Correctional Services News Archives

TOWSON , Md. - State prison inmates will get a start this week on planting a million trees across the state. via WTOP-FM Washington

JEMTEC , the leading provider of integrated technology systems for community based corrections in Canada, has been notified that the Company was not the successful bidder in response to a Request for Proposals ... via Market Wire

A burglar erroneously released from prison last month was back in custody Friday after turning himself in to police, officials said. via WINS-AM New York

“I believe in treatment, I believe that we should not send low-level offenders to jail unless under extreme circumstances”

ALBANY - Advocates at the Capitol Thursday asked lawmakers to overturn the mandatory sentences required by the Rockefeller-era drug laws and instead let judges decide how long offenders should stay in prison. via Ithaca Journal

“Well, OK, we wash our hands, but even if we touch the bars, we're still going to end up catching it if we have an open wound or something, you know.”

Four inmates at an eastern Ontario jail have been placed in isolation after contracting a type of bacterial infection resistant to ordinary antibiotics, the Ontario Ministry of Correctional Services has ... via CBC

“First of all, learn to spell pizzeria Mr. critic. This place is a sports bar / pizzeria. Alot of fun and good food. I'm there twice a week with...”

James I. Marion of Grahamsville has joined Barton & Loguidice as a senior environmental consultant. via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-R...

The discovery of three cell phones and two handcuff keys on prisoners at the Prince George's County Correctional Center over the past few months has cast a glare on the detention facility's policies as well as ... via Gazette.Net

“There was no evidence to demonstrate that prisoners were detained in luxurious rooms. "Prisoners must, as a constitutional requirement, be detained under conditions that are safe and promote human dignity.”

Claims that prisoners are afforded many privileges are misleading, dangerous and factually incorrect, the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative said today. via SABC News

“I see, in a very unique way, our youth becoming very active and very significant contributors.”

Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services and Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolocci announced $376,000 in funding from the provincial government through its Celebrate Ontario program. via Northern Life - Greater Sudbury

“We were told the tape was inaudible but they were not and there was a significant amount of material not disclosed (to the defense) ... the Crown will not be reviewing the matter further.”

An Eskasoni man who was freed from a provincial jail by accident in January was released from custody on purpose Monday. via The Chronicle Herald

“The Correctional Services department were planning to send their car for repairs to a workshop in Suffet Road when all of this started”

A motorist was wounded in Durban's Pinetown suburb on Tuesday when he was hit by a stray bullet, police said. via The Mercury

“No one has an interest in seeing that type of person in the workplace”

More than 18 months after Corrections Officer David McGuinn was fatally stabbed, corrupt activities behind the walls of a Jessup prison that led veteran officers to call it the 'House of Corruption' are complicating the state's efforts to send two inmates to the death chamber for the crime.

In legal motions, defense lawyers for the inmates portray conditions at the now-closed Maryland House of Correction as approaching 'anarchy.'

They have raised the claim by an unidentified witness that McGuinn, a by-the-book officer, was set up by fellow guards to keep him from disrupting their contraband smuggling and other corrupt activities at the maximum-security facility. Read more

“The most important thing for the department is justice for the McGuinn family.”

Correctional Officer David W. McGuinn was fatally stabbed in the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup in 2006. via The Washington Post

“This is a most serious case of neglect.”

Joshua Peterson forgets about border collie in car Car reaches 50c, dog tries to dig itself out of cage Dog dies, Peterson ordered to pay $22k A MAN who left a dog to die inside a car which got as hot as 50C ... via News.com.au

“The prison system has a purpose in our administration of justice and that should be the focus of the prison system”

Enlarge Alice Kreit, NPR Why the Drop in New York's Prison Population? The state's Department of Correctional Services attributes the declining numbers to a reduction in crime as well as well as implementation ... via National Public Radio

“When Mr Yengeni needs to travel on business-related trips, he applies in line with policy of the Head of Community Corrections Cape Town”

The correctional supervision conditions of newly elected ANC National Executive Committee member Tony Yengeni have not been relaxed in the past year contrary to what the Department of Correctional Services ... via Independent Online

Having finished his state prison sentence for defrauding more than 200 people of around $19 million, former Lewiston financial advisor Richard A. Muto appeared in federal court Friday to answer to charges of ... via Niagara Gazette