Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the upcoming Netflix <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxOdrBoYzKg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series</a> that follows inmates at an Arkansas detention center who are given nearly unlimited freedom as part of a social experiment was built around a &#8220;reckless decision&#8221; by the local sheriff and is &#8220;insulting&#8221; to law enforcement.
“Unlocked: A Jail Experiment,” set to be released on April 10, films inmates after Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins announces his plan to remove locks and officers to let the prisoners “be a community.” The Arkansas Democrat Gazette <a href="https://edition.arkansasonline.com/article/7926679989172240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the experiment at the jail near Little Rock took place over two months last year and allowed inmates in one cell block to live without cell doors and move freely without any law enforcement.
The experiment and corresponding Netflix series was a mistake, Sanders told The Daily Wire.
“Turning our prisons into a free-for-all all reality show is dangerous and insulting to our brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to apprehend violent criminals,” Sanders said. “This is a reckless decision by the Pulaski County Sheriff and highlights the need for our new state prison to keep repeat violent offenders off our streets and our communities safe.”
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The trailer shows inmates using drugs and making alcohol, while some insist they want things to go well so they can see their families again. Typically, a deputy is stationed inside the cell block and prisoners are kept in their cells for up to 23 hours a day. For the experiment, a deputy was stationed outside the cell block for safety.
The Gazette noted that the prison where the Netflix series was filmed already operated an open-plan arrangement in its A and B blocks, but the show follows its conversion of H block. After the experiment was over, Sheriff Higgins continued to operate H block in an open-plan fashion.
Before the experiment, only inmates who were designated as best behaved were allowed to live in the open-plan blocks, the Gazette reported. The experiment, however, included inmates who were not classified as well-behaved, and it appears some inmates had to be removed from the block during the experiment. The outlet noted that the inmates “who remained” at the end of filming were now considered best behaved.
While the trailer appears to show inmates with drugs, the Gazette reported that only one inmate was charged with allegedly possessing cocaine, but the charges were dropped after testing was revealed to be a false positive.
The series has created controversy throughout Arkansas. Democrat Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde and other court members are looking into Sheriff Higgins’ agreement with the film crew. Hyde said the agreement was illegal and that Higgins had no authority to make it, according to the Gazette.
The local Justice of the Peace, a Republican named Phil Stowers, told the outlet that deputies who were offered payment of $40 per hour to work during filming also may have violated the law.
Under Arkansas law, public servants are barred from receiving gifts and compensation other than their income and benefits from the government. Deputies can work off-duty jobs, but because they were paid to work their government jobs by the film producers, it could violate the law. These deputies were hired to provide “additional security” during the show’s production, the Gazette reported.

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Sarah Sanders Sounds Off On Netflix Series That Turns Arkansas Jail Into A ‘Free For All Reality Show’

Arkansas Sheriff Implements Prison Social Experiment For Netflix Series, Governor Sanders Outraged

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Prisons

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

U.S.

Four inmates being held at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia, have died within the span of a month.
Samuel Lawrence, 34, who was being held in the jail on a second-degree arson charge, was found unresponsive in his cell in the early morning hours on Saturday and was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://fcsoga.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCSO-News-Release-Inmate-Dies-After-Being-Taken-to-Grady-Memorial-Hospital-8.30.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> that the Atlanta Police Department would conduct a death investigation and the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office will “perform an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.”
Lawrence is the fourth inmate to die within a month, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-jail-death-fulton-county-investigation-a33d11aa8d382c0eedf3fafd539e4a81" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Alexander Hawkins, 66; Christopher Smith, 34; and Montay Stinson, 40, have also died while housed at the jail.
Alexander Hawkins was found unresponsive in his medical unit cell on August 14, the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-jail-death-fulton-county-investigation-448524619ef478f874e377022de441a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time. Medical personnel attempted to revive him but were unable to. He was being held in the prison on a shoplifting charge.
Christopher Smith was also found unresponsive in a medical unit cell. Like Lawrence, he was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. He was being held on several unspecified felony and misdemeanor charges, the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-inmate-death-adc3597cbe3c7f2c62a7da72e42c2cfc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Montay Stinson reportedly had no obvious signs of injury when he was found unresponsive in his cell (it is not believed the others had injuries either). Medical personnel were unable to revive him.
In July, the U.S. Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation into the Fulton County jail’s conditions, following the death of 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson last year. Thompson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sheriff-responds-to-familys-claim-loved-one-was-eaten-alive-by-bed-bugs-at-atlanta-jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on June 12, 2022, for a misdemeanor simple battery charge. He was sent to Fulton County Jail and placed in the psychiatric wing because he had mental health issues. Three months later, on September 19, Thompson “was found dead in a filthy jail cell after being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs,” family attorney Michael Harper said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mharperlaw/posts/pfbid0Yj73vxwdeVdDT4nqYxAApLQUUSivpUbvR32S9TgEmx9nsMmtgz7b229qfzujGwt3l" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> on Facebook (WARNING: disturbing images).
Georgia’s Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted on July 30 to approve a mediated settlement of $4 million to Thompson’s family, Inside Edition <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/family-of-schizophrenic-man-eaten-alive-by-bed-bugs-in-jail-cell-agrees-to-4-million-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Harper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-says-atlanta-inmate-was-eaten-alive-by-bed-bugs-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in his Facebook post that jail records show that officials at the facility, as well as medical staff, “noticed that Mr. Thompson was deteriorating, but did nothing to administer aid to him or to help him.”
“They literally watched his health decline until he died,” Harper added. “When his body was found one of the detention officers refused to administer CPR because, in her words, she ‘freaked out.’”
First responders attempted to save Thompson’s life, but were unsuccessful, USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/13/atlanta-man-eaten-alive-bed-bugs-fulton-county-jail-claim/11657232002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Harper described the cell where Thompson was kept as “not fit for a diseased animal.”
The Fulton County jail is also where former President Donald Trump and 18 others last week surrendered for booking on charges relating to their questioning of the 2020 election.

