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Sixth Guard Sentenced in West Virginia Killing of Pretrial Detainee by A former West Virginia guard who failed to intervene while fellow guards beat to death pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, was sentenced on June 9, 2025, for her role in the 2022 assault.  Ashley Toney, 25, got six and …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Nearly $70,000 Awarded for Illinois Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim by David Reutter On October 24, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois entered judgment awarding $69,384.73 to a state prisoner in his civil rights action alleging a Department of Corrections (DOC) food service director subjected him …
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 …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
11th Alabama Sheriff’s Employee Pleads Guilty in Jail Detainee’s Death, Admits Stomping Him in Genitals by A deputy sheriff in Alabama’s Walker County Jail pleaded guilty on April 1, 2025, to a federal charge of depriving the civil rights of a mentally ill detainee with a brutal kick to the …
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, …
$500,000 for Colorado Detainee Dropped On His Face by Jailers by Douglas Ankney In a settlement agreement dated May 28, 2024, Colorado’s Jefferson County agreed to pay $500,000 to Frederick Fisk, a former detainee at the county jail who suffered substantial injuries to his face after guards used a jujitsu …
Academic Study of Prison Guards’ Use of Excessive Force Details Sad State of Civil Rights for Abused Prisoners by Matthew Clarke In a research paper published on October 15, 2024, UCLA law professor Sharon Dolovich examined the state of civil rights law regarding excessive use of force by American prison …
Rural Virginia Jury Refuses to Hold Guards Liable for State Prisoner’s Death by On April 10, 2025, a jury in tiny Abingdon, Virginia (pop. 8,295) refused to assign liability to a half-dozen state Department of Corrections (DOC) employees accused in the death of mentally ill prisoner Charles Givens, 52, at …
$1.3 Million for Massachusetts Prisoner Stabbed by Guard in Connecticut Lockup by Douglas Ankney On October 21, 2024, after a trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, judgment was entered awarding former state prisoner Justin C. Mustafa $1.3 million on his claim that he was repeatedly …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$50,000 for Excessive Force Claim by Maryland Prisoner Who Used to Be a Guard by On March 19, 2025, an agreement was reached paying $50,000 to a Maryland prisoner—who is also a former Baltimore jailer—to settle his claim that he was subjected to excessive force by a guard at Western …
Kentucky Jail Sued for Detainee’s Death, Prisoner’s Stillborn Child by On March 3, 2025, the federal court for the Eastern District of Kentucky denied a motion to dismiss Eighth Amendment violation and negligence claims lodged against jail medical contractor West Kentucky Correctional Healthcare LLC (WKCH) by a former prisoner whose …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Connecticut Court Denies Access to Video of Prisoner’s Fatal Beat-Down by Guards by On April 9, 2025, Defendant Connecticut prison officials lost their second attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed over the death of prisoner J’Allen Jones, 31, following an altercation with guards at Garner Correctional Institution on March 25, …
Pittsburgh Lockup Accounts for 43% of Pennsylvania Jail TASER Use, Suit Filed by According to an investigative report published on January 30, 2025, guards at Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) accounted for nearly half of all use of taser weapons on detainees and prisoners in Pennsylvania. That revelation followed a …
New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $280,000 in Retaliation Claim Against Guards by Legal costs and fees awarded on January 6, 2025, nearly tripled a $100,000 jury verdict for New York state prisoner Crushaun Hundley in his retaliation claim against a pair of Elmira Correctional Facility guards. The U.S. Court of …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
20 Charged in Nevada Prison Brawl That Left Three Dead by The last of 20 arrests was made on March 5, 2025, of Nevada state prisoners accused in a brawl that left three fellow prisoners dead at Ely State Prison. The state Department of Corrections (DOC) said at the time …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wisconsin Prisoner Inhaled His Own Teeth in Fatal Beatdown by On January 8, 2025, Racine County Jail detainee Davonte Carraway, 29, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the brutal and fatal beating nine days earlier of state prisoner Joseph Lee, 35. Lee was found “stuffed into a garbage can” …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Tenth Circuit Stretches PLRA to Deny Claim of Colorado Prisoner Shot by Guard While Shackled by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a maddening decision issued on July 16, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit managed to dismiss the excessive-force claim of a Colorado prisoner …
Three More Prisoners Die, Three More Staffers Fired at Wisconsin Prison by At Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution, 11 staffers have now been fired or resigned in the wake of a federal probe sparked by a spate of prisoner deaths that has now reached a total of seven in just two …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Three Former Virginia Jailers Charged After Detainee Dies in “WRAP” Restraint by Three former Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Department (VBSD) deputies were indicted on January 3, 2025, in the death of Rolin Hill, who suffocated in a “WRAP” restraint device at the city jail in June 2024. Charged with second-degree murder …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
More New York Guards Suspended After Another Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by New York prisoner Messiah Nantwi, 22, was fatally beaten by guards at the Mid-State Correctional Facility on March 1, 2025, in plain view of at least nine prisoners as well as National Guard troops deployed during a wildcat guard …
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