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An off-duty New York City correction officer was shot to death in her car Sunday night in Brooklyn, police said.
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On Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m. Weaver, 59, with 13 years on the job, was guarding dozens of inmates in an outdoor yard. Suddenly he fell backwards, striking his head against a concrete wall. He was working alone.
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A corrections officer and decorated veteran has died after he was assaulted and stabbed by an inmate earlier this month, Alabama Department of Corrections announced.
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The Justice Department will no longer use privately operated prisons after concluding the facilities compare poorly to their federally operated counterparts.
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Maricopa County, AZ, Sheriff Joe Arpaio shared on his Facebook page a video that he said shows a corrections officer saving a suicidal inmate's life.
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Correctional officer Mari Johnson, 55, was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead. She began working for the department in 2009.
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Corrections officer Kris Moules, 25, was killed in a fight with an inmate Monday night at the Luzerne County Prison in Wilkes-Barre, PA, when the two men fell down an elevator shaft.
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An upstate New York correction officer was severely injured after opening an explosive package sent to his Floyd home, the Oneida (NY) County Sheriff’s Office said.
Read More →Prosecutors alleged that the deputies attacked the inmate in a locked hallway of the jail that lacked surveillance cameras. The inmate was kicked in the genitals, punched and pepper sprayed, prosecutors said.
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Florida Correctional Officer Sgt. Jorge Ramos died Sunday afternoon, two days after participating in a statewide Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) competition at Sumter Correctional Institution.
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