Bob Walsh
Stockton, CA
Male, 60
I worked for the California state system, starting as a Correctional Officer and retiring as a Lieutenant in 2005. I now write for the PacoVilla blog which is concerned with what could broadly be called The Correctional System.
The law, and administrative rules, will vary from place to place. In California, and I suspect most states, the relationship would have to be reported both to the probation officer and to the officer's chain of command. It would be at best seriously frowned on and likely prohibited. A person on parole or probation is still under the jurisdiction of the department and is under constructive custody if not actual custody. Any personal relationship, especially a sexual one, could be considered to be coercive.
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I don't know. In California the state maintains a web site that can tell you what job an individual person has with the state, but not necessarily the location. There are 33 prisons in CA so you would have to call each individual prison and check with the personnel office. At least in CA the information is not confidential. Other employers might have different ways of doing things. Now days there are lots of commercial web sites that can locate an individual for a modest fee, so as long as you have a name and an approximate age or birth date it shouldn't be that hard.
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Assuming you are no longer on probation or parole it is not an issue having normal social interactions with working peace officers. it is no problem at all with retired peace officers either. as a convicted felon you do, however, have issues with being on prison grounds (you can't go onto prison grounds without the expressed permission of the warden) so if some of them live on grounds that might be an issue. you also want to avoid being in personal possession of firearms or ammunition. good luck.
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For starters you should NEVER be in that position in the first place. Assuming it did happen, you go with the bird in the hand and keep custody of the prisoner you have. You might be justified in shooting at the fleeing prisoner, but you would not deliberately loose the one you still have to maybe catch the one who is running.
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Sorry, but I don't have enough information on how things work in Connecticut to give even an educated guess. If I were to make a WAG (wild-ass guess) I would say that they don't like employees being sponsors, but if you were already a sponsor when you hired on they would be OK with it. That is, however, a GUESS and not an informed opinion.
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First you might want to try to figure whether or not your brother is telling you the truth. I know it is hard to believe but prisoners often lie about being mistreated. Assuming for the sake of argument these allegations are true he needs to have his injuries documented if possible as quickly as possible after they occur and needs to contact whatever internal affairs operation they have where he is or if push comes to shove contact the feds. Assault Under Color Of Authority is a very serious crime and the state(s) and the feds do prosecute such things. You could make an initial contact on his behalf with these authorities, but he needs to be willing to go on the record at some point with these accusation to make anything stick.
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