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$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 …
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
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 …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
“Swing or Kick Rocks”: BOP Guard Alleges Conspiracy to Brutalize Prisoners at Kentucky Lockup by Former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Lt. Terry L. Melvin was not the first to admit brutalizing a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Big Sandy, Kentucky. But with his guilty plea …
$250,000 Settlement But No Charges After Alabama Guards Beat Prisoner To Death by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Alabama Department of Finance issued a $250,000 payment on behalf of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) on August 16, 2024, settling a suit filed by the survivors of state …
Brief • March 26, 2025
Raymond v. Mitchell, NY, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2025 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 1 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 2 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 3 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 4 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK …
Brief • March 11, 2025
Bell v. City and County of San Francisco, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2025 FILE NO. 250004 1 ORDINANCE NO. 025-25 [Settlement of Lawsuit - Vincent Keith Bell - $825,000] 2 3 Ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by Vincent Keith Bell against the 4 City and County of San …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Houston Police Fire Former Jail Guard Filmed Brutalizing Detainees, Charges Against Three Other Guards Dropped by The Houston Police Department (HPD) fired Off. Deven Ortiz on January 7, 2025, following an investigation into multiple alleged uses of excessive force while he worked as a guard at the Harris County Jail …
Mayhem, Murder and Staff Misconduct at Brooklyn BOP Lockup by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, has made the news repeatedly thanks to some high-profile detainees held there to await trial. But federal prosecutors have also charged nine detainees for a series of …
$1.5 Million Settlement For In-Custody Injury by New York Police by Rosie Martinez, then 49, was arrested in January 2015 after police searched her New York City apartment and found heroin that belonged to her boyfriend. While in custody at the 107th Precinct of the City Police Department (NYPD), she …
Sixth West Virginia Jailer Found Guilty After Detainee Death, Estate Dismisses Claims Against PrimeCare Medical Employees by A former West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) guard supervisor was found guilty on January 27, 2025, on charges related to the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, at …
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