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Four People Have Died In Past Month In Atlanta Jail Where Man Previously Died In Bug-Infested Cell

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Georgia

An infamous murderer who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-weird-life-of-a-transgender-triple-murderer-likely-to-land-in-a-womens-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> he is a woman is reportedly harassing women inside the California state women’s prison where he was incarcerated last month.
The murderer, 68, was <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/transgender-activist-and-deviants-motor-club-member-convicted-of-2016-triple-murder-in-oakland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> in November of the murder of Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright, a lesbian couple in their late 50s, and their 19-year-old son Benny Diambu-Wright, in Oakland, California, <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/suspect-in-oakland-triple-homicide-identified/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in 2016</a>. The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect in keeping with a company policy that seeks to deprive mass killers of the notoriety they often crave.
Last month, the triple murderer was transferred to Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, where he shares a cell with several female inmates.
The murderer &#8220;has been a problem since he rolled in the door,&#8221; one inmate said in a message, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/transgender-triple-murderer-is-harassing-women-in-california-prison/">according</a> to The Washington Free Beacon. &#8220;He is trying to control the women saying he gets to bypass everything — special treatment.&#8221;
Inmate Tomiekia Johnson said one of her fellow inmates caught him staring at her body.
&#8220;She felt him looking at her, she said, ‘I felt someone watching me, and there he was, staring at my butt,’&#8221; Johnson said.
Johnson reportedly lost her job at the prison after she complained about California allowing trans-identifying men with intact genitalia to be housed with women in prison.
&#8220;I think it’s a slap in the face, because as much as they know I’ve been vocal about being housed with predators, and how much they target me, and how much it’s a known fact that they harass me and provoke me, for them to put him in the building with me is beyond negligent,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/transgender-triple-murderer-is-harassing-women-in-california-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I feel betrayed by the prison for doing this.&#8221;
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The murderer also pressured female inmates to push him around in a wheelchair, but he was also seen doing &#8220;jump squats off a stool,&#8221; according to a female inmate at the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail, where he was held before he was incarcerated at the women&#8217;s prison.
That inmate called him &#8220;very chauvinistic, demeaning to women, and prideful about it.&#8221;
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/transgender-triple-murderer-is-harassing-women-in-california-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement that it is &#8220;committed to providing a safe, humane, respectful, and rehabilitative environment for all incarcerated people, including the transgender, non-binary, and intersex community, and is working to implement the law.&#8221;
The triple murderer was <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/14/the-most-depraved-crime-i-ever-handled-transgender-activist-gets-life-in-prison-for-murdering-oakland-family/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to life in prison without parole on June 14.
The bodies of both women who were murdered were found stabbed and shot with a .38 revolver, and the body of their son was found in the street with gunshot wounds. Shortly after police arrived, the murderer walked out of the house, covered in blood and reeking of gasoline. Police searched the suspect and found bullets and brass knuckles.
He was charged with three counts of first-degree murder as well as arson for dousing the garage with gasoline and setting it on fire, an apparent attempt to destroy the evidence of the murders.
California is permissive when it comes to allowing trans-identifying male inmates to be incarcerated in women’s facilities. Since 2021, the state has <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/californias-female-prisoners-feel-threatened-by-transgender-inmates-the-state-doesnt-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> dozens of male inmates who identify as transgender or “non-binary” to transfer to women’s prisons. Nearly 100 male inmates who sought to be housed with women were registered sex offenders, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/transgender-triple-murderer-is-harassing-women-in-california-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to prison documents reviewed by the Free Beacon.
Female inmates who said they were sexually assaulted by their trans-identifying male fellow prisoners have <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-24/lawsuit-takes-aim-at-law-that-allows-transgender-inmates-to-choose-housing-location-based-on-gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the California prison system.

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Transgender Triple Murderer Reportedly Harassing Women In Prison

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A trans-identifying male reportedly gave a talk on &#8220;women&#8217;s empowerment&#8221; at a New Jersey women&#8217;s prison.
La’Nae Grant, a biological man who identifies as a woman, lectured female inmates on June 20 at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women about women&#8217;s empowerment and the importance of “inclusivity,” Reduxx <a href="https://reduxx.info/exclusive-trans-identified-male-presents-on-womens-empowerment-at-nj-prison-plagued-by-violent-male-transfers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Grant reportedly urged the women to accept that “transgender women are women” and said he thinks “cisgender women” may not immediately accept trans-identifying men due to “competition” for male sexual partners.
Kokila Hiatt, an inmate at the facility, described the event to Reduxx, saying many of the women who attended did not know the event would discuss gender identity.
“Many women behaved in a polite manner by sitting and listening. A lot of people just tuned out. No one was anticipating what this event was really about. It was billed as a Women’s Empowerment Event. His picture was on the sign-up sheet, but this person visibly ‘passes’ as a woman, so no one thought anything of it when they signed up to attend,” Hiatt told Reduxx.
“Attendance was not required in that people signed up to attend, but please remember, no one knew what it was they were really signing up for. They were duped into attending something for this transgender person,” Hiatt said.
Hiatt called the event &#8220;government-funded and facilitated.&#8221; Grant delivered his remarks in a gym at the prison, which means New Jersey’s Department of Corrections executive staff from Trenton would have to approve it, she said.
“Custody staff members here had to enable inmate movement and supervise attendance. Some members of this facility’s administrative staff was present,” Hiatt said.
Grant is currently the CEO of Lady L&#8217;s LGBTQIA+ Services, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/la-nae-grant-jessop-76a557121/?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to his LinkedIn. Before that, he worked for the city of East Orange, most recently as the director of the the city&#8217;s Child and Adult Care Food Program.
The women&#8217;s prison, New Jersey&#8217;s only correctional facility for women, is located near Clinton, New Jersey. Last year, Governor Phil Murphy appointed Grant to the women&#8217;s prison&#8217;s Board of Trustees.
Murphy&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/562022/20220216a.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Grant &#8220;the first transgender woman&#8221; to serve on the board and said he is a &#8220;longtime activist for the rights of the transgender community, including transgender persons that are currently incarcerated.&#8221;
Grant “began transitioning into a woman” about a decade ago around age 28, he <a href="https://www.nj.com/news/2021/06/3-nj-people-of-the-lgbtq-community-share-their-stories-for-pride-month.html">told</a> New Jersey Advance Media in 2021. He took estrogen and has gotten genital surgery and “breast reconstructive surgery,” and before that, he identified as a gay man, he told the outlet.
In 2021, New Jersey prison officials <a href="https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/05/08/shifting-policy-on-prison-placement-of-transgender-people-sparks-scrutiny/#:~:text=New%20Jersey%20prisons%20were%20held,they%20often%20endure%20behind%20bars." target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to start placing trans-identifying males in the women&#8217;s prison. However, that policy was tweaked to consider safety and other factors after a male inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility impregnated two women while behind bars.
Demetrius &#8220;Demi&#8221; Minor, who was 27 at the time, impregnated two of female inmates, news of which broke last year. He was <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/16/transgender-woman-demi-minor-impregnates-two-inmates-at-nj-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> to a youth correctional facility.
In 2020, Grant <a href="https://www.metroweekly.com/2020/01/new-jersey-governor-signs-bill-banning-use-of-gay-or-trans-panic-defense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the governor signing a bill prohibiting the use of “gay or trans panic” defenses by people accused of homicide.
“We deserve to live with dignity and safety in our communities,” Grant said at the time. “Knowing that the ‘panic’ defense is banned in New Jersey is another victory and moment of empowerment for black trans women like myself, but there’s still more work to do for our community.”

