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THIS IS AN OFFICIAL NEWS SITE FOR CURRENT AND RETIRED CORRECTIONS OFFICERS! This blog will keep up on current events affecting Detention Deputies and Corrections Officers. SINCE 2006!
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Family of Texas corrections officer questions his death
From ABC News- Family of Texas corrections officer questions his death after inmate's life sentence.
Officer Jovian Motley died under mysterious circumstances in November 2023.
The family of a Texas corrections officer is still seeking answers after his death in what was supposed to be a routine inmate cell extraction.
Officer Jovian Motley died in the line of duty at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Wainwright Unit in Lovelady in November 2023. The official explanation is that he was assisting other officers in restraining the inmate when he died.
Earlier this month, inmate Jabari Lewis pleaded guilty to capital murder in Motley's death, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Motley's family says the sentencing did not bring them closure.
Friday, December 19, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
The PERA Correctional Retirement Plan is funded at 105%
While the Police and Fire Retirement Plan and the PERA General Plan are short, the PERA Correctional Plan is fully funded at 105%!
Please go here for more information: https://mncoretirementassociation.blogspot.com/2025/12/pera-correctional-plan-funded-at-105.html
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Copy of Hennepin County Policy on Transgender and Intersex Inmates
Below is a copy of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Jail Policy on Transgender and Intersex Inmates.
As Detention Home wrote about in June this is in conflict with Federal PREA laws. Including bans on cross gender strip searches and facilities must "implement policies and procedures that enable inmates to shower, perform bodily functions and change clothing without nonmedical staff of the opposite gender viewing their, breasts, buttocks or genetalia..."
Alpha News is covering women who were incarcerated at Shakopee Prison protesting against similar policies. “Forcing incarcerated women, who typically are nonviolent offenders, to share intimate spaces with these violent, predatory men is an act of cruelty that amounts to state-sanctioned torture and any rape that occurs under these circumstances must be understood as state-sanctioned,” added Bruss, a volunteer with Women’s Declaration International USA. ALPHA NEWS
In this writers opinion Hennepin County is opening itself up to lawsuits under PREA. A Corrections Officers main duty is protecting inmates. Housing male and female inmates together leaves the door wide open for assaults on both the trans inmates and normal inmates who may be preyed upon.
Sadly the current policy leaves Detention Deputies open to being sued if they put a trans inmate in the population of the opposite sex AND if they don't. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Monday, December 08, 2025
After lawsuit new Hennepin County rules for 'trans' inmates
From the article:
According to Gender Justice, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is now required to:
- Use an inmate’s self-reported gender identity as the main way of determining their jail unit.
- Require regular training for jail staff.
- Use chosen names and pronouns for people in custody.
- FULL STORY
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Monday, November 10, 2025
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
Some recent Corrections News
From KSTP-
Lawsuit: Man died after Eagan police, Dakota County jail staff mistook stroke for intoxication
From a CO standpoint if an arresting agency brings in a person on suspected DWI and that person has difficulty standing and talking that's par for the course. Generally a nurse at some point looks at that person. The lawsuit alleges the staff was indifferent. Let's see where this goes. Full Story
Bring Me the News is reporting-
Inmate's death at Minnesota prison investigated as possible homicide
The inmate died after a fight with his cellmate, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
HCSO hires 99 Detention Deputies!
Full Story KSTP
A record-setting swearing-in ceremony for the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is leading to a fully staffed agency and a major slowdown of millions spent to move inmates due to staffing struggles at the jail.
On Tuesday night, 28 licensed deputies and 99 detention deputies were sworn in by Sheriff Dawanna Witt — she said during the ceremony that brings the agency to 900 personnel.
“There were a lot of people who thought that we couldn’t get to this point,” Sheriff Witt told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. “Here we are, fully staffed with still room to grow.”
The agency’s staffing shortage in the jail created unique challenges, including the relocation of hundreds of inmates to other jails.
RELATED: Hennepin County Jail overcrowded, 180 inmates to be moved
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Former CO pushes to get cell phone jammers in prisons
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NBC News is reporting that a CO shot six times is pushing to get cell phone jammers in prisons.
Robert Johnson was a corrections officer whose job it was to prevent inmates from smuggling cellphones, drugs and other contraband into one of South Carolina’s most violent prisons.
But then came the morning of March 5, 2010.
Johnson was inside his home, preparing to head into work at the Lee Correctional Institution, when a hitman kicked in his front door and shot him six times in the chest and stomach.
Miraculously, Johnson survived. He hoped to return to work after multiple surgeries, but it eventually became clear to him that the damage to his body was too extensive.
Full Story NBC News
Tuesday, September 09, 2025
Male inmate in MN women's prison assaults female inmate!
Time and time again this keeps happening. I wonder if there's a way to avoid this? Hmmm
According to Reduxx (Full story in link)
Reduxx has learned that a man with multiple convictions for domestic assault has been quietly transferred into a women’s prison in Minnesota, where he has been accused of attacking a female inmate. Nathan Trevon Jones, 24, who calls himself “Natalia,” is a repeat offender who was most recently convicted of assault in the fifth degree, and was placed in Minnesota’s only female prison, MCF Shakopee, earlier this year.
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Hennepin County to open new Juvenile Center
KSTP is reporting that
Juvenile crime in Hennepin County, similar to most other metro counties, is witnessing an increase in juvenile crime.
Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the county is on schedule to open a new facility for juveniles in South Minneapolis by the end of the year.
Lunde said the $20-million renovation project will have between 14 and 16 beds with specific goals.
“You know we’ve been waiting for beds all over the state, right? So, this allows us to bring kids in —stabilize them and find out kind of what their acute needs are,” said Lunde.
Monday, August 18, 2025
Sunday, August 10, 2025
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