JULY, 2003
July 27, 2003 - 'I am not a criminal, I have done nothing wrong' (The
Age)
Alamdar Bakhtiyari, who has spent three of his mere 15 years living in
detention, says he never wants to come out. He says he feels safer
behind Baxter detention centre's razor wire. (Click
here for more)
July 27, 2003 - Sheriff fights jail drug use (ABQ
Journal)
Jail guards or civilians who help bring illegal narcotics into the Santa
Fe County jail might wind up spending time there as inmates.
(Click here for
more)
July 24, 2003 - Pilgrim Nuke plant guards set date for strike vote (The
Boston Herald)
A strike vote is set for Thursday by Pilgrim nuclear power plant
security officers who say they are being forced to work longer than the
48-hour week agreed to in a tentative contract earlier this year.
(Click here for more)
July 24, 2003 - Activist targets private jail (ABQ Journal)
San Miguel County Jail inmates and their families are complaining about
unsanitary conditions and treatment that leads to violence, said a
long-time activist for inmates' civil rights. (Click
here for more)
July 22, 2003 - Louisiana sheriff faces copyright suit (The
Times-Picayune)
For $3, inmates and visitors to the Claiborne Parish Detention Center in
Homer can buy pirated copies of recordings by a wide array of
performers, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the music
industry. (Click
here for more)
July 22, 2003 - Wackenhut inmate's murder conviction upheld (AP)
The state Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a prison inmate's
first-degree murder conviction for the death of a fellow prisoner at the
Lea County Correctional Facility. (Click
here for more)
July 21, 2003 - Attorneys say nurse, company at fault (Fort
Worth Star Telegram)
A Texas Rangers' investigation into the death of an inmate at the former
Mansfield boot camp determined that the 18-year-old probationer had to
take cold and flu pills for days before he was allowed to visit a
nurse. (Click here for
more)
July 16, 2003 - 3 teen detention escapees caught (The
Ledger)
The three teens who escaped from the Bartow Youth Training Center on
Thursday afternoon were caught about 12 hours later five miles away, the
Polk County Sheriff's Office reported Friday. (Click
here fore more)
July 15, 2003 - N.C. Senate approves police
powers for private prison guards (AP)
Guards at a privately run federal prison in Hertford County would have
police powers under a bill approved unanimously by the state Senate on
Monday night. (Click
here for more)
July 15, 2003 - Ethics complaint targets county's 2000 trip (News Herald)A union that represents law enforcement and correctional officers said Monday that it had filed ethics complaints against three former Bay County commissioners, a former county manager, a former county attorney and the county’s chief of emergency services. (Click here for more)
July
14, 2003 - Firm's lack of control has deadly consequences (Washington
Post)
Re-Direct Inc. was hired by the District to provide juveniles convicted of
crimes with a refuge of counseling and structure. Instead, teenagers living in
the company's group homes and apartments received little help and were allowed
to roam free. (Click here for more)
July
14, 2003 - A wilderness therapy program heads to court (The Salt
Lake Tribune)
As Ian August and a band of teens hiked over the steep hills that make up the
Sawtooth Mountain area one year ago, Millard County prosecutor Brent Berkley was
inside his air-conditioned Delta home.
(Click here for more)
July
14, 2003 - Jury selection starts in inmate's death (Star-Telegram)
Jury selection begins today in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents
of an 18-year-old Arlington man who died after becoming ill at a former
Mansfield facility for probationers. (Click
here for more)
July 14, 2003 - Family questions inmate care (The Tennessean)
Edward Corley's death was an especially bleak one. (Click
here for more)
July 11, 2003 - Former Crowley County prison guards allege sexual coercion (AP) Three former Crowley County Prison guards are suing the private companies that operate the prison, claiming they were coerced into having sex with managers and that sexual misconduct was rampant among employees and inmates. (Click here for more)
July 11, 2003 - Man dies after being restrained (Las Vegas Review-Journal) A man pepper-sprayed by security guards trying to restrain him Thursday struggled to breathe and then died only minutes after a 6-foot-6, 370-pound guard pushed a knee into his back while handcuffing him, police said. (Click here for more)
July 11, 2003 - State audit finds problems at jail (ABQ Journal) New Mexico Corrections Secretary Joe R. Williams left little room for doubt: Santa Fe County, and by extension its private jail contractor, has 30 days to clean up security problems at the county's adult detention center. (Click here for more)
July 11, 2003 - Warden, officer on duty at July 4 jailbreak fired (ABQ Journal) The McKinley County jail's warden and the lone corrections officer who was left in charge of 80 inmates during a Fourth of July jailbreak have been fired. (Click here for more)
July 10, 2003 - Gas used on detainee trying to stop fight, hearing told (The Age) An Iranian detainee at Woomera during the riots at Easter last year says she was sprayed with tear gas and her son beaten as women and children tried to stop a fight between guards and detainees. (Click here for more)
July 9, 2003 - Lax security faulted in Gallup jailbreak (ABQ Journal) An investigation into the Fourth of July jailbreak at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center in Gallup has concluded that mistakes in all areas of security allowed two accused killers and two other inmates to escape. (Click here for more)
July 9, 2003 - Suit filed over ex-inmate's bills (St. Petersburg Times) An attorney representing an Ocala hospital has accused Citrus County of borderline fraud for its refusal to pay the medical bills of a former jail inmate who was too poor to pay them himself. (Click here for more)
July 8, 2003 - Inmate charged in prison death pleads no contest (New Herald) The third of six men charged in the death of a Bay County Jail inmate pleaded no contest to manslaughter Monday and faces 10 years in prison. (Click here for more)
July 7, 2003 - Private guard accused of sex with inmate (Daily Advertiser) A guard at a private prison in Evangeline Parish has been booked on charges of having sex with an inmate. (Click here for more)
July 7, 2003 - Girls' justice facility criticized (AP) Staff members at the Florida Institute for Girls are using force and restraints too quickly and too often, according to a new review of the state's only maximum-security facility for girls. (Click here for more)
July 7, 2003 - McKinley jail investigates breakout (ABQ Journal) Two of four inmates who escaped the McKinley County jail Friday remained at large Saturday evening, as an internal investigation continued into how the escape was allowed to occur. (Click here for more)
July 7, 2003 - 2 inmates still missing from N.M. jailbreak (AP) Law enforcement officials are investigating why an escape from a privately run county jail went unreported until one of the four fugitives, injured jumping from the jail roof, showed up at a hospital a few hours later. (Click here for more)
July 4, 2003 - Bounty hunters free to roam, Mexican judge rules (AP) Three bounty hunters facing charges over their capture of fugitive rapist Andrew Luster can travel where they want as long as they show up at court here each Monday, the judge overseeing the case said. (Click here for more)
July 3, 2003 - Shake-up at Augusta prison for youths (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) The state Department of Juvenile Justice has handed control of the Augusta Youth Development Campus to a private company on an emergency basis. (Click here for more)
July 2, 2003 - Suit blames officials in jail overdose (ABQ Journal) The adoptive parents of a former Santa Fe County jail inmate who died there at age 19 of a drug overdose in July, 2001, have sued the jail's former private manager, the county and others associated with the facility. (Click here for more)
July 2, 2003 - Woman escapes from jail's work crew (ABQ Journal) A Santa Fe woman's Tuesday morning escape from a work crew comprised of female jail inmates emphasizes the need for identifying inmates at risk of flight and not allowing them to participate in the program, the Santa Fe County sheriff said. (Click here for more)
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