#department of corrections inmate search

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While opposition to men in women’s prisons should focus on the safety of incarcerated women don't forget the impact dealing with these perverts have on female guards.

By CAROLINE DOWNEY May 28, 2024 6:30 AM

Female prison guards in California have been traumatized after being forced to perform naked strip searches on male felons under the state department of corrections’ gender-inclusion rules.

For decades, the department prohibited female officers from conducting unclothed strip searches on male inmates except in emergency circumstances, such as when a same-sex officer is not available or if the male inmate is at risk of harming themselves or others.

Now, “Incarcerated individuals who are transgender, non-binary, or intersex must be searched according to the gender designation of the institution where they are housed or based on the individual’s search preference,” according to official prison policy obtained by National Review.

This sudden shift in policy, officially implemented in 2021, has shaken female staff at the California Institution for Men, colloquially known as Chino. Some male inmates who identify as women, or have even undergone transition surgeries and hormone therapy, choose to stay at Chino rather than request a housing transfer to a women’s facility, such as the California Institution for Women.

While there, trans-identifying male inmates are entitled to request that they only be searched by female guards. The female guards are required to perform the searches or face penalties or termination, former and current female Chino officers told National Review.

Recently retired after 22 years as a corrections officer at Chino, Paula James experienced firsthand how the decision to accommodate trans-identifying inmates has made the state prison a scary and unfair place to work.

“As a corrections officer myself, I wasn’t supposed to be stripping male inmates down,” James told National Review. “You’re not supposed to unless it’s an emergency situation. You can get in trouble, it’s considered rape. . . . I’ve been taught that my whole career. Then all of a sudden, now some of these men are saying they are women, but they still have all the parts.”

Two years ago, at the facility, James was told she had to strip-search a trans-identifying male inmate on suicide watch who was checking in to the mental-health department for a 72-hour hold. There was no other female officer around that day to do it, she said.

“I told myself, ‘I’m getting ready to retire, I don’t want to have to do this,’” she said. “But that day I felt pressured into doing it. My sergeant told me I had to do it.”

Another female officer came into the bathroom to cover her as she frisked the inmate.

“The whole time, this inmate is making me feel like I’m doing something wrong,” James said.

Acting embarrassed, he covered his chest area and male genitals. James had to ask him to move his hand to make sure he wasn’t concealing a weapon or drugs to self-harm. The inmate requested on paper that a female rather than male officer check him.

“I didn’t feel comfortable about it, but I had to do my job,” she said.

James started to cry on the phone as she recounted the day. With a background in nursing, James said she didn’t expect to be so shaken from the incident. It felt degrading for both her and the inmate, she said.

“I didn’t realize how disgusted I felt after that until I walked out,” she said. James said she broke down in front of her friend as she explained what had happened.

“It was just not right,” she said. “Because I had been taught all that time that I wasn’t supposed to do that. It was really hard on me, even thinking about it today.”

While they’re now required to search male inmates, not so long ago, female officers could be punished for searching inmates of the opposite sex, even if they felt the search was justified due to an emergency situation.

A corrections officer of 19 years, who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of professional retribution, was transferred to Chino from a maximum-security facility in 2017, before the current gender-inclusion policy was implemented. Soon after arriving at the prison, the guard was disciplined for searching a male inmate who a colleague believed was hiding potentially dangerous contraband.

The search was conducted after a fellow female officer asked the guard for assistance because she witnessed what she believed was an exchange of contraband between two inmates who were prohibited from interacting.

“Just as I’m approaching him, the toilet flushes, which is a sign that he probably got rid of the contraband,” the guard said. “So, I conducted a clothed body search on him, and she was right there next to me. I ended up doing an unclothed body search, which our policy states that a female can under emergency circumstances.”

The guard said she deemed it an emergency because her friend was sure she saw a weapon or drugs in the man’s possession.

“I was completely professional about it and that was it,” she said.

Months later, she received the highest possible level of disciplinary action from her superiors. She appealed the decision on the grounds that the policy is ambiguous about what circumstances qualify as an “emergency.” She lost the case. An official in Chino’s employment office told her confidentially that the department wanted to fire her over the incident.

“Back in 2017, it was two male inmates, but now here we are seven years later, and they want me, if I’m given a direct order, I must strip out that trans inmate,” she said. “What’s the difference from when I stripped out that male inmate to now? It’s still a man.”

Prison officers are told in training that they could be fired for refusing to do a search on the opposite sex because “it’s refusing a direct order from your sergeant,” said James, the recently retired corrections officer.

While some younger female officers are more willing to comply with the new gender-inclusion policy because they’ve never experienced anything different, others expressed concern to James before she retired.

“I had younger officers coming to me saying, ‘Ms. James, what am I going to do?,” she recalled. “They want us to do this with these inmates now.’

Other female guards have reported to James that they think male inmates have requested to be searched by women “just to make the officer see them.”

Asked for comment, the California Department of Corrections reiterated that SB 132, The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, allows incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex people to request to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity.

“Ongoing training for staff and incarcerated people is paramount when handling the unique challenges facing this population,” the department said. “CDCR has developed and provided specialized training to staff to ensure they are aware of laws and departmental policies and to give them the knowledge and tools they need when interacting with the incarcerated transgender and non-binary communities.”

Paula confirmed that California, like Washington State, subsidizes transition procedures for male felons on taxpayer dime.

“We had a guy that was doing 60 years, he was a rapist,” James said. “He became a female, and he was going to go to the female facility, but they paroled him instead. I couldn’t believe it. . . . This guy got released to the streets.”

Once that inmate underwent the intervention, many other trans inmates started seeking out the procedures, she said.

“A lot of sexual predators, I hate to say it, are getting the surgery,” she said. “Even child molesters. It’s not good.”

One male inmate at Chino, after getting a phalloplasty, was brought back to the facility with durable medical equipment. One tool he was given was a dildo, to prevent the incision from closing, the anonymous female officer said.

“The state pays for them to have hair removal,” she added. “The state pays for them to have breast implants. The state pays for them to go to vocal classes.”

James, who worked in the medical area of Chino, often heard the crimes of the male patients.

One such patient was found guilty of consuming child pornography and sexually abusing his girlfriend’s daughter, she said. He too received the surgery from the state, she said.

“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, why are they able to change to a female, then they can be, if they ever get out, they can prey on their victims even more?’” she said.

