage negotiators assisted by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation persuaded the prisoners to free two corrections officers on Wednesday, Coop said.
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Cuyahoga County corrections officers Nicholas Evans and Timothy Dugan are both seen repeatedly punching the inmate, Terrance Debose, during the March 2018 incident.
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Most significant has been his attention to the rank and file, which includes people as diverse as school cafeteria workers to corrections officers.
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Nearly all prison employees go through the same three-week training as corrections officers and are also licensed to use firearms, Bryant said.
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Extortion, in this instance, could be anything from suspected gang membership, acquirer of contraband, or seducer of the fairer sex of Corrections Officers.
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The bureau faces further job cuts in the 2018 budget, including a decrease of more than 1,800 corrections officers, according to budget documents.
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The corrections officers were arrested and arraigned in State Supreme Court on charges including official misconduct, conspiracy, unlawful imprisonment and filing false documents.
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Word of the arrests came as the families of the corrections officers, Christopher Monica, 42, and Curtis Billue, 58, were planning their funerals.
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Corrections officers make the charges — issuing "tickets," in prison parlance — and hearing officers, typically sergeants, lieutenants or captains, determine guilt and decide punishment.
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The article indicated that Hempstead, after being interviewed, had been threatened with solitary confinement and other forms of punishment by three corrections officers.
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How would you respond to the corrections officers who have questioned why anyone convicted of violent crimes "should have a spotlight and applause"?
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Mr. Bonds was incarcerated in maximum-security prisons like the Attica Correctional Facility, where his fellow inmates described daily brutality by corrections officers.
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Sabbie gasps for breath almost constantly throughout the video; his heaving is audible even when he's buried under the pile of corrections officers.
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Lay, a prisoner in Alberta, was sprung from custody Monday morning after a masked man held up his two corrections officers with a handgun.
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"Wende is better than where I was before, but there is still harassment from [corrections officers] and comments made about my sexuality," she said.
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"I saw two brutally murdered corrections officers, that's what I saw," said Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills recalling what he saw on the bus.
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Since the inauguration, the sheriff has drawn protests in Milwaukee for taking steps to allow corrections officers to conduct immigration enforcement in his jails.
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They're people who were corrections officers and professors and travelers and wanderers and people who have always been musicians but not necessarily career ones.
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She's now making regular trips to Local 1570 to deliver the cards, which are primarily going to support federal corrections officers and TSA employees.
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In another officer's camp, they found a shotgun, which they took, and uniform jackets belonging to the corrections officers, which they apparently did not.
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The law has been a longstanding obstacle to civil rights groups, reporters and others seeking information about misconduct by police officers and corrections officers.
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As autopsies later revealed, with one exception, all the corrections officers who died were killed by bullet wounds — in other words, by friendly fire.
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Prisoners were forced to strip naked and run through a gantlet of 30 to 40 corrections officers who took turns beating them with batons.
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Anthony Sanon, the president of the local chapter of the union representing the jail's corrections officers, said the jail first lost power on Jan.
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Instead of youth development specialists trained to de-escalate matters and provide interventions, corrections officers are using force to maintain a system of control.
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He interviewed a representative of the King County Jail corrections officers' union, who urged listeners to remember this crime at the next judicial election.
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Baiardi said that the hurricane has put a significant strain on the corrections officers who work in those prisons that were damaged or evacuated.
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Now, thousands of those workers, including T.S.A. employees, National Park Service staff members and corrections officers in California could struggle to pay their bills.
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Authorities confirm Kohut did not share a cell with any other inmates, and was seen alive not long before corrections officers found his body.
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He acknowledged, too, the dire circumstances that made it difficult to attract corrections officers, but he assigned blame to the inmates for the disorder.
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Months ago, an Anguilla judge, in allowing bail, noted that some of the corrections officers in the prison were relatives of the dead man.
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This is actually a significant improvement after sentencing reforms, but it has been offset by a sharp plunge in the number of corrections officers.
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The facility has capacity for nearly 700 inmates, and Lee said that all corrections officers will be required to work their shifts, as well.
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According to the new study, female suicide rates are the highest among police, firefighters, and corrections officers, followed closely by women in the legal profession.
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The Columbia Tribune reports that several briefs were filed on Bucklew&aposs behalf, including one from 23 former corrections officers who turned death penalty opponents.
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The national Stolen Lives Project counted more than 2,000 killings by city, county, state, and federal law enforcement and corrections officers between 2911 and 21995.
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In FY 2018, Attorney General Sessions has proposed reducing the number of corrections officers by 9 percent and reduce other BOP staff by 14 percent.
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Puerto Rican prisoners suffered special discrimination; prisoner mail was censored, and since corrections officers couldn't read Spanish, they simply tossed those letters in the trash.
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According to WNYC, he is also heard on the recording admitting to violating rules involving corrections officers, and questioning the sexuality of another state official.
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Five corrections officers and a supervisor at a New York jail were charged this week with performing illegal strip searches on visitors to the facility.
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Corrections officers from Florida have had to commute 400 miles to the site of the prison since then for two-week stints in their jobs.
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The predictable results—for both corrections officers and people under their supervision—include PTSD, suicide, deteriorating mental and physical health, and sometimes injury or death.
