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Fifth Circuit Greenlights Federal Takeover of Mississippi Jail by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit approved the appointment of a receiver to oversee operations of the Raymond Detention Center (RDC) in Hinds County, Mississippi. The district court’s action was a contempt sanction imposed for the …
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
Ninth Circuit Agrees That Former Guantanamo Detainee Lacks Grounds to Sue for Waterboarding by David Reutter On June 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a complaint filed by Abu Zubaydah, 52, a falsely accused Al-Qaeda conspirator captured after the terrorist attacks on …
Academic Study of Prison Guards’ Use of Excessive Force Details Sad State of Civil Rights for Abused Prisoners by Matthew Clarke In a research paper published on October 15, 2024, UCLA law professor Sharon Dolovich examined the state of civil rights law regarding excessive use of force by American prison …
Pittsburgh Lockup Accounts for 43% of Pennsylvania Jail TASER Use, Suit Filed by According to an investigative report published on January 30, 2025, guards at Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) accounted for nearly half of all use of taser weapons on detainees and prisoners in Pennsylvania. That revelation followed a …
Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly Tasered and Starved to Death At South Carolina Jail by A suit removed to federal court for the District of South Carolina on December 15, 2023, accuses Bamberg County and its jailers of Tasering a 51-year-old mentally ill detainee and starving him to death the year …
Brief • July 1, 2024
Knox v. Bradshaw, FL,Settlement, Excessive Force, 2024 PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FLSS Exemption Sheet X FSS ☐ 119.071(2)(c) ☐ 112.533(2)(a) Open Internal Affairs investigation. ☐ 119.071(2)(d) Surveillance techniques, procedures, and personnel; inventory of law enforcement resources, policies, or plans pertaining to mobilization, deployment, or tactical operations. ☐ 119.071(3)(a), 281.301 …
“There you go, Agent Orange!” Former South Carolina Sheriff Federally Indicted for Assaulting Jail Detainee by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Charles B. Lemon, the former Sheriff of South Carolina’s Marlboro County, pleaded not guilty on February 6, 2024, to federal civil rights charges laid out in an indictment unsealed …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Fifth Circuit: Texas Jail Guard’s Use of Taser on Compliant Detainee Unconstitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that “precedents conclusively establish that the use of a taser on a non-threatening and cooperative subject is …
Multiple Staffers Arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail by Eight employees were arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail in 2023, including guard Jalen Clausel. He was taken in five days after Sheriff Levon Allen said the guard let four detainees assault a fifth on October 28, 2023. None of the …
Fifth Circuit Revives Suit Against Texas Jailers Who Tasered Detainee Suffering Epileptic Seizure by Douglas Ankney On July 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to jailers who tasered a detainee suffering an epileptic seizure at the Pasadena …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Two Dead and $4.675 Million Paid After Deputies’ Alleged Misconduct in California’s Sonoma County by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian A coroner’s report on March 14, 2023, confirmed that an undocumented worker was fatally shot by a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD) deputy after a foot chase the previous …
Brief • April 10, 2023
Knox v. Bradshaw, FL, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2023 Case 9:23-cv-80630-WM Document 1-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/10/2023 Page 1 of 61 EXHIBIT "A" Case 9:23-cv-80630-WM Document 1-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/10/2023 Page 2 of 61 Filing# 167538684 E~Filed 02/24/2023 06:05:49 PM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL …
Article • October 27, 2022
South Florida Prison Guard Arrested for Flashing DOC Badge and Making Traffic Stop at Gunpoint by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On October 3, 2022, a Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was arrested after a road rage incident in which he allegedly flashed his DOC badge and …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Another Death by Taser in Sangamon County, Illinois Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Many issues surrounding criminal justice and law enforcement have been up for debate in recent years, yet the jury is back on the question of Tasers used on people in custody. The weapon has been …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$90,000 Paid by Illinois County to Prisoner Tasered by Two Guards He Wasn’t Resisting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After guards at the Lake County Jail (LCJ) in Illinois were sued for using excessive force by tasering an unresisting prisoner, the parties reached a settlement for $90,000 on …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
$10 Million Settlement in Taser Death of Mentally Ill Man in South Carolina Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The death of a Black man who was Tasered multiple times at South Carolina’s Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in Charleston is the latest case to raise questions about …
Brief • June 30, 2021
Davis v. Abdeljaber, IL, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2021 SETTLEMENT AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS This General Release of All Claims ("Release"), dated June 212, 2021, arises out of litigation in the Federal District Court for the Northern District oflllinois, entitled ChristopherDavis v. Richard Ligenza, et. al., 16-CV-10763 and ChristopherDavis v Rame …
Brief • June 30, 2021
Davis v. Leginza, IL, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2021 SETTLEMENT AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS This General Release of All Claims ("Release"), dated June 2l2., 2021, arises out of litigation in the Federal District Court for the Northern District oflllinois, entitled Christopher Davis v. Richard Ligenw, et. al., 16-CV-10763 and Christopher Davis …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Former Georgia Sheriff Deputies Denied Immunity in Criminal Case for Taser Death of Unarmed Man by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three former Georgia Sheriff’s deputies were denied immunity on December 8, 2020, by Washington County Judge H. Gibbs Flanders in a criminal prosecution, according to a December 9, …
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