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One of two men who carried out a Satanist-inspired “thrill kill” murder in San Jose was freed from prison and released back into Santa Clara County. Former inmate Jae Williams, 29, was granted early release on November 20, court records show.

Williams was a 15-year-old high school student when he and his 16-year-old friend, Randy Thompson, decided they wanted to kill someone. The boys befriended 15-year-old Michael Russell with the sole intention of murdering him in 2009.

The victim’s family’s attorney, Scotty J. Storey, told KRON4, “Jae and Randy set out with a goal of killing someone just to find out what it felt like. They cultivated a ‘friendship’ with Mikey, lulling him into a sense of security with them, to achieve their goal.”

When San Jose Police Department homicide detectives were investigating the teen’s grisly death, Williams told police that his religion, Satanism, gave him permission to kill.

The three boys went to Russell’s house on Nov. 10, 2009. When the trio was alone in the backyard, Williams and Thompson attacked the victim with a knife. They reportedly took turns stabbing the Santa Teresa High School student.

Storey said the terror Russell must have felt realizing his “friends” were going to kill him is unimaginable.

With Williams freed from prison, the victim’s surviving family members are also terrified, Storey said.

“They are very disappointed in the legislative system that created the statute, which lead his release. They are also terrified for themselves and for society. There is no indication that Jae Williams ever showed any contrition or remorse for taking Mikey’s life or the brutal way that he and Randy murdered him,” Storey told KRON4.

For their trials, Thompson and Williams were charged and convicted as adults, and sentenced to serve 26 years to life in prison. Senate Bill 1391, passed in 2018, prohibits anyone under the age of 16 from being charged as an adult. After California’s law passed, Williams’ case was transferred into juvenile court.

Thompson — who was just one year older than Williams at the time of the “Thrill Kill” — remains locked up in San Quentin State Prison, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson confirmed to KRON4. “He was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. He is in CDCR custody,” the spokesperson wrote.

Thompson’s next parole hearing is scheduled for March of 2024. He will be eligible for parole in May of 2028, according to state inmate records.

Williams was set free hours after a discharge hearing was held in Santa Clara County juvenile court on November 20. His mother, Christina Trujillo, and defense attorney, Lewis Octavio Romero, appeared in the courtroom with him, court records state.

The court set the following probation conditions on the convicted murderer’s release:

Williams cannot change his place of residence without prior approval from his probation officer.

Williams is forbidden from associating with Thompson. He is also barred from having any “intentional contact” with the victim’s family members.

He must participate in re-entry services.

He may not leave his family’s home between 11 p.m.-6 a.m.

He must attend school, vocational training, or maintain full-time employment.

Williams may not use, possess, or be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

He is subject to search and seizure at any time by law enforcement.

Williams is not allowed to own firearms until he turns 30 years old on June 8, 2024.

If Williams violates his probation conditions, he could be ordered back to jail for no longer than six months.

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What are prison pen-pals? Prison pen-pals are inmates who exchange letters with non-incarcerated pen-pals. Inmates have been turning to our WriteAPrisoner.com program since its inception in 2000 to find mentors, legal aid, educational opportunities, employment upon release, counseling, housing options, and so much more. We post profiles, photos, and contact information of inmates. You, the viewer, can then select which prisoners you would like to correspond with, both men and women, after viewing personal (interests, goals, etc.) and public (crime, release date, etc.) information. Once you have selected a prison pen-pal to correspond with, you have the option of sending your first message free of charge. Contact with prison pen-pals is then maintained via postal mail or programs like CorrLinks and JPay. Inmates cannot access their WriteAPrisoner.com profiles online in any capacity. We are a pen-pal website only. Inmates pay for pen-pal profiles. That income is used for operating costs as well as our Scholarships, Welcome Home Kits, Reintegration Profiles, and other community programs targeted at reducing recidivism. Research shared on our Why WriteAPrisoner page and the Federal Bureau of Prisons shows that both male and female prison pen-pals who establish and maintain positive contacts outside of prison walls, pursue educational opportunities, and seek normalization through friendship, are less likely to re-offend. Inmates from county jails, state prisons, federal prisons, on death row, and in rehabilitation centers across the country have posted profiles. We also have prisoners listed from outside of the United States. You can conduct an inmate search of inmates not listed on our website by using our Inmate Locator. We also encourage you to visit our Prison Forum to engage with other members about related topics, such as what to expect when you meet an inmate, death row, correspondence, visitation, different departments of corrections, and more.

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Nicholas Holbert, North Carolina inmate 0815376, born 1986, incarceration intake in 2015 at age 28, sentenced to life

Murder, Kidnapping

Nicholas Holbert of Fayetteville was sentenced to life in prison without benefit of parole in 2015 for the murder of 23-year-old Army Spc. Kelli Bordeaux in 2012.

Holbert pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping, admitting that he beat Bordeaux to death after they left together from the former Froggy Bottoms bar on Ramsey Street in the early morning of April 12, 2012. Bordeaux's body was found two years later in woods off River Road, near Eastover and the Outer Loop.

"The only way he needs to leave the Department of Correction is in a pine box," District Attorney Billy West said during the emotionally-charged sentencing hearing in Cumberland County Superior Court.

Holbert, 28 at the time, apologized to Bordeaux's mother and her two surviving children, saying he was "truly sorry" and that "hopefully one day you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

That's never likely to happen. Bordeaux's mother, Johnna Henson, angrily spoke to Holbert from the witness stand, at one point demanding that he look at her.

Before Judge Jim Ammons sentenced Holbert, West summed up the details of the case:

Bordeaux had become estranged from her husband on April 7, 2012, and began seeing another man.

At some point, she met Holbert, who did odd jobs for the Froggy Bottoms bar and lived in the woods behind it in a makeshift camp. About 8 p.m. on the night she disappeared, Holbert picked up Bordeaux at her home in Meadowbrook at King's Grant Apartments and took her to the bar, a short drive away.

They played pool together and she sang karaoke. At some point, Bordeaux learned that Holbert was a registered sex offender.

At 12:46 a.m., she sent what seemed like an anxious text message to the man she had recently been dating saying Holbert was going to take her home. While walking to the car, Bordeaux made a derogatory comment about Holbert's sex offense and he struck her in the face, knocking her out.

