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29 Nov 2012, 12:00 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
As such, to address the situation, the Lege ulltimately will need to make different policy choices.See prior, related Grits posts:No easy fix for prison staffing shortage besides deincarceration Prison staff shortages and budget realityTDCJ can't keep rural units adequately staffedStaffing shortages force closure of TDCJ Connally unit wingAdult, juvie corrections took 39% of state employee reductions last yearJuvie, adult prison guards atop list of high… [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 8:03 am
Time Magazine examines the Florida prison system, particularly in the wake of the acquittal of 13 juvenile boot camp guards last week. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 1:24 pm
View the article here03/12/2008LINCOLN (AP) - A Lancaster County District judge has decided to send a former guard back, but this time inside the bars.On Tuesday, Lancaster County District Judge Karen Flowers gave 30-year-old James Pischel a sentence of 1 to two years in prison for using a computer to entice a girl into sex. [read post]
27 Oct 2012, 2:35 pm
The Southern Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit in July of 2011 against the state of Georgia that also alleged systemic abuse by prison guards at Hays State Prison. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 2:11 pm
If convicted, the former guards and the nurse - who authorities say watched the melee - could get up to 30 years in prison. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 6:24 pm
At a Senate committee meeting today Texas legislators were told that understaffing and low guard pay were primary causes of the flood of contraband in Texas prisons, combined with a lack of phone access for inmates to keep in touch with their families. [read post]
13 May 2020, 4:37 am by SHG
Some guards don’t care and see prisoners are subhuman. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:35 am by Jeralyn
Over the past three years, Illinois taxpayers have shelled out close to $10 million in workers comp claims to prison guards at one prison in Illinois. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 9:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits has sometimes complained that prison guards and staff caught smuggling contraband aren't punished as harshly as family members they conspire with in the deed, with few TDCJ staffers even fired, much less prosecuted, for the offense. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 8:29 am
" department, here's a story of prison guard corruption I didn't read in the Texas papers, via Drug War Chronicle:In Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Texas prison guard was arrested Monday night after Louisiana state troopers found 1.2 pounds of cocaine in her vehicle during a drug dog search after a traffic stop. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 4:48 pm
The spokesperson for the Florida Department of Corrections stated that, despite reports of prison guard misconduct, most contraband in the prison system is brought to inmates by visitors. [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 3:56 pm by Jeralyn
Yesterday I mentioned a doozy of an indictment against 13 prison guards in Baltimore that sounded like a plot from the Wire. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 11:00 am by Glenn Reynolds
GOVERNMENT: The Role of the Prison Guards Union in California’s Troubled Prison System. “California spends approximately $9 billion a year on its correctional system, and hosts one in seven of the nation’s prisoners. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 1:32 pm by The Law Firm of Shein and Brandenburg
Attorney's Office recently announced that a former Fulton County Prison guard has pled guilty to federal charges related to bribery and drug distribution. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 3:36 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
You might not think prison guards and inmates have much in common, but on the question of too-hot prisons they've found a mutual interest. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 1:30 pm
  The jail guards mostly won, and the prisoner completely lost. [read post]