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Third Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Pennsylvania Guards Who Pepper-Sprayed Asthmatic Prisoner by On April 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a grant of qualified immunity (QI) to Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) guards at the State Correctional Institution in Benner, who doused an …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
NYC Rehires Former Head of Rikers Island Lockup Where Guard Assault Left Detainee Quadriplegic by On May 11, 2024, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) rehired Ned McCormick, the former official in charge of a Rikers Island lockup where a massive guard pile-­on exactly one year earlier left …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules by In a desperate bid to get new heat-­related workplace safety rules adopted before summer arrived, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) agreed on April 18, 2024, to drop prisons and jails from the measure. Two temperature …
CDCR Slammed for Reclassifying Staff Misconduct Allegations as Routine Grievances by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A report issued by California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on January 29, 2024, harshly criticized the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for taking prisoner grievances that contained allegations of …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Ninth Circuit Provides Cover to Oregon Governor for Prioritizing Guards Over Prisoners for COVID-19 Vaccine by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against a class of Oregon prisoners suing over the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal court …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
BOP Cuts Ties With American Correctional Association by On March 31, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) let its contract expire with the American Correctional Association (ACA), which provided accreditations for all BOP prisons, training centers and its Central Office Headquarters. BOP opted not to renew the $2.75 million …
“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 …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Sham Accreditations by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   In November 2023, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published an audit of the $2.75 million contract awarded to the American Correctional Association (ACA) by DOJ’s Bureau …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
BOP Lifts Maximum Age for New Guards to 40 by On October 1, 2023, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) implemented a temporary policy raising the maximum age for guard candidates to 40. The previous upper age limit was 37. The new policy is aimed at solving a staffing crisis …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Georgia Prisoner Stabs Warden by Georgia’s Telfair State Prison went on lockdown on March 21, 2024, after a prisoner stabbed Warden Andrew McFarlane with a homemade knife. McFarlane, 54, a 25-year veteran of the state Department of Corrections (DOC), was not seriously injured in the attack, according to DOC spokesperson …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Two Ohio Prisoners and Two Guards Tried for Assaults by Two Ohio prisoners have pleaded guilty to assaulting guards, while trials of two other guards accused of assaulting jail detainees in the state resulted in one conviction and one acquittal. On October 25, 2023, Ohio prisoner Drequan K. Abdullah, 24, …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison by David Reutter by David Reutter   On March 13, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for private prison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally …
Article • April 26, 2024
Filed under: Employee Litigation
$1.4 Million Verdict for Florida Jail Guard Injured in Transport Van Crash by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 20, 2021, a Florida jury awarded $1.4 million to Bradford County Jail guard Clinton Jenkins, 53. The jury’s award was based on its finding that the truck driver who …
Article • April 26, 2024
Filed under: Employee Litigation
$155 Million Settlement for 10,000 California Prison Guard Supervisors in Wage Lawsuit by David Reutter by David Reutter A California Superior Court on December 9, 2022, preliminarily approved a $155 million settlement for about 10,000 current and retired supervising state prison guards in a long-running lawsuit alleging the California Department …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Prisons Locked Down After Massive Riot Hospitalizes Prisoner, Eight Guards by A riot broke out at Ironwood State Prison on January 31, 2024, triggering a “threat assessment” that locked down every facility run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Eight staffers and one prisoner were hospitalized …
Alabama Prisons Facing Third Class-Action Lawsuit by In a lawsuit filed in federal court for the Middle District of Alabama on December 12, 2023, a group of state prisoners accused the state Board of Pardons and Paroles (BOPP) of denying them release so that the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) …
Texas Fights Fetal Rights After Forcing Prison Guard to Stay At Work Until She Delivered Stillborn Baby by by Matt Clarke On August 18, 2023, the federal court for the Western District of Texas granted defendant officials with the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) only partial dismissal of a …
MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons by Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC) announced on September 18, 2023, that it returned $5.125 million to the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC), after a state investigation found the private prison operator understaffed lockups operated for DOC. …
Brief • February 13, 2024
Bleise v. Ohio Department of Rehab and Corrections, OH, Complaint, Breach of Contract -Failure to Protect, 2024 ELECTRONICALLY FILED COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Tuesday, February 13, 2024 2:25:40 PM CASE NUMBER: 2024 CV 00813 Docket ID: 273926626 Mike Foley CLERK OF COURTS MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO IN THE COMMON PLEAS COURT …
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