A former prison guard trainee was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Monday by the Nevada state attorney general. The guard, Reynaldo-John Ramos had been accused of killing Carlos Perez Jr. with a shotgun while he was in handcuffs in November 2014. If found guilty of both felony charges, Ramos could …
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On Wednesday Paul Tanaka, 57, once the second-in-command of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was found guilty of obstruction of justice and conspiracy. He is the highest-ranking Sheriff’s Department official to have stood trial after nine other department officials have already pleaded guilty or been convicted of corruption in …
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A Utah man died in a jail cell shortly after he was taken into custody for unpaid ambulance bills totaling nearly $2,400. Rex Iverson, 45, died in a Box Elder County Jail in the afternoon of January 23, 2016 while jail staff were elsewhere in the facility preparing for the …
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Days after Georgia correctional officers gained national attention as the FBI arrest 46 of them for corruption in the drug trade, three women have gone public with a civil suit against Captain Edgar Daniel Johnson, the former supervisor at a medium-security women’s prison. Captain Johnson has made headlines for allegedly raping the three …
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A female inmate in Riker’s Island mailed her sister samples of the clothing she was wearing while she was violently raped by a guard. The unnamed officer has been reassigned to a different unit. Last year 28 sexual assaults were report to NYPD from Riker’s Island. More at New York …
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