Investigation
April 23, 2010
OIG Releases Special Report: August 2009 Riot at CIM
Findings in Brief
The Office of the Inspector General finds that:
• The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to house a suitable inmate population at CIM’s Reception Center West
• Despite the liabilities of the facility’s design, CIM staff responded effectively to the August 2009 riot at Reception Center West
May 23, 2008
Washington inmates in Oklahoma investigated in assault on officers
Four Washington prison inmates who were shipped out of state because of overcrowding are under investigation for allegedly assaulting prison workers in Oklahoma on Thursday.
The attacks took place at the North Fork Correctional Facility in Oklahoma, a private prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America. Washington has 304 of its inmates serving time in that prison, part of the 1,160 total number of inmates who are now out of state, said Washington prison official Gary Bohon.
A prison officer and sergeant were injured, treated at a hospital and released, said a CCA spokeswoman. The four offenders were placed in segregation…
LINK - TheNewsTribune.com
March 11, 2008
Two inmates’ deaths probed amid flu outbreak at Chuckawalla prison
Corrections officials deflected charges of medical neglect Monday in the deaths of two inmates at a prison that over the past three weeks has been ravaged by an outbreak of the flu.
Some 740 inmates have fallen ill at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in the Southern California desert since Feb. 23, according to a spokeswoman. Officials have since halted all transfers of inmates into and out of the prison.
The wife of one of the inmates who died said other convicts told her that her husband sought medical help but was "turned away" before he succumbed to his illness last Wednesday, four days after the first inmate death.
LINK - SacBee.com (The Sacramento Bee)
Related: Two inmates' deaths investigated amid massive flu outbreak - March 10, 2008 - CCPOA News Blog
March 2, 2008
AP finds 13,000 claims of abuse in juvenile detention centers
The Columbia Training School - pleasant on the outside, austere on the inside - has been home to 37 of the most troubled young women in Mississippi.
If some of those girls and their advocates are to be believed, it also is a cruel and frightening place.
The school has been sued twice in the past four years. One suit brought by the U.S. Justice Department, which the state settled in 2005, claimed detainees were thrown naked in to cells and forced to eat their own vomit. The second one, brought by eight girls last year, said they were subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse." Several of the detainees said they were shackled for 12 hours a day…
LINK - AP.org (Associated Press)
February 29, 2008
Brawl puts Chad, system under scrutiny
Two unnamed staffers at N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility near Stockton are under investigation after an alleged fight with a ward Jan. 21, a California Correctional Peace Officers Association spokesman confirmed Thursday. […]
CCPOA spokesman Lance Corcoran confirmed the probe into the alleged Jan. 21 fight, but he declined to name the two staffers or give details of the incident. He was critical of state prison officials, who oversee the state's Division of Juvenile Justice, including Chad. "True to form by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, after a correctional officer is viciously assaulted, it appears they are trying to blame the staff member for it," Corcoran said. "This was a 20-year-old ward who assaulted a staff member."
LINK - Recordnet.com
April 30, 2000
Investigation: Richard A. McGee Correctional Training Center
On April 12, 2000, the Office of the Inspector General staff made an unannounced inspection of the Richard A. McGee Correctional Training Center. The inspection was conducted to assess recent allegations of destroying test results, altering test scores, class overcrowding, retaliation practices, and favortism. I would like to share with you a preliminary assessment of these issues. As our investigation is still in progress, please be advised that the assessment could be modified as additional data are gathered.
