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“All Signals Blinking Red” at Federal Prison in West Virginia After DOJ Releases Report on Killing of Mobster “Whitey” Bulger
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
“All Signals Blinking Red” at Federal Prison in West Virginia After DOJ Releases Report on Killing of Mobster “Whitey” Bulger by Benjamin Tschirhart, Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian and Benjamin Tschirhart Citing “bureaucratic incompetence,” as well as “flawed, confusing and insufficient” policies and procedures, a December 2022 report by …
News in Brief
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WHNT in Huntsville reported on December 16, 2022, that a Morgan County Jail detainee was charged with assaulting a guard. Ashley Nicole Taymon, 36, had gotten into an altercation at the Community Corrections Office five days earlier and was taken to a hospital. There she …
Fourth Circuit Says Three-Strikes Federal Prisoner’s Imminent Danger Claim Must Be Evaluated on ‘Totality of Circumstances’
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: Combination of Factors/Totality of Circumstances, Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), Imminent Danger Exception
Fourth Circuit Says Three-Strikes Federal Prisoner’s Imminent Danger Claim Must Be Evaluated on ‘Totality of Circumstances’ by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart By the time he filed a pro se complaint against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in U.S. District Court for the District of West Virginia in May …
News in Brief
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
Guards Saluting Fascism on the Job—Literally
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Guards/Staff, Failure to Protect (Staff)
Guards Saluting Fascism on the Job—Literally by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison guards in Arizona, Utah and West Virginia have recently been reported indulging white supremacist and anti-prisoner views on the job. Most recently, members of the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) Special Tactics and Operations team proudly sported …
News in Brief
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
Department of Homeland Security-South Regional Jail Investigation, 2022
Publication • April 28, 2022
Filed under: Prison Conditions
Department of Homeland Security-South Regional Jail Investigation, 2022 Forward By order of Jim Justice, Governor for the state of West Virginia, an investigation was conducted at Southern Regional Jail to determine if the allegations being placed by former and current employees, current and former inmates, and family members of inmates …
News In Brief
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
News in Brief
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
News in Brief
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: A guard at San Quentin State Prison and one of two outside co-conspirators were arraigned on September 8, 2021, on federal charges they smuggled cellphones to an unnamed prisoner on death row at the California lockup. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, 3rd Declaration of Homer Venters, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • October 12, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, 3rd Declaration of Homer Venters, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 451-1 Filed 10/12/21 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 11796 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, JR., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 3:18-cv-01526 (Chambers, …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Order Denying Motion for Protective Order, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • September 24, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Order Denying Motion for Protective Order, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 447 Filed 09/24/21 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 11776 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA HUNTINGTON DIVISION JOHN BAXLEY, JR., ET AL., Plaintiffs, vs. Civil Action …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Plf Response to 2nd Motion for Protective Order, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • September 24, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Plf Response to 2nd Motion for Protective Order, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 445 Filed 09/24/21 Page 1 of 4 PageID #: 11766 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, JR., et al, on their own behalf …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, 2nd Delcaration of Homer Venters, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • September 24, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, 2nd Delcaration of Homer Venters, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 445-1 Filed 09/24/21 Page 1 of 4 PageID #: 11770 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, JR., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 3:18-cv-01526 (Chambers, …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Agreement Re Expert Inspections, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • August 10, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Agreement Re Expert Inspections, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 427 Filed 08/10/21 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 11708 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, JR., et al., v. Plaintiffs, BETSY JIVIDEN, et al., Civil Action …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Medical Contractor Protective Order, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • July 23, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Medical Contractor Protective Order, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 417-2 Filed 07/23/21 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 11671 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, ET Al., on their own behalf and on behalf of all …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Plf Motion for Entry of Protective Orders, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • July 23, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Plf Motion for Entry of Protective Orders, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 417 Filed 07/23/21 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 11666 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, JR., et al, on their own behalf and …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Protective Order Re Medical and Mental Health Records, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • July 23, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Protective Order Re Medical and Mental Health Records, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 417-1 Filed 07/23/21 Page 1 of 3 PageID #: 11668 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, ET Al., on their own behalf and …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Declaration of Homer Venters, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • July 22, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Declaration of Homer Venters, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 412 Filed 07/22/21 Page 1 of 4 PageID #: 11588 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, JR., et al, on their own behalf and on behalf of …
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Declaration of Rhonda Brownstein, COVID-19 Release, 2021
Brief • July 21, 2021
Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General), Sanitation
Baxley v. Jividen, WV, Declaration of Rhonda Brownstein, COVID-19 Release, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-01526 Document 410 Filed 07/21/21 Page 1 of 3 PageID #: 11531 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA JOHN BAXLEY, JR., et al, on their own behalf and on behalf of …
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