Category Archive for : ‘SEX CRIMES COMMITTED JAIL PRISON’

February 3, 2021
Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — A former longtime corrections officer has been sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for committing four sex offenses — both felony and gross misdemeanor — with four female inmates while he was employed at the Forks jail.

Forks resident John Russell Gray, 52 — who received the 20-month sentence Monday in Clallam County Superior Court — worked at the jail and was on call at Clallam Bay Corrections Center when, according to court records, he had sexual intercourse or

December 22, 2020
Julie K. Brown
Miami Herald

In a scathing rebuke of Florida’s Department of Corrections, the U.S. Department of Justice has found that officers at Lowell Correctional Institution have raped, sodomized, beaten and choked countless female inmates as part of a pattern of civil rights abuses that goes back years.
The sexual torment by staff at the women’s prison so horrified DOJ investigators that they have put the state on notice, instructing prison officials to institute remedial measures to protect inmates within 49 days or face legal consequences.
“[The] sexual abuse of women

March 6, 2020
Katie Bernard
Kansas City

A former Kansas prison employee will remain out of jail on $50,000 bond awaiting his appeal after he was sentenced in Shawnee County District Court Friday for unlawful sexual relations with an inmate.
Tomas Co, who taught women at the Topeka Correctional Facility how to make dentures, was initially charged with five counts of unlawful relations. He was sentenced to 32 months in jail for one of those counts after a jury acquitted him of the other four in January.
He was also ordered to register as a

December 4, 2019
Romy Ellenbogen
Miami Herald

For years, male officers at the women’s work camp at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex sexually harassed and assaulted inmates in what amounted to a “sanctuary” for systemic abuse, a space where they were shielded from any consequences.
If the women complained about being groped, fondled or forced to perform sex acts on officers, the inmates were the ones who were punished.
Fourteen women, ranging in age from 30 to 56 and nearly all first-time offenders, have banded together to sue the United States, not under pseudonyms but under

November 14, 2019
Julie Small
AP News

SAN FRANCISCO(AP)— A state prison inmate incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility was awaiting her group therapy session on Aug. 23, 2017. She stepped backward in her cell toward the door, where Correctional Officer Israel Trevino waited with waist restraints.

As he attached the chains, he reached down with both of his hands “to grope and fondle her buttocks,” according to an internal investigation that led to Trevino’s firing.

The inmate, whose name was redacted in reports, angrily asked what he was doing.

“You

November 6, 2019
Anna Merriman
VTDigger

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A former prison guard at the Southern State Correctional Facility pleaded guilty to one charge and no contest to another in a sex crimes case involving an inmate at the facility.
Cameron Morin, 22, of Newfane, appeared in court Tuesday for the plea. He will be sentenced following a pretrial investigation and a psychosexual examination, according to Windsor County Deputy State’s Attorney Heidi Remick. She added that the sentencing likely won’t occur for several months, although there is no date set yet.
Morin was charged