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Both guards were working overtime—one for four or more days, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, the union for federal corrections officers.
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Bitter after having her sentence extended, Ruiz (Jessica Pimentel) became an enthusiastic tormentor of those corrections officers whom the prisoners held hostage during the riots.
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Corrections officers wondered what was going on, and a conversation began, one that ended with women's pants being added to the approved list of clothing.
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It's unusual for corrections officers to speak well of inmates, said Jim Aiken, who serves as an expert witness in civil and death penalty cases.
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It will be an enormous undertaking, investigating something as elusive as racism in a sprawling system of 54 prisons, 50,000 inmates and 20,000 corrections officers.
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A member of Cop Watch, Orta says he plans to continue his activism on the inside, even though he is concerned about retaliation from corrections officers.
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At least four deaths were reported in Florida in relation to the hurricane, who of which involved corrections officers driving through the storm in Hardee County.
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" Mr. Mata told the hearing officer, according to the opinion, that meant "I should fight the inmate" and the corrections officers "would take care of me.
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The newspaper said corrections officers told other inmates Thomas' water had been shut off because he had flooded his previous cell and his behavior was erratic.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said at a news conference that he would be "shocked" if any corrections officers had been involved in the breakout.
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Before the roughly 550 state troopers and corrections officers marched in four days later to retake the prison, Ms. Thompson writes, many removed their identifying badges.
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Instead, they allegedly sat at the corrections officers' desk — just about 15 feet away from Epstein's cell — moved around the common area, and used the computers.
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After a social worker referred Gignilliat to a physician's assistant for psychiatric evaluation, corrections officers placed her in a segregated cell, according to a legal complaint.
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For example, Pennsylvania is teaching corrections officers to think like therapists, while North Dakota has been giving prisoners keys so they can lock their own doors.
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Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is the latest high-profile figure to test positive for coronavirus, the New York state corrections officers union told Reuters on Sunday.
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The video shows Mr. Sabbie breathing heavily over the next nine minutes as corrections officers drag him to the nurse's station and then into a shower.
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A series of corrections officers took the stand to say they had no idea that Thomas had been denied water for days, the Journal Sentinel reported.
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A Kansas politician is accused of attacking corrections officers attempting to book her into jail, allegedly breaking the thumb of one officer by biting him, PEOPLE confirms.
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The indictments charged 23 corrections officers, 22 inmates and 25 outside helpers with running a smuggling scheme inside the medium-security Eastern Correctional Institution near Westover, Maryland.
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"We are among the highest on suicide rates, both among prisoners and corrections officers and that really speaks to a toxic culture in the prisons," said Eldridge.
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The video runs nearly 30 minutes before corrections officers casually enter the frame — negligence made more appalling by the fact that an officer had filmed the attack.
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After she became New York's solicitor general in 2007, Ms. Underwood once fought to uphold a state law that barred prison inmates from suing state corrections officers.
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He then ran head first into a locked exit door "before a group of corrections officers used physical force to apprehend and handcuff him," the statement added.
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Authorities have detained the two federal corrections officers assigned to guard billionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at the time he died in his holding cell.
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After the officers were indicted, he was transferred out of state custody and moved to an undisclosed location to protect him from possible reprisals by corrections officers.
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The changes have met with resistance from the corrections officers union, which says the reduction in the use of solitary has led to increased violence on cellblocks.
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The inmates gained access to the administrative wing of the jail and stole the keys to a car belonging to one of the corrections officers, Champlin said.
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But you have to accept that your photos and letters will be monitored by corrections officers, as are phone calls and the inevitable practice of phone sex.
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"A lot of the [corrections officers] here, they really are buying into this," said Weitzel, who is nearing the end of his 12½-year sentence for bank robbery.
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Forty-nine-year-old Wendy Shannon and 35-five-year-old Justin Smith, both corrections officers, and 50-year-old sewing plant manager Veronica Darden were also killed.
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Meanwhile, right across the borders of Pennsylvania and Delaware, Corrections Officers are still considered "guards" in the eyes of state law; as they are in many southern states.
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A special state's attorney filed charges — dozens against the convicts, none against the state police or the corrections officers who tortured inmates after the uprising was put down.
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The New York Times reports that several federal public defenders and leaders of the union representing the jail's corrections officers told the publication of the jail's current conditions.
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Similarly, Oregon corrections leaders traveled to Norway for training and brought the curriculum back to their own facilities to encourage corrections officers to rethink how they supervise people.
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Previous versions of the legislation attracted Democratic support, but were watered down and scrapped amid resistance from state corrections officers and a veto by Republican Governor Brian Sandoval.
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The changes called for different dynamics between inmates and corrections officers, causing one of them to leave over what he believed was a fundamental shift in their training.
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The two recently convicted former Downstate corrections officers — one of them the supervisor — face the possibility of lengthy prison terms when they come up for sentencing in April.
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Local authorities said this week that corrections officers in New York and Georgia had caught the virus, as well as an inmate at New York City's Rikers Island.
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BOP rules allow for people who work in other jobs, such as teachers and cooks, to be trained to fill in at posts usually manned by corrections officers.
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President of the corrections officers' union at Hazelton, Richard Heldreth, told WVNews that a male inmate had been killed over night but did not confirm the man's identity.
