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14 Jul 7:28 am
... a surprise inspection ("shakedown") of the Kershaw Correctional Institution, where Rickie Harrison (an African-American) was employed as warden. In Harrison's eighteen years of experience, this was the only shakedown he experienced without a prior ... These relationships appeared to factor into
an unannounced shakedown of the Lee Correctional Institution, where Anthony worked as warden. From the early months of 2003 until the shakedown
in January 2004, Sheppard employed an investigator who reported ...
29 Jun, 2008 2:37 am
... acrid odor. The executioner, wearing oversize insulated gloves that protect linemen working on electrical wires, sought advice from the warden. "He looked at me with this big question on his face, and he said, 'Continue?' " McAndrew recalled ... killed 18-year-old Frances Slater after
abducting her from a Stuart convenience store. The members of the execution team told the warden that it was a tradition to have breakfast at
Shoney's after the early morning executions. "I got to Shoney's and the food ...
3 Mar, 2008 8:14 am
... ex-cons' post-incarceration behavior -- parole violations, employment rate, recidivism rate, etc. Why not tie wardens' compensation to reductions in post-incarceration
anti-social behavior of the prisoners released from their prisons? Of course, one would ... ex-cons - no recidivism, for instance -- is relatively uncontroversial. So what do you think?
Will merit pay for prison wardens become a plank in a new bi-partisan Obama or McCain policy platform? Or are prisons the one sort of Big Government ...
14 Oct, 2007 3:03 am
... in Starke, O'Neill said he was able to separate his duties as a prison warden taking part in executions from other parts of his life. "I
was able to compartmentalize - psychologically, emotionally ... spoke Tuesday night at St. Augustine Church's Hurley House. The former prison warden is a priest at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Starke and now speaks publicly ... for four years at St. Mark's, which was the same church he attended as
a warden. He said he doesn't make his opposition to the death penalty a ...
8 Nov, 2007 7:39 am
... this week's Dallas Observer, the city's alt-weekly. It concerns Jim Willett, the retired warden of the Walls unit in Huntsville. That's
where the execution chamber is located and that ... presides over executions. He is the author of Warden: Texas Prison Life and Death from the
Inside Out. Here's the LINK, and extended excerpts. The must-read ... From 1998 to 2001, three of the death chamber's busiest years, he served as warden of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Walls Unit and presided over ...
12 Sep, 2008 11:37 am
... cleared of the charges. John Hirst, 57, of Beverley Road, west Hull, was arrested after a park warden in Pearson Park accused him of
provoking his golden retriever, named Rocky, to attack him. ... walking Rocky in the park, which he does three times every day. He said the warden had started shouting at Mr Hirst because he had let Rocky off his lead, and the dog then started to bark. "The warden started shouting at him and waving his litter picker about and the dog started barking at him," said Mr ...
26 May 9:21 am
... Orlando Sentinel. McAndrew retired after 25 years in corrections including time as a warden in the Florida state prison system. "Capital
punishment: them without the capital get ... .S. Supreme Court ruling reinstated capital punishment. As a former Florida prison warden who
carried out three electric-chair executions and shadowed five lethal ... saw this gentle soul was inside a Florida death-row prison cell; I was his warden. We embraced. It was Juan Melendez, an exoneree who had spent 17 years, eight ...
16 May, 2008 10:23 pm
... organized crime. Whistleblowers inside the prison told us not only did senior warden Anthony Collins ignore their complaints, they claim he
retaliated against them ... drug trafficking, sexual relationships and other wrongdoings to prison leaders -- including senior warden Anthony
Collins -- they claim they were the ones facing the heat for reporting it ... was part of an ongoing effort to do just that. TDCJ has not named a new warden, but a spokesperson says one officer has been re-assigned. The prison ...
18 Dec, 2008 11:21 am
Former American fund manager and NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff, and the late actor Jack Warden. Hey, are these two New Yorkers brothers?
Should someone call Oliver Stone? Madoff (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Warden, with attorney-writer Scott Greenfield (seated) of Simple Justice.
(Warner Bros.)
28 May 1:31 pm
... calls the "top job in the state - director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation." During her stint as warden,
Jeanne Woodford oversaw the execution of four prisoners. Retiring from civil service in 2006, she is now active in her ... 's Position Letter There, Mrs. Woodford explains what led her,
with her unique vantage point on capital punishment as warden of San Quentin and head of California's Corrections Department, to challenge the
state's ability to impose death as ...
