jails
Arrested Jail Guard Union Boss Allegedly Received $60,000 Kickback in Ferragamo Bag
Andy Cush · 06/08/16 01:30PMNorman Seabrook, the head of the influential Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association union, was arrested at his home this morning as part of the federal corruption investigation into the New York City government. According to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Seabrook’s crimes included taking five-figure kickback payments inside designer handbags.
Woman Cleared After Two Years in Rikers Solitary to Sue City for $10 Million
Andy Cush · 05/09/16 09:35AMOf all the stories to emerge about the horrors of life on Rikers Island in recent years, Candie Hailey’s is among the most horrifying. For two years, Hailey was kept in solitary confinement for a crime for which she was eventually acquitted, a time she says was filled with physical and sexual abuse from guards. Now, Hailey is filing a lawsuit against the city seeking $10 million in damages, the New York Daily News reports.
We Are Spending Quite a Bit of Money on Jails
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/15 01:41PMKey Rikers Island Official Resigns Because Rikers Island Is Terrible
Andy Cush · 10/28/14 11:38AMDOC Lied to Families of Dead Rikers Inmates About Horrible Medical Care
Andy Cush · 10/27/14 09:58AMTen Legitimately Good Uses For Empty Prisons
Hamilton Nolan · 10/15/14 02:46PMRikers Island Is a Brutal Hellhole for Mentally Ill Inmates
Andy Cush · 07/14/14 09:55AMLawmaker Wants Library to Lose Funding for Teaching 'Mexicans' English
Neetzan Zimmerman · 11/15/13 12:00PMBaltimore's Jail Sure Is Bad, and Sexy
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/13 04:03PMTexas Prisons Are Overflowing With Prostitutes
Louis Peitzman · 08/26/12 02:17PMArizona Now Charging $25 for Prison Visits
Max Read · 09/05/11 02:48PMDo You Know Who This Man Is?
Max Read · 07/25/11 08:15PMThis is What a Real Jail Escape Looks Like
Max Read · 07/10/11 01:09PMIf you ever need to escape from the Walker County Jail in Huntsville, Texas, this is the video you want to watch. Trent Archie managed to fight his way out—his fellow inmate, Davis McLeskey, wasn't quite so lucky—by telling officers he needed to use the phone and then attacking an officer and forcing his way through the door. (Archie's since been re-arrested.) It's a bit less involved than Prison Break, but at least it doesn't take 22 goddamn episodes. [ABC]
Jerk-Off Mags Behind Bars: The Debate Rages
Seth Abramovitch · 06/01/11 02:52AMJailvertisements Coming Soon to New York State
Max Read · 03/27/11 10:01PMNew York's Erie County Holding Center will be playing advertisements on a television screen in its holding cells, apparently in an effort to plug the hole created by upcoming budget cuts. Obviously, the HDTV won't be for ads only—it will also "publicize general information about parking, the jail's policies and more," according to Anthony Diina, the advertising whiz who came up with the idea. ("What do people want they are in the Holding Center?" Diina asks, intriguingly, before settling on the rather obvious answer, "They want to get out.") "It strikes me as inserting a commercial aspect into something when I don't feel there is any place for it," says former prosecutor James Auricchio, which is a sweet thing to say, but get real, James, do you even know what "monetizing" is? Talk about "captive eyeballs," I am right? And listen to this:
Prison Full of Sex, Says Author of Prison-Sex Novel
Max Read · 03/20/11 10:38PM"Sex-starved and promiscuous" female guards are constantly having sex with inmates at Rikers Island, the New York Post reports, based on an interview with former guard Yolanda Dickinson. Who just happens to have written a novel—titled Taboo—"based on the jail's out-of-control sex scene"! How "out of control" is the "sex scene" at Rikers? According to the Post itself: Since 2007, six out of the prison's 3,890 "sex-starved and promiscuous" female officers have lost their jobs over "undue familiarity," though only two were accused of actually having sex with prisoners. Sounds out-of-control! And... sexy. [NYP]