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If they are questioned before a grand jury, some of the corrections officers would likely invoke their Fifth Amendment right to decline self-incriminating testimony, the source said.
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So too would a successful campaign to overturn a state law that keeps the disciplinary records of police officers, firefighters and corrections officers secret, known as 50-a.
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That time, they fooled corrections officers who were conducting a prison count at the Broad River Correctional Institution by placing heads made of toilet paper in their beds.
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The inmates were just starting their day on July 228 when dozens of corrections officers burst into their dormitory, shouting for everyone to get down on the floor.
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Dozens of corrections officers in West Virginia posed for a photo in uniform while doing a Nazi salute, and state officials are moving swiftly to contain the fallout.
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He said there were also problems with cold that he reported to his superiors in mid-January as corrections officers were wearing scarves, coats and hats on duty.
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According to Blue H.E.L.P., an independent organization that tallies deaths by suicides of police and corrections officers, both active and retired, 26 officers have died by suicide in 21.
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One of them told investigators they transported the computers within the prison due to "pretty lax" supervision from some of the corrections officers, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Staff shortages mean corrections officers are more stressed, leading to more dangerous working conditions, and the lack of new hires means the work force is rapidly aging, he said.
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After all, prisons and jails in the United States are austere by design, and corrections officers face a higher risk of injury on the job compared to other professions.
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The New York Times has reported on allegations of brutality by corrections officers at prisons across the state, including the deaths of three inmates following violent confrontations with guards.
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Mobile TV station WKRG obtained a four-page letter written by Holman corrections officers (without their names) explaining what went wrong in the days leading up to Bettis's death.
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At federal prisons, which employ roughly 20000,000 people, corrections officers who struggle during normal times to cover their bills are now expecting that next week's paycheck will not arrive.
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Faircloth credits his good relationship with the prison nurses for the fact he was given a mask — he only sees some corrections officers walking around wearing masks and gloves.
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The indictment said that only on-duty corrections officers would have had access to the unit where Mr. Epstein, a disgraced financier, was being held on sex-trafficking charges.
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"We must be able to trust that the corrections officers operating these prisons have the tools that they need to do their jobs and that they are compensated fairly."
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The dangers of working in law enforcement, both in policing as well as corrections, have been nationally recognized and codified with the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 28503, a federal law enacted by President George W. Bush that allows "qualified law enforcement/corrections officers" and "qualified retired law enforcement/corrections officers" to carry a concealed firearm in any jurisdiction in the United States, regardless of state or local laws, with certain exceptions.
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Through the Freedom of Information Act, the Intercept found that since 2010, New York's 311 line recorded 83 instances regarding corrections officers subjecting prison visitors to strip or cavity searches.
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And in 217, the incarcerated people behind the walls of Attica were talking about inadequate medical care and this overcrowding and the way that the corrections officers were treating them.
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Those who are selected to participate in the program are permanently assigned to one of the camps, where they're supervised by corrections officers, and stay there year-round, Sessa said.
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As the cast and crew prepared for "Cuckoo's Nest," a few said that corrections officers asked the men why anyone convicted of violent crimes should have a spotlight and applause.
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That turned into a collaborative storytelling project, in which she asked inmates to interpret the images, taken by corrections officers starting in the late-63s and stretching to the 1970s.
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Gabriel Carmen, 31, was found hanging in his cell by two corrections officers at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Saturday, Sunflower County Coroner Heather Burton said in a statement.
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According to medical ethicists, prison counsellors and psychologists often feel a "dual loyalty"—a tension between the impulse to defer to corrections officers and the duty to care for inmates.
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The vocal opposition included an online petition signed by more than 150,000 people, as well as letters from exonerated death row inmates, former corrections officers, and drug manufacturers urging Gov.
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Other defendants named in the lawsuit, which is seeking unspecified damages, include several of the corrections officers involved in Sabbie's death, Texas' Bowie County, and the city of Texarkana, Arkansas.
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Exemptions apply to holders of concealed-weapons permits, people with hunting licenses or who have completed a hunter-safety program, law enforcement or corrections officers and members of the U.S. military.
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"Corrections officers too often use violence not as a last resort but as a means of control and punishment," Lisa Schreibersdorf, executive director of Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.
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The union president's arrest came just one day after five corrections officers were convicted of assault charges for the savage beating of a Rikers Island inmate named Jahmal Lightfoot in 2012.
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It is called normalization, an idea inspired by Scandinavian countries where inmates cook their own food, interact with people from the outside and have a less adversarial relationship with corrections officers.
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A federal lawsuit filed by his family on Wednesday accuses at least 12 corrections officers and nurses at a for-profit jail on the Texas-Arkansas border of causing his death.
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Officially, she requested help at least a half-dozen times, according to internal emails and logs kept by corrections officers, which repeatedly noted her vomiting, moaning in pain, or even screaming.
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But the application of AI to predict the behavior of offenders and send that information in real-time to corrections officers is a strategy that only serves the ones doing the policing.
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Andrew Cuomo has strengthened the state office that investigates misconduct by prison guards, and also proposed legislation that would make it easier to dismiss corrections officers who commit crimes on the job.
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Union officials say the lack of leadership has sunk morale, delayed long-term planning, and allowed the DOJ to overlook the safety needs and staffing concerns of federal prisoners and corrections officers.
