Governor Bill Haslam and Commissioner Derrick Schofield are under attack from House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Stewart, D-Nashville. The chairman is blaming both Haslam and Schofield for continuing problems plaguing the Tennessee state prison system. He is calling for the …
A Connecticut corrections union’s leaders are lobbying for changes in the state’s policies related to dangerous prisoners after four officers were injured in a violent assault last week. The union believes the current policies are putting more officers at risk …
Correctional Officers in the state of West Virginia go through rigorous training to work at state facilities which include 10 regional jails, 18 correctional facilities and 10 juvenile detention centers. The training for all of the officers in the state …
Corrections Officer Sgt. John Donald of Franklin County Law Enforcement in Maine, received a promotion to assistant jail administrator at the beginning of November 2015. His years of service to Franklin County and his excellent service record all contributed to …
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for sweeping prison reform after a visit to San Quentin prison in California. He and his wife traveled to San Quentin to get a first hand perspective on how prisoners are treated in …
High profile prisoners can present a variety of problems for prison officials, and there have been few prisoners more problematic than Czech gangster Radovan Krejcir. Krejcir was imprisoned three years ago for racketeering in South Africa. Since then, he has …
Off-duty correctional officer Anthony Davis heard a commotion while in Brooklyn at about 1:20 in the afternoon and went running over. Davis saw a man bleeding and screaming as he was being attacked by a pit bull. The dog was …
West Virginia has a severe shortage of correctional officers. As of July 2015, the state had 217 vacancies for correctional officers statewide according to an interview with Joe Thornton, the secretary of the state’s Department of Military Affairs and Public …
San Quentin State Prison brought in additional correctional officers to manage its inmates following the hospitalization of one inmate with Legionnaire’s disease and the sickening of more than two-dozen others. The potentially fatal disease spreads through contaminated water, and the …
The Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) hired 1,333 new correctional officers between August 2014 and July 2015. Its latest group of 101 cadets graduated from Basic Correctional Officer Training in late July 2015 and will work in 11 different correction …
