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Prison slang has existed as long as there have been crime and prisons; in Charles Dickens' time it was known as "thieves' cant". Words from prison slang often eventually migrate into common usage, such as "snitch", "ducking", and "narc". Terms can also lose meaning or become obsolete such as "slammer" and "bull-derm." [2]
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 ...
A former California prison guard being retried in a “Code of Silence” cover up in an attack on an inmate who later died was found guilty Wednesday. Brenda Villa, 32, a former sergeant at ...
Brutal body camera footage shows a handcuffed inmate being beaten unconscious by prison guards before he’s stripped down to his underwear — a fatal attack that’s now under investigation by ...
Brooks was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2017 for stabbing his girlfriend in Monroe County. Thirteen of the staffers have been suspended without pay and one resigned the day after the incident.
The patriarch of Aquileia, Poppo of Treffen (r. 1019–1045), was a mighty secular potentate, and in 1044 he sacked Grado. The newly elected Doge of Venice, Domenico I Contarini, captured him and allegedly let him be buried up to his neck, and left guards to watch over him until he died. [15]
At the prison, guards like Castro and Smith didn’t normally carry chemical spray, batons, handcuffs or whistles at the time that Perez was shot. But in at least six of the state’s seven correctional facilities, including High Desert, officers can access shotguns loaded with birdshot in designated posts elevated above housing units, the ...
A third California prison guard has been charged in the cover-up of the death of an inmate at California State Prison-Sacramento six years ago, this time on charge of falsifying records and lying ...