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And a 62-year-old inmate named Lawrence Evans alleges that in January 2012, an officer skipped more than 400 pellets of birdshot off the ground to break up a dining hall fight. Two officers and 11 inmates were hurt, including Evans. “It felt like my entire left side was shredded!”. Evans wrote later.
Police officer. A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. They are responsible for the security of the facility and its property ...
Death of Frank Valdes. On July 17, 1999, death row inmate Frank Valdes (October 28, 1962 – July 17, 1999) was killed at Florida State Prison in Bradford County. That morning, nine correctional officers, carrying stun guns, [1] entered his cell and beat him to death. [2]
By noon on September 9, correctional officers and police controlled about half the prison and its inmates, while 1,281 of Attica's approximately 2,200 inmates controlled the other half, including D-yard, two tunnels, and the central control room, referred to as "Times Square". [28] Inmates held 42 officers and civilian employees as hostages. [29]
He soon was promoted to correctional sergeant at $43,138 a year — a raise from his previous $37,422 salary as a guard at Northpoint Training Center, a state prison in Boyle County. But Beagle ...
A group of guards making up the Department of Corrections Emergency Response Team was sweeping one of the housing units for contraband on Dec. 8, 2023, when Othel Moore Jr., 38, was pepper sprayed ...
The exterior of Federal Correctional Institution, Milan. The Bureau of Prisons was established within the Department of Justice on May 14, 1930 by the United States Congress, [5] and was charged with the "management and regulation of all Federal penal and correctional institutions." [6] This responsibility covered the administration of the 11 ...
Michigan corrections officers are not normally armed, though they have access to weapons, when needed. Michigan houses about 33,000 prisoners in 26 state prisons.