Galloway v. County of Nassau, NY, Memorandum Decision and Order, False Imprisonment, 2022 Case 2:19-cv-05026-AMD-JMW Document 154 Filed 03/07/22 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 3502 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------------------------------- X : GALLOWAY, : Plaintiff, : MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER – against – : …
“The Worst Prison in New York State” by Victoria Law The situation at Rikers is bad, but at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility more than 200 miles north of New York City, it’s worse. by Victoria Law Conditions in New York City jails have reached a boiling point, …
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 …
Second Circuit Holds N.Y. Prisoner’s Short-Term Injury May Qualify As Disability under ADA by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 30, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a district court’s finding that a New York prisoner’s knee injury did not qualify …
Cops, Leave Those Kids Alone: New York Will Not Criminalize Children Under 12 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill in early January of this year protecting children under the age of 12 from arrest and criminal adjudication for virtually all …
Onilude v. The City of New York, NY, Memorandum, Impeachment, 2022 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - …
Living and Dying on Rikers Island: The Latest Installment by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss When 55-year-old William Brown, a pretrial detainee from Brooklyn, suffered a medical emergency and died on December 15, 2021, it was the 16th death recorded for the year of someone incarcerated at Rikers Island, the …
New York Jail Required to Provide Methadone to Detainee for Addiction Treatment by On September 7, 2021, Judge David Hurd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that a detainee should be granted injunctive relief and continue receiving methadone treatment for his opioid addiction …
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 …
Lawsuit Over Winter Power Outage at Brooklyn’s Troubled Federal Detention Center Granted Class Certification by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Class-action status was granted on May 25, 2021, to a federal lawsuit brought by a half-dozen prisoners held by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at its Metropolitan Detention Center …
‘They Know No Bounds’: Suffolk County New York Prosecutors Sent to Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The former District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, Thomas Spota, and his former top assistant, Christopher McPartland, appeared before a sentencing judge in a federal courtroom on August 10, 2021. But …
Jones v. Stanford, NY,Settlement, Social Media Ban, 2022 Case 1:20-cv-01332-RJD-JRC Document 73 Filed 01/24/22 Page 1 of 16 PageID #: 690 Case 1:20-cv-01 332-RJD-JRC Document 72 Filed 01/19/22 Page 1 of 16 PagelD #: 674 UN ITED STATES DISTRICT COU RT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------- ---------- X VERNON …
$175,000 Awarded to New York Prisoner’s 686 Days Unconstitutional Post Release Supervision by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On Dec. 4, 2020, a federal district court in New York awarded $175,000 to a former state prisoner who was imprisoned for 686 days as a result of an unconstitutionally imposed …
$650,000 Jury Verdict Upheld in NY Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim; Motion for Fees Denied Due to Contingency Agreement by David Reutter by David M Reutter On October 20, 2020, a federal judge in New York refused to overturn a $650,000 award made by a jury earlier that year to a state …
Prosecutors Move to Close Case Against BOP Guards in Jeffrey Epstein Suicide by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Of the many mysteries surrounding Jeffery Epstein, including exactly where the billionaire got his fabulous wealth before committing suicide in a Manhattan cell in August 2020—while awaiting trial on charges of sex-trafficking …
Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of NY Prisoner’s Due Process Claim on Grounds It Was Abandoned on Appeal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a ruling issued on January 19, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a lower court erred in dismissing a …
Non-Incarcerated and Incarcerated Plaintiffs Have Article III Standing to Challenge the Policy Changes by On October 18, 2021 the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of prisoners and several unincorporated associations and individual members of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") motion for a …
Civilly Detained Sex Offender Plaintiff Proceeding In Forma Pauperis Not a Prisoner Under PLRA by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that “an individual detained pursuant to civil sex offender confinement statute is not a ‘prisoner’ under the PLRA.” The court directed the clerk to reimburse the appellant all …
M.G. V. NY State Office of Mental Health, NY, Opinion & Order, Inadequate Mental Health Care, 2021 Case 7:19-cv-00639-CS-AEK Document 185 Filed 11/15/21 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------x M.G., P.C., C.J., M.J., J.R., D.R., S.D., W.P., and D.H., individually and on …
City of NY Board of Correction Resolution Nov 2021 BOARD OF CORRECTION CITY OF NEW YORK RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF CORRECTION NOVEMBER 9, 2021 PUBLIC MEETING WHEREAS, on June 9, 2021, pursuant to its authority under Section 626(e) of the New York City Charter (the Charter), the Board approved …
