Category: Fallen Correctional Staff

Correctional Officer III Helen Smith – EOW: February 3, 2022

While responding to a disturbance in a dorm, Correctional Officer III Helen Smith of Pasquotank Correctional Institution, encountered an inmate who was trying to exit the dorm while surrounded by several other inmates.  Officer Smith radioed for the slider door to open, and pulled the inmate out of the dorm. He became combative and struggled […]

Detention Officer Jeremiah Story – EOW: June 22, 2022

  Perry County Sheriff’s Office, Arkansas   On June 22, 2022, Detention Officer Jeremiah Story was processing a subject into the Perry County Detention Center, who had been arrested for driving while intoxicated.   He and a trustee took the subject into the restroom to supervise as he changed into jail-issued clothing. The subject became […]

Sergeant Joshua Caudell – EOW: February 28, 2022

On February 28, 2022, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence of a known felon, on state-supervised probation, to perform a welfare check, after reports of a woman who was being held against her will. When the deputies arrived at the residence, shots were fired from inside the home. After a […]

Massachusetts State Farm in Bridgewater

Correctional Officer Franklin Weston, Correctional Officer George Landry, and Correctional Officer Howard Murphy were stabbed to death at the Massachusetts State Farm in Bridgewater. The three officers were working in the Department of Defective Delinquents section of the farm at the time. Officer Weston had gone with two inmates to carpentry and shoe shop to […]

Detention Sergeant Russell Jones

Detention Sergeant Russell Jones, 36, lost his life in the line of duty after suffering a medical emergency in the Detention Center on Wednesday, Dec. 6, according to the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office.   On Dec. 6, Detention Sergeant Russell Jones was trying to subdue an inmate when he was punched in the face, ODMP […]

Safe Travels to North Carolina

We would like to wish safe travels to the CPOF National Honor Guard Team, Board of Directors, staff and field representatives as they make their way to the funeral of Detention Sergeant Russell Jones, a detention officer with the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office.   Jones, 36, worked as a detention officer with the sheriff’s office […]

Correctional Officer Jovian Jamal Motley – EOW November 13, 2023

Jovian Motley was born to two loving parents, Edward and Tammica Motley, on October 14, 1996. He and his sister, Iyanna, grew up in Houston, Texas, with the church being a big part of their lives.   Jovian was a part of the mime team, the choir and played football in high school. He was […]

Sergeant Joe Allen Gamble Jr.

  Sergeant Joe Gamble was killed after being stabbed by an inmate at the Oklahoma State Reformatory, low maximum-security prison.   As officers began locking down the prison for a head count, the suspect began to attack Officer William Callaway in a common area of the prison, stabbing him 16 times in the back of […]

Attica – 52 years later

CPOF’s National Honor Guard and representatives of the National Board of Directors were present for the Attica Remembrance this year. They were all honored to be a part of honoring the survivors and the fallen.       As always, thank you Commander Gonsalves for leading the National Honor Guard team with pride and dignity. […]

The Attica Riots

  1971 was a tumultuous time for corrections in this nation. The end of August brought the Deadliest Day in San Quentin History and September brought the Attica Prison Riot.   The Attica prison riot began on the morning on Thursday, September 9, 1971. 1,281 of the inmates housed at Attica took control of the […]