Holbert put Bordeaux in his car and drove to his campsite, where Bordeaux awoke screaming. Holbert hit her until she died, drove to a convenience store for gas and then buried her body in a shallow grave in woods off River Road.

Several organized searches never found her.

Not having enough evidence to charge him with murder, police arrested Holbert for violating the sex offender registry. He was convicted and put in prison until May 2013.

Sometime that year, David Marshburn, a private investigator from Smithfield, had befriended Holbert and given him odd jobs while secretly working with police to get Holbert to confess.

Months later, Holbert broke down and led Marshburn to the area where he had buried Bordeaux. Her body was exhumed in May 2014.

During the hearing, Ammons asked Holbert when he had last drunk alcohol or used illegal drugs. Holbert replied he used cocaine on May 13, the day before Bordeaux's body was found.

No family members appeared in the courtroom on behalf of Holbert, who dropped out of Pine Forest High School in the ninth grade, after being charged with indecent liberties with a minor at age 16. His mother lives near Spring Lake, and he has never had a connection to his father, Holbert’s attorney said.

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Hello, I’m the same person that asked a bunch of questions about the uniforms a while back. (Like how they felt and stuff) Where would I be able to find these uniforms? Do you have any recommendations of what color uniforms would be appropriate for someone starting their own collection?

I use a number of sources that include corrections departments, direct purchases from suppliers, ex inmates, ex guards, Etsy, Facebook Market Place, Ebay, Flea Markets, Mercari, Offer Up, private collectors, and just dumb luck. Collecting is about diligence and persistence. If I simply cannot find something, I have also had it made by a skilled craftperson.

An orange jumpsuit or scrubs, a black and white jumpsuit and scrubs, or finding a movie costume is a great place to start.

My first uniform was old school denim.

When people start a collection, I say the first uniform should be what they instantly think of if they hear the words inmate or jail or prison.

Send me a message, and I will try to help further to narrow down the search.

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[The origin of the Belle Park totem pole in Kingston, Ontario, at least in part. Queen Elizabeth was visiting for the Kingston tercentenary, and this totem pole was one of a number made at that time by Indigenous inmates at Collin's Bay Penitentiary and Joyceville Institution, two medium security federal prisons in Kingston. 

Who the carvers were, the inception of the project, whose idea was it, how it fits into the broader activities of the Native Brotherhood at Joyceville, all of that is still a little hazy to me - but the hard work of local researchers has resulted in a stupendous resource available here online: https://belleparkproject.com/the-place/totem-pole. It answers a lot of my questions and features the words of many of the carvers - a useful corrective to the Whig's slant here.

The Advance - the inmate newspaper at Joyceville - has a notice in June indicating OECA Channel 19 interviewed the totem pole carvers on May 18, for broadcast July 1 & 2 in Toronto. The Advance praises the tercentenary project as a "significant symbol of the role Native People have played in the evolvement of the Canadian people." Haven't read earlier issues yet to get a better feel. 

In terms of outside newspaper coverage, there is this dramatic image from April 17 crediting MP Flora MacDonald for getting the wood shipping from BC. Which is all about how great the local Conservative MP is, not the carvers.

In terms of the broader context, Seth Adema's article “Native Brotherhoods and Decolonization in Ontario's Federal Prisons' is pretty crucial, and available for free online if you search. The totem pole is still on the Belle Park golf course, which has become during the pandemic a tent encampment for Kingston’s growing unhoused population. The city keeps trying to evict them all - presumably to re-open the golf course - while local solidarity activists try and stop it.  Belle Island, where the park is partly located, is a site with great significance to the local First Nations, but was of course a garbage dump at one point because this is Canada...]

/// Captions for top images: "Chips are flying," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 8, 1973. Page 4. ---- Indian inmates at Joyceville Institution are busy these days in an effort to finish a giant totem pole before the Queen's visit on June 27. When finished, the carved pole will be given to the city and placed at the new municipal golf course where the Queen and Prince Philip will be staying in their private railway car. 

(Photo by William O'Neill)

"To overlook the municipal golf course," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 8, 1973. Page 4. ---- When completed and presented to Kingston, the totem pole on the left will be set up by the parks and recreation department on the spot marked with an X in the above picture. The Chalet willhouse the dressing rooms and office building for the city's new municipal golf course, built over at former dump site.

(Photo by Bill Baird)

Captions for middle image: "Putting some art into it," Kingston Whig-Standard. April 17, 1973. Page 1. === Turning a four-ton 40-foot log into a work of art in a monumental task. However working on the adage that a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step Flora MacDonald MP for Kingston and the Islands helps Indian inmates at Joyceville Institution with their first cut. The Indians as a Tercentenary project have agreed to carve a totem pole for Kingston. The giant log was shipped by CNR to the institution from British Columbia free of charge, through the efforts of Miss MacDonald and CNR president MacMillan.

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Arrested Again part 39

(with apologies to cuffedstories deactivated 202211)

When I awoke the next morning the first thing I did was to check the power level on the tracker. As I expected it was fully charged. And they would now deal with me on a respectful level.

At 8:00 AM sharp I presented myself at Mitch’s office. It was a spartan affair, and reflected the penny pinching attitude of corrections funding. “Sit down Beck” he commanded. “While the incidents of the last few days were unfortunate, hopefully you've come to the realisation that any breach of your monitoring programme will be dealt with quickly and effectively. On your parole record the incident has been recorded as an equipment malfunction. I need you to sign this document acknowledging that to be the case”. He pushed the piece of paper across the desk. The document was headed “Waiver”, and essentially asked me to absolve the Department of Corrections from any liability for having given me faulty equipment. As it appeared to be totally in my favor, and was not putting any blame on me, I duly signed it.

“That’s all for today” Mitch said. “how about we meet here same time next week?” he  continued. “any questions?”

“None whatsoever” I replied.

After leaving his office I caught the bus to the county jail. When I arrived who should be on the front desk but Scott. He gave me a broad smile, then said “as an external visitor you will need to go through a security check”

“Does that involve a body frisk?” I asked, returning the smile.

“Sure does!” he replied. “Could you please spread your legs and put your arms out to the side, Sir”.

It seemed strange having Scott refer to me as “Sir”, after the many years he called me “inmate”.

