Maricopa County Inmate Jonathan Peterson Receives Additional
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has announced that Jonathan Peterson, who has already been jailed for gang-related crimes, will serve another 42.75 years to be part of the second-degree murder and criminal street gang. The investigation revealed that Peterson used a cell phone smuggled from his cell to order hits from informants, indicating the extent […]
Death row inmate auctions his San Quentin journals, art for $80,000
San Francisco – In early 2020, Albert Jones sat in his cell in the line of Saint Quentin’s death, as he had every day for about 30 years, when reports of mystical respiratory disease began to circulate. Over the next few months, hundreds of death row inmates fell ill. Covid-19 swept the East Block of […]
California lawmakers may give inmate firefighters a raise
Firefighters who are housed in California county jails and state prisons earn wages of up to $19 under laws considered by state lawmakers. Congressional Bill 247 It will increase the hourly wages of prison prisoners assigned to work in active fire scenes. “They put themselves on the forefront,” Congress member Isaac G. Bryan (D-Los Angeles), […]
Department of Correction settles deaf inmate lawsuit, agrees to provide accommodations • Tennessee Lookout
The Tennessee Department of Corrections has agreed to provide videophobia, sign language interpreters and other accommodations to deaf people in Tennessee prisons, and settled a five-year-old lawsuit alleging that the state’s treatment of deaf prisoners violated federal law. Legal settlements also prohibit the department from punishing or punishing deaf prisoners for using sign language or […]
1 inmate dead after a dozen overdoses at Maricopa County jail
Phoenix – An inmate has died after 12 overdose reported at the Maricopa County Jail over the past week. What we know: Maricopa County The Sheriff’s Office says 12 overdose has occurred. Estrella Prison. Sheriff Jerry Sheridan detailed one of the incidents. “The first incident we had was on February 6th, where we called the […]
Male Inmate Sues Trump For Not Letting Him Serve Time In Women’s Prison
A male prisoner claiming to be a transgender filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Sunday. He argued that the constitution was violated after being removed from a woman’s prison under an administrative order. Maria Mo, a prisoner contained in women’s prison, will deny transgender prisoners as “medical care that is a medical treatment”, […]
Autopsy of Yuma prison inmate shows cause of death from esophagus condition
The death of an inmate who died days after undergoing hernia repair surgery at a state prison in Yuma in June came after a federal judge who oversees Arizona’s historically poor inmate medical care ordered an investigation into the death. According to the autopsy results, he died of unrelated natural causes. But an autopsy report […]
Maricopa County jail inmate charged in the death of cellmate
A man in custody at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is accused of killing a fellow inmate, according to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Muhammad Toure, 26, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Darshaquise Small-Duran, the attorney’s office said. On Dec. 29, guards at the 4th Street Jail in downtown […]
REPORT: Prison Guard Suing State Says She Was Held Hostage, Raped For Four Hours By Inmate
A California correctional officer is suing the state after what she described as the “worst night” of her life, which left her physically and mentally scarred, KCRA 3 reported Monday. Katie Jackson, 40, said systemic failures at the Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown prevented convicted rapist and murderer Robert Lawrence Ransom Jr. from attacking her […]
Transgender Convicted Baby Rapist Reportedly Beat Female Inmate In Women’s Prison
A transgender convicted child rapist severely beat a female inmate at a Canadian prison after confronting the man for staring at his children in the mother-baby ward, Reduxx reported Tuesday. Adam Laboucan, a biological man convicted of violently raping a 3-month-old infant when he was 15, allegedly broke a female inmate’s ribs during a 2018 […]
