Category Archive for : ‘CORRECTIONS OFFICER’

March 3, 2021
Wear TV

BONIFAY, Fla. — FDLE Pensacola agents arrested a Holmes Correctional Institution officer on 35 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material.

The FDLE says Brian Patrick Carpenter, 34, of Bonifay, is also charged with four counts of promoting sexual performance of a child.

Carpenter is a correctional officer at Holmes Correctional Institution. The Florida Department of Corrections is moving forward with Carpenter’s immediate dismissal.

The FDLE says the investigation began in January before FDLE agents conducted a search warrant at Carpenter’s home on Tuesday.

“Agents found videos and photographs of

February 15, 2021
Lauren Pack
Journal – News

A former Madison Twp. fire chief was arrested Sunday on child sex allegations after a short investigation involving multiple victims, according to officials and court documents.

Ronald E. Miller, 69, of Preble County Line Road in Madison Twp., is charged with two counts of rape and four counts of gross sexual imposition involving three female victims who were between 5 and 14 at the time of the alleged crimes. Some of the charges are connected to crimes allegedly committed several years ago.

Butler County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy

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

November 6, 2020
Chris Tisch
Tampa Bay

A former federal corrections officer in Florida has been sentenced to life in prison for child sexual abuse, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office reports.
Kenneth Slanker, 41, of Inverness, worked as a corrections officer at the Coleman Correctional Complex in Sumter County at the time of his arrest in February 2019. He was found guilty of six child sex abuse charges in February and was sentenced this week, sheriff’s officials said.
Investigators determined that Slanker had abused the victim over a period of years and that the abuse

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