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DOJ Intervenes in Ohio Jail Taser Class Action; County Settles by On February 4, 2011, Franklin County, Ohio officials agreed to substantially upgrade jail Taser training, use and accountability policies to settle a Class Action law suit in which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had intervened. On July 16, …
Article • August 4, 2016
Filed under: Qualified Immunity
Police Indemnification Assumptions Challenged in New Study by Derek Gilna When a citizen's civil rights are violated by the police, one of the most-widely legal remedies is a federal Civil Rights suit, also known as 1983 actions, but a recent study by Joanna C. Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Law at …
California Prison Staff Told to Fake Suicide Checks, Union Says by Joe Watson The new medical facility for prisoners in Stockton, California, run by the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), was supposed to help correct the systemic problems CDCR has in providing adequate medical, dental and mental health …
Los Angeles County Undersheriff Convicted on Federal Obstruction, Conspiracy Charges by Christopher Zoukis Paul K. Tanaka, 57, the former second-in-command of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) and the elected mayor of Gardena, California, was found guilty on federal charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice …
Restraint Chair Deaths, Abuses Prompt Questions, Criticism and Lawsuits by Joe Watson Like another jail detainee more than seven years before him, Joshua Grose died while strapped into a restraint chair at the York County Detention Center in South Carolina. In the early morning hours of October 12, 2013, following …
Oklahoma Jail Detainee Handcuffed, Pepper-sprayed and Choked to Death by Caddo County District Attorney Jason Hicks cited his interpretation of the state’s open records law as justification for withholding reports and video footage documenting the death of Darius Robinson at the county lockup in the rural town of Anadarko, Oklahoma. …
Due Process Triggered by Seizure from Home to Prison Confinement by In affirming a grant of summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds, The Sixth Circuit Court of appeals held that for purposes of due process and unreasonable seizure protections, home confinement differs materially from in prison confinement.  Because that right …
Denial of Qualified Immunity Requires Detailed Order by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded an Arkansas federal district court’s order denying US. Marshals qualified immunity on summary judgment. At issue was a lawsuit brought by James Clayton Solomon, who was transferred from the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center to …
BOP Settles Sexual Harassment Suit for $1,000 by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paid $1,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a female guard at the Federal Medical Center in Minnesota. Guard Beth Koenck alleged that in 1992 and 1993 guard Scott Christensen subjected her to “unwanted …
BOP Pays $340,000 in SHU Cellmate Assault by The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to a $340,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by a prisoner who was assaulted upon being moved into a Special Housing Unit (SHU) cell. Prisoner Brendan Reilly was incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, now …
BOP Pays $20,000 to Settle Sex Discrimination Complaint by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $20,000 and agreed to review policies to settle a sexual discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. On February 3 and 4, 1999, while working as a guard at FCC Butner Medium in North …
Alabama Prisoners Bribed to Dance Nude for Doughnuts by Three Alabama jail guards have been charged in a “dancing for doughnuts” practice. Pickens County Jail guards Demetrius Harris, Anthony Lavender, and Chance Draper were charged with felony ethics violations for coercing female prisoners to dance nude for donuts and cell …
Jail’s Private Medical Employees Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by An Arizona federal district court concluded that employees of Corizon Health, a private company providing care to prisoners at the Mohave County Adult Detention Facility, “are not within the class of persons to whom qualified immunity is afforded.” The plaintiff …
Brothers Win Further Proceedings in Police Excessive Force Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held on Ohio Federal District Court erred in finding a plaintiff voluntarily assented to a Release-dismissal Agreement that barred a lawsuit against defendants for excessive force.  The Court further held it was improper to …
Peatross v. City of Memphis, TN, Motion to Compel Discovery, Improper Use of Deadly Force, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRCIT OF TENNESSEE WESTERND DIVISION ______________________________________________________________________________ SCOTT B. PEATROSS as Administrator ad Litem for the Estate of ANJUSTINE A. HUNTER VANTERPOOL, Deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Docket …
Peatross v. City of Memphis, TN, Memo in Support of Motion to Compel Discovery, Improper Use of Deadly Force, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRCIT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISION SCOTT B. PEATROSS as Administrator ad Litem for the Estate of ANJUSTINE A. HUNTER VANTERPOOL, Deceased, …
White v. Watson, et al., IL, amended complaint, wrongful death, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00560-JPG-DGW Document 26 Filed 07/19/16 Page 1 of 16 Page ID #85 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DWAYNE WHITE, as Administrator of the ESTATE OF BRADLEY C. SCARPI, Plaintiff, v. ST. …
America's Top Five Deadliest Prosecutors - How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty, Fair Punishment Project, 2015 FAIR PUNISHMENT PROJECT AMERICA’S TOP FIVE DEADLIEST PROSECUTORS: How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty JUNE 2016 Last year, a journalist asked Dale Cox, then the District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, about …
Canadian Prison Staff, Cellmate Charged in Prisoner’s Beating Death by Joe Watson An understaffed, poorly-designed prison in Ontario, Canada has been under close scrutiny over the past three years after a prisoner serving a 165-day sentence was bludgeoned to death on Halloween night by a possibly intoxicated cellmate with a …
Illinois Sheriff Demotes One, Fires 3, Suspends 10 after Death of Jail Detainee by Derek Gilna Lake County, Illinois Sheriff Mark C. Curran, Jr. demoted a jail supervisor and suspended ten guards over an incident in which a prisoner was paralyzed after an altercation with jailers and later died. Three …
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