February 25, 2015
FRESNO, Calif.—Ramon Cano, (click here) 28,a former correctional officer at the Taft Federal Correctional Facility was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Anthony W. Ishii yesterday to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to provide and possess contraband in prison in violation of 18 U.S.C.§§ 371 and 201(b)(1), United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced...
Cleaning up the criminal justice system is daunting. There is corruption in many ways within the prisons and jails. There is a culture of crime conducted both in the facilities and over flows into the community. For long term inmates, the outside becomes a source of power to which value is added to the prison environment.
There is no excuse for this. Where is everyone when these transactions are occurring by visitors and guards alike?
When such dynamics occur there is strong incentive to corrupt inmates with lesser sentences. This leads to hearings by the prison officials which can and do extend the jail/prison time of inmates. Our prison system is hardening inmates and for private prisons there is every incentive to increase the crime element in every inmate jailed.
FRESNO, Calif.—Ramon Cano, (click here) 28,a former correctional officer at the Taft Federal Correctional Facility was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Anthony W. Ishii yesterday to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to provide and possess contraband in prison in violation of 18 U.S.C.§§ 371 and 201(b)(1), United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced...
Cleaning up the criminal justice system is daunting. There is corruption in many ways within the prisons and jails. There is a culture of crime conducted both in the facilities and over flows into the community. For long term inmates, the outside becomes a source of power to which value is added to the prison environment.
There is no excuse for this. Where is everyone when these transactions are occurring by visitors and guards alike?
When such dynamics occur there is strong incentive to corrupt inmates with lesser sentences. This leads to hearings by the prison officials which can and do extend the jail/prison time of inmates. Our prison system is hardening inmates and for private prisons there is every incentive to increase the crime element in every inmate jailed.
