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New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New Jersey judiciary came to an end when the state Supreme Court held that the failure of former prison …
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, …
$62,500 For Idaho Prisoner Raped by Guard Who Later Committed Suicide by Anthony Accurso An apparent error by attorneys for a former Idaho prisoner limited her recovery to just $62,500 after she was raped by a guard. In a letter to PLN on August 30, 2024, the Idaho Department of …
Wellpath and VitalCore Skip Paying Nearly $2 Million in Settlements in South Carolina by In October 2024, Wellpath—a private for-profit contractor that provides medical care in prisons and jails—was ordered to pay a $1.5 million settlement it entered in a lawsuit alleging that one of the company’s nurses performed “unnecessary …
$3.15 Million for Illinois Prisoner Raped by Guard and Then Denied “Boot Camp” by On March 26, 2024, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) signed an agreement to pay $3,150,000 to a former state prisoner to settle her claims that she was raped by a guard and then denied entry …
Jury Deadlocks at Trial of Last BOP Guard Accused at California “Rape Club” by A jury deadlocked in federal court for the Northern District of California on April 14, 2025, leading Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to declare a mistrial for Darrell Wayne Smith, 55, a former federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
South Carolina Jailer Gets 10 Years for Sexually Assaulting Nine Detainees and Co-Workers by A former jail guard in South Carolina’s Berkeley County was sentenced on March 18, 2025, to 10 years in state prison, after he admitted to sexually assaulting nine detainees and coworkers at the Hill-Finklea Detention Center …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Former Indiana Jailer Walks from Charges Over “Night of Terror” by On February 14, 2025, an Indiana judge dismissed charges against a former guard at the Clark County Jail who was accused of selling keys to male detainees who then unlocked cells holding female detainees and raped them. The county …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Former California Guard Convicted On 64 Counts of Sexually Abusing Prisoners by Former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) guard Gregory Rodriguez, 56, was convicted on January 14, 2025, of raping nearly two dozen prisoners at California Women’s Prison in Chowchilla between 2014 and 2022. Though reports of his …
Former Vermont Sheriff Takes Plea Deal in Sexual Assault Case by Peter Newton, 52, the former Sheriff of Addison County, Vermont, pleaded guilty in state court on January 24, 2025, to lewd and lascivious conduct and simple assault. The plea was the result of a deal that Newton cut with …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
“Lady al-Qaeda” Sues BOP for Guards’ Sexual Assaults by In a suit filed in federal court for the Northern District of Texas against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on September 19, 2024, Aafia Siddiqui, 52, a Pakistani national serving an 86-year sentence for a terrorism-related conviction at the Federal …
Minnesota Supreme Court Says Randy Guard Must Face Prisoner’s Sexual Harassment and Assault Claims by The Supreme Court of Minnesota held on June 20, 2024, that a state Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner plausibly stated a claim under the Minnesota Tort Claims Act (TCA) when he alleged that a guard …
BOP Shutters “Rape Club” in California, Director Peters Quits by The troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lost Director Collette Peters on January 20, 2025, when she resigned just as incoming Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) was sworn into to office. Peters held the job for just 30 months, and …
150 People Sue Over Past Abuse at New York City Juvenile Facilities by In 2022, the City of New York passed a law opening a two-year “lookback window” for victims of gender-motivated violence, including sexual abuse, to file lawsuits over incidents that were no longer within the statute of limitations. …
$38 Million Jury Award for Physical, Sexual Abuse at New Hampshire Juvenile Lockup by In 1995, when David Meehan was 14 years old, he was committed to New Hampshire’s Youth Development Center (YDC), later renamed Sununu Youth Services Center, a secure juvenile detention center in Manchester. There he was raped …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Georgia Deputy Warden and Guard Fired for Prisoner Sex Assaults, Second Guard Sentenced to 25 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 4, 2024, former Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Larenzo Cheeks, 25, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for having sex with three prisoners …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Pays $4.45 Million to Prisoners Allegedly Raped by Guards by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Since reporting a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation was opened in September 2024 into sexual abuse of prisoners at two California lockups, PLN has obtained documentation of $4 million in settlement payouts …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Paternity Questions Dog Miami Jail Birth by A South Florida woman gave birth to a baby girl at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK) on June 19, 2024. But it remained unclear how Daisy Link, 29, became pregnant or who the child’s father is. Link is accused of …
Iowa Qualified Immunity Law Lets County Off the Hook for Guard’s Sex Abuse of Jail Detainee by Although a guard was fired from Iowa’s Polk County Jail for forcibly kissing and touching him while detained there, Justin Mowry’s lawsuit for damages against the county was dismissed on June 20, 2024. …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Alabama Prisoner Disciplined for Lying When Guard Cleared of Sexual Assault Allegation by On February 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a grant of qualified immunity (QI) to three Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) officials and dismissed a prisoner’s suit alleging they retaliated against …
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