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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
First Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Maine Guards who Ogled Prisoner During Childbirth by David Reutter On September 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) for a pair of Maine jailers whom a prisoner accused of violating her …
New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New Jersey judiciary came to an end when the state Supreme Court held that the failure of former prison …
Gay Tennessee Prisoner Refuses to Out Himself in PREA Classification Hearings by In an essay for Filter Magazine published on February 10, 2025, openly gay Tennessee prisoner Tony Vick made a surprising admission: He consistently identifies himself as “straight” in annual classification hearings conducted under the Prison Rape Elimination Act …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Two Guards Arrested in Two Weeks at Texas Jail by Two jailers were arrested in two weeks at Texas’ Hays County Jail, beginning on April 25, 2025, when guard John Duran, 45, was accused of sending a detainee to shower and watching her bathe on surveillance video. An investigation was …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Missouri Pays More Than $1.2 Million for Deputy Warden’s Sexual Harassment Claim Against Warden by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney For subjecting him to sexual harassment, the state of Missouri paid a jury award of more than $1.2 million in damages, plus legal fees and costs to former Kansas City …
Minnesota Supreme Court Says Randy Guard Must Face Prisoner’s Sexual Harassment and Assault Claims by The Supreme Court of Minnesota held on June 20, 2024, that a state Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner plausibly stated a claim under the Minnesota Tort Claims Act (TCA) when he alleged that a guard …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Illinois Pays $3 Million for Subjecting Prisoners to Degrading Mass Strip Search by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso After a dozen years of fighting over a mass strip-search conducted during a training exercise in an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) prison for women, the federal court for the Central …
No Human Being Should Be Held There - THE MISTREATMENT OF LGBTQ AND HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE IN U.S. FEDERAL IMMIGRATION JAILS-June 2024 “No Human Being Should Be Held There” The Mistreatment of LGBTQ and HIV-Positive People in U.S. Federal Immigration Jails JUNE 2024 No Human Being Should Be Held There …
Brief • December 18, 2023
Expert Declaration of Kelly M. Socia, PH.d-Sexual Crimes and Mandatory Lifetime GPS Statute, Dec 2023 EXPERT DECLARATION OF KELLY M. SOCIA, PH.D. Individuals convicted of sexual crimes and Wisconsin’s mandatory lifetime GPS statute Prepared by: Kelly M. Socia, Ph.D. Professor School of Criminology and Justice Studies University of Massachusetts Lowell …
Brief • October 23, 2023
Klenke v. Michigan Dept of Corrections, MI, Complaint, Sexual Harassment, 2023 2nd copy - Plaintiff 3rd copy - Return Original - Court 1st copy - Defendant Approved, SCAO CASE NO. STATE OF MICHIGAN JUDICIAL DISTRICT 8th Ionia 23-S- 3lJl \ ~ \ SUMMONS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY -CD Court telephone no. …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$110,000 Paid By Tennessee Jail to Women Allegedly Forced to Stage “Sex Shows” for Guard by On October 26, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Tennessee granted dismissal to a complaint filed by two former detainees at the Grainger County Jail, after they accepted $110,000 to settle …
Monterey County Sheriff’s Office Poised for Much-Needed Cleanup by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss California’s Monterey County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD) was under the spotlight in October 2022, when two “Jane Doe” lawsuits were filed accusing now-retired Undersheriff John Mineau of sexually harassing a pair of co-workers. But the agency …
Article • February 22, 2023
Jury Awards $2 Million to Nurse in Sexual Harassment Case against Missouri Prison Officials by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 27, 2022, in Missouri’s 19th Circuit Court, Judge Jon Beetem ordered the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to pay $2 million in punitive damages to a …
Article • February 7, 2023
Welsh Prisoner Used Phone Hidden in Rectum to Snag Guards with “Flirty” Calls by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A former guard and a former nurse at a prison in the United Kingdom – who both fell for “flirty” calls on a contraband cellphone from a “Romeo inmate,” …
Over $237,000 Awarded in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Suit Accusing Guard of Unwanted Sexual Advances by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On June 16, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ordered a state prison guard to pay $110,042.38 in legal costs and fees for a former state …
Article • December 27, 2022
Five High-Level Staffers Out of Michigan Prison After State Watchdog Uncovers Anti-Gay Harassment by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The Michigan Office of the Executive Inspector General (OIG) released a 50-page report on December 5, 2022, detailing a culture of unprofessional and irresponsible behavior at the management level of …
Brief • December 27, 2022
Filed under: Sexual Harassment
Newman v. Missouri Department of Corrections, MO, Judgment, Sexual Harrassment, 2022 i IN THE 19TH CIRCUIT COURT .I c9~~-FPY~'I'J .. . •· ..STATE-OF:MISSOURL . . .I . . . . KATHLEEN NEWMAN, l ~ Plaintiff, I ·) V. ;.:\/?':/~:;:;-_ MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., . :.Cause No.17AC-CC00364 ·.. ·• …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Ohio County Pays $2.5 Million for Photographing Female Detainees’ Tattooed Private Areas by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On January 7, 2022, Ohio’s Franklin County Board of Commissioners settled a suit brought by a class of former female detainees in the county jail who claimed their constitutional rights were …
Brief • August 23, 2022
Agudelo v. County of Essex, NJ, Complaint, Sexual Harassment, 2022 ESX-L-004983-22 08/23/2022 3:47:41 PM Pg 1 of 33 Trans ID: LCV20223051611 Matthew A. Luber, Esq. - NJ ID # 017302010 mal@njlegal.com R. Armen McOmber, Esq.- NJ ID # 018251998 ram@njlegal.com Tyler J. Burrell, Esq. - NJ ID # 377942021 tjb@njlegal.com …
Brief • June 27, 2022
Doe v. Golightly, FL, Settlement, Sexual Harassment, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION JANE DOE, Plaintiff, Civil No. 4:21-,;v-00402-RH-MAF v. PHILIP GOLIGHTLY, and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendants. STIPULATION FOR COMPROMISE SETTLEMENT It is hereby stipulated by and between the undersigned …
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