Once I had done as he asked he ran his hands over my upper torso and arms, then started patting me up from the ankles. He finished with a not too subtle grabbing of my genitals. Given that the whole procedure was turning me on it was not surprising when he said “You sure you’re not bringing in a weapon Sir?”

“Very funny!” I replied.

“OK. I’ll take you to your class. Please check with me on your way out Sir. You’ll need a further security check”. The “Sir” bits, and his constant inuendo were unnerving me a bit.

Thankfully another CO stood guard for the class, so I could concentrate on my teaching. It was difficult adapting to being an external teacher teaching  inmates, when many of them had previously known me to be an inmate. They had to adapt to calling me “Mr Beck”, when previously just “Will” was the norm. Such was the nature of prison protocols.

At the end of the class I was taken back to the reception area, where Scott was still on duty. “Time for your security checkout Sir” he grinned. “Will you be requirIng a legal consultation?”

“I would prefer to play it safe” I answered. “Mitch is clearly watching my tracker like a hawk.  Until he loosens up a bit I don’t want to give him further excuses to slap me back into here”.

“OK. Just a frisk then” he said. This time he made a point of grabbing my genitals extra hard and giving them a shake. After he let go he whispered “let me know when you’ve got your own accommodation and I’ll come pay you a visit.....Sir”.

“Will do” I replied, giving him a knowing smile.

I walked a few blocks from the jail to catch a bus back to the transit accommodation. I decided to get off at a shopping centre a few streets past my accommodation so that I could talk to a letting agency about arranging permanent accommodation.

“You working?” asked the clerk when I entered.

“Yes” I replied.

“Where at?”

“I’m a teacher at the County Jail”.

“You a parolee?” she asked.

“Yep” I answered.

“You’ll need an extra month’s bond” she said.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because parole officers are notorious for doing searches and destroying the place” she replied.

“That’s hardly fair!” I protested.

“Parole Officers are exempt from liability for damage they do. Somebody has to pick up the tab. Parolees are the reason parole officers visit” she explained.” Take it or leave it”.

Was there no end to having to eat shit by virtue of being a convict?

“OK. So what have you got?” I asked.

“All I have is a ground floor apartment with one bedroom.$250 per week”.

I was in no mood to haggle further. I agreed to take it, as the three days I’d spent back in County were still deducted from the one week I had been given to find my own accommodation. After I paid her the bond money she gave me the keys to the apartment. It was three blocks away and I easily walked it.

The apartment was dark, musty and peeling paint was everywhere. Being on the ground floor it had a rear door leading out to a yard at the back. It was minimally furnished, and I would need to find a bed somewhere.  I realised I would need to inform Mitch, so I texted him the address of the apartment.

The phone rang straight away. “you there now?” Came Mitch’s voice through the phone.

“yes Sir” I replied

“Stay there until I get there!” he demanded.

Twenty minutes later Mitch appeared at the front door.

“Unlock your phone and give it to me” he demanded. I promptly did as he asked, as Mitch was not one to be argued with. He quickly browsed through the texts that I had sent and received. Luckily none of them we’re in any way controversial. He then navigated to the recent calls screen, pulled out his own phone, then photographed that screen. “I’ll be running a check on the calls that you’ve made and received. I hope for your sake that they are all in order” he said, handing me back the phone. He then quickly checked out the flat, snapping a few photos of it with his phone.

“This will do” he said. “just remember you oughta be here between 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM every evening without fail. Any visitors you have are to be approved by me. Understood?”

This arsehole was really starting to piss me off. I didn’t recall my parole conditions requiring that I tell him who my visitors were, but again he was not someone to argue with.

“Yes Sir” I reluctantly replied.

It was still mid-afternoon, so once he had left I went down to the local supermarket to get some food for dinner. I located a pay phone in the supermarket. Obviously if I wanted to do anything without Mitch’s knowledge I could not use my own phone. I put a coin in the phone, and dialled.

“Hi Scott. Will here” I said. “I need you, real bad”. I then explained what my address was, and how my mobile could not be used.

I returned to my apartment with a bag of groceries. I waited, and waited, until around 8pm a Harley bike roared to a stop out the front. A classic Leatherman got off it, the chaps he was wearing accentuating a bulge in the jeans underneath. He knocked loudly on the front door. I opened it, and immediately recognised Scott’s facial features under the Muir cap, and behind the mirrored glasses. He entered, closed the door then ordered “Strip boi!”.

“Yessir!” I yelled, hurriedly denuding myself, wanting to please the leather god before me. Once complete he pulled out a pair of heavyweight Clejuso handcuffs, then quickly snapped them on my wrists behind my back.

“On your knees boi!” he  ordered. “Tonight you’re going have to  work super hard to earn your way out of those restraints!”

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Lori Wickelhaus, a former star of MTV‘s 16 and Pregnant, has been released from prison after spending over 26 months behind bars for possessing Child Sex Abuse Materials (CSAM). 

The Ashley can exclusively reveal that Lori— who starred on the show’s second season alongside Leah Messer, Kail Lowry and the rest of the original Teen Mom 2 girls back in 2010—was released from a Kentucky prison on Wednesday.

As The Ashley previously reported, Lori was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in 2021, after pleading guilty to two counts of possession of CSAM. (The Ashley would like to note that, at the time that story was published in 2021, the term “child p0rnography” was still widely used. It is now referred to as Child Sex Abuse Materials or CSAM.)

Anyway, Lori’s release comes much earlier than expected. According to the Kentucky Department of Corrections website, she was due to serve at least until December 2027 in a medium-security prison. Lori became eligible for parole in October 2022, but was denied at her first hearing. At her parole hearing last month, however, she had her parole approved.

As part of her parole requirements, Lori is will be on mandatory reentry supervision. According to the National Institute of Corrections’ website, “Kentucky requires that every inmate that is released from prison undergo post-release supervision to ensure that the inmate has the necessary monitoring and/or support in the community.”

Lori’s legal battle began in August 2020, when she was arrested for possession of Child Sex Abuse Materials. According to the police report from the arrest, the offending material was found on Lori’s iPhone and laptop, with the viewing dates listed as September 23, 2019 and December 18-19, 2019. 

According to the report, the county’s police department received a Cybertip from the Kentucky State Police Internet Crimes Against Task Force that was originally submitted by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The tip came in after an unknown person uploaded photos that showed illicit child images to a Dropbox account. From there, a search began in March of Lori’s computers and phone, and she was indicted on August 13, 2020 and arrested.