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Female corrections officers and other prison staff members told us why, despite criticism, they work a job that can put them at risk of assault from inmates and abuse from co-workers.
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The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has steadily expanded the city's interpretation of a state law that bars public disclosure of the personnel records of police officers, firefighters and corrections officers.
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He packed his belongings and told corrections officers that he was leaving the prison, the statement said, even though there were years left on his eight-year sentence on a drug charge.
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"These corrections officers abused their authority and the public's trust by allegedly injuring a vulnerable inmate and then attempting to cover it up," US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling said in a statement.
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In recent months, the problems at the jail, Cuyahoga County Corrections Center, have coalesced into a crisis that has prompted civil lawsuits, an F.B.I. investigation and criminal charges against multiple corrections officers.
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That is because of the stunning reach of a state law that keeps the personnel and disciplinary files of the police, firefighters and corrections officers secret unless a judge orders them released.
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Officer James Ramsey-Guy shut off all water, as ordered, according to a criminal complaint, but he neither logged the action nor informed other corrections officers that the water had been turned off.
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South Carolina Department of Corrections officers -- Lt. Travis Pressley and Ben Boyd -- testified how after he was processed and put in a room, Jones came clean and described how he killed the children.
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Corrections officers are facing more allegations Some of the offensive comments were made in response to news stories about Strawberry Hampton, a transgender woman who is suing several prison guards and prison employees.
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Oklahoma Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh, citing the South Carolina violence, said he recognized the risks potentially facing prisons in his cash-strapped state, which announced a hiring freeze on corrections officers in February.
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But many female corrections officers say they're in a unique position: Not only do they endure abuse from supervisors or coworkers, they're also dealing with it from inmates over whom they wield power.
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It was the latest in a string of problems, from a spike in violence to a crackdown on corrections officers running contraband networks, facing the department run by Commissioner Joseph Ponte since 2014.
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But they also spent some time in rough-hewed cabins used by hunters, at least some of which belong to state corrections officers who work in the prisons like Clinton, Mr. Sweat said.
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"I have no hatred for law enforcement, we need them," Mr. Lawton said, adding that members of his extended family had served in the Police Department, in the military and as corrections officers.
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While at Rikers, he attempted suicide at least six times, according to a lawsuit Browder filed against New York City, its police department, the Bronx district attorney and others, including several corrections officers.
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Don Drewett, legislative coordinator for the American Federation of Government Employees' Council of Prison Locals, said he was disappointed by comments this week blaming overworked corrections officers and supervisors for Epstein's inadequate supervision.
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The investigation documented CCA's failure to provide adequate medical care to seriously ill or pregnant inmates, rampant corruption amongst corrections officers (including sexual abuse of inmates), and unreported assaults amongst the prison population.
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At least five corrections officers did not act for seven minutes while the inmate tried to hang himself, according to The New York Times, which cited four people with knowledge of the matter.
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Under it, ICE will train two staff corrections officers to identify, interrogate and turn over inmates for being in the country illegally — including some who may still be awaiting trial on criminal charges.
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She established a bureau on Rikers Island to handle crimes by inmates and visitors, and her Public Integrity Bureau, formed in March 2016, has secured convictions of 20 corrections officers for various crimes.
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The FBI announced Thursday that almost 50 current and former Georgia Department of Corrections officers were indicted for allegedly pocketing bribes in exchange for helping sneak contraband into prisons, as the Washington Post reports.
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"We're grossly understaffed at many facilities across the United States," said Brian Dawe, executive director of the American Correctional Officer Intelligence Network, a clearinghouse for best practices and information for corrections officers and others.
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State officials said they were hamstrung in what they could do to punish prison employees by the collective bargaining agreement with the corrections officers' union, which makes it almost impossible to fire a guard.
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Save for the well-dressed attorneys, the uniformed corrections officers, and law enforcement sitting in the front rows, nearly everyone was a black or Latino male defendant waiting for his case to be heard.
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The powerful corrections officers' union opposed a bill proposed by Mr. O'Donnell, which passed the Assembly but died in the Senate, where it was blocked by Republicans from districts where prisons are major employers.
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The mayor's office has asked the courts to release some older defendants from the Rikers Island jail, where most of the city's 5,22 inmates are housed closely together, guarded by thousands of corrections officers.
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"I don't trust the numbers, and I don't know where it's coming from," said Elias Husamudeen, the president of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, which represents more than 2450,2295 corrections officers in the city.
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And it passed bills to keep federal immigration agents out of the Rikers Island jails, and to forbid city police and corrections officers from detaining suspects for deportation, unless there is a judge's warrant.
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The jail faced renewed scrutiny this week after Cuyahoga County released a jarring surveillance video to The Plain Dealer that showed two corrections officers repeatedly punching an inmate who was strapped to a chair.
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Corrections officers, many of whom voted for Trump hoping that his law-and-order approach would result in increased investment in the federal prison system, told VICE News they feel this is a promise broken.
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GEO agreed to pay $550,000 to 16 female former corrections officers who said they faced a range of verbal and physical abuse, in a consent decree filed in federal court in Arizona on Jan. 5.
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For example, both state and municipal Corrections Officers in New York and New Jersey are classified as peace officers (law enforcement) in their respective state codes, and have standardized training necessary to comply with LEOSA.
