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Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty The torture …
Florida’s Juvenile Death Camps: A Painful Past Revisited by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Recent coverage of long-past abuses at Florida juvenile facilities has put a spotlight on the treatment of juvenile offenders. Reports by the Miami Herald and CNN have revealed that Florida youth facilities have been cruel …
California Jail Restraint and Tasering Death Settles for $3 Million by California Jail Restraint and Tasering Death Settles for $3 Million The surviving family of a deceased detainee at the Santa Cruz, California jail settled their wrongful death suit against Santa Cruz County and its sheriff’s personnel for $3 million …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Oregon Jailer Avoids Prosecution for Online Assault Boast; Jail Employees Lose Internet Access by Mark Wilson Oregon Jailer Avoids Prosecution for Online Assault Boast; Jail Employees Lose Internet Access by Mark Wilson An Oregon jail guard who bragged in an online forum that he beat a prisoner and then had …
$15,000 Settlement For BOP's Abuse, Conspiracy Against Government Informant by Colorado federal prisoner and government informant, David Merritt, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1999 after federal guards and officials at the Florence Supermax (ADX) facility conspired to have him killed, violated his constitutional rights and …
$7,500 Settlement After Colorado Federal Prisoner Beaten At Florence Facility by Colorado federal prisoner Marion Bryant, Jr., brought a combined Bivens, 42 U.S.C § 1983 and federal tort action against federal guards and officials for excessive force in 1997. He alleged cruel and unusual punishment leading to injury, as well …
$10,000 Settlement After Colorado Federal Prisoner Beaten At Florence Facility by Kinson Celestin, a federal prisoner housed in Texas, brought a combined Bivens and federal tort action against the United States in 1998 after allegedly being beaten by federal prison guards at a Colorado facility and subsequently being denied medical …
Federal Prisoner Beaten For Refusing To Testify Against Another Prisoner by Minnesota federal prisoner Allan Parmelee brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against federal guards and marshals in 1993 for excessive force and due process violations after being needlessly beaten for allegedly failing to testify against a prisoner. The …
Pennsylvania Prison Official Settles Termination Lawsuit For Investigating Beating by Former Pennsylvania county prison official, Lt. Constance Bowers, brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit after being terminated in 2004, two months short of 20 years service to the state. She was allegedly terminated for failure to end an investigation …
$2,000 Settlement For Federal Prisoner's Lost Property And Legal Work by Wisconsin federal prisoner Joseph Davis brought a combined 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and federal tort action in 1997 after guards lost his property and legal documents, and assaulted him during a transfer to another prison. He claimed that he …
Article • February 15, 2009
Allegedly Beaten Federal Prisoner Settles For $75; Pays § 1983 Filing Fee by Brian Lane, a Bureau of Prisons prisoner, brought a pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in 1998 after allegedly being beaten by USP Terre Haute guard Fred Thomas, Jr. The suit settled for $75 in 2000. …
Article • February 15, 2009
$5,000 Settlement For Leavenworth Guards' Unprovoked Beating Of Federal Prisoner by Illinois federal prisoner Kerry Dixon brought a combined Bivens and federal tort action against the United States in 1994 after guards beat him without just cause at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas (USP Leavenworth) in 1993. The …
Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Former Orange County, California Sheriff Michael S. Carona and many of his staff at the Theo …
Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David Reutter Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David M. Reutter Conditions at the federal immigration center in Tacoma, Washington, are substandard and not in compliance with national standards, “much less international …
More Damages, Costs & Attorney Fees Awarded in NH False Disciplinary Case by More Damages, Costs & Attorney Fees Awarded in NH False Disciplinary Case Three prisoners involved in two federal civil rights lawsuits against officials of the Hillsborough County House of Corrections in New Hampshire (the jail) were awarded …
Corpus Christi Pays $50,000 to Settle Jail Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim by Corpus Christi Pays $50,000 to Settle Jail Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim The City of Corpus Christi, Texas, agreed to settle an excessive use of force claim brought by a former detainee at the City Detention Center (CDC) for …
Governments, Not Prisoners, Must Pay Cost of Transporting Prisoner Witnesses by A federal court in Georgia held that costs taxed against an incarcerated litigant who lost his lawsuit could not include the cost of transporting prisoner witnesses to testify at trial. Dexter Palmer, a Georgia state prisoner, filed a civil …
Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault by Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has held that a guard who was fired for willful misconduct for failing to report the planned assault of a prisoner was …
Brief • February 4, 2009
Filed under: Restraints
Adkins v. Wolever, 6th Circuit, Opinion, Assault by Guard Spoliation, 2009 Case: 07-1421 Document: 00615385358 Filed: 02/04/2009 Page: 1 RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 File Name: 09a0038p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT _________________ X No. 07-1421 v. > , BASIL WOLEVER, …
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