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Trans-Identifying Male Gives Talk On ‘Women’s Empowerment’ at New Jersey Prison: Report

Trans-Identifying Male Gives Talk On 'Women’s Empowerment' at New Jersey Prison: Report

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Prison

Women

Women's Rights

An infamous triple murderer who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-weird-life-of-a-transgender-triple-murderer-likely-to-land-in-a-womens-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> he is a woman landed in a California state women’s prison this month.
Dana Rivers, previously David Warfield, 68, was <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/transgender-activist-and-deviants-motor-club-member-convicted-of-2016-triple-murder-in-oakland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> in November of the triple murder of Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright, a lesbian couple in their late 50s, and their 19-year-old son Benny Diambu-Wright, in Oakland, California, <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/suspect-in-oakland-triple-homicide-identified/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in 2016</a>.
The bodies of both women were found stabbed and shot with a .38 revolver, and the body of their son was found in the street with gunshot wounds. Shortly after police arrived, Rivers walked out of the house, covered in blood and reeking of gasoline. Police searched the suspect and found bullets and brass knuckles.
Rivers was charged with three counts of first-degree murder as well as arson for dousing the garage with gasoline and setting it on fire, an apparent attempt to destroy the evidence of the murders.
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Rivers was initially housed at Santa Rita Jail about 40 minutes north of San Jose.
On June 14, Rivers was <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/14/the-most-depraved-crime-i-ever-handled-transgender-activist-gets-life-in-prison-for-murdering-oakland-family/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to life in prison without parole.
Two days later, Rivers <a href="https://inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov/Details.aspx?ID=WH1178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was transferred</a> to the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.
California is permissive when it comes to allowing trans-identifying male inmates to be incarcerated in women’s facilities. Since 2021, the state has <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/californias-female-prisoners-feel-threatened-by-transgender-inmates-the-state-doesnt-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> at least 47 male inmates who identify as transgender or “non-binary” to transfer to women’s prisons, according to a January report from the Washington Free Beacon. Female inmates who said they were sexually assaulted by their trans-identifying male fellow prisoners have sued the California prison system.
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Women activists who oppose trans-identifying men in women&#8217;s prisons were outraged.
Activist Kara Dansky, who has been protesting Rivers&#8217; potential transfer to a women’s prison for months, said she believes Rivers&#8217; murders were a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; against the female victims, who were a married lesbian couple.
“There was something truly vile about the way this was carried out and his obvious hatred of her. My feeling from knowledge of the case is that he killed her because he couldn’t be her and he shouldn’t be in prison with other women,” Dansky <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/fury-as-trans-woman-who-murdered-three-is-sent-to-female-prison-after-hate-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, according to the New York Post.
Amie Ichikawa, an activist who herself <a href="https://www.womaniiwoman.org/who-we-are">served</a> five years in the same prison as Rivers for a drug deal gone wrong, agreed that Rivers committed a hate crime and said female inmates are scared of trans-identifying men.
“They get very anxious when a [trans-identifying man] gets processed in,” Ichikawa <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/fury-as-trans-woman-who-murdered-three-is-sent-to-female-prison-after-hate-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Even when they’re post-op, if they get mad they go right back to angry man mode.”
Rivers has been in the news since the 1990s.
In 1999, back when he was David Warfield, Rivers <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-11-mn-21130-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was fired</a> from his teaching position at Center High School north of Sacramento after he talked to students about his plans to undergo a sex change. Rivers told school district officials he was planning to have a sex-change operation and go on cross-sex hormones over the summer and return to teach in the fall as a woman.
District officials directed him not to discuss his sex change plans with students, but Rivers flouted that request and pulled several students aside to explain the situation. He even <a href="https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,31822,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> an interview to the school paper discussing his three failed marriages, alcoholism recovery, and his fear of rejection by students.
“I’m not some freak,” Rivers told the school paper.
Initially, the school board had written a letter to parents informing them about the upcoming sex change, but explaining that Rivers was a tenured teacher with a good performance record, so there was nothing they could do. After outrage from parents over Rivers’ private conversations with students about the sex change, the school fired him.
That wasn’t the end of the story, though. Rivers sued Center High School over his termination, which catapulted him into international news. A glowing profile by the Los Angeles Times at the time <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-11-mn-21130-story.html">declared</a> that Warfield was “the teacher who helped low achievers turn it around” before he “became a woman.”
In November 1999, Rivers <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-16-mn-34062-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> in exchange for a $150,000 settlement.
Rivers was thought by many to have <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/transgender-activist-and-deviants-motor-club-member-convicted-of-2016-triple-murder-in-oakland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">become</a> an enforcer for an all-female biker club called the Deviants, which was associated with the infamous gang Hell’s Angels, according to prosecutors in the murder case. Rivers went by the nickname “Edge” and had tattoos indicating he was a “1 percenter,” a reference to the supposedly small percentage of motorcycle clubs that are criminal.
One of the two women Rivers killed was a former member of the Deviants.
Rivers and the woman met at a Veterans Affairs Center, where Rivers, who is also a U.S. Navy veteran, was seeking mental health care. They became friends, and the woman had a short stint as a Deviant before quitting the biker club. The Deviants began threatening the woman, and eventually, Rivers killed her, her partner, and her son.
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Now that Rivers has ended up behind bars alongside women, the women activists advocating for female-only prisons are continuing to fight the decision.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not over. We will never stop fighting,&#8221; Dansky <a href="https://twitter.com/KDansky/status/1670105367303315457" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted.</a>
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Transgender Triple Murderer Sent To Women’s Prison

