News in Brief by Alabama: Kadarius Shermaine Todd, 28, a new guard still on probationary status at the Madison County Jail, was fired on April 4, 2025, after allegedly attempting to smuggle contraband into the lockup. He was apprehended upon arrival to meet a contact with a package containing Suboxone, …
Georgia Moves to Shield Intellectually Disabled Prisoners from Execution by No Georgia prisoner facing a death sentence has ever been able to prove that he is intellectually disabled beyond a reasonable doubt—an impossibly high bar that no other state has set. It was finally lowered with a new bill signed …
News in Brief by Alabama: A Jefferson County Jail guard was briefly abducted and assaulted by detainee Reontay Harley, 33, on January 13, 2025. WBMA in Birmingham said that after Harley took the unnamed guard hostage inside a cell, responding jail Extraction Unit guards rescued their fellow guard and restrained …
Eleventh Circuit Revives Volunteer Pastor’s First Amendment Claim at Georgia Jail by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A volunteer minister took a dustup with Georgia jailers over baptism to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which agreed on September 16, 2024, that he had been subjected …
Georgia Fights Liability for Strip-Searching Prison Visitor, Nevada Pays $126,500 by After a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found for Georgia prison officials in a suit brought by a prison visitor they subjected to a strip-search, the decision was vacated on October 3, …
News in Brief by Alabama: State Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Arianna Kimberly Slater faces life in prison after she was arrested while attempting to smuggle contraband into Ventress Correctional Facility on February 24, 2025. According to the Birmingham News, a routine employee screening of Slater’s food container found unspecified …
Porn Produced by Georgia Prisoners by On July 16, 2024, the Human & Civil Rights Coalition (HCRC) of Georgia posted screenshots to its Facebook page from pornographic videos produced inside Wilcox State Prison and posted online by state prisoners. As the post noted, the videos ran up to 45 minutes, …
DOJ Finds “Horrific” Unconstitutional Conditions at Atlanta Jail by The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta has long been known for high levels of violence and abysmal conditions, concerns that were validated on November 14, 2024. That’s when a 105-page investigative report was issued by the United States Dept. of Justice …
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Crenshaw County Jail Administrator Christian Alexander Porter, 33, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of excessive force, falsifying records and witness tampering on January 28, 2025. According to the Washington Post, the charges stem from an October 2021 incident in which …
DOJ Finds “Horrific and Inhumane” Conditions in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke "People are assaulted, stabbed, raped and killed or left to languish inside facilities that are woefully understaffed,” lockups where “[i]nmates are maimed, tortured, relegated to an existence of fear, filth and not-so-benign neglect.” So began …
Eleventh Circuit Tells BOP Prisoner in Georgia: Bivens Is On “Endangered Species List” by On October 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit told a federal prisoner in Georgia that he could not hold the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) liable for damages caused by …
“Whoppergate” Embroils Georgia Sheriff by A Georgia Sheriff who sent deputies to a local Burger King when displeased with its service endured weeks of taunts on his department’s Facebook page in October 2024. It was then that Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens, Sr. (D) blocked the page’s comments section to …
Georgia Prisoner Accused of Running $3.5 Million “Protection” Racket by Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Asaad Amir Hasuan, 43—also known as “Dante Frederick”—was indicted by a federal grand jury in Delaware on November 14, 2024, for allegedly scamming at least $3.5 million from friends and loved ones of fellow …
Second Rapper Stabbed in Atlanta Jail During Record-Long Trial by Rapper Yak Gotti, whose real name is Deamonte Kendrick, 32, was stabbed in the south annex of Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on December 1, 2024, during a racketeering trial involving fellow rapper Young Thug—real name Jeffrey Lamar Williams, 33—and four …
USA v. Fulton County, GA, Consent Decree, Jail Conditions, 2025 Case 1:25-cv-00024-LMM Document 3 Filed 01/06/25 Page 1 of 71 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. FULTON COUNTY AND SHERIFF PATRICK LABAT, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, …
News in Brief by Alabama: Wiregrass Daily News reported that Mobile Metro Jail guard Timothy Lee Scarbrough, 39, was arrested on September 9, 2024, and charged with first-degree sodomy for the alleged sexual assaulting of a detainee who was still under the effects of anesthesia after eye surgery. Scarbrough had …
Georgia Jail Sued by Local Bookstore Banned from Sending Detainees Reading Materials by When the Avid Bookshop mailed several book orders to prisoners at the Gwinnett County Jail outside Atlanta in May 2023, the Athens retailer likely didn’t expect to become embroiled in a lawsuit almost a year later. Then …
Sprawling Indictment Targets Two Smuggling Networks Run by Georgia Prisoners by Two federal indictments unsealed on August 21, 2024, charged 23 current and former Georgia prisoners and their accomplices in a conspiracy using drones to distribute methamphetamine, marijuana and cellphones at two lockups in the southeastern part of the state. …
Georgia Deputy Warden and Guard Fired for Prisoner Sex Assaults, Second Guard Sentenced to 25 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 4, 2024, former Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Larenzo Cheeks, 25, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for having sex with three prisoners …
News in Brief by Alabama: Former state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Henry Guice, Jr., 46, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on September 9, 2024, for his role in a drug smuggling conspiracy at Staton Correctional Facility. The Birmingham News reported that a fellow guard was inspecting …