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Local authorities said Wednesday that corrections officers in New York and Georgia had caught the virus, as well as an inmate at New York City's Rikers Island, marking the first case at the notorious jail.
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Before the show in Denver, while the men paced the stage to get into character and checked out the acoustics, their run-throughs were interrupted by corrections officers doing their regular head count of prisoners.
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According to the criminal complaint, Ramsey-Guy physically shut off the water as he was ordered to, but did not log the action and failed to inform other corrections officers that Thomas' water was off.
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So, his facial reaction when a corrections officers lays out the possible real-life consequences for meeting with Ed — which are possible murder, assault, general abuse, or being dragged into a hostage situation — is actually priceless.
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A grand jury indicted two Cleveland corrections officers this week on charges of strapping a woman to a restraint chair, striking her in the head, and spraying half a can of pepper spray in her face.
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"This litigation from the ACLU threatens public safety by seeking the early release of dangerous criminals and could endanger our Corrections officers by further limiting the tools they have to manage the inmate population," he said.
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Begnaud, who is reporting outside the governor's mansion, said that the reinforcements were corrections officers, who are specially trained to deal with unruly crowds, sparking concerns that whatever was to come would provoke protesters to riot.
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The city also expects 700 new corrections officers to graduate in the fall - the biggest class of recruits in the department's history, de Blasio said - and an even larger cohort of 1,200 new officers next spring.
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The Times report documented a slew of appalling conditions at MCC, including chronic staffing issues that resulted in employees such as teachers and nurses working as guards even though they were not full-fledged corrections officers.
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Their union's notion that they must respond to fights with force or pepper spray points to a major underlying problem: The wholesale transfer of corrections officers to Horizon implants the culture of Rikers and perpetuates violence.
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Ms. Ivey said the department had increased the prison budget in recent years, given raises to corrections officers and requested $31 million to hire 500 more correctional officers and increase pay in the coming fiscal year.
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On the second floor is a mural that Mr. Epstein had commissioned in recent years: a photorealistic prison scene that included barbed wire, corrections officers and a guard station, with Mr. Epstein portrayed in the middle.
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State Senator Brice Wiggins, a Republican, agreed that there would likely be broad support within the Legislature to expand the push to find alternatives to incarceration, as well as boost pay and training for corrections officers.
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In Mississippi, inmates, their relatives and activists said that phones are often brought in by corrections officers and case managers, and the devices, usually pay-as-you-go burner phones, can cost upward of $300 inside.
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People with a history of self-harm may not be watched closely because their suicide risk is not communicated to jail staff who are already over-stretched in crowded facilities, lawyers and former corrections officers told Reuters.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Nearly two dozen former corrections officers from across the country have filed a court brief in support of a Missouri death row inmate&aposs claim that his medical condition could cause an unconstitutionally cruel execution.
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The new corrections officers, led by tyrannical captain of the guard Desi Piscatella (Brad William Henke) are utterly unconcerned with the inmates as human beings with names and identities, and the new regime only reinforces that viewpoint.
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While awaiting mental health treatment before a trial on the misdemeanor charges, he was not given enough medicine and food and was poorly treated by corrections officers, the lawsuit filed on behalf of Mr. Mitchell's family said.
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Trump-era budget cuts created staffing shortages that the MCC has tried to resolve with lots of overtime pay and "augmentation" -- a practice that allows prison cooks and teachers to temporarily fill in for trained corrections officers.
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An investigation into the death of an inmate with schizophrenia in Florida who was reportedly left in a hot shower for two hours until officers found him dead concluded that the corrections officers did not commit a crime.
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What Kerik showed the national corrections and law enforcement communities was that when you train, equip and manage corrections officers like professional law enforcement officers; facilities will operate accordingly saving both the lives of officers and inmates alike.
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The Justice Department stepped forcefully into this vacuum last week, charging five corrections officers with fraud and violating the civil rights of an inmate who was beaten nearly to death at Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill in 2013.
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During my time as governor, I've prioritized these types of meaningful interactions with people directly impacted by the correctional system, whether it's been with people who are incarcerated, the corrections officers that supervise them or victims of crime.
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That would be hard especially in federal prisons, which have long faced staffing shortages, said Joe Rojas, Southeast region vice president of the union representing federal corrections officers, the American Federation of Government Employees' Council of Prison Locals.
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The Bureau of Prisons announced last week that it would be suspending almost all inmate visits, inmate transfers and staff travel and training for 30 days to mitigate the spread of the virus among prisoners and corrections officers.
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A nationwide manhunt was underway on Tuesday night for two armed prison inmates who the authorities say escaped from a prison bus early that morning in Georgia after disarming and fatally shooting two corrections officers on the bus.
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After the sentence was handed down, Pell signed paperwork related to his registration as a sex offender, bowed to the judge and then, aided by a walking stick, was escorted out of the court by five corrections officers.
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"We have a humanitarian crisis on our hands at Rikers that is hurting both inmates and corrections officers, and we have an obligation as a city to confront suffering and violence in our jails," Stringer said in a statement.
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Some of the corrections officers took a while to adjust to the new approach to mental health, but there is a new level of respect among all, said James Weitzel, an inmate in the peer-to-peer counseling program.