Lori delivered quite the mugshot for that arrest, shown with her eye makeup streaming down her face after what had obviously been a period of heavy sobbing.

Back in May 2021, Lori changed her plea to guilty regarding the 20 counts of “Possessing/viewing matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor.” (She eventually pleaded guilty to two counts of that charge.)

She was due to be sentenced in June 2021 for her crimes, but never made it to the sentencing. Lori was booked into Kentucky’s Campbell County Detention Center and given an additional charge of being in Contempt of Court (Libel/Slander Resistance to [Court] Order.)

Fans of “16 and Pregnant” will most likely remember Lori’s episode, which was one of the most heartbreaking of the entire series. During the episode, Lori and her then-boyfriend Corey Haskett struggled with their decision to place their baby boy for adoption. Lori— who was adopted herself— eventually decided on an open adoption and placed her son, Aiden (who was born in December 2009) with his adoptive family at the end of the episode.

Lori went on to have two more children after Aiden’s adoption. She welcomed daughter Rylynn in 2013 and son Logan in 2014. They currently reside with Lori’s parents.

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This freak again?

A transgender pedophile currently serving a lengthy sentence at New Jersey’s only women’s prison has filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC), claiming his Wiccan religion is being discriminated against.

Marina Volz, 34, filed the suit on April 28, claiming he is being denied religious accommodations in accordance with his Wiccan beliefs. Wicca is often classified as a new religious movement, having been established in England in the early 20th century, drawing upon a diverse set of Pagan beliefs.

In his lawsuit, Volz alleges that Joy Lynch, the head of religious services at Edna Mahan, has denied the Wiccans the use of a loosely fitting cloak used during “witch coven” gatherings. The NJDOC permits the practice of Wicca in the state’s prisons, and practitioners are reportedly allowed to access the item Volz is claiming he has been denied.

Other Wiccan items allowed by the NJDOC include the Book of Shadows, which contains instructions for magical rituals, a pentacle, incense, three electric or battery-operated candles, and a cup of grape juice as a substitute for wine.

Volz is currently serving a 25-year sentence for a number of horrific sexual crimes he committed against his own 7-year-old daughter.

On May 6 of 2022, Volz, born Matthew, was sentenced on charges of human trafficking, aggravated sexual assault, conspiracy and endangering the welfare of a child. His charges had stemmed from a 2019 investigation into his conduct after the New Jersey Department of Child Protection became aware he was creating pornography in a home where a child resided.

Volz, along with another trans-identified male named Ashley Romero, had operated a “transgender porn” business in their home through which they produced and distributed fetish content.

A search warrant was executed at the property after it was learned that the child had likely been exposed to sexually explicit material. Electronic devices from the home were subsequently seized, and several sexually-explicit photos and videos of the girl were found after forensic examination.

Volz had been separated from the child’s mother, but traveled to Oregon with Romero to take the child into his custody and transport her to New Jersey in 2018 where he began using her in child sexual exploitation videos. Volz’s horrific pornography scheme was launched just one year after he had served as the Clark College Queer Association president.

Some of the media found by police featured Romero sexually abusing the girl. Romero lived in the residence with Volz and with two other individuals, Sean Allen, who had also sexually abused the girl, and Dulcinea Gnecco, who acted as a domestic servant.

During the trial, prosecutors told the Judge the little girl had been subjected to “a vortex of darkness” after being removed from her mother’s care.

Judge Peter Tober declined to delve into the full details of the case, but noted to the court that she had been subjected to torture-like conditions, mentioning neck collars, a cage in the basement, and sex toys.

“If this was not heinous, cruel and depraved, I don’t know what is,” Judge Tober said, stating that the girl had been taken from her mother “solely for the sexual gratification” of others.

In media coverage of the horrific case, Volz and Romero were referred to as “women” and were addressed using “she/her” pronouns. Volz was also identified as the girl’s “mother” in the Daily Mail and My Central Jersey.

After their sentencing in May of 2022, Reduxx learned that Romero had immediately been sent to the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, but that Volz had initially been placed in the South Woods State Prison for men. Just two months later, Volz was quietly transferred to Edna Mahan but was still recorded as a “male” inmate until this year, when the state of New Jersey updated his inmate profile to classify him as a “female” inmate.

Volz had previously sued the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office, claiming discrimination on the basis of his gender identity while being processed following his initial arrest. 

According to court documents reviewed by Reduxx, Volz was placed in protective custody in the male unit of the Somerset County Jail prior to his trial for the sexual abuse of his daughter. He would not be moved to the female unit until the next year, after arguing he identified as “female.” The case was settled out of court for $5,000.

Last year, Reduxx spoke to multiple female inmates at the facility who expressed anxiety and fear about the presence of the male inmates in their close quarters.

Miseka Diggs, an incarcerated woman at Edna Mahan, explained that the female inmates were “scared to death” of the men. Under the current policy, the men do not need to undergo any surgery, and Diggs asserts that most of the men are not on hormone replacement therapy. She stated that a majority of women incarcerated at Edna Mahan have past trauma, with many being victims of male violence, and the presence of men in the facility is causing them severe distress. 

According to Diggs, women who complain of feeling unsafe are placed in protective custody.

“We can’t express our feelings in fear of being put in protective custody, [which] is like lock-up. If you use the wrong words you will be uprooted and removed from your living quarters. So many women walk around in fear,” Diggs said.

“We feel like we are part of some sick joke. This is a nightmare that we can’t wake up from,” she added. “The women here are traumatized over and over again and it seems as if no one cares about our needs. We feel like second-class citizens with no rights.”

Another female inmate, Dawn Jackson, expressed similar concerns. Jackson is a survivor of lifelong sexual abuse, and explained that the presence of males in the facility caused her anxiety.

“Personally speaking, I have succumbed to a point where I mentally and emotionally cower when in the presence of some of the trans-identified males housed here in prison with me,” Jackson says, “I’ve had to mentally rearrange myself since having no choice… being subjected to live amongst the opposite sex.”

As recently revealed by Reduxx, the state of New Jersey’s policies on gender self-identification in prisons was largely the result of a settlement reached between the ACLU and the Department of Corrections in 2021.