Transgender Triple Murderer Sent To Women's Prison

Formerly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incarcerated</a> female victims of sexual abuse testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, detailing the horror that many experience behind bars. 
Along with the hearing, a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee put out the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/us/politics/federal-prison-sexual-abuse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">findings</a> of a bipartisan investigation, which was started in April of this year, regarding the abuse.
The <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2022-12-13%20PSI%20Staff%20Report%20-%20Sexual%20Abuse%20of%20Female%20Inmates%20in%20Federal%20Prisons.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> was the culmination of interviews with top Federal Bureau of Prisons authorities, sexual abuse victims, and whistleblowers. It explained that the subcommittee discovered that Bureau of Prisons workers sexually abused female inmates in at least 19 out of the 29 federal jails that have housed women over the past ten years.
The report also discovered that the agency “failed to prevent, detect, and stop recurring sexual abuse in at least four federal prisons, including abuse by senior prison officials,” noting that the former warden and chaplain at a facility in Dublin, California, both took part in sexually abusing female inmates. Seventeen past or current workers at the facility were being investigated for sexual abuse as of May. Last week, the former warden was convicted on eight criminal charges for his assaults of three female prisoners.
The report announced that the Bureau’s Office of Internal Affairs’ investigative procedures “are seriously flawed,” and there are 8,000 internal affairs cases that have piled up. Of those cases, there are &#8220;at least hundreds of sexual abuse cases.” The Bureau, it added, did not hold workers responsible for “misconduct.”
Authorities at the Justice Department are thinking about letting female inmates out of prison early who suffered under the warden of the California prison and other employees at the prison.
&#8220;I am open to this consideration that is a very complex issue, which is why it’s under pretty significant review,” Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/13/sex-assault-survivors-tell-congress-abuse-prison-staffers/10887465002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> USA Today this week. “I think we’re concerned about consistency, I think we’re concerned about fairness, and so I think that each case is unique.”
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/us/politics/federal-prison-sexual-abuse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that people close to the situation said the Justice Department wants to increase the ability to let abused women out of prison early due to the assaults.
Deputy attorney general Lisa O. Monaco has pushed leaders at the Bureau to put together a list of prisoners who might be able to get out of prison early under the compassionate release program.
Linda De La Rosa was one of the sexual abuse survivors and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/13/sex-assault-survivors-tell-congress-abuse-prison-staffers/10887465002/">testified</a> to the committee that her “life was a living hell.” Her abuser is now in prison on a 135-month sentence, but she pointed out that the man had been accused of sexual attacks in the past while he was abusing her.  
Briane Moore, who used to be an inmate at a facility in West Virginia explained through tears how a captain raped her several times while saying he could keep her from moving to a prison near her family. 
&#8220;While he was raping me, he was raping other women,&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;I&#8217;m still suffering. This has changed the course of my life.”
Another woman, Carolyn Richardson, described how an officer who sexually abused her would threaten to keep food and medical services from her as her vision health worsened. 
The ability to abuse women in correctional facilities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-feminists-wont-stop-speaking-out-against-harm-transgender-policies-do-to-womens-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has also been a reason that many are pushing</a> to keep men who identify as women out of women-only facilities.

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Senate Report Details Sexual Abuse Of Female Inmates By Prison Workers

Senate Subcommittee Report Details Sexual Abuse Of Female Inmates By Prison Workers

