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 …
Read More »Second-In-Command Paul Tanaka Found Guilty In L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Corruption Scandal For Obstructing Justice In Fed. Probe Of Brutality Against Inmates
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 …
Read More »Utah Man Rex Iverson Dies In Police Custody After Being Jailed For $2,400 Unpaid Medical Bill
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 …
Read More »More Trouble In Georgia Prisons: Three Women Accuse Former Guard Of Repeated Rapes
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 …
Read More »Riker’s Island inmate accuses officer of rape
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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