The lawsuit the ACLU launched was on behalf of a transgender male inmate who sought transfer but had been denied. That inmate was anonymized in court records, referred to only as “Sonia Doe.” Reduxx later learned that Doe was in fact Danielle Demers.

Born Daniel Smith, Demers was investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office for attempting to sell ammunition and pipe bombs. Demers is a member of the “adult baby” community, in which adults role-play as children during sexual encounters.

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One of two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison early this week was captured Thursday night while dressed as a woman, federal authorities said.

Members of a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force were conducting surveillance in an area of North Philadelphia where they believed 24-year-old Nasir Grant was staying, said Robert Clark, a supervisory deputy with the Marshals Service Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Shortly before 10:30 p.m., a man resembling Grant "came out of a residence wearing full female Muslim garb and a head covering," Clark told journalists.

Grant got into a car and authorities followed it and stopped him nearby.

"I believe he was thoroughly surprised," Clark said, adding that Grant was taken into custody without any problem.

"He submitted to our commands, and it was pretty much an uneventful arrest, which is the way we like it," Clark said.

The search continued for Ameen Hurst, 18, who escaped with Grant from the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center on Sunday night by cutting a hole in a fence surrounding a recreation yard, the Philadelphia Department of Prisons has said.

Clark described the search for the two men as "exhausting," with all task force members working 16- to 18-hour days. The arrest of Grant will allow the task force to focus on the hunt for Hurst, he said.

The men were aided by a woman in the city, who authorities said Thursday had been charged with escape and conspiracy.

A judge set bail at $500,000 for Xianni Stalling, though that ruling was being appealed by prosecutors who had sought $2 million bail. She was arrested around 1 a.m. Wednesday by U.S. Marshals. She was being represented by the public defender's office, which declined to comment.

Hurst and Grant were gone for nearly 19 hours before officials knew they were missing.

Hurst had been charged with four counts of murder, while Grant was being held on conspiracy drug charges and conspiracy weapons charges. Officials have said the inmates were housed in the same unit, but different cells.

Authorities say Stalling received a phone call from one of the inmates before the escape, CBS Philadelphia reports, but police wouldn't identify who made the call or when. It's unclear how Stalling is connected to the escaped prisoners.

She was also charged with hindering apprehension and use of a communication facility.

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JACKSON, Miss. — Seven months of searching for her lost son brought Bettersten Wade to a dirt road leading into the woods, past an empty horse stable and a scrapyard.The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue.Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son.She pulled up to the gates of the Hinds County penal farm, her sister in the passenger seat. A sheriff’s deputy and two jumpsuited inmates in a pickup told her to follow them.They bounced down the road and curved into the woods, crawling past clearings where rows of small signs jutted from the earth, each marked with a number.Image: Bettersten Wade arrives to a burial site with numbered markers at the Hinds County Jail penal farm. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)“Girl, look at this,” Bettersten, 65, said to her sister. “Would you believe they would bury someone out here?”The caravan came to the end of the road, at another clearing with more markers. The deputy took one of Bettersten’s hands, her daughter the other, and they walked to the mounds of loosely packed dirt. They stopped at grave No. 672.“Really?” Bettersten said.She bent over, hands on her knees. She cried out, her voice echoing off the surrounding trees. “I’m sorry, baby. I’m so sorry.”Image: A childhood photo of Dexter Wade. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)Growing up in Jackson, Dexter was a “sweet little boy,” sharp with computers, a leader among classmates, a lover of nice clothes, a dreamer who hoped one day to run his own business refurbishing old cars.That went awry in his teens, when he “got lost” under the influence of older men who stole cars and did drugs, Bettersten said. A single mother of three who worked at night, Bettersten said she wasn’t always around for Dexter. But she always bailed him out of jail, and he always returned home, Bettersten said.Image: Dexter Wade and his daughters, Johnelle and Joselyn (Courtesy Wade Family)Although Dexter’s boyhood aspirations did not come true, he and a girlfriend, Candice Thomas, had two daughters who remained a bright spot for him, even after the couple’s romantic relationship dissolved, even after Dexter served two stints in prison, one for attempted auto theft and the other for armed robbery, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He was released in 2017.When he got out, Dexter remained friends with Thomas and was a committed father, she said. Although Thomas had full legal custody, Dexter talked to his daughters often and visited them in Gulfport three hours away. During the summers, they came to stay with him at Bettersten’s home in Jackson.“He was sweet and loving, especially when it came to the kids,” Thomas said.But prison had clearly damaged him. “You could look in his eyes and see he wasn’t the same person,” Thomas said. “I could tell he was struggling mentally.”Dexter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, Bettersten said. After starting medication, he decreased his illegal drug intake and stayed at home most of the day, cleaning and taking care of the yard. He liked to give homemade ice pops to kids on their street, handed food to people who didn’t have homes and occasionally sold sodas and chips in the neighborhood. He rarely left the house for more than a day or two without calling, Bettersten said. He never showed signs of wanting to hurt himself.“He didn’t seem like he was in a bad place,” Bettersten said. “But I don’t know what happened that particular day.

