Category: Line of Duty Death
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 […]
Oklahoma State Prison – 1914
Before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, felons convicted in the Oklahoma Territory were sent to the Kansas State Penitentiary located in Lansing, Kansas. Upon statehood, Kate Barnard became the Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She first visited the Kansas prison during the summer of 1908 after many Oklahoma inmates had began […]
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 […]
Safe Travels to our National Honor Guard Team
We wish the Correctional Peace Officers National Honor Guard Team safe travels as they attend the services of Fallen Correctional Officer Jovian Motley. The 27-year-old officer lost his life in the line of duty on November 13, 2023, while serving at the Wainwright Unit in Houston County, Texas. Motley joined the agency in October […]
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 […]
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