In an opinion filed on August 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed an appeal by the Sheriff of Louisiana’s Orleans Parish, who sought to halt construction of a mental health annex for detainees at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) that was ordered under a ...

On August 16, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of Tennessee approved a settlement agreement that left Hamilton County on the hook for $100,000 to the estate of Shandie M. Riley, whose civil rights suit alleged that her First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated when a County ...

On August 20, 2024, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released a report detailing its investigation into three prisoner suicides, finding that DCS did not provide psychological autopsies after two, that one took place weeks after a previous attempt by the ...