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New York Jury Convicts Former Guard for Robert Brooks’ Taped Killing by On October 20, 2025, a jury convicted a former prison guard of second-degree murder in the 2024 killing of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old prisoner at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. David Kingsley, the convicted guard, …
Preliminary Injunction Halts Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Prisoners at New York Lockup Where Wildcat Guard Strike Began by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 15, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction ordering the state Department of Corrections and …
Article • October 1, 2025 • from PLN October, 2025
How Nepotism in New York Prisons Cost Prisoners Their Lives by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Martuscello family, a practical dynasty within New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), manipulated the system to take power and avoid accountability while overseeing a system that perpetuated physical and sexual …
Second Circuit Revives Former New York Prisoner’s Claim for Ignored Prostate Cancer by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of a former New York prisoner whose prostate cancer should have been diagnosed by medical personnel …
Brief • September 17, 2025
Mercado v. Noem, NY, Opinion, Immigration-Inhumane Conditions, 2025 Case 1:25-cv-06568-LAK Document 96 Filed 09/17/25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------x SERGIO ALBERTO BARCO MERCADO, etc., Page 1 of 84 USDSSDNY DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC#: _ _ _ _ __ DATE FILED: 9/17/25 Plaintiff, -against- 25-cv-6568 (LAK) …
Brief • September 17, 2025
Mercado v. Noem, NY, Preliminary Injunction, Immigration-Inhumane Conditions, 2025 Case 1:25-cv-06568-LAK Document 97 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------x SERGIO ALBERTO BARCO MERCADO, etc., Filed 09/17/25 Page 1 of 6 USDCSDNY DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC#: DATE FILED: ~ _ ''\ -~ / I 7I ?I Plaintiff, …
Article • September 15, 2025 • from PLN October, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
NEWS IN BRIEF by Alaska: Alaska Public Media reported that former Anchorage Police Department Off. Nathan Keays, 45, convicted of conspiring with a ConocoPhillips employee to embezzle over $3 million from the firm, is seeking a new trial, alleging his conviction was tainted by a secret romantic relationship between two …
Suit Filed Over Fatal Beating of New York Prisoner That Sparked Massive Guard Strike by Chuck Sharman A federal civil rights complaint filed on January 15, 2025, accused the New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) and over a dozen of its officials of violating the Eighth Amendment …
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$1.2 Million for New York Prisoner Waterboarded by Guards by Chuck Sharman On March 25, 2025, the federal court for the Northern District of New York granted dismissal to a suit filed by former state prisoner Matthew Raymond, after he accepted a $1.2 million settlement from the state Department of …
Now Under Federal Receivership, New York City’s Rikers Island Jails Still Have No Plan to Improve, No Firm Date to Close by Chuck Sharman With its sixth and seventh detainee deaths of the year coming just minutes apart on June 20, 2025, New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex eclipsed …
Ongoing Detainee Deaths Push Rikers Island into Federal Court Receivership by Anthony Accurso When 27-year-old Dashawn Jenkins died in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on April 1, 2025, it was the fifth detainee death of the year and at least the 38th since Mayor Eric Adams (D) took …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
New York City Loses Bid to Withhold Jail Records by Douglas Ankney On June 26, 2024, New York City’s constructive denial of records from its Department of Correction (DOC) was vacated by a state court. Calling that a violation of the state Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), the Supreme Court …
News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
First of 10 Guards Charged with Killing of New York Prisoner Pleads Guilty by Former New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard Joshua Bartlett pleaded guilty on May 30, 2025, to helping cover up the March 1 killing of prisoner Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State Correctional Facility by …
New York Guards Plead Guilty to Fatally Beating Prisoner, Mopping Up His Blood by New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard Christopher Walrath, 36, pleaded guilty on May 5, 2025, to taking part in the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks. On May 14, 2025, fellow guard …
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, …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct
Over $1.1 Million Recovered for Rikers Island Janitors by On January 22, 2025, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) signed an agreement with a firm providing janitorial services at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, which promised to pay $1,029,175 in restitution to workers from whom managers extorted …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Guards/Staff, News
Top Rikers Island Jailers Logged Overtime Equal to 14-Hour Days With No Days Off by The top New York City Department of Correction (DOC) employees in 2024 overtime averaged over 40 extra hours weekly—enough to fill every week with 14-hour workdays all year, with no days off. For the year, …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Three New York Guards Plead Guilty to Beating Black Prisoner in “George Floyd Challenge” by A third New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard pleaded guilty on April 23, 2025, to assaulting a Mid-State Correctional Facility prisoner and lying about it to cover it up. Brandon Montanari, …
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