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Crucial Surveillance Video Missing in Nevada Prisoner’s Homicide Caused by Guards by In August 2024, a nine-month investigation by the office of Melanie Rouse, Coroner of Nevada’s Clark County, concluded that the death of state prisoner Patrick Odale, 39, was a homicide. Odale was killed when guards pepper-sprayed him and …
Ohio Pays $725,000 to Survivors of Two Prisoners Beaten to Death by Lying Guards by On July 17, 2024, the Ohio Court of Claims approved a settlement between the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) and the Estate of mentally ill prisoner Dewey C. McVay, Jr., who died after …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
More Alabama Prisoners Murdered in Overcrowded Lockups by After a string of killings at Alabama prisons blamed on overcrowding, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest on July 7, 2024, in a long-running lawsuit over conditions at one state prison. With too few guards to adequately …
Former Warden Added to Suit Over Brutal Killing of Disabled Virginia Prisoner by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an amended complaint filed in federal court for the Western District of Virginia on January 19, 2024, the former warden of Marion Correctional Treatment Center (MCTC) was added to the list …
$700,000 Settlement in BOP Prisoner’s Death After Court Refuses to Extend Bivens by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) complaint in the death of a prisoner held by the …
Chicago Jailers Publicly Call Detainee Death a Medical Emergency, Privately Admit Guard Brutality by After Corey Ulmer, 41, died at Chicago’s Cook County Jail on June 21, 2024, deputies of Sheriff Tom Dart informed the detainee’s survivors that “he went to the hospital, and unfortunately he didn’t make it,” recalled …
$7.5 Million Settlement in Suit Over California Jail Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 29, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement under which Riverside County paid $7.5 million to the survivors of a county jail detainee who died in custody. …
First Circuit Tolls Claim for Maine Jail Death from Date of Detainee’s Injury, Rather Than When He Died by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Of the many hurdles prisoners and jail detainees face, the statute of limitations for a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is among the first. …
Georgia Guard Fired, Charged With Setting Up Assault that Left Prisoner Dead by A Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was fired and arrested on May 25, 2024, for allegedly letting three August State Medical Prison (ASMP) prisoners into the cell of a fourth to carry out an assault, during which …
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 …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
$8.9 Million Settlement Reached for N.Y. Prisoner’s Death Following Guards’ Baton Beating by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On February 13, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York gave final approval to a settlement paying $8.9 million from the state to the family …
Conflicting Reports from New Hampshire Prison Officials Before Guard Charged in Psychiatric Detainee’s Death by Former New Hampshire prison guard Matthew Millar, 39, was arrested on February 8, 2024, and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jason O. Rothe, 50, a detainee in the Secure Psychiatric Unit (SPU) …
Two West Virginia Jail Guards Plead Guilty in Detainee Death, Six More Charged by Six guards at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail were charged on November 30, 2023, in the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, less than a month after two fellow guards pleaded guilty to federal …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Fired Alabama Guard Reinstated Despite Excessive Force Used on Prisoner Who Died by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 24, 2023, the Alabama Personnel Board (APB) reinstated Capt. Timothy McCorvey, a guard dismissed by the warden at Ventress Correctional Facility in 2023 for using excessive force against a …
Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino, CA, Summary Judgment Order, Wrongful Death, 2024 Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino United States District Court for the Central District of California April 22, 2024, Decided; April 22, 2024, Filed 5:23-cv-00540-RGK-SHK Reporter 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74108 * Frances Enyart et al. v. …
Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since 2018, at least seven vulnerable detainees have died at the 366-­bed Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center, 30 miles east of Oklahoma City. Yet despite state law requiring deaths be reported within five …
$8.5 Million Settlement After Pretrial Detainee Suffocated by Guards and Medical Staff at Virginia Psychiatric Hospital by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 19, 2023, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Henrico and its Sheriff Alisa A. Gregory agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle claims arising …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Colorado Sheriff Resigns After Deputies Fatally Shoot Motorist by On August 3, 2023, Rick Albers resigned as Sheriff of Colorado’s Clear Creek County, caving to pressure from county commissioners who accused him of failing to accept responsibility after his deputies fatally shot mentally ill motorist Christian Glass, 22, in June …
Sixth Circuit Revives Suit by Pregnant Mentally Ill Michigan Detainee Allegedly Kicked in Her Womb by Jail Guard, Losing Baby by On July 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit deemed testimony by a pregnant mentally ill detainee no less credible than that of her Michigan …
BOP Slammed for Prisoner Abuse in Now-Shuttered Segregation Unit at USP-Thomson in Illinois by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A report on July 6, 2023, from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs (WLCCR&UA) exposed abuses suffered by prisoners at the hands of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
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