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I wish we could just cover happy topics all day long, but we have to talk about pedophilia and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-50-the-mysterious-deaths-of-crypto-billionaires-pedophiles-in-ca-are-being-released-in-droves-biden-s-drag-queen-nuclear-waste-guru-charged-with-theft-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what’s going on in California</a>.
The depressive state of things today beats me down. But it is so much more important to me that everybody is informed — especially if you&#8217;re like me and you&#8217;re a mother to two young children.
We talk about California all the time because it is practically a communist country that happens to be in the United States. As I have said to my listeners over and over again, if you live in California — move. 
I believe Governor Gavin Newsom is a dark character and hell-bent on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-allowing-criminals-to-hide-records-from-background-checks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroying the people of California</a>.
I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s worth the fight there anymore — especially if you have young children.
To add weight to that claim, a new report from <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a> has revealed that more than 7,000 convicted pedophiles in California have been released from prison less than a year after sentencing for committing horrific acts, horrific acts including rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse of kids under 14.
So I don&#8217;t know why they&#8217;re doing this. We&#8217;ve obviously been talking a lot about people who are put into positions of power and making sure the laws are really lenient against pedophiles, along with murderers and others who commit crimes.
It seems the Left is trying to fill the streets with criminals for reasons unknown.
I cannot understand why, other than that they want to see chaos in the streets. They want terrible things to happen in society.
Crime rates keep tracking up in these inner-city communities across the country — including California.
The Daily Mail article <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goes on to say</a> that “others who committed some of the worst child sex crimes on the statute books served similarly short sentences, including 365 pedophiles convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child who spent less than 12 months in prison, 39 cases of sodomy with a child under 16, and three cases of kidnapping a child under 14 with intent to commit lewd acts, according to the data.”
Former Los Angeles sex crimes prosecutor Samuel Dordulian told The Daily Mail he was shocked by the statistics, describing them as “frightening” for society.
And I think that frightening is the perfect adjective to describe what&#8217;s going on.
It&#8217;s frightening to think that, for whatever reason, these people are being thrown onto the streets.
And I just do not understand why.
Please comment to discuss what would keep somebody living in a place like California or the inner cities.
If you have a family — if you have a young family — what would keep you tethered to the inner city communities?
I understand there are work opportunities, but I can&#8217;t imagine choosing work over the safety of my children, especially when there seems to be a government-sponsored incentive to put children at risk — whether it&#8217;s in the classroom or whether it&#8217;s on the streets.
We’ve discussed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blm-and-san-franciscos-new-transgender-guaranteed-income-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other insanities in California</a>, and you all know I just don’t perceive it as a free state whatsoever.
And unless there is something unbelievable tethering you in California, it&#8217;s time to pick up and move.

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Why Would Anybody Stay In California?

Candace Owens

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Is it a coincidence that select cities are experiencing spikes in violent crime in the wake of the “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/progressive-prosecutors-sabotage-the-rule-law-raise-crime-rates-and-ignore">progressive prosecutor</a>” movement? Hardly. Their policies encourage lawlessness, harm law-abiding residents (especially minorities), drive businesses out of cities, and demoralize the police by treating them like criminals.
These prosecutors claim otherwise, of course. They insist that their decision to not prosecute entire categories of crime; their reluctancy to ask for bail; their refusal to add sentencing enhancements; their decision to release hardened, convicted felons from prison; their decline to prosecute violent juvenile offenders in adult court; and their disregard of those who commit shoplifting, drug possession, and prostitution – among other crimes – reflect sound policies that have not contributed to the recent spikes in crime.
They’re lying. Let’s take a look at the facts:
Crime rates, including violent crime rates, have had an overall <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/">drop</a> in the last 30 years, yet incarceration rates peaked in 2008 – long before George Soros or his “reform” prosecutors came along. Why? Because genuinely progressive prosecutors, working with other stakeholders, created domestic violence courts, drug courts, veterans courts, family justice centers, and thousands of other alternatives to incarceration that are compassionate, create accountability, and provide opportunities with the right incentives for defendants to recover their lives by changing their thinking and behaviors. If someone refuses to complete these programs, though, these prosecutors can still seek incarceration.
Violent crime is geographically and demographically concentrated in inner cities, many of which are presided over by rogue prosecutors, where minority members of their communities are disproportionately victimized, including constituting a majority of homicide victims. As Rafael Mangual of The Manhattan Institute notes in his recent <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Justice-Decarceration-Depolicing-Wrong-ebook/dp/B09NPFH2VT">book &#8220;Criminal (In)Justice</a>,&#8221; “while black people constitute 13.4% of the population, they made up more than 53% of the nation’s homicide victims in 2020.” In other words, the policies of these prosecutors are harming the very individuals they are supposed to be helping.
To truly help those individuals – and communities as a whole – these prosecutors should seek appropriate bail and prison sentences for dangerous defendants.
The idea that appropriately long prison sentences won’t help protect communities is nonsense. Studies show that the longer the prison sentence, the lower the recidivism rate. In fact, the <a href="https://www.ussc.gov/">United States Sentencing Commission</a> recently released a <a href="https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/length-incarceration-and-recidivism-2022">report</a> which found that “the odds of recidivism were lower for federal offenders sentenced to more than 60 months incarceration compared to a matched group of offenders receiving shorter sentences&#8230;[and] the odds of recidivism were approximately 29% lower for federal offenders sentenced to more than 120 months incarceration.” The authors also found that the “odds of recidivism were approximately 18% lower for offenders sentenced to more than 60 months up to 120 months of incarceration.”
When violent criminals are not required to post bail, there are also increases in crime. That’s simply common sense. Moreover, in an <a href="https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/194/">academic paper</a> on the subject, two law professors analyzed the Cook County Bail Reform Study, which supposedly proved that lax bail laws do not impact the crime rate. The authors found that, contrary to the Study’s findings, the “bail reform” changes in Cook County “appear to have led to a substantial increase in crimes committed by pretrial releasees in Cook County,” and the “number of released defendants charged with committing new crimes increased by 45%.” Worse yet, “the number of pretrial releases charged with committing new violent crimes increased by an estimated 33%.”
No wonder the public is souring on these rogue prosecutors’ radical policies and the havoc they wreak. Voters in liberal San Francisco recently removed rogue DA Chesa Boudin from office. His successor has <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/gascon-recall-effort-takes-big-step-forward-los-angeles">pledged</a> to hold criminals accountable while still offering diversionary treatment programs like drug court to appropriate individuals—something prosecutors have been doing for many, many years.
Ironically, after voters recalled Boudin, one of George Soros’s representatives objected to the Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/soros-stiff-arms-chesa-boudin-after-san-francisco-voters-kick-him-to-curb/">calling</a> Boudin a “George Soros darling” in an attempt to put distance between Soros and the failed DA.
A similar issue occurred when we wrote about Baltimore’s now-defeated (and federally indicted) rogue prosecutor <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/meet-marilyn-mosby-the-rogue-prosecutor-wreaking-havoc-baltimore">Marilyn Mosby</a>. A Soros representative reached out and objected to our characterization of Mosby as a Soros-backed prosecutor, since he never directly contributed to her campaign, even though she attended numerous trips paid for by Soros-funded or inspired groups.
The rogue prosecutor movement operates under two principles: (1) that the entire criminal justice system is racist and (2) that the only way to address this supposed racism is to reverse, engineer, and dismantle the current system by electing pro-criminal, anti-victim zealots into office. Flush with cash or support from George Soros and his like-minded wealthy friends, candidates like George Gascon (Los Angeles), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Kim Gardner (St. Louis), and others have been elevated into office and have imposed their pro-criminal agendas on an unsuspecting electorate. The consequences have been predictable and deadly.  
Prosecutors are the gatekeepers to the criminal justice system. Our nation’s 2,300 or so elected district attorneys have a solemn duty to enforce the law and to do so fairly, compassionately, and without favor. This shouldn’t be a Left or Right, blue or red, Democrat or Republican issue. Either you support law and order and equality under the law, or you back a radical social experiment that, so far, has led to utter chaos and misery.
These are the facts.
Zack Smith is a Legal Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Charles D. Stimson, a senior legal fellow at Heritage, manages the think tank’s National Security Law Program.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Rogue Progressive Prosecutors Promote Lawlessness Not Reform

