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Dallas Teens Have Sex in Jail by Edward Lyon by Edward B. Lyon Juvenile males detained in the Medlock Youth Treatment Center began outcrying to therapists in April 2017 about sexual activities there. The lead outcrier reported multiple acts, including oral sex, spanning November-April 2017, including at least five 13-17 …
Wilborn v. Ealey, IL, Opinion, Excessive Force, Failure to Treat, 2018 In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 16-2106 JOSEPH WILBORN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DAVID EALEY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois No. 13-cv-70 …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Clock is Ticking on Understaffing in Florida’s Prison System by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Increases in use-of-force incidents, violence and disturbances in Florida prisons have been blamed on understaffing, a problem ticking like a time bomb in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC). Guards employed by the FDOC, …
Prison Broke: The Missouri Department of Corrections Can’t Escape its Own Worst Habits by Karen Dillon by Karen Dillon, The Pitch Each day, as she prepared herself to work another shift at the Missouri Department of Corrections prison, Lashonda Reid knew to expect one thing. It would be bad. Reid …
Cooper v. City of Newark, CA, Second Amended Complaint, Employment Discrimination - Gender, 2018 1 2 3 STEPHEN J. USOZ, SBN 189095 LESLIE HOLMES, SBN 192608 HOLMES & USOZ LLP 333 West Santa Clara Street, Suite 610 San Jose, California 95113 Telephone: (408) 292-7600 4 5 Attorneys for Plaintiff NICOLE …
Vigil v. Crowther, UT, Release of Claims, Prisoner Death, 2018 l'-=J TE G rc IV E JAN 3 I 2rlß UTAH ATTORNF Y Emily A. Swenson, PC ATTORNEY AT LAW 2661 Washington Boulevard, Suite 203 Ogden, Utah 84401 Telephone : 8Ot-409 -027 t Fa csi m i e : 801-62L-487 …
Bryant and Garcia v. Orange County, FL, second amended complaint, wrongful death, 2018 Case 6:17-cv-01423-GAP-KRS 6:17-cv-01423-GAP-LRH Document 47 46 Filed 01/18/18 Page 1 of 36 PageID 303 267 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION WILLINE BRYANT a/k/a WILLINE GRACIA and MAX GRACIA …
Brief • January 17, 2018
Ramsey v. Allegheny County, Complaint, PA, Sexual Harassment, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00071-CRE Document 1 Filed 01/17/18 Page 1 of 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA TANISHA RAMSEY, Plaintiff, Case No. _________________ v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY; JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Defendants. COMPLAINT NOW COMES Plaintiff, Tanisha Ramsey, by and through her …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Age Discrimination
$840,000 to Wrongfully Terminated Pennsylvania Jail Official by A federal jury has awarded $842,119 to a former major at the Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania. The jury found that Walter Mikulan was fired in 2013 in an effort to get rid of older supervisors and because he was allegedly abusing …
Article • January 3, 2018
Federal Circuit: Reasonable Suspicion Required to Search Prison Employee's Car by On May 12, 2003, the court of appeals for the Federal Circuit held that reasonable suspicion was required to search a federal prison employee's car. Derrick A. Wiley was employed as a teacher at a federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • January 3, 2018
Miami Guard Sentenced for Assaulting and Scalding Detainee by A former Miami-Dade jail guard pleaded guilty to assaulting a pretrial detainee.  The incident occurred after an argument between the detainee and guard. Joshua Wiggins, 21, was awaiting trial on cocaine trafficking charges in August 2012 when he got into an …
Article • January 3, 2018
Texas Jail Officials Disciplined, Indicted for Leaving Prisoner in Squalor by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 10, 2013, a Texas jail compliance team discovered mentally ill Harris County jail prisoner Terry Goodwin, 54, in a cell "amid heaps of trash, swarms of bugs, and piles of his own …
Article • January 3, 2018
Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Pennsylvania Guard's FLSA Suit by Sandra Babcock, a guard at the Butler County Prison in Butler, Pennsylvania, filed a putative class-action in federal court alleging Butler County was in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-209, et seq., for failing to …
$4,000 for Injuries After Prison Staff Ignore Bottom Bunk Directive by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On August 18, 2015, the state of Michigan agreed to pay a prisoner $4,000 to settle a lawsuit in which prison staff deliberately ignored a medically-issued "bottom bunk detail" and the prisoner later fell …
$3,802,000 Settlement, Rikers' Guard Conviction in Prisoner Death by On December 17, 2014, former Rikers Island Guard Captain Terrence Pendergrass, 52, was sentenced to five years in a federal prison for violating the civil rights of deceased prisoner Jason Echevarria, 25. Echevarria’s estate received a $3,802,000 settlement from the City …
Office of the Inspector General, Nebraska Correctional System, 2016-17 Annual Report, 2017 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE NEBRASKA CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM 2016/2017 ANNUAL REPORT Abstract An annual report regarding the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and the Nebraska Office of Parole Administration. The report is a summary of the year’s …
BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Robert T. Aranda, an "inmate systems officer" (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six …
Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Union's Challenge to Prison Privatization by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 11, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association's (OCSEA) challenge to the statute allowing for the private operation or sale of certain Ohio state prisons. In doing so, …
Sixth Circuit: Jail Guard's Criticism of Sheriff was Protected Speech by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Joseph Boulton, a jail guard at the Genesee County, Michigan jail, lost his claim alleging unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech on July 29, 2015. During union arbitration proceedings, Boulton testified that Sheriff Christopher Swanson …
Article • December 26, 2017
Superintendent with Shady History of Supervision Hired by Another Jail by In the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into whether South Carolina’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) was violating detainees’ civil rights and breaking disability laws by depriving them of medical and mental health care, HRRJ’s …
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