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The Battle of Alcatraz, which lasted from May 2 to 4, 1946, was the result of an escape attempt at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary by armed convicts. Two Federal Bureau of Prisons officers—William A. Miller and Harold Stites—were killed (Miller by inmate Joseph Cretzer who attempted escape and Stites by friendly fire).
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 as well as other ...
Indirect supervision is when a correctional officer is placed in an enclosed booth and must constantly watch over the inmates through a bird’s eye view. The physical interactions that officers have with the inmates is minimal, for most of the communication comes through an intercom system. Inmates are placed in their own cells and officers ...
The attorney representing a terminated Tarrant County Jail supervisor has joined the voices calling for the release of full, unedited videos of the events leading to the April 21 death of Anthony ...
The former jail supervisor allowed white supremacist inmates to violently attack Black inmates in Oklahoma, feds said. Jailer had cells unlocked for Black inmates to be attacked, feds say. He’s ...
When Corey Rodrigues was taken to the hospital for surgery, no one notified his family, they said in 2020.
A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, [1] [2] [3] or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot.
A total of six jurors, including two alternates, have given sworn affidavits saying they would either support or decline to oppose if Tisius’s sentence was commuted to life in prison.