Webspotting the ‘red flags’ of abusive prison guards. The best criminal justice reporting tagged with correctional officer brutality, curated by the marshall project. Department of justice (doj) is cracking down on federal prison guards who sexually abuse inmates, saying bureau of prisons (bop) employees haven’t been. Webacross the country, prison guards get away with things like this every day. The solution isn’t to prosecute two isolated abusers and then issue a press release. Webvice news sees the issue as an important one, but also one that may be difficult to tackle — prison abuse has become part of a vicious cycle in the country’s. Webnew york’s prison system has failed to fire nearly all corrections officers it accused of attacking people in their custody. And guards often work in groups to cover. Webprosecutors say that on january 6, 1998, barnes killed reynolds by stomping on his head during a midnight struggle in the basement of louisville's. Weba grand jury has charged former dublin federal correctional institution guard, john bellhouse, with five counts of sexually abusing prison inmates (egelko, 2022). Webin one study of nearly 7,000 inmates across 12 state prison systems, 21% reported at least one incident of physical assault at the hands of prison staff.
