ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. by Panagioti Tsolkas, Rebecca Talbot This story is published in partnership with Truthout Just after dawn on September 16, 2021, E.E. and six other African immigrant men were resting in their bunks at the Glades County Detention Center …
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
ICE Settles Florida Detention Facility COVID-19 Class Action, All Detainees Offered Vaccination by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On December 22, 2021, a Florida federal court approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities in …
After Two Detainee Deaths, CoreCivic Hit With $2,500 Daily Fine for Chronically Short-Staffed Florida Jail by On February 15, 2022, an on-going staffing crisis at Florida’s Citrus County Detention Facility (CCDF) prompted county officials to start fining its privately contracted operator, Tennessee-based CoreCivic, $2,500 a day for running the prison …
Vidal v. FDOC, FL, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2022 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT RELEASING ALL CLAIMS WHEREAS, MARIA VIDAL, the Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF ANTHONY VIDAL ("Vidal") acknowledges that she and the FLORIDA DEPARTMENT Of CORRECTIONS ("FDOC"),FREDRICKLESTER,MARCFLEURJEAN,JEFFREYLAMELAS,andJULIO MONROY, collectively known as the "Parties," are in litigation over a negligence and civil …
HRDC Wins Appeal in Florida Public Records Request Case Against Armor Correctional Health Services by In an opinion reached on December 1, 2021, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) in its suit seeking records from Armor Correctional Health Services, the …
Former Florida Prison Guard Sentenced for Conspiracy to Assault Youthful Offenders by On September 8, 2021, a former guard with the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) was sentenced to 33 months in prison and two years of supervised release for “conspiring to assault youthful offender inmates at the South Florida …
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
Estate of Davon Gillians v. Lane, FL, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022 Case 5:22-cv-00115 Document 1 Filed 02/28/22 Page 1 of 17 PageID 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA OCALA DIVISION Case No. ROBERT CONYERS JR., as Personal Representative of the Estate of DAVON GILLIANS, v. …
Miller v. FDOC, FL, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2022 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA OCALA DIVISION OTIS MILLER, Plaintiff, CASE NO: 5:20-cv-323 vs. THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, MILTON GASS, JOSHUA PETERSILGE, IAN GRETKA, HUNTER LINGO, JOSEPH JAMES, SCOTT WILSON, and CHEYENNE JORDAN, Defendants, -----------------I RELEASE WHEREAS, Plaintiff …
Inmate Magazine Service Settlement Prohibits Further Sale of Magazine Subscriptions, Orders Payment of $2.2 Million for ‘Consumer Redress’ by On September 7, 2021, Inmate Magazine Service (IMS) owner Roy Snowden entered into a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) that prohibits him …
News in Brief by Alabama: According to Birmingham Real-Time News, a kidnapper was recaptured after being erroneously released from jail in Jefferson County, Alabama, on December 17, 2021. The prisoner, Matthew Burke, 35, was apprehended during a traffic stop after being released from the Jefferson County Jail on Dec. 11 …
White Supremacist Groups Continue to Infest Florida DOC by For at least the second time in four years the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) is making headlines for connections between its employees and white supremacist groups. In July 2021, when sixteen members of a white supremacist gang were arrested—on a …
Barnett v. Tony, FL, Order Approving in Part Reportof Magistrate Judge, Covid Release, 2022 Case 0:20-cv-61113-WPD Document 173 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/31/2022 Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No.: 0:20-cv-61113-DIMITROULEAS CODY BARNETT, et al., Plaintiff, v. GREGORY TONY, Defendant. / ORDER APPROVING …
Florida Justice Institute-Objections to Proposed Rule 33-602.205, Jan 2022 IID PO Box 370747 Miami, FL 33137 305.358.2081 – Fax 305.358.0910 www.floridajusticeinstitute.org FLORIDA JUSTICE INSTITUTE >--------------------------January 31, 2022 Via Email Office of the General Counsel Attn. FDC Rule Correspondence 501 South Calhoun Street Tallahassee, Florida 32399 FDCRuleCorrespondence@fdc.myflorida.com. Re: Objections to Proposed …
S.D. V. Wellpath, FL, Class Action Complaint, Unsafe Injection Practices, 2022 Case 8:22-cv-00146 Document 1 Filed 01/18/22 Page 1 of 29 PageID 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA S.D., H.D., D.M., D.S., and J.W., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. …
Gayle v. Meade, FL, Order Adopting Report & Recommendation, Covid-19 Vaccine Protocol, 2021 Case 1:20-cv-21553-MGC Document 824 Entered on FLSD Docket 12/23/2021 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 20-21553-Civ-COOKE/GOODMAN PATRICK GAYLE, et al., Petitioners, vs. MICHAEL W. MEADE, et. al., Respondents. _____________________________________/ …
Harvard v. Inch, Fl, Declaration of Craig Haney, Solitary Confinement, 2021 Case 4:19-cv-00212-AW-MAF Document 371-1 Filed 12/20/21 Page 1 of 201 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION JAC’QUANN (ADMIRE) HARVARD; Jeremiah Hill; JUAN ESPINOSA; JEROME BURGESS; (a/k/a SHAM’LA GOD ALLAH); JAMES W. KENDRICK, JR.; JOHNNY HILL; …
Harvard v. Inch, Fl, Expert Declaration of Craig Haney, Prison Conditions, 2021 Case 4:19-cv-00212-AW-MAF Document 371-1 Filed 12/20/21 Page 1 of 201 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION JAC’QUANN (ADMIRE) HARVARD; Jeremiah Hill; JUAN ESPINOSA; JEROME BURGESS; (a/k/a SHAM’LA GOD ALLAH); JAMES W. KENDRICK, JR.; JOHNNY …
Harvard v. Dixon, FL, Response to Motion, Prison Conditions, 2021 Case 4:19-cv-00212-AW-MAF Document 371 Filed 12/20/21 Page 1 of 59 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Tallahassee Division _________________________________ ) JAC’QUANN (ADMIRE) ) HARVARD, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Case No.: 4:19-cv-00212-AW-MAF ) 1 …
