|
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Across the CountryALABAMA March 6 - Two inmates at the St. Clair Correctional Facility suffered third-degree burns when another inmate doused them with gasoline and set them on fire, according to a prison spokesman, who added the attacker apparently picked the locks of his own cell and the victims' cell and set them on fire with gasoline and a match around 3 a.m. (I'm wondering where and how he got the gasoline!) ALASKA March 7 - A man accused of dismembering a friend and filling his grandmother's freezer with the body parts last year is now being charged with two dozen counts of sexual assault against a fellow prisoner at the Anchorage jail. The 22-year-old assailant was arraigned on 28 charges, including 23 counts of rape. (Wow. This guy's got issues.) ARIZONA March 11 - An unrepentant prison inmate already serving 97 years was sentenced to an extra 28 years for holding a correctional officer hostage and sexually abusing her. A Pima County Superior Court jury convicted the 36-year-old on aggravated assault, kidnapping, sexual abuse, and promoting prison contraband. CONNECTICUT March 7 - State police investigated two recent attacks on correctional officers - one by a death row inmate. Both correctional officers suffered injuries requiring medical attention in the separate attacks last month at Northern, the state's maximum-security prison. One attack at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution last year broke an officer's eye socket, knocked out a tooth, and caused partial hearing loss. GEORGIA February 28 - Authorities captured an escaped inmate whom they say kidnapped a correctional officer and other inmates. Sheriff's deputies from Evans and Bulloch counties, and others searched through the night for the inmate. Anonymous tips and clothes found in a horse trailer led them back into Claxton, where they found their escapee in a house, hiding under a mattress. MARYLAND March 7 - Roxbury Correctional Institution was on lockdown after seven inmates assaulted several correctional officers. A Corrections Division spokesman said an inmate tried to break away from a correctional officer as the inmate was being led back to his cell after lunch. During the assault, three other inmates jumped in to aid the escape, according to the spokesman. NEW JERSEY February 28 - An inmate whom authorities thought had escaped from the Middlesex County, N.J., jail was found to be hiding in the ductwork of the facility. The inmate was removed from the roof and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The warden said officials believed he was in the ducts all along, but could not find him in two days of searching. OKLAHOMA March 12 - A Love County inmate and a former jailer authorities suspect helped him escape are back behind bars after a short-lived escape. It was the second time this week an Oklahoma prison escapee was caught in Bowie. Two days earlier, two other escapees were apprehended by the Bowie Police Department. The Love County inmate had walked away from an Oklahoma Department of Corrections work center in Waurika March 8, and officials believe that a 56-year-old drug counselor helped him escape. SOUTH CAROLINA February 23 - Authorities say a man who broke out of jail in Camden wearing only his underwear and a pair of socks has been captured. The Kershaw County Sheriff's Department captain said he scaled a brick wall with a fence at the top of the wall, and was able to disassemble it enough to get through the wire and go across the roof. He then tied off a sheet and lowered himself over the wall. (It's February! Why leave the pants and shirt behind?) TEXAS March 12 - Two jail trustees - inmates with privileges - are charged with sexual assault after a female inmate said they raped her in a holding cell at the Nueces County Jail, the sheriff said. On March 3 correctional officers ordered female prisoners out of a first floor holding cell so the trustees could clean it. The female inmate told investigators she stayed and hid behind a wall thinking the two men were going to bring her cigarettes. UTAH March 12 - Two Beaver County sheriff's deputies were injured when they were attacked by three state inmates doing time at the Beaver County Jail. One deputy was hospitalized after his jaw was broken in three places, requiring surgery. The other deputy was attacked as he tried to help the injured deputy. VIRGINIA March 12 - A jury convicted a jail inmate of capital murder for killing a hospital security guard and a sheriff's deputy during an escape. The 26-year-old was convicted of overpowering a sheriff's deputy at a hospital in Blacksburg, then using the deputy's pistol to kill an unarmed security guard. He also was found guilty of killing another sheriff's officer one day later near the Virginia Tech campus. WASHINGTON March 3 - Continued overcrowding at the Pierce County Jail prompted officials last year to nearly triple the number of inmates released before serving their full sentences or before they ever reached a cell. Returning low-level offenders to the streets is one answer to the law-and-order reality that grips an overburdened Pierce County criminal justice system. "Full at the seams" is how the chief of Corrections, who runs the jail, described the situation. (It's not just California; a scary sign of the times.) WYOMING February 25 - The state of Wyoming paid $350,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former prison inmate who claimed he was beaten and sexually assaulted by another inmate at the state penitentiary in Rawlins.  Print This PageBack to Volume 25, Issue 3 Back to PEACEKeeper Main Page |
