Transgender Woman Who Says She Was Raped, Beaten, Sues Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center by A transgender woman who was housed with male prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. (MDC), sued the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on the grounds that staff ignored her requests for safety, resulting …
BOP Guard Pleads Guilty to Sexually Molesting Prisoners at MCC Manhattan by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On March 4, 2020, federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Colin Akparanta pleaded guilty to the 2017 sexual abuse of a female prisoner at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, thereby …
Tioga County, New York Police Informant Paid $50,000 to Settle False Arrest Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On November 8, 2019, three New York detectives agreed to pay $50,000 to settle false arrest claims brought by an informant they charged with conspiring to kill an Assistant District Attorney …
New York Prisoner Prevails in Lawsuit, Freed from 23 Years in Solitary Confinement by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 21, 2020, attorneys for New York state prisoner Imhotep H’Shaka, 46, announced that he had been released into the general population at Attica Correctional Facility after spending nearly a …
$2.8 Million Settlement in New York Pretrial Detainee’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter New York’s Suffolk County Legislature agreed on September 26, 2019 to pay $2.8 million to settle a lawsuit concerning the events surrounding the suicide six years earlier of pretrial detainee Jack Franqui. The morning …
Montanez v. City of Syracuse, NY, Memorandum-Decision and Order, Sexual Acts, 2020 Case 6:16-cv-00550-BKS-TWD Document 195 Filed 08/31/20 Page 1 of 35 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK MALEATRA MONTANEZ, Plaintiff, 6:16-cv-00550 (BKS/TWD) v. CITY OF SYRACUSE, POLICE OFFICER CHESTER D. THOMPSON, and POLICE CAPTAIN THOMAS GALVIN, …
M.G. V. Cuomo, NY, Second Amended Class Action Complaint, ADA Compliance, 2020 Case 7:19-cv-00639-CS-LMS Document 134 Filed 08/27/20 Page 1 of 100 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 behalf of all similarly …
Santiago v. USA, NY, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-06887-SHS Document 1 Filed 08/26/20 Page 1 of 47 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SACHA SANTIAGO; DARRAH KNEISEL; and STEPHANIE FELICIANO, Case No. 20-cv-6887 Plaintiffs, v. COMPLAINT AND JURY DEMAND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; …
Judge Awards $273,246 Payment to New York Prisoner Beaten by Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 16, 2020, a New York federal magistrate judge awarded $273,246.88 to a Sing Sing Correctional Facility prisoner who alleged a guard brutally beat him and lied about the incident. The …
Prison Postcards: “I feel as though I was either in a car accident or beaten by a baseball bat.” by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein We’re now nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic and geographically the coronavirus epicenter has shifted from its origins in the United States in New …
New York: Prisoner Kills Himself After Brutal Beating by Guards by Chad Marks by Chad Marks On February 24, 2020 lawyers filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Dante Taylor’s estate after he was found dead in his prison cell at Wende Correctional Facility. The lawsuit alleges that prison guards …
$12.5 Million to Settle Class Action Suit Over Strip Searches of NYC Jail Visitors by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso New York City agreed to pay victims $12.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit on October 18, 2019, brought by visitors to New York City jails at the Brooklyn, …
New York State Police, Incident Review for Trooper Alfonso I. Burke, 2020 \ Involved Member(s): Trooper Alfonso I Burke Case~ Type: Incident Review Case Nlumber: DCN2020-0077 Finding: Unfounded Complainant: Jn,;p. 11 Rev 6110 Personnel Complaint Work Sheet I Type: IR Initiated By: Iincident Date: 2/7/20 I Detail ~ Troop Sub …
News in Brief by Arizona: A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Daniel Davitt, 60, on January 14, 2020 on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Lower Buckeye Jail guard Gene Lee on October 30. Buckeye Jail video shows Davitt talking to Lee on October 29, then suddenly grabbing …
New York District Court Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction Against MCC Brooklyn by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Federal District Court Judge Rachel P. Kovner on June 9, 2020, denied a “preliminary injunction that would release all MDC inmates whose age or medical condition places them at heightened risk from the …
Lawsuit Over Conditions at BOP’s New York City Prison Continues as COVID-19 Spreads by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A prison health expert report found that Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) is “not prepared to effectively contain any outbreak of COVID-19 and its practices put detainees and staff at …
The Death of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, New York City Board of Correction, 2020 NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF CORRECTION1 The Death of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco 1991-2019 June 23, 2020 Authored by Kate McMahon, Deputy General Counsel. Special thanks and acknowledgment to all Board staff and others who assisted or advised …
Cooper v. Clancy, NY, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2020 Case 9:19-cv-00362-AMN-ML Document 52 Filed 06/15/20 Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ X TRACY YVONNE COOPER, as Administrator of the Estate of TERRY L. COOPER, JR., Plaintiff, -againstCorrection Officer PATRICK M. CLANCY, in his …
Chunn v. Edge, NY, Memo and Order, COVID-19 Release, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-01590-RPK-RLM Document 112 Filed 06/09/20 Page 1 of 62 PageID #: 3615 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------X HASSAN CHUNN; NEHEMIAH McBRIDE; AYMAN RABADI by his Next Friend Migdaliz Quinones; JUSTIN RODRIGUEZ, by his Next …
Thinking in a Pandemic: Let the People Go by Joseph Margulies States should release from prison far more than the very small percentage of low-level, nonviolent offenders they hold. by Joseph Margulies, Boston Review, April 20, 2020 http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/joseph-margulies-prisons-and-pandemics COVID-19 spreads where people congregate. With rare exception, it preys on the …