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More than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime">two dozen female inmates</a> at an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/indiana">Indiana</a> jail claim in two lawsuits that a guard sold a key to their cellblock to male prisoners who unleashed a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rape">night of terror</a>” on them.
An initial federal civil rights suit was filed earlier this month by 20 women, and a new one was lodged this week by another eight. Both claim Clark County Jail Guard David Lowe made $1,000 selling the key to male inmates, who allegedly wore towels over their heads as they passed security cameras and entered the female prisoner pod on October 23, 2021. Once there, the men sexually assaulted the women, leaving many with various injuries. They did not leave until the next morning, according to the lawsuits.
“The men repeatedly threatened to sexually assault the women,” according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/27/female-inmates-raped-after-indiana-jailer-sold-cell-keys/">lawsuits</a>.
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&#8220;It was literally two of the worst hours of their lives,&#8221; said Steve Wagner, an attorney for the eight women who filed suit this week.
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Two women reported being raped and others were groped and harassed, according to the lawsuits. Women allegedly suffered “bleeding, vaginal tears, and genital herpes.”
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Despite screams for help, no guards came to the aid of the female prisoners during the hours-long attack, according to the lawsuits. Instead, guards allegedly put the women on lockdown and left the jail lights on for 72 hours.
“These females were doing everything they could to alert the jail staff. They were pounding on the door for help. They were hitting the buzzer on the inside of the pod in order to alert jail staff,” attorney Bart Betteau <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/lawsuit-alleges-female-inmates-were-assaulted-raped-at-clark-county-jail-david-lowe-indiana/531-54a89264-24e7-4150-9af2-d5226db57d45">told</a> 13WTHR.
Guards also seized “authorized personal property from the women such as pillows, blankets, and personal hygiene items without any legitimate security reason,” according to the lawsuits.
The lawsuit filed this week accused Lowe of giving inmates access to the women and being “deliberately indifferent” to the “substantial risk” they faced.
Other jail officers failed in their duty to protect female inmates and never intervened to stop the attacks, according to the lawsuits.
Lowe was summarily fired and <a href="https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/several-indiana-female-inmates-attacked-after-guard-sold-keys-to-their-cells-lawsuit-alleges">charged</a> with trafficking with an inmate, felony official misconduct, and aiding escape. Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel is also named in both lawsuits, which accuse him of not providing proper training for the guards.
“These systemic failures allowed numerous male assailants to have free run of the jail for several hours, resulting in a night of terror for the Plaintiffs and other victims,” lawyers for the women <a href="https://fox59.com/indiana-news/clark-county-jail-officer-sold-male-inmates-access-to-womens-housing/">declared</a>.
Clark County is in the southern portion of the Hoosier state, directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.

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Jail Guard Sold Male Inmates Key To Women’s Wing, Unleashing ‘Night Of Terror’: Lawsuits

Jail Guard Sold Male Inmates Key To Women's Wing, Unleashing 'Night Of Terror': Lawsuits

