A Fort Carson sergeant major lost two stripes and will serve six months behind bars after he admitted at court-martial to sending indecent text messages to a woman and fraternizing with a subordinate on the post. Sgt. Maj. Benito A. Perez Jr., 51, a former top enlisted soldier in Fort […]
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Fort Carson soldier headed to prison | Military
A Fort Carson sergeant major lost two stripes and will serve six months behind bars after he admitted at court-martial to sending indecent text messages to a woman and fraternizing with a subordinate on the post. Sgt. Maj. Benito A. Perez Jr., 51, a former top enlisted soldier in Fort […]
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CA prison guards must now wear body cameras under court order
The state of California is paying for corrections officers at a state prison in San Diego County to wear body cameras, a first for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The department rolled out the pilot program at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility last month, as part of a […]
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How a Compton artist’s lost prison painting found its way to the Hammer Museum
Fulton Leroy Washington, a.k.a. Mr. Wash, in his Compton apartment and painting studio with a Kobe Bryant portrait he made. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Fulton Leroy Washington knows, all too well, the rules around making art in prison, those strict regulations for inmates working in the well-guarded hobby […]
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Amid virus lockdowns, prison ministry groups had to adapt
Normally Teresa Stanfield spends her days in prisons talking with inmates about how she changed the course of her troubled life, and how they can do the same. But the coronavirus has locked her on the outside. “When COVID came and shut down programming, I was extremely disappointed,” said Stanfield, […]