Tag: Corrections

ELIZABETH, N.J. Two New Jersey men whose escape from jail led to the suicide of a corrections officer and spurred comparisons to the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" were given maximum ...

New measures aimed at reducing prison rapes are in the works and states that fail to take steps to protect their inmates could see their federal money cut.The new standards ...

TUCSON, Ariz. State prison officials say nine guards have been hurt breaking up a large fight at the prison complex in Tucson.Corrections Department spokesman Barrett Marson says the fight broke ...

Officer Jeff Wroten, age 44, was shot and killed by an inmate he was guarding during a hospital visit. The inmate, Brandon Morris, age 20, who was doing time for ...

Feigning a medical condition or mental illness can pay off in many ways. Malingering is the intentional production of false or exaggerated physical or psychological complaints with the goal of ...

TROY, Va. For more than a year, Virginia's largest women's prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. It's some of the most prized waterfront land in the country, a large piece of rich and beautiful property sitting right on San Francisco Bay, and the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY An Oklahoma workers union is calling for an investigation after it says two female corrections officers were strip-searched by investigators looking for gang-related tattoos.Scott Barger, deputy director of ...

From March 10–14, 2009, I attended the ACJS conference, held this year in Boston. A police officer from San Diego Calif., I attended this conference both as a police officer ...

From March 10-14, 2009, I attended the annual conference of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, held this year in Boston, Massachusetts . I am a police officer from San ...