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Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
South Carolina: Two Women Drown in Sheriff’s Transport Van, Deputies Charged by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Nicolette Green, 43, and Wendy Newton, 45, were not criminals. On September 18, 2018, Newton was suffering symptoms from her schizophrenia while Green had sought help from a clinic. Because doctors had ordered …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Private Prisoner Transport Firm Closes After Escape; Problems Continue to Plague Industry by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2019, Texas Prisoner Transportation Services (TPTS) informed its customers that it would cease operations that same month. CEO Ryan Whitten blamed the closure on new insurance rates that meant the …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Ohio Prison Officials Announce Measures to Prevent Another Transport Bus Murder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 8, 2018, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) announced new measures to prevent another murder from occurring on its transport buses. Those measures included replacing a “significant number” of …
Florida District Court Allows Suit Against Prisoner Transport Companies to Proceed by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On July 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by Prisoner Transportation Services, LLC (PTS) and its subsidiary, U.S. …
Arabella Advisors: Understanding and Confronting the Prison-Industrial Complex - An Overview for Philanthropists, 2018 Understanding and Confronting the Prison-Industrial Complex An Overview for Philanthropists OCTOBER 2018 UNDERSTANDING AND CONFRONTING THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX A BO UT T H E REPORT As part of its commitment to learning, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation …
Article • September 10, 2018
Montana Involuntary Committed Individuals May Be Restrained During Transport by Mark Wilson The Montana Supreme Court held that Montana law does not preclude handcuffing involuntarily committed mentally ill people during transport to a state hospital. Accordingly, the district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied an involuntarily committed …
Kovari v. U.S. Prisoner Transport and John Does, injuries during transport, complaint, 2018 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA HARRISONBURG DIVISION 4/24/2018 S/J.Vasquez EDWARD KOVARI, Plaintiff, v. BREVARD EXTRADITIONS, LLC, d/b/a U.S. PRISONER TRANSPORT; PRISONER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OF AMERICA, LLC; PRISONER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, LLC; …
Brief • April 4, 2018
Quinn v. U.S. Prisoner Transport, et al., ME, complaint, inhumane transport, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00149-DBH Document 1 Filed 04/04/18 Page 1of16 PagelD #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE * * MEGHAN NICOLE QUINN • Plaintiffs • v. U.S. PRISONER TRANSPORT INC., PRISONER TRANSPORT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA, LLC, ANDROSCOGGIN …
Jane Doe v. The Board of County Commissioners, Otero County, NM, Complaint, sexual assault by transport officer, 2018 Case 1:18-cv-00236-JHR-LF Document 1 Filed 03/09/18 Page 1 of 24 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO JANE DOE No. 1:18-cv-236 Plaintiff, v. THE BOARD OF COUNTY …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Two Georgia Prison Transport Guards Slain by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 13, 2017, a pair of Georgia prisoners being transported from the Baldwin State Prison near Milledgeville to the state’s Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson breached a partition on the prison bus. Within seconds they …
Article • February 22, 2018
$35,051 Settles Prisoner Van Crash by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Through December 2016, Cochise County, Arizona had paid over $42,000 to resolve an accident caused by a Cochise County prisoner transport van that struck a Kia Sorento after exiting the Pima County Jail. Guard Armando Cruz was driving the …
Article • August 4, 2017
Filed under: Transportation, Restraints
$500,000 Settlement for Shackled IL Man Thrown from County Jail Transport Van by Joe Watson by Joe Watson A man who was shackled, handcuffed, and in custody when he was thrown out of a moving, Jefferson County, Illinois transport van was awarded $500,000 in July 2008 after his estate settled …
NTSB Faults Texas Prison Guard, Road Crews in Transport Bus Deaths by Derek Gilna The federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently investigated and issued a final report concerning a 2015 prison transport bus accident that claimed the lives of eight prisoners and two guards. The report faulted both the …
Improper Analysis of Sovereign Immunity Defense Requires Remand in Georgia Negligence Claim by The Georgia Supreme Court vacated the rulings of two lower courts because they failed to apply the proper legal analysis in deciding the application of sovereign immunity. The matter before the court came on a petition for …
Guards Liable in Maryland Prisoner’s Murder on Transport Bus by The Maryland Court of Appeals held a trial court erred in striking a jury’s finding that a guard was liable for gross negligence in the murder of a prisoner on a transport.  The court further held gross negligence disentitles a …
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Merger of Prisoner Transport Companies Delayed after Objections Filed by Derek Gilna Prisoner Transportation Services, also known as PTS of America, LLC, bills itself as the “largest prisoner extradition company and one of the largest national transporters of detainees” in the United States. The firm, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, was …
Bureau of Prisons Pays $300,000 for Claim Relating to Beating of Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons agreed to settle claims relating to the severe beating of one inmate by another in February 1993. The plaintiff, Mark D. Lang, was beaten unconscious on the first day of an …
Third Circuit Reverses Dismissal of New Jersey Prisoner’s Suit by On November 16, 2015, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a civil rights action brought by a former New Jersey state prisoner who was housed at a community corrections facility and allegedly mistreated when she was …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Michigan Courthouse Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, 2 Injured by Larry Darnell Gordon, 45, was being transported to a Berrien County court proceeding on July 11, 2016 when he overpowered a deputy, stole his gun and tried to take hostages during an escape attempt. Gordon fatally shot two bailiffs in the …
Article • August 11, 2016
Police Cruiser Accident Costs Georgia County $400,000 by A $400,000 settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought by a man who was injured when an Athens-Clarke County, Georgia police car turned directly into a van driven by Ralph Bell, 62. The county did not contest liability in the December 11, …
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