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It was the result of Operation Ceasefire, an enormous initiative developed through a collaboration between criminology professor David Kennedy and Boston's police department, community-based programs, street workers, juvenile corrections officers, churches, and neighborhood programs between 1994 and 1996.
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The state must also extricate itself from a senselessly rigid seniority system embedded in the contract that gives corrections officers their choice of jobs and bars managers from moving them out of positions in which they can do harm.
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Essays include a meditation on the history of the mug shot by the scholar Shawn Michelle Smith and a conversation between the photographers Jamel Shabazz and Lorenzo Steele, Jr., who both previously worked as corrections officers on Rikers Island.
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While a concrete answer to what actually happened is not currently evident, Badowski says that her patients in Illinois—who include HIV positive inmates—have told her similar stories (to Dorn's) about corrections officers, though she's never witnessed such behavior firsthand.
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Two Cleveland corrections officers are facing civil-rights charges and are accused of strapping a woman to a restraint chair, striking her in the head, and emptying half a can of pepper spray directly onto her face, according to court documents.
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Corrections officers may have falsified reports saying they checked on Epstein and it appears he was dead for one to two hours before he was found, CBS reported, citing a law enforcement source and another source familiar with the investigation.
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"We made pasta and everything else because they had pasta there, because we didn't care — it was the C.O.s,'" he said, using the shorthand for corrections officers, noting they were unlikely to report the break-in because of the marijuana.
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Pastor Kenneth Glasgow from the Free Alabama Movement, an inmate advocacy group, told VICE News that corrections officers were engaged in more of a protest than a strike at this point, but that they are trying to convey a clear message.
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Elected officials were rightly outraged to find that the state statute prohibiting sexual contact between corrections officers and parole officers and those in their custody does not expressly rule out sexual contact between police officers and people they detain or arrest.
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We do not yet know what specific crime the Justice Department is investigating at MCC, but, according to the New York Times, corrections officers reportedly falsified records relating to their failure to properly supervise Epstein on the night of his death.
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On Sunday, state and federal representatives for New York — which is the current epicenter of the virus — joined medical personnel and corrections officers union reps and called on the DOJ to release at-risk inmates from federal jails in the state.
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The truck was taken about nine miles east of a home in Morgan County, Ga., that law enforcement officials believe the inmates burglarized Tuesday after they shot the corrections officers, escaped from a prison bus and carjacked a green Honda Civic.
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According to the complaint, corrections officers and medical staff knew of the danger of water intoxication, but did not conduct proper welfare checks, instead moving Rodriguez to a cell without a sink, where she later died on January 4, 2018.
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"While facing record high levels of violence and one of the most dangerous work environments in the country, corrections officers conduct themselves with professionalism and integrity to keep our prisons secure and our communities safe," the union said in a statement.
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Corrections officers and the city officials they answer to had neglected Layleen in Rikers, her family wanted to argue, and now it looked as if they were going to neglect her again: a shocking death, compounded by airless civil proceedings.
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"With less corrections officers in the prisons, BOP has turned to augmentation...which means that cooks, foremen, secretaries, electricians, teachers, accountants or counselors are augmented to replace officers inside the prison," American Federation of Government Employees president David Cox said.
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Brann was responding to a report that at least five corrections officers did not act for seven minutes while the inmate tried to hang himself, according to The New York Times, which cited four people with knowledge of the matter.
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To ease his 2005 escape, Mr. Causey and his fellow escapee temporarily tricked corrections officers into believing they were present for a prison count by placing heads made out of toilet paper in their beds to stand in for their own.
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"They just stay huddled up in the bed," said June Bencebi, a case manager at the jail and the treasurer of the local chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents about 500 corrections officers at the jail.
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The editors, Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass, interviewed a number of people over a period of years who had either spent time in solitary confinement or worked as corrections officers within the system, which provides for an interesting contrast of views.
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FOR EXAMPLE, allow us to tell you what happened on Friday, when corrections officers from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice were called to pick up two pallets of bananas that had been left behind at the Ports of America.
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Charges were recommended against former Jail Administrator Nancy Evans, who oversaw the jail, Lt. Kashka Meadors, the officer who gave the order to shut off the water to Thomas' cell, the corrections officer who carried out that order, and other corrections officers.
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Not only does this hinder the professionalism and retention of corrections officers, but restricts men and women who have exactly the same jobs as their counterparts across the Delaware River from the same protections afforded to them under LEOSA, potentially endangering their lives.
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For an off-duty Pennsylvania Corrections Officer to be arrested in front of his family for carrying a weapon across the bridge in New Jersey because Pennsylvania classifies corrections officers differently than New Jersey does is legally unfair and puts officers at risk.
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He'll be leaving lockup in the Orange County Jail and heading to the Santa Ana City Jail ... which means he'll no longer be in custody of OC Sheriff's deputies and corrections officers, who he and Lauri believe are trying to get him killed.
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According to a recent report from The Intercept, Chambers' case reveals a gaping hole in New York state law: While sex is prohibited between corrections officers and the prisoners they're charged with guarding, there is no law prohibiting such conduct for police.
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The explosive class action detailed reports of serial rape and sexual abuse by eight corrections officers at the all-female Rose M. Singer Center, including a case where an inmate was dragged into a janitor's closet and another where the inmate became pregnant.
