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Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Mobile Metro Jail guard Robert Aaron Small was fired and arrested for assault on June 27, 2024, one day after he allegedly used excessive force against an unnamed detainee. WKRG in Mobile said that the guard had worked at the lockup since 2019. Mobile County …
Missouri DOC Chief Held in Contempt of Court for Keeping Exonerated Prisoner Locked Up by On August 7, 2024, the head of Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) was held in contempt by a state court judge for refusing to release Howard Roberts, 82, after the prisoner’s conviction was overturned. State …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Missouri Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Proceeds Against Guards After Court Excuses Missed Deadlines Under “Unavailable” Grievance Procedure by David Reutter On February 12, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri denied a motion to dismiss a prisoner’s pro se lawsuit by Defendant officials with the state …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Missouri Sheriff Removed from Office for Using Detainee Labor on His Own Properties by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Sheriff Scott Childers lost his reelection bid in Missouri’s Ray County on August 6, 2024, he had already been out of office for five months. That’s because the county …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
Missouri Warden, Four Guards Out After Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) is fighting hard to keep details secret about the departure of five employees—including a prison warden—after the brutal death of prisoner Othel Moore at Jefferson City Correctional Center on December 8, 2023. A cellphone search …
Missouri Muslim Prisoners Advance Suit Against Guards For Assault During Prayer by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney   On December 14, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted only part of a motion by defendant state prison officials to dismiss a complaint filed by Muslim …
Missouri DOC Models Re-entry Program on Norwegian Prisons by Dressed in maroon shirts—not prison jumpsuits—three prisoners joined the “Dynamo” program at Missouri’s Northeast Correctional Center in November 2023. That brought total enrollment to 17 since the state Department of Correction (DOC) launched the initiative in April 2023, modeling it after …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Revocation Proceedings
Eighth Circuit Upholds Key Parts of Missouri Parole Reform by On October 5, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed key parts of a lower court’s ruling instructing the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) to revise its system for revoking parole in order to protect prisoners’ …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Eighth Circuit Says Lower Court “Tilted the Scales Too Far” for Jailers in Missouri Detainee’s Fatal Overdose by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials at St. Louis’ “Workhouse” jail …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Was There a Plot to Discredit Former Missouri Sheriff Investigating Corruption? by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Jeff Burkett resigned as Sheriff of Missouri’s Iron County on January 31, 2024, saying if he stayed to defend a civil suit filed to remove him from office, his testimony might undermine his …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends by After banning state prisoners from receiving physical mail the year before, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) extended the ban on September 25, 2023, to include books sent to prisoners from family or friends. The rule change …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Moms Jailed After Kids Miss Too Much School by “Truancy” sounds old-­fashioned. But after two mothers were convicted of letting their kids miss too much school, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld their incarceration sentences for the misdemeanor on September 15, 2023. The Court’s ruling came in the consolidated appeals …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Missouri Prison Chief in Sexual Abuse Claims Against Former Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Anne Precythe, Director of the Missouri Department …
Brief • April 1, 2024
Hynes v. Missouri Dept of Corrections, MO, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2024 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY STATE OF MISSOURI WILLA HYNES, Individually, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jahi Hynes, deceased, Plaintiff, Case Number: v. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Serve: 2729 Plaza Drive …
Eighth Circuit Issues Primer on Informal Due Process Procedures to Missouri Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court and granted qualified immunity (QI) to officials with Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) in …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Within 48-hours of booking into the Morgan County Jail on August 29, 2023, Miles Rea Batson, 39, had two second-degree assault charges added to his public intoxication charge as well as another for disarming a law enforcement agent. WHNT in Huntsville reported that during booking …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements
St. Louis City Jails Director Under Fire, County Jail Director Leaves After Nearly $2.7 Million in Legal Payouts by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart When you’re arrested in St. Louis, it doesn’t much matter whether you end up in the city’s jail or the lockup in adjacent St. Louis County; …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 12, 2023, an Alabama jail guard was caught – in uniform – stealing Pokemon cards from a Walmart. WBMA in Birmingham reported that Josh Hardy then fled store security on foot before cops caught him in a nearby restaurant. Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew …
$3.25 Million Settlement Reached With Defendants Jailed in Missouri “Debtor’s Prison” for Unpaid Fines, Fees by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On April 5, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri gave final approval to a $3.25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging the City of …
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