Category Archive for : ‘PRISON EMPLOYEE’

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