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Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the most notorious drug lords of the past half-century, is only the latest in a string of high-profile cartel leaders to face justice.
Caro Quintero, a top official in the Sinaloa cartel, is expected to be extradited to the United States after he was captured by Mexican authorities earlier this month. His arrest and extradition is a major victory for U.S. law enforcement, after placing a $20 million bounty on information pertaining to his whereabouts.
Mexican authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/infamous-cartel-boss-with-20m-bounty-nabbed-in-mexico">arrested</a> Caro Quintero on July 15, years after his release from a Mexican prison. The drug kingpin walked free in 2013 after a judge overruled his continued incarceration on procedural grounds when Caro Quintero was 28 years into a 40-year sentence. The U.S. condemned his release, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/15/mexican-judge-warrant-arrest-rafael-caro-quintero">another warrant</a> was put out for Caro Quintero’s arrest less than a week later. By that time, however, he had disappeared.
Caro Quintero was imprisoned for engineering the kidnapping, torture, and slaying of a Drug Enforcement Administration special agent in 1985. While the U.S. government generally works to combat Central and South America’s powerful drug cartels, the killing of a U.S. official or agent is perhaps the most prominent reason for the U.S. to target a specific criminal and take a special interest in their capture.
Caro Quintero and his associates, all highly dangerous and powerful people, have built the illegal drug trade in Mexico and the U.S. into a multi-billion-dollar annual business through the <a href="https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/drug-trafficking-violence-in-mexico-implications-for-the-united-states">trafficking</a> of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroine, marijuana, and other substances. 
And Quintero is not the only one.
In recent decades, law enforcement have killed or captured some of the most violent criminals in the world while trying to smother the explosive drug trade. Here are just a few:
<h3>Joaquín Guzmán Loera</h3>
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, is currently being held in a “supermax” U.S. prison in Colorado after breaking out of multiple Mexican lockups. As head of the Sinaloa cartel, Guzmán Loera is one of the most powerful drug lords in modern history, <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/tg1392">dubbed</a> in 2012 by the U.S. Treasury the “world’s most powerful drug trafficker.”
Guzmán Loera has been arrested multiple times, and made multiple escapes, before he was extradited to the U.S. in 2017. In 2019, A New York jury <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/us/el-chapo-guzman-trial-verdict/index.html">found</a> him guilty on ten counts, ranging from drug trafficking to the use of firearms. Guzmán Loera’s wife was arrested last year, pleaded guilty to several crimes related to aiding her husband, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Guzmán Loera <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joaquin-Guzman-Loera">began</a> his drug career in the 1980s working for the precursor of the Sinaloa cartel, the Guadalajara cartel. The Guadalajara cartel broke down in the late 80s after the 1985 murder of U.S. DEA agent Enrique Camarena sparked a joint U.S.-Mexico crackdown on cartel activity. The Guadalajara cartel splintered into smaller branches, one of which was located in Guzmán Loera’s home state of Sinaloa and became known as the Sinaloa cartel with El Chapo as one of its heads.
The Sinaloa cartel rose to prominence quickly on the success of Guzmán Loera’s innovative smuggling methods, and he became a highly-sought target of law enforcement. The Sinaloa leader was first arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and extradited to Mexico. In prison, he continued to run the cartel and eventually orchestrated his first escape in 2001 with the help of corrupt prison guards.
El Chapo was again arrested in 2014, but he escaped another maximum-security Mexican prison through an underground tunnel, which ran over a mile long from a construction site to underneath Guzmán Loera’s prison shower.
El Chapo’s criminal enterprise made him one of the wealthiest men in the world, according to estimates. Forbes Magazines <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2017/01/25/does-mexican-drug-lord-el-chapo-guzman-have-the-14-billion-the-u-s-wants-from-him/?sh=4f253e2f669b">estimated</a> Guzmán Loera’s net worth at $1 billion in 2009 and placed him on its billionaires list, though Forbes later “removed him from the billionaires rankings because it decided his assets were too difficult to verify.”
<h3>Héctor Luis Palma Salazar</h3>
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, known as El Güero, was one of the founding members of the Sinaloa cartel alongside El Chapo. Also, like El Chapo, Palma Salazar has been imprisoned in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Palma Salazar is <a href="https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-05-08/release-of-mexicos-sinaloa-cartel-boss-raises-fears-of-revenge.html">believed</a> to have committed a string of murders, including the slaying of a deputy police commander and his escort. In addition to leading one of the largest drug cartels, Palma Salazar has also been personally involved with some of the most violent actions and reprisals amid rival gangs. His wife was decapitated, and her head was sent to him in a refrigerated box. His two kids were also thrown off of a bridge and murdered.
Palma Salazar has essentially been incarcerated since 1995. Mexican authorities <a href="https://www.deseret.com/1997/1/9/19288368/prison-term-for-accused-drug-lord">took</a> him into custody while he was recuperating from a plane crash at the home of a former top police official that he had reportedly bought off. In 1997, Palma Salazar was convicted on several weapons charges, but he evaded more serious drug charges that could have extended his sentence by decades. He was locked up at Puente Grande prison in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
In 2007, Palma Salazar’s sentence at Puente Grande ended, and he was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/world/americas/21mexico.html">extradited</a> to the United States. He <a href="https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-palma-salazar">pled guilty</a> in 2008 to trafficking cocaine and was sent to prison. The U.S. government <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/16/hector-palma-freed-from-california-prison-goes-straight-to-mexican-lockup/">set</a> him free in 2016, however, in a move that stunned some officials in Mexico.
When he was returned to his home country, Mexican authorities immediately took him back under arrest on charges of killing a deputy police chief and one other in 1995. He has remained behind bars, but some questions over whether his legal rights are being respected have <a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/cop-killing-drug-lord-old-26311108">raised</a> the possibility of his release.
<h3>Pablo Escobar</h3>
Pablo Escobar is one of the best known drug lords of the 20th century, thanks in large part to a stream of media about him, such as the popular Netflix show “Narcos.” Escobar all but <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pablo-Escobar">owned</a> the cocaine trade in the 80s and 90s, running the powerful Medellín cartel and becoming known as the “king of cocaine.”
At the height of his power, Escobar was worth a reported $25 billion. He amassed so much wealth that, at one point, Escobar <a href="https://www.britannica.com/list/pablo-escobar-8-interesting-facts-about-the-king-of-cocaine#:~:text=With%20a%20reported%20worth%20of,exempt%20from%20any%20extradition%20treaty.">reportedly</a> offered to pay off Columbia’s national debt of $10 billion in return for an agreement that he could not be extradited.
In the early 90s, he struck a deal with the Colombian government to submit himself to prison on the condition that he could build the prison himself. The prison he constructed was more like a palace, with its own nightclub, sauna, and waterfall. It included telephones and computers as well, so Escobar could continue to run his operation while technically incarcerated.
Colombian officials decided to move Escobar to a less opulent prison after the drug lord killed two cartel members at his prison, known as La Catedral. Escobar escaped prison before he could be transferred in July 1992. In December 1993, the Colombian government, reportedly with aid from the U.S., caught up with Escobar, and the kingpin died in a firefight with law enforcement.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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This Cartel Boss Killed A DEA Agent. Now He Will Face Justice Thanks To $20 Million Bounty