”Image: Bettersten Wade near the highway road where her son, Dexter, was fatally run over by police near Jackson, Miss., in March. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)On March 5, Bettersten, a retired Nissan line technician who worked part-time as a home health aide, returned home and found one of her windows broken. She and Dexter argued about it, and around 7:30 p.m. he left with a friend, she said.Days passed without a word. On March 14, Bettersten called the Jackson Police Department to report him missing.The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing Jackson officers of excessive force and attempting to cover up their actions, and accusing the city of failing to properly train and supervise the officers. The city has denied the claims and said it isn’t liable for what happened. The officers’ lawyer said they acted responsibly and lawfully. A federal judge dismissed some of Bettersten’s claims; others remain pending in state court.Bettersten said her mother advised her not to call the police about Dexter.“My mama told me, ‘They’re not going to do anything,’” Bettersten recalled. “But I had to do something to find Dexter, and I thought that was the best way.”An investigator came to Bettersten’s house and took a statement, she said. She emailed the investigator a picture of Dexter. He left a card with a case number on it. Two days later, she emailed a different investigator another photo of her son. The original investigator filed an incident report that misspelled Dexter’s name as "Dester."Bettersten said she kept in regular touch with police, asking for updates and requesting that they put his picture on TV. She did her own search, checking out abandoned homes and driving around her neighborhood asking if anyone had seen him (she never found the friend who left home with him).Dexter’s teen daughters and their mother grew frantic, calling Bettersten for news. “The girls would ask, ‘Did you hear from my daddy?’” Thomas said. “We just kept praying he was all right.”Carey Banks, a close friend of Bettersten’s, accompanied her on searches of the neighborhood and watched as stress and desperation wore on her.“She called someone every week and asked about her child,” Banks said. “She couldn’t get it off her mind. She was crazy about that boy.”Each time she called, police told her they had no information, Bettersten said.It turned out that the Jackson Police Department had the answers all along.Image: Flowers near the highway road where Dexter was killed. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)The department did not respond to detailed questions and has not commented on or explained how it handled Dexter’s death. This account has been pieced together with interviews with his family and a coroner’s investigator, along with court records and documents provided in response to public records requests: a crash report, incident reports and coroner’s office records. Bettersten also shared personal notes, emails, Dexter’s death certificate, a coroner’s report and case information cards provided to her by police.Those materials show that just before 8 p.m. on March 5, Dexter was walking across Interstate 55, a six-lane highway, when a Jackson police SUV driven by an off-duty corporal struck him in the southbound lanes.The corporal, who alerted police to the collision, was not injured. He was not suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and was not given field sobriety tests. Nor was he cited for any traffic violations. The death was ruled accidental.Dexter suffered severe injuries, including to his head. A toxicology report later noted that Dexter had PCP and methamphetamine in his system.An investigator from the Hinds County coroner’s office responded to the scene. He did not find identification on Dexter

while examining him but found a bottle of prescription medication in his pocket with his name on it.Three days later, on March 8, the investigator, LaGrand Elliott, contacted the medical facility that had provided the prescription and received Bettersten’s name as Dexter’s next of kin, according to Elliott’s case notes. Elliott said he called the number listed for Bettersten in the facility’s records and left a voicemail but got no response. Bettersten confirmed that the number Elliott said he called was correct, but she doesn’t remember receiving a call from him, and was not able to access her Boost Mobile phone records to check.Elliott confirmed Dexter’s identification on March 9, when the state crime lab said his fingerprints matched those it had on file for him, according to his notes. Elliott said in an interview that he passed what he’d found — a phone number and an address — to the Jackson Police Department’s accident investigation squad so they could notify Bettersten of Dexter’s death.“Once we get that information I turn it over to police because it is their jurisdiction so that they can do the proper death notification,” Elliott said.Bettersten, meanwhile, turned to Facebook, where she posted pictures of Dexter with her phone number, pleading for him or anyone who saw him to call.On March 15, the day after Bettersten reported Dexter missing, Elliott followed up with Jackson police for updates. “No kin has been located as of yet,” he wrote in his notes.Elliott made another follow-up call on March 30, and was told there was nothing new.The following day, the coroner’s office asked the Hinds County Board of Supervisors for approval to bury Dexter’s remains in a pauper’s field at the Hinds County penal farm.As that request was being filed, Bettersten posted another photo of Dexter on Facebook.“Have anyone saw my son please please call his mother.”Image: Facebook posts from Bettersten asking people to help find her son.The Board of Supervisors approved the coroner’s burial request on April 3. Four days later, Elliott called Jackson police again. “No new updates,” he wrote in his notes.On May 7, Bettersten posted on Facebook: “Dexter if you out there your kids miss you and your family miss you. We love you we always love you.”Two days after that, Elliott called the police again for an update and was told there was none, according to his notes. He tried one last time in June and got the same response.June 18 was Father’s Day. On Facebook, Bettersten pleaded to Dexter directly: “I am trying to find you but no one knows what happens to you. I wish someone would have saw you. I love you very much please come home.”On July 14, with no one claiming Dexter’s body, the county buried him in a field at its penal farm among other unclaimed bodies. Bettersten was still searching. “Dexter your kids miss you I miss you and your Grandma sister auntie cuz friends miss you,” she wrote on Facebook on July 16. "You don’t have to come home just let us know you all right. We love you."Image: Rows of burial markers. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)Through the rest of July, Bettersten said, she called missing persons investigators and got no news. The lead investigator told her he was retiring at the end of the month, and a new investigator called her Aug. 13 to say she was taking over the case, Bettersten said.Less than two weeks later, on Aug. 24, the new investigator called to tell her she had found Dexter and that an officer would come see her in person.“When she said that, I knew he was dead,” Bettersten recalled.The officer, a member of the accident investigations unit, met Bettersten at her mother’s house. Bettersten said he told her that Dexter had been hit by a police cruiser while trying to cross the highway.Bettersten, weeping, asked the investigator for more details. He told her to call the coroner’s office, Bettersten said.Bettersten found Elliott. He told her that he’d known Dexter’s name since the day he died and had passed the information to police, Bettersten said.

And he told her about the pauper’s burial, Bettersten said.Bettersten couldn’t understand why police told her for months they didn’t have answers — when they had the truth from the start. “They had me looking for him all that time, and they knew who he was,” Bettersten said.She wondered if it had anything to do with her brother’s death and her allegations against the police in that case. “Maybe it was a vendetta. Maybe they buried my son to get back at me,” she said.Thomas said she and her daughters were gutted. “The hardest thing I ever had to do is tell my girls that their dad is never coming back.”She added: “I just want someone to answer for what happened. I want to know what really happened.”Bettersten tried to get as close as she could to the spot where Dexter died. She hoped it would help her understand what he was doing on the highway, but walking the area, which is lined with concrete barriers, did not clear anything up.Bettersten also began to doubt the official timeline: She didn’t see how Dexter could have made it from her house to the scene of the accident in less than a half hour on foot. She wondered if someone gave him a ride.“I just feel like something else must have happened,” Bettersten said. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”When she finally found her son's gravesite, Bettersten prayed, wept and apologized to him. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)Bettersten paid the coroner’s office a $250 fee to claim Dexter’s body. It took her several more weeks to figure out where he was buried — and how to find him.She made the appointment to see his grave on a Tuesday afternoon in early October.At plot No. 672, Bettersten asked her sister, daughter and Banks, her friend, to join her for a prayer. They clasped hands at the edge of the dirt.“Dexter, I want to tell you I am so sorry,” she said, voice rising. “I’m so sorry this happened to you. But mama didn’t know. Mama didn’t know.”Image: Bettersten Wade is comforted by her sister. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)She began to sob. “I always loved you and I miss you. Farewell, baby. Farewell.”They got into their cars. Back on the dirt road, Bettersten began planning the next step in her ordeal: finding the money to get her son out of that hole and into a proper grave, a place where everybody could see his name.This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

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Streamlining Information: Orange County Jail Inmate Search"

In an era where information is at our fingertips, access to crucial details about incarcerated individuals can ease the anxieties of families and aid legal professionals. Orange County, nestled in Southern California, recognizes the importance of transparency and support, offering the Orange County Jail Inmate Search tool. This online resource is a lifeline for concerned relatives, attorneys, and the public, simplifying the process of obtaining information about inmates.

