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Andrea “Andi” High Bear was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison for a drug-related crime in South Dakota. Three months after arriving at Federal Medical Center Carswell, a Bureau of Prisons facility in Fort Worth, the pregnant mother of five contracted COVID-19. She died shortly after her daughter was born.
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The Justice Department announced that conditions in prisons located in Georgia violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, according to a new DOJ press release.
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In the latest case of what a deputy attorney general describes as “appalling criminal acts” at a women’s prison nicknamed “the Rape Club,” a former guard at the now-closed California institution was indicted on 15 counts of sexual abuse of female inmates, the Department of Justice reported in a July 26 press release.
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When Quandelle Joseph was a guard at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, he used his position as a cash cow to provide drugs, cell phones and other contraband to inmates in exchange for bribes totaling over $20,000. The 34-year-old Brooklyn resident pled guilty in January to a charge of accepting bribes.
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High ranking sheriff’s deputies ought to know inmates shouldn’t have access to creature comforts like cell phones and Mary Jane. But at least one Lieutenant didn’t get that memo.
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Seven Corrections Officers, including a Sergeant who watched, are in trouble after the assault of a handcuffed, non-violent inmate in a prison shower room.
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Three corrections officers, a program counselor, a contractor, and a former inmate at Rikers Island have been booked on charges related to corruption and bribery, according to an April 9 statement by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