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Escaped Alabama inmate Casey White and prison official Vicky White were captured on Monday in Indiana.
“Wanted fugitives Casey White and Vicky White have been captured in Evansville, Indiana. They were captured after a pursuit ended in a crash. &#8230; Vicky White shot herself and is being taken to a hospital. &#8230; She has serious injuries and was driving the truck when the pursuit ended,” <a href="https://www.waaytv.com/news/casey-white-vicky-white-captured-in-indiana/article_bf005050-cfe1-11ec-95bc-53edbc9b6d32.html">WAAYTV</a> reported. “Casey White is in custody.”
&#8220;This has ended a very long and stressful week in a half,&#8221; Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton <a href="https://twitter.com/Matt_Kroschel/status/1523785370072190977">said</a> on Monday, according to WAAYTV reporter Matt Kroschel.
The capture marks the end of a nationwide pursuit for the two individuals who investigators characterized as having a “special relationship.” 
Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jailhouse-romance-car-used-by-missing-alabama-prison-guard-and-inmate-found-in-tennessee-as-officials-post-25000-reward">disappeared</a> on April 29 while claiming to escort inmate Casey White to a mental health evaluation. The two are not related. During a press conference on Friday, Singleton explained that there were indications of a “jailhouse romance” between Vicky White and Casey White, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-inmate-corrections-officer-manhunt-reward">Fox News</a> reported.
On Thursday night, authorities linked a 2007 Ford Edge SUV abandoned in Williamson County, Tennessee, to the pair. The vehicle was initially spotted hours after the escape, but not connected to the couple until “the tow truck driver who picked up the Ford vehicle remembered it when he saw a local TV story this week about the missing officer and inmate and alerted his boss,” according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/us/vicky-white-casey-white-alabama-manhunt-friday/index.html">CNN</a>. The car was initially found locked and without tags.
Singleton noted that Vicky White sold her house for $95,550 — far below its market value of $235,600 — on April 18. District Attorney Chris Connolly told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-corrections-officer-withdrew-90000-cash-multiple-banks/story?id=84546760">ABC News</a> that Vicky White withdrew approximately $90,000 from several banks before April 29.
Indeed, Vicky White’s mother-in-law, Frances White, told <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/vicky-white-alabama-prison-guard-who-fled-with-murder-inmate-casey-white-was-cashed-up-and-eying-florida">The Daily Beast</a> on Tuesday that the official had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/missing-alabama-prison-official-had-special-relationship-with-disappeared-inmate-report">amassed</a> large sums of money over time to keep herself afloat and “may have been brainwashed” into freeing Casey White. “She had said that she’d like to live in Florida, that’s the only thing I can think of,” Frances White told the outlet. Vicky White’s late husband passed away in January as a result of complications with Parkinson’s disease.
“She had money before she sold her home,” Frances White continued. “She saved her money. I figure if she’s still got her money, she’s still got enough to live on for a while.”
As federal, state, and local officials pursued the pair, Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) announced a $10,000 reward for information resulting in the “arrest and apprehension” of Vicky White and Casey White, Fox reported. According to Singleton, the total reward for the pair’s apprehension reached $25,000.
Singleton characterized the escape plan as “very well thought-out,” with Vicky White’s law enforcement knowledge putting investigators “at a loss,” ABC reported. The U.S. Marshals service said that the pair “may be armed with an AR-15 rifle, handguns and a shotgun.”
Casey White confessed in 2020 to fatally stabbing a woman named Connie Ridgeway five years earlier. The woman’s body was found by a neighbor after the neighbor noticed that Ridgeway had not been seen that day. Casey White claimed he was paid to carry out the murder.

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Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton introduced the “Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act” on Wednesday, which would not allow for males who identify as female to be placed in women’s prisons. 
“President Biden’s plan to house male and female prisoners together will put women in danger. Documented cases prove that placing men—including ones who ‘identify’ as female—in women’s prisons puts female inmates at increased risk of sexual assault. My bill will stop the president’s ill-conceived plan and keep men and women separated in federal prison,” Cotton <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-bill-blocks-biden-plan-to-place-men-in-female-prisons">said</a> in a statement.
Backers of the bill included Heritage Action, the American Principles Project, and Concerned Women for America LCA.
The bill would block federal prisons from housing males in female prisons for reasons of gender identity. The language <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/preventing_violence_against_female_inmates.pdf">says</a> that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) should “use the biological sex of person charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States in making determinations regarding housing such persons.”
It also notes that prisons should “not co-locate in detention facilities persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States if those persons are not of the same biological sex, unless the Bureau of Prisons co-locates such persons without regard to their purported gender identity.”
Under the bill, state prisons would not be eligible for certain federal funding if they housed members of the opposite sex together.
The bill would not prevent prisons from making separate housing exclusively available on the bases of gender identity “as long as they are not housed with inmates of the opposite sex.”
It also states that “a state or federal institution would still be allowed to use short-term detention cells in a courthouse to house both male and female prisoners during a trial in which they are both witnesses, subject to normal security considerations to protect all detainees.”
Cotton’s bill may conflict with what Biden has said in the past regarding the issue. Biden has <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-joe-biden-prison-your-sexual-identity-defined-what-you-say-n">stated</a> that “in prison, your sexual identity is defined by what you say, not what the prison says.”
The policy on housing transgender prisoners has become more contested with reports on if and how much Biden would change from the Trump era policy that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-administration-may-instruct-prisons-to-house-transgender-inmates-without-regard-to-biological-sex-report">said</a> prisons should &#8220;use biological sex as the initial determination” for housing.
That policy is being reviewed by the Justice Department, and would apply to the approximately 1,200 prisoners who identify as transgender.
&#8220;BOP is in the process of reviewing the current version of its policy regarding transgender inmates, which was developed in order to meet the community standard of medical and mental health care, appropriately manage and support the offenders, and meet legal requirements as determined by case law, statutes and federal regulations,&#8221; a Justice Department spokesman <a href="https://www.axios.com/doj-housing-transgender-inmates-policy-164e214f-d104-4f2f-b824-0c9cc6ce30f6.html">told</a> Axios in September.
Some states, like Rhode Island, Washington, Massachusetts, and Connecticut allow gender identity to be the determining factor in where a prisoner is housed.

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‘Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act’: Cotton Introduces Bill To House Prisoners By Biological Sex

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