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To utilize this user-friendly tool, one can visit the Orange County Sheriff's Department website and navigate to the inmate search section. The search criteria can be as simple as entering the inmate's first and last names or their booking numbers. The intuitive design ensures that individuals of all backgrounds can effortlessly access the information they seek.

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The Arkansas Department of Corrections and local police are searching for an inmate who ran from the Northeast Arkansas Community Correction Center.

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Inmate Information: A Guide to Locating and Assisting Loved Ones in Custody

Having a loved one in custody can be a distressing experience, but finding accurate inmate information is crucial to understanding their situation and taking appropriate actions. This article provides a comprehensive guide to locating inmates, understanding the arrest charges, and navigating the bail bond process. Whether you're in Ventura County or Orange County, our aim is to help you gather the necessary information and make informed decisions during this challenging time.

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Inmate Quordell Tarver - Guilty - Possessing Weapon in Prison

Inmate Quordell Tarver pled guilty to possessing a weapon while in federal prison. BECKLEY, W.Va. (STL.News) Quordell Tarver, 24, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Beckley, pleaded guilty Friday to possession of a weapon by an inmate of a federal prison. According to court documents and statements made in court, on October 22, 2022, an FCI Beckley staff member conducted a visual search of Tarver and found a handcrafted weapon commonly known as a “shank” in Tarver’s underwear.  The shank was a piece of metal, approximately 5 inches long, sharpened to a point at one end, and with a piece of white shoelace wrapped around the base as a handle. Tarver is scheduled to be sentenced on September 22, 2023, and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. United States Attorney Will Thompson made the announcement and commended the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. United States District Judge Frank W. Volk presided over the hearing.  Assistant United States Attorney Timothy D. Boggess is prosecuting the case. A copy of this press release is located on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia.  Related court documents and information can be found on PACER by searching for Case No. 5:23-cr-62. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice Read the full article

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“‘Punishment Hole’ In Penitentiary, Church Charges,” Toronto Globe. October 22, 1932. Page 14. -- Reports to Parliament Not Correct, He Says, Urging Grand Jury Inspection ---- KEEPERS ‘UNTRAINED’ --- The definite assertion that there is, contrary to refutations in the Federal House, a dungeon in Portsmouth Penitentiary was made last night by T. L. Church, K.C., when he advocated the inspection of penitentiaries by Grand Juries and inveighed against the present penitentiary system in Canada. He was speaking at the meeting of the Toronto Conservative Club in the Legion Hall at 41 Isabelle Street.

‘I know that some of the reports made in Parliament are not correct,’ Mr. Church declared, stating that he had himself been to the penitentiary outside Kingston. ‘There is such a thing as a dungeon in Portsmouth,’ he asserted. ‘We have conditions just as bad here as they have in Florida. We needn’t talk about Florida.

‘Not Trained Properly’ ‘The men who are taking care of the inmates are not properly trained.’

Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice, has discovered the cure for unemployment, Mr. Church remarked. ‘He has found nepotism as the cure. He has appointed one of this sons private secretary at Ottawa, and the other, a new arrival at the Bar, General Solicitor for Toronto.

‘I wouldn’t like to say,’ Mr. Church went on, ‘that Mr. Guthrie has been everything by fits and starts, but nothing for long – but that is what he has been,’ Mr. Church criticized the Minister of Justice – whose department, he said, should have its name changed to that of ‘injustice’ – for making a ‘Cook’s tour’ of Europe, ‘instead of looking after his department and knowing something about it.’

Urges Inspection Again urging that grand juries should have the right, as he said they have in England, to inspect penitentiaries Mr. Church said.

‘The Canadian Parliament should ask for a Royal Commission to go into the matter of crime, its causes and remedies and possible methods of dealing with persons accused of crime and of persons convicted thereby for the purpose of reforms and of creating legislation, institutions and organizations necessary for dealing with crime and criminals in an efficient and scientific manner.

‘Canada,’ he went on, ‘should provide institutions for segregation and classification of all inmates; reopen a mental disease hospital; separate all habitual criminals; furnish more work for inmates; pay wages to well behaved inmates; look after those discharged and try to find them work; increase $10 grant on discharge; change methods of supplies and abolition of punishment hole.’

‘There are about a quarter as many people in prisons in Great Britain today as in 1913. Intelligent scientific treatment of a purely scientific problem has had this result. A Commission on reform is needed in Canada.

No Whitewash, He Says ‘There should be,’ he went on, ‘no whitewash of these officials investigating their own departments; the officer there now has only been there a few months. What does he know of the position? The Red Cross showed what it could do in the Great War, and the Red Cross could do this work today. The money spent is being wasted, and no results obtained. Crime is on the increase in Canada. There is no scientific system of segregation and treatment of prisoners according to age and nature of crime committed, and no methods of reclamation.’

Mr. Church also dealt with the question of unemployment, stating that many of the young men roaming the cities and towns in Canada in search of work had had high school and university educations. He attributed the trouble to the greed of man, coupled with overproduction, under-consumption and faulty distribution.

Not Red or Socialist Stating definitely that he was neither a Communist nor a Socialist, he was, he said, a Christian Socialist. ‘If this depression goes on another year,’ he warned, ‘a complete change of the capitalist system will be sure sure thing in this country. The clergy are already seeiking the same thing.’

Decrying the extravagance of the railway systems of Canada, and that of Sir Henry Thornton in particular, he said: ‘As a result of Sir Henry’s policy you’re going to be taxed on everything you buy, on everything you wear for the next fifty or seventy-five years. You’re going to hear a lot of Sir Henry in the next fifty years.’