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The jail came under fire in March 2009 when allegations came forward that a sheriff's deputy enlisted an inmate to touch a sandwich with his genitalia, then fed the sandwich to a fellow inmate. The inmate consuming the sandwich was then shown a cell phone picture of the first inmate's genitalia touching the sandwich. [ 5 ]
Franklin County plans to close the jail on Jackson Pike once the new jail is fully built out and staffed. Franklin County operates one of the largest jail systems in Ohio, cycling through 20,000 ...
Built in 1966, the prison gained its nickname "The Workhouse" from an 1840s city ordinance that allowed forced labor as a punishment for criminals sentenced in law court who couldn't pay their fines. [3] [4] [5] The Workhouse became infamous for its poor living conditions, prisoner abuse, and penal labor.
This 2009 video is of a 16-year-old inmate with learning disabilities at Thumb Correctional who threatened to hang himself. Guards press him down on his bed; after a while, he softly begins to sing. There is an increasing body of scientific research showing that when adolescents suffer from extreme stress and trauma, it can inflict permanent ...
Former correction officer at FCI Danbury in Connecticut; sentenced to prison in 2008 for having sex with an inmate; convicted in 2010 of trying to hire a hitman to kill the inmate, his ex-wife, his ex-wife's boyfriend, and a federal agent while incarcerated at USP Coleman in Florida. [33] [34] He was beaten to death by another inmate on August ...
In 1843 a penitentiary in four city squares in central Jackson was developed as Mississippi's first state prison. [2] [3] The prison in Jackson was destroyed during the Civil War, and the state did not replace it for decades. [3] Instead, the state conducted convict leasing, leasing prisoners to third parties for their labor. The lessees held ...
“These kids were just warehoused,” said Stacey Gurian-Sherman, a juvenile justice advocate and former state juvenile justice staffer in Maryland who helped expose some of the problems at Correctional Services Corp. facilities. “The staff is untrained, and they end up working double and triple eight-hour shifts.
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.