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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Eighth Circuit Lets Missouri Guard Skate For Placing Avowed Enemies In Same Cell, Resulting In Assault by Anthony Accurso Missouri prisoners beware: On ­November 19, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to a prison guard who placed two “avowed enemy” …
$2.4 Million Settlement Reached After Elderly Pretrial Detainee Strangled by Cellmate in San Antonio Jail by David Reutter Texas’ Bexar County agreed on April 22, 2024, to pay $2.4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Curtis Raymond Smith, 66, who was killed just hours after his …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
French Prisons Targeted in Coordinated Attack by A wave of attacks against six prison facilities around France on April 15, 2025, was called a coordinated effort by drug gangs to push back against government crackdowns targeting their incarcerated leaders. Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin vowed that “[t]he Republic will not back …
Almost $4.4 Million for Illinois Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Claim by David Reutter On April 11, 2025, amended judgment was entered in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois, awarding $4,384,216.16 to state prisoner Timothy Kyles, who successfully prosecuted his claim that state Department of Corrections (DOC) officials were …
Brief • April 24, 2025
Lake v. CoreCivic, Inc.,MT, Verdict, Failure to Protect, 2025 Case 4:21-cv-00116-BMM Document 102 Filed 04/24/25 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STA TES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MONTANA GREAT FALLS DIVISION No. 4:21-CV-00116-BMM NATHANIEL LAKE, Plaintiff, VERDICT FORM v. CORECIVIC, INC. d/b/a CROSSROADS CORRECTIONAL CENTER, Defendant. We, …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
No Evacuations for Los Angeles Prisoners in Wildfire’s Path by As the Hughes fire exploded over more than 10,000 acres of Los Angeles County on January 23, 2025, Sheriff Robert Luna issued evacuation orders to some 31,000 residents in and around the town of Castaic. But no such orders were …
‘Eye Opening’ Self-Harm Found in Washington DOC Solitary Confinement by A report released in September 2024 by the Washington Corrections Ombuds found that incidence of self-harm was particularly high among state Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoners held in solitary confinement. The report was the second by the Ombuds Office since …
Washington Prisoner Sues Jail Where Assault Left Him Comatose, DOC Guard Who Then Sexually Abused Him by In July 2024, 37-year-old Nathaniel Woods filed lawsuits against the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Pierce County Jail for an assault he suffered there and sexual abuse by a DOC guard …
USDC (D. Oregon), Case No. 6:22-cv-00451 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 5, 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a notice of settlement in court indicating that it paid $135,000 to settle a prisoner’s lawsuit accusing a guard of intentionally allowing other prisoners into his cell …
Fourth Circuit Reinstates North Carolina Prisoner’s Failure-to-Protect Claim Against Guard in Stabbing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 2, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the grant of summary judgment to one of several North Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) officials accused …
Suits Filed Over Dehydration Deaths at Two Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 9, 2024, the grandmother of a mentally ill detainee who died of dehydration at Texas’ Denton County Jail (DCJ) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing jail staff of deliberate indifference in allowing …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Two Hurricanes in Two Weeks Threaten Prisoners and Jail Detainees in Six States by Hurricane Helene left a trail of disaster across six states after making landfall in Florida on September 26, 2024. Less than two weeks later, Hurricane Milton reached Florida’s Gulf Coast on October 9, 2024, causing more …
After $750,000 Settlement, Georgia Guard Sued Second Time For Letting One Prisoner Murder Another by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 26, 2024, the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) was sued by the surviving parents of murdered state prisoner Joseph Walter Brown, 36, who was killed in July 2022 …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Another Payout Brings Arizona Prisoner’s Total to $92,850 by On June 6, 2024, Arizona prisoner Edmund Powers settled a claim against three state Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) guards for $850. Though relatively small, it was Powers’ third such settlement since 2020, bringing his total payout to $92,850. …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Florida Prisoners Exposed to Cancer-Causing Chemicals by When Florida lawmakers approved a $116.5 billion annual state budget on March 8, 2024, it included $3.5 million for a new Alachua County water pipeline that is critical to the health and safety of state prisoners confined at Lowell Correctional Institution and the …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Former Detainee Sues “Disgusting” Atlanta Jail Where He Was Stabbed 13 Times by A lawsuit filed in Georgia’s Fulton County on May 1, 2024, blames poor conditions at the county jail for an assault by fellow detainees on Michael Horton, in which he was stabbed 13 times. As PLN reported, …
Morris v. Aranas, et al., NV, Verdict Form, Deliberate Indifference (Medical/Failure to Protect), 2024 Case 3:18-cv-00310-CLB Document 188 Filed 08/29/24 Page 1 of 5 _ _ FILED _ _ ENTERED ___ RECEIVED _ _ SERVED ON COUNSEUPARTiES OF RECORD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 1 DISTRICT OF NEVAD 2 *** 3 …
“Too brutal, too disgusting”: Prison Guards Flee as Working Conditions Worsen by The nonprofit Marshall Project reported on January 10, 2024, that dire prison staffing shortages nationwide have left the number of people working in state prisons at the lowest level in over two decades. The resulting thinning of supervision …
CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   In a suit filed in Kansas state court on July 31, 2023, former detainee Joshua Braddy accused private prison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Retaliation Claim By Federal Prisoner Against Guard in Illinois Lockup Who Saw Grievance Against Him by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke   On November 28, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit declined to let a federal prisoner sue officials with the …
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