22 Dec, 2008 9:10 am
Zimbabwe's inflation means jail wardens steal from prisoners to stay alive Another passenger was a warden at Bulawayo's infamous Khami
prison. The previous month he had earned 200 million Zimbabwean dollars - less than US$1 at today's rate. Of that sum he could ... . Most were kept in a stinking mortuary for the
statutory 12 days, then put in sacks and given paupers' burials in the prison grounds. Many prisoners were not criminals at all, the warden
said. "They stole food to keep themselves alive."
26 May 1:51 pm
... of Richard Halstead's report in the Marin Independent Journal. It appeared in the Saturday edition. LINK During her stint as warden of San
Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford oversaw the execution of four death row inmates without ever discussing her personal ... choices about who should be in state prison and who
shouldn't," Woodford said. During her stint as warden at San Quentin from 1999 to 2004, Woodford initiated a number of experimental programs
aimed at reducing recidivism. "We currently ...
23 Sep 5:34 pm
View the article here 09/23/2009 By JASON DUSETT State Police arrested a deputy warden Tuesday on charges he had sexual contact with an inmate.
Neal Kearney, 48, of Bloomfield, is charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault. The Bloomfield man was arrested after the 38-year-old inmate said he had a sexual
relationship with Kearney. The alleged encounters took place inside Kearney's office at the Webster Correctional Institute in Cheshire in 2008. Kearney never used force during the ...
19 Nov, 2006 10:31 am
"Saturday bond court alleviates overcrowding, warden says" is the headline to this story by Ruthann Robinson in the NWI Times. It begins: CROWN
POINT | On Saturday morning, 12 inmates sat in the clothes they were arrested in Friday night, ... different judge each Saturday holds a special bond-reduction hearing in the jail's
courtroom in an effort to reduce jail overcrowding. It's working, Warden Caren Jones said. "It has kept the jail population from growing,"
Jones said. "In August, it was 1,140. ...
4 Jun, 2007 12:31 pm
Gee, wonder why the Rounds Administration might have declared war on federal game warden Bob Prieksat and his agency? The AP via KXMB via the
Rapid City Journal has the story. An excerpt: Governor Rounds has confirmed that his brother, Pierre banker Tom Rounds, was among people that embattled federal game warden Bob Prieksat (PRYK'-sat) investigated in connection with a goose processing case. Tom Rounds was not charged in the case, which began in February. He
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11 Jun, 2007 11:43 am
The current warden of the Federal Detention Center in Miami, Florida -- Loren Grayer -- is moving. No word yet on the new warden.
22 Nov, 2007 10:09 pm
On Wednesday, John T. Rathman, new warden of Miami, Florida's Federal Detention Center, met with staff of the Aleph Institute to learn about
its programs that help former inmates with housing and employment so they can successfully reenter ... pre-release programs that can be offered in prison to those who are approaching
their release dates. According to a release issued yesterday by Chabad, the new warden also indicated an interest in helping Aleph to expand
its educational programs at the prison.
21 Feb 9:18 am
[JURIST] The trial of former Suriname [JURIST news archive] dictator Desi Bouterse [backgrounder] resumed Friday with testimony by a former prison warden that he brought a leader of a 1982 military coup to an army barracks for execution. The testimony [AFP report] of the former warden of Suriname's Santo Boma prison, a former military officer under Bouterse, came during the ongoing trial of
23 May 12:25 am
Richard Halstead Posted: 05/22/2009 06:37:40 PM PDT During her stint as warden of San Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford oversaw the
execution of four death row inmates without ever discussing her personal feelings about ... re not making intelligent choices about who should be in state prison and who shouldn't,"
Woodford said. During her stint as warden at San Quentin from 1999 to 2004, Woodford initiated a number of experimental programs aimed at
reducing recidivism. "We currently look back on ...
15 Sep 7:43 am
North Carolina The video below is a ten minute documentary by Scott Langley, where a North Carolina Warden gives a detailed tour of Death Row,
and tells what happens during an execution - from last phone calls, to the execution itself and its aftermath. Texas The Associated Press has placed an interview online - they're
calling it an "interactive" - where a Texas Warden who oversaw nine executions by lethal injection gives a tour of the Death House and an
explanation, step by step, of his job ...
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