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In January, the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office became one of only 75 in the country to sign an agreement allowing corrections officers to perform the functions of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, as part of a program known as 287(g).
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According to Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, Weinstein has been placed in isolation following his diagnosis, and added that three state corrections officers also tested positive after coming into contact with infected individuals.
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Attorney Nathan Bingham said there were numerous log entries on welfare checks that corrections officers signed off on which the lawsuit alleges never occurred, including an entry claiming that Rodriguez was offered and refused water almost an hour after she had stopped breathing.
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To meet its deadline of 2265, the city will have to build four new jails scattered in neighborhoods across the city, shut down a 400-acre jail network on an island in the East River, and relocate thousands of detainees and corrections officers.
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The Bain Center, which is much smaller than the Rikers complex, had the third lowest rate for use-of-force by corrections officers in the city's jails, according to the latest report by a federal monitor overseeing changes at New York jails.
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The judge would not consider how Layleen was put into so-called restrictive housing (known familiarly as solitary confinement) as corrections officers do to many transgender people who are incarcerated, and so was in isolation in the days leading up to her death.
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The union representing corrections officers did not respond to requests for comment, but the union president, Elias Husamudeen, strongly denied to The Daily News on Wednesday that the four officers had stood idly by and watched while Mr. Feliciano tried to hang himself.
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The sense of isolation that's prevalent throughout the exhibit — in Sunshine's resigned pose and Bree's fake team spirit — culminates in "Execution, Huntsville Prison" (2013), a startling photograph that shows a procession of sheriffs in white hats and corrections officers walking to an execution in Texas.
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"There are so many things that corrections officers can use to control an inmate short of a Taser, that if you're in a correctional facility and you're having to use a Taser, you're doing something wrong," Bryan said, citing other methods including pepper spray.
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The inquiry concluded that it was in fact instigated by corrections officers to punish Mr. Thorton, apparently because he had complained about prison staff members and would talk to senior prison officials during their rounds, according to records obtained by The New York Times.
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Alas, politicians have poured resources into incarceration rather than more cost-effective tools, such as hiring more police and directing them to crime hotspots (America employs two-and-a-half times more corrections officers per person than the global average, but 30% fewer police).
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It says that the records of police and corrections officers, as well as firefighters, that would be used to evaluate their performance or employment status are considered confidential and should not be available to outside review without the person's written consent or a court order.
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CNN reported Thursday that federal investigators in New York issued grand jury subpoenas last week to a number of corrections officers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center -- the clearest indication yet that some of the jailers could face prosecution in the wake of Epstein's death.
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In 1971 the governor dispatched Mr. Douglass to be his observer during the 1971 Attica prison riot in upstate New York, which left 423 corrections officers and civilian employees and 33 inmates dead after exasperated officials ordered the State Police to end the siege.
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The budget proposal would cut visits at maximum-security prisons from seven days a week to three, which would eliminate the jobs of 39 corrections officers, saving a meager $2.6 million a year, out of an annual corrections budget of more than $3 billion.
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What the inmates had told me — that when Ms. Dockery became irate at not receiving medical help she was put in solitary confinement, or "the box"; that when she kicked the door there, she was shackled — was backed up completely in corrections officers' logs.
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr last week ordered the reassignment of the warden in charge of the Lower Manhattan detention facility, along with a temporary replacement and the placement of two corrections officers assigned to Epstein's unit on administrative leave for the duration of the probes.
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Aside from the very obvious invasion of privacy, there is plenty of evidence indicating that criminal justice AI is still very much biased, and it's these biased systems that corrections officers and mentors might be blindly trusting to predict risky behavior that hasn't even happened yet.
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At Federal Detention Center SeaTac near Seattle, people who normally work as electricians and plumbers are being deputized as corrections officers to accommodate 209 new, mostly female detainees, said Raphael Lee, a senior officer specialist and member of the American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prisons.
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A Muslim woman was awarded a $120,000 settlement in late November, settling a six-year legal battle over her claim that corrections officers in a Minneapolis jail forced her to take off her hijab for a booking photo and gave her a bedsheet for a replacement.
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Choi Soon-sil, 60, wearing a beige prison suit, held her head up and glanced around as she was led by two corrections officers into the court where she is on trial charged with pressuring big businesses to pay money to two foundations that backed the president's policy initiatives.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it was shaking up staffing at the federal jail where financier Jeffrey Epstein died over the weekend while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, announcing it had temporarily assigned a new warden and placed two corrections officers on administrative leave.
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Editorial The effort to root out the corruption and violence that have long plagued the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City entered a new phase on Wednesday when Norman Seabrook, the politically powerful leader of the 9,000-member corrections officers union, was arrested on federal fraud charges.
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"For more than 40 years, the court has recognized the tremendous potential for abusive exploitation of these records and the harassment — or worse — of police officers, firefighters and corrections officers," Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union, said in a statement.
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The report included a series of measures necessary to remedy the constitutional and other violations that regularly occur in the Alabama prison system, including additional screening for those entering the prisons, moving low-risk inmates, hiring 500 additional corrections officers and overhauling disciplinary processes around violence and sexual assault.
