Tag: Inmate Behavior: Page 3

Patrol

Tulsa Officer Gave 'Take Out' Order for Inmate

Sgt. Carla Housely said she wrote out a statement by inmate Durrell Collins, who claimed that Tulsa Police Officer Bill Yelton asked him to beat up another inmate in the Tulsa Jail,

August 10, 2011

Patrol

Inmate Stabs Ore. Deputy with Pencil

Two Washington County (Ore.) jail inmates will face additional charges for attacking a corrections deputy, stabbing him three times in the face with a pencil.

August 7, 2011

Gangs

America's Cage War Against Radical Islam

Our Judeo-Christian culture has been challenged in the arena of global conflict. We're locked in the "ultimate fighting cage" of war, a place we've been before. We're in a fight against extremist terrorism, and this isn't the first round.

July 18, 2011

Gangs

Gangsters in Blue: Corrections

When inmates and gang members see cops acting like convicts, they tend to react to them like they do other convicts and gangsters. What little respect that might remain is lost. What little restraint that might have been practiced is loosed. The exercise of lawful authority becomes personal, vindictive and cause for retribution.

June 8, 2011

Gangs

Understanding Inmate Codes of Conduct

I've always marveled at this irony. Young men who rebel against authority and parental control, who commonly hate school, hate memorizing verses and symbols, hate reading history, hate learning new languages, and hate participating in physical education, enjoy doing all these things for their prison gang leaders.

April 24, 2011

Patrol

Inmate Rolled Joint with Bible Page

David Allen Henson, 24, admitted to the act, after jailers found the marijuana roach made from the Bible page in his cell.

March 16, 2011

Technology

Prison Guards Main Source of Smuggled Cellphones

Union officials say they don't necessarily oppose searches; they also cite a work requirement that corrections officers must be paid for "walk time" — the minutes it takes them to get from the front gate to their posts behind prison walls.

February 8, 2011

Technology

Feds Consider Allowing Cell Phone Jamming In Prisons

Even though the number of cellphones confiscated in prisons has jumped since 2007, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has resisted allowing correctional facilities to use wireless jamming technology to block cellphone signals.

January 3, 2011

Gangs

The Dangers of Judicial Arrogance

Maybe judges should be made to spend some time with prison staff inside the walls to educate themselves in a practical way on the true realities of life in the prison system and the dire consequences of their rulings.

September 14, 2010

Patrol

San Francisco Lockup Installs Condom Dispensers

Though sex among the inmates is illegal, the sheriff's department installed the machines as a health-safety measure.

September 7, 2010

Gangs

Ask the Right Questions the Right Way

The Mexican Mafia informant was making me nervous. He was in top physical condition and we were unarmed and in a very isolated part of the Men's Central Jail. Fifty-some year olds, like Frank and I, would have had our hands full fighting with this witness had he decided to fight.

August 2, 2010

Patrol

Inmate Stabs Correctional Officer at California Prison

Corcoran State Prison locked down their facility after a female correctional officer was stabbed on Tuesday with a "manufactured weapon," KMPH reports.

February 2, 2010