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By Olivia Mitchell, cleveland.com Express Desk cleveland.com COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled today that a privately run prison must pay an inmate $4,000 for failing to release public records, including surveillance camera footage. The court ordered Lake Erie Correctional Institution to pay Devin Howard $2,000 in statutory damages for withholding surveillance footage from two encounters with correctional officers and another $2,000 for denying other public records requests.

By Austin R. Ramsey Lexington Herald-Leader LEXINGTON, Ky. — Three federal inmates at a Kentucky prison have been indicted in connection with an alleged assault involving a homemade stabbing weapon that federal investigators say may have been tied to the Mexican Mafia. A federal grand jury in Ashland indicted Edward Rodriguez, Gilbert Saldana and Alfred Fabrow on Aug. 27 on charges stemming from an alleged assault at the U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy in Martin County.

By Mark Price The Charlotte Observer CHESTERFIELD, S.C. — An ingenious inmate needed only a pencil to open his cell and escape from jail, according to investigators in South Carolina. The escape happened just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Chesterfield County Detention Center, and the inmate was recaptured within about 30 minutes, the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office says.

ALBANY, N.Y. — About 2,600 New York National Guard members remain assigned to state prisons more than a year after correction officers returned to work, a deployment one lawmaker’s office estimates is costing the state $50 million a month. The National Guard was sent into correctional facilities after correction officers began an unauthorized statewide strike in February 2025.

EATONTON, Ga. — A Georgia Department of Corrections special agent in charge has been charged with using the agency’s automated license plate reader system for a non-law enforcement purpose, authorities said. Robert “Bobby” Michael Keim, 45, of Eatonton, was arrested Sept. 1 on a charge of misuse of a license plate reader system, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He was booked into the Putnam County Jail. The Department of Corrections asked the GBI on Aug.

By Luke Mosseau The Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. WARREN COUNTY, N.Y. — A 2025 report from the New York State Commission of Correction has caused a recent stir in the ranks of Warren County correctional officers, with public rumblings that as many as 14 positions could be cut to save taxpayer dollars.

SCOTT COUNTY, Mo. — A Scott County corrections officer was fired after an inmate escaped custody during a hospital visit, the sheriff’s office said. Jail staff transported Kenneth Goeddert of Sikeston to a Cape Girardeau hospital for a medical complaint Aug. 31. Goeddert, who was being held on felony charges of resisting arrest and second-degree domestic assault, fled the hospital on foot, according to the sheriff’s office.

My first exposure to correctional leadership happened while I was a correctional officer in a housing unit. I observed how an experienced supervisor handled his shift efficiently. He was responsible for supervising operations at the correctional facility during the shift, and he also performed other duties. He served as a disciplinary officer, self-defense and firearms instructor, emergency coordinator and supervisor of the transport unit and disturbance control team.

Administrative burnout in public safety happens when leaders face relentless paperwork, compliance duties, meetings, staffing problems and accountability without adequate time or support. Although this stress differs from frontline trauma, it can weaken decision-making, morale and employee engagement across an agency.

Sydney Barragan Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department has released video showing detention officers repeatedly using force on a 59-year-old man, including striking and restraining him face down on a bunk, before he was found unconscious and died inside a San Fernando Valley jail in July.