Tennessee Sheriff Indicted, Suspended and Jailed Over E-cig Business by Tennessee’s Rutherford County Sheriff has been indicted and is presently incarcerated, awaiting trial on charges related to his connections with a company that sold e-cigarettes to prisoners at his jail, as well as other contracts he entered into without county …
PLN Goes Undercover to Bust CCA Employees’ Misuse of Prisoner Labor by When PLN managing editor Alex Friedmann received a letter from a prisoner at the Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility in Nashville, Tennessee, a jail operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, which recently changed its name to CoreCivic), he …
Tennessee Prisoner Escapes Privatized Medical Jail Care to Obtain Surgery by To obtain needed surgery, a prisoner escaped from Tennessee’s Trousdale County Jail (TCJ). Prior to being booked into TCJ to serve a probation violation sentence, Don R. White, Jr. 31, was scheduled for hernia surgery. “When I walked in, …
PLN comment to TN Office of Open Records Counsel re public records policy - Dec 2016 PRISON LEGAL NEWS Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights www.prisonlegalnews.org afriedmann@prisonlegalnews.org Please Reply To: Direct Dial: 615-495-6568 5331 Mt. View Rd. #130 Antioch, TN 37013 December 14, 2016 Comptroller of the Treasury Office of Open …
Tennessee Sheriff’s Willful Denial of Public Records Merits PLN Attorney Fee Award by On June 24, 2015, a Tennessee appellate court found the sheriff of Marshall County had willfully denied access to public records requested by Prison Legal News, and held that PLN was entitled to attorney fees after filing …
Tennessee District Attorney Ends Sterilization in Plea Bargains; Prosecutor Fired by David Reutter The District Attorney for Davidson County, Tennessee has banned the practice of seeking sterilization as part of plea bargains in criminal cases. The policy was implemented after an assistant prosecutor refused to discuss a plea unless a …
Preliminary Injunction Granted in Class-action Suit Challenging Private Probation Services in Tennessee by David Reutter Another victory in the fight against debtors’ prisons was achieved with the grant of an injunction by a Tennessee federal district court. The preliminary injunction, issued in a class-action lawsuit in December 2015, prohibits a …
Tiger v. Pynkala, Sixth Circuit, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, Excessive Force, 2016 No. 16-6309 In The Supreme Court of the United States TIGER, Petitioner, vs. Officer JASON S. PYNKALA, Officer CAMERON S. BRIGGS, Lt. CHRISTOPHER MOFFATT, Officer ERIC T. LEE, Chief TONEY ARMSTRONG, Prosecutor TIM BEACHAM, The CITY …
Tennessee Jail Seizure Death Claims Survive Dismissal; Physician Claims Dismissed for No Deliberate Indifference Allegations by Mark Wilson A Tennessee federal court dismissed deliberate indifference claims against a jail doctor for a prisoner's seizure death, absent allegations of his personal involvement or awareness. The court refused to dismiss claims brought …
Tennessee Prison’s Body Scanner Mothballed Due to Violations by After a spat of bad publicity from contraband cellphones becoming prolific inside its prisons, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) spent $118,750 on a body scanner to use at its Riverbend prison. However, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) …
Sixth Circuit Vacates Denial of Qualified Immunity; Each Defendant’s Conduct Must be Individually Evaluated by Mark Wilson The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a district court’s denial of qualified immunity because an individualized inquiry into the defendants’ role during an illegal body cavity search was not conducted. Felix …
Private Contractor Makes Millions Off GPS Trackers for Immigrants by By Eileen Townsend, Memphis Flyer Nearly 200 undocumented Memphians wear GPS tracking bracelets as a part of a controversial immigration program. Sofia Gonzales* had just gotten off a long shift at her weekend job when we met for coffee on a …
TN Attorney General Says Public Records Act Requires Disclosure After Redaction of Exempt Portions of Records by In September, 1998, the Tennessee Attorney General issued its opinion regarding the disclosure of records after redaction of legally exempt parts of the document, without any balancing of interests before disclosure. The AG …
$12,000 Settlement for Treatment at CCA Prison by Corrections Corporation of America paid $12,000 to settle a lawsuit by a prisoner Johnny A. Walsh for claims related to his treatment at the Silverdale Detention Center in Tennessee. The October 2005 confidential settlement was obtained via public records request by PLN. …
$4,000 Settlement in Assault at CCA Prison by Corrections Corporation of America paid $4,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a guard at the Shelby Training Center in Tennessee assaulted a juvenile, Brandon D. Jones. The April 2006 confidential settlement was obtained via public records request by PLN. The complaint was …
Tennessee Woman Award $71,343 in Attorney Fees in Public Records Suit by A Tennessee Appeals Court awarded $71,343 in attorney fees to a woman who brought suit to obtain public records. Rebecca Little sought records about sewer and other improvements the city of Chattanooga annexed in 1972. The Hamilton County …
Grae v. CoreCivic, TN, Complaint, Securities Fraud, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) NIKKI BOLLINGER GRAE, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff, v. CORRECTIONS CORPORATION …
$528,858 Federal Jury Award Against BOP in Racial Discrimination Case by On December 7, 2000, a federal jury awarded former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee Debbie E. Tickle $114,000 for loss of wages and $300,000 for emotional pain a suffering in a racial discrimination lawsuit she brought pursuant to …
Corizon Medical Group Insurance Declaration, Lexington Insurance Company, 2014 LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY WILMINGTON, DELAWARE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES: 100 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON, MA 02110-2103 (A Capital Stock Insurance Company) MEDICAL GROUP PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY - OCCURRENCE MEDICAL GROUP ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS – OCCURRENCE DECLARATIONS Various provisions in the General Policy Provisions and Conditions and …
Twisted Tennessee Coroner Had No Training and Violent Past by David Reutter In the wake of his resignation as a Tennessee coroner, it was uncovered that Terry Jarnigan had no medical training and was previously convicted of violent crimes. Just a short time after his civil rights were restored in …