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Two corrections officers were assigned to the area where Mr. Bulger was being housed, the employees said, and on a typical morning, at least one of the officers would have moved away to monitor inmates as they walked through metal detectors on their way to the dining hall.
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The staff shakeup at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan announced by the department included temporarily reassigning the warden to another post within the federal Bureau of Prisons, appointing a temporary replacement and placing two corrections officers assigned to Epstein's unit on administrative leave pending the outcome of investigations.
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As The Times and the Marshall Project reported jointly in April, the correction department's internal affairs unit — which is responsible for investigating misconduct — has historically been weak and ineffective, partly because it relied too heavily on career corrections officers who lacked investigative experience and were also wary of offending fellow officers.
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"Corrections Officers Stephen Flood and Joshua Bishop employment with the Horry County Sherifff Office was terminated today, as a result of an ongoing internal administrative investigation into the incident where two female occupants died when a detention center transport van was overtaken by floodwaters," the Horry County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
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Letter To the Editor: The New York Times takes aim at an entire work force that puts its lives on the line every day to keep New York State safe by implying that a culture of violence is being fostered by corrections officers ("Put Reforms Into Prison Guards' Contract," editorial, Dec. 26).
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"Even if the (prison) administration turned a blind eye to what was going on in the facility between inmates and corrections officers, and thus tacitly approved the conduct, each individual who engages in these actions subjects themselves to the consequences when these actions cross the line into criminal behavior," Judge Kevin Ryan said.
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On the night three years ago when Kevin Moore's dreadlocks were ripped out and his ribs and facial bones were broken, a group of New York State corrections officers involved in a confrontation with him said that they were the victims, that Mr. Moore, a 56-year-old inmate, had attacked them.
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Read: How Trump is using a refugee agency to jail immigrant kids While corrections officers are under the impression that the agreement between BOP and ICE is supposed to last 120 days, a source who has seen the ICE agreement with Sheridan told VICE News that it will last up to one year.
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She's also proposed reinstating the death penalty, which was abolished in New Mexico in 2009, for people who kill police officers, corrections officers and children, harsher penalties for people who commit crimes while they're on parole, and a "three strikes" rule that would grant an automatic life sentence to anyone convicted of three violent felonies.
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"Right now, the stress level is at 1,000," said Kutonya King, a correctional counselor at the federal prison in Jesup, Ga. Like other corrections officers, Ms. King said she was concerned about the safety of the inmates and of her fellow workers, who will have more and more to occupy their minds if the shutdown drags on.
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Then, on Thursday prosecutors who specialize in graft suffered what amounted to a double disappointment: within hours of each other, two different juries declared that they were deadlocked in the high-profile corruption trials of Robert Menendez, a Democratic senator from New Jersey, and Norman Seabrook, the longtime leader of the corrections officers' union in New York.
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"After reviewing the video, it appeared to the government that the footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier ... because the preserved video did not show corrections officers responding to any of the cells seen on the video," prosecutors said in the filing, according to NBC News.
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Instead, Mr. Francis billed his discipline as a martial art of the mind and mouth — a curriculum that has put thousands of airline workers, corrections officers and a handful of Chicago Cubs security guards in a better position to persuade customers and members of the public to follow rules without feeling as if they were losing face.
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Whether it be attending the reentry program graduation of someone preparing to return to the community after incarceration or meeting with corrections officers to discuss new ways to ensure a healthy working environment for them, these face-to-face engagements can help policymakers gain a deeper appreciation of the unique challenges people encounter when they are closely involved in the correctional system.
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The flaws in the disciplinary system, which have been obvious for some time, were exposed yet again last year when the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York charged five corrections officers with fraud and with violating the civil rights of an inmate whom guards had beaten nearly to death at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill three years earlier.
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This account of Mr. Feliciano's attempted suicide was based on interviews with three city officials and one former corrections official with knowledge of what happened in the holding pen, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation, as well as interviews with Mr. Martinez, Ms. Feliciano and the president of the corrections officers' union.
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But in a sign of the ups and downs of the budget season, during his briefing — the governor's first appearance in Albany since the April 1 deadline passed — Mr. Cuomo said that ideological questions remained, surrounding whether corrections officers or the staff of the Office of Children and Family Services would monitor youthful offenders who had served sentences under the plan.
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There is no assurance that legislative leaders will go along, but in a curious and perhaps calculated add-on, the governor also intended to ask — in a separate bill — for an agreement to allow some police officers, firefighters and members of the New York City Employees' Retirement System, which includes corrections officers, to qualify for enhanced accidental disability pension benefits.
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In the case of lethal injection, I respectfully submit, this is an impossible burden to satisfy because (1) thankfully, exterminating human beings is hardly an exact science, and (2) corrections officers who execute in Alabama, and for that matter nationwide – whose government paychecks come with a duty to kill – are not, when it comes to administering lethal injections, the sharpest tools in the shed.
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Of those: —50 were suicides —34 were by natural causes, which includes illnesses and health conditions —Nine were drug- or alcohol-related —Four were homicides —Four were accidental —One followed an altercation with prison officers —46 were designated "undetermined" by provincial governments, which means an investigation is ongoing or an inquest is pending Several factors have created the conditions for the high body count, lawyers, former inmates and former corrections officers say.
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