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Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Missouri Guards in Transgender Prisoner’s Suit Alleging Retaliation and Unreasonable Search by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to defendant Missouri Department of Corrections …
At BOP California “Rape Club” Prison: Historic Ruling, FBI Raid, Warden Removed by On March 11, 2024, FBI agents raided the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California, the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lockup plagued by staff sexual assaults on prisoners—so many that it has become known as …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Over $7,600 Awarded to Tennessee Prisoner for Retaliatory Cell Search and Transfer by On March 13, 2023, the federal court for the Western District of Tennessee awarded $3,176.67 in costs to a state prisoner in his suit against the warden and three guards at West Tennessee State Penitentiary (WTSP). After …
Armstrong v. Newsom, CA, Order Re Depositions, Abuse of Disabled Prisoners, 2020 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 3135 Filed 10/14/20 Page 1 of 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DONALD SPECTER – 083925 RITA K. LOMIO – 254501 MARGOT MENDELSON – …
Armstrong, et al. v. Newsom, et al., CA, support of plaintiffs' motion for temporary restraining order, retaliation against prisoners with disabilities, 2020 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 2970-1 Filed 07/01/20 Page 1 of 151 1 DONALD SPECTER – 083925 RITA K. LOMIO – 254501 2 MARGOT MENDELSON – 268583 PRISON LAW OFFICE …
Armstrong, et al. v. Newsom, et al., CA, Temporary Restraining Order, retaliation against incarcerated people with disabilities, 2020 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 2972 Filed 07/02/20 Page 1 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 …
Armstrong, et al. v. Newsom, et al., CA, declaration in support of plaintiffs' temporary restraining order, retaliation against incarcerated people with disabilities, 2020 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 2970-1 Filed 07/01/20 Page 1 of 151 1 DONALD SPECTER – 083925 RITA K. LOMIO – 254501 2 MARGOT MENDELSON – 268583 PRISON LAW …
Federal Jury Awards $25,000 Against Missouri Police for False Arrest by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis  A federal jury awarded $25,000 to a Missouri woman after it found that a constitutional violation of her freedom of speech resulted in her false arrest.      On January 23, 1998, Springfield police arrived …
Shackled South African Prisoner Beaten by GEO Guards Wins Lawsuit by Derek Gilna In May 2016, private prison firm The GEO Group, which operates the maximum-security Louis Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre in Louis Trichard, South Africa, lost a lawsuit that alleged the company’s guards beat a prisoner while he was …
Pennsylvania Arrest for Videotaping Cops Denied Qualified Immunity by Mark Wilson A Pennsylvania federal court held that police were not entitled to qualified immunity for "entering a family's home and arresting its owner for doing nothing more than attempting to videotape the officers' overreaction on her own property." Kia Gaymon, …
Prisoners Protest Solitary Confinement at Illinois Facility by Joe Watson More than two dozen prisoners at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois protested conditions in the prison’s high security unit (HSU) by staging a series of hunger strikes, most of them sustained for weeks. The protests at the Menard facility, …
Washington Jail Prisoner Settles Retaliation Claim for $10,000 by Washington State’s Pierce County has agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed a prisoner was subjected to retaliation in the form of solitary confinement for exercising his First Amendment right of access to the courts. Neil Grenning …
D.C. Settles Unreasonable Strip Search, Sexual Battery Allegations for $15,750 by On May 11, 2006, the District of Columbia paid $15,750 to settle a lawsuit filed by two prisoners who claimed they were subjected to unreasonable strip searches and sexual battery by guards at the Central Facility in Lorton, Virginia. …
Biased Hearing Officer Spoils Changes against Muslim Prisoner Who Circulates Petition by Biased Hearing Officer Spoils Changes against Muslim Prisoner Who Circulates Petition The plaintiff prepared a petition alleging abusive conduct by a correction officer. He was subsequently disciplined after searches of his cell and work area turned up articles …
Article • May 15, 2007
Retaliatory Strip Searches State Claim by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit affirmed dismissal of a Texas prisoner's challenge to an ad seg strip search policy. The court reversed the dismissal of the prisoner's claim that the strip search policy was applied in retaliation only against prisoners who …
No Qualified Immunity for Guards Who Seized Prisoner's Legal Papers by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of prison guards who had confiscated a prisoner's legal papers as an alleged act of retaliation for the prisoner's exercise …
Qualified Immunity for Sex Offender Cavity Searches by The plaintiff sex offenders alleged that they were harassed because of their status and were subject to retaliatory body cavity searches. Injunctive relief was not appropriate because there was no allegation that the misconduct was ongoing. Declaratory relief is inappropriate for the …
Retaliation by NY Jail Guards Not Barred by PLRA by The plaintiff complained that the defendants retaliated against him for public criticism of police misconduct. He was arrested on seemingly trumped-up charges, transferred from Orange County to Rikers Island with false information that his claim to have been a police …
Stutes v. Tipton et al, VT, Complaint, CCA restraint segregation, 2007 DocUrTIPOt...P° 1 „Filed QV. base 13.1 HICT or H0-7 FH r .r.1 DISTrI&F COURT 711 0 7MAR 30 U STA - FOR THE ".01S CT OF VERIviONT E No. ,.t i . - 6 Kirk STUTES, Plaintiff -uu 11 …
Perotti Needs Help by John Perotti John Perotti, Mansfield, OH On August 7, 1992, MANCI prisoncrats Bill Rachael (unit manager), Terry Knight (SHP Investigator), Mr. Fleming (SHP) and Capt. Jackson and Sgt. Harrell called a prisoner named Jerome Evans to their office and made a deal that if he set …
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