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$340,000 for Former Massachusetts Prisoner Whose Baby Was Stillborn by Douglas Ankney On February 3, 2025, a former Massachusetts prisoner dismissed claims arising from a stillbirth she suffered while incarcerated at Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center (MRWCC). In return, Lidia Lech agreed to dismiss all claims over the tragedy that …
14th Alabama Sheriff’s Employee Pleads Guilty in Jail Detainee’s Death by Freezing by A guard pleaded guilty in June 4, 2025, in connection with the death of a man held at an Alabama jail who died in freezing conditions in January 2023. The guard, Braxton Kee, 23, pleaded guilty to …
Sixth Guard Sentenced in West Virginia Killing of Pretrial Detainee by A former West Virginia guard who failed to intervene while fellow guards beat to death pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, was sentenced on June 9, 2025, for her role in the 2022 assault.  Ashley Toney, 25, got six and …
New York Guards Plead Guilty to Fatally Beating Prisoner, Mopping Up His Blood by New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard Christopher Walrath, 36, pleaded guilty on May 5, 2025, to taking part in the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks. On May 14, 2025, fellow guard …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Tenth Circuit Upholds Nearly $8.8 Million Judgment for Utah Jail Death by Douglas Ankney On November 13, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld a jury award of more than $8.7 million to the Estate of detainee who died in Utah’s Davis County Jail. In its …
Sixth Circuit Limits Deliberate Indifference Standard in Kentucky Jail Medical Care Challenge by David M. Reutter Since its September 2021 ruling in Brawner v. Scott Cty., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has held that pretrial detainees challenging their medical care in jail are not fully held …
Ninth Circuit Revives Complaint Over Sloppy Cell Checks Before Psychotic Detainee’s Death at L.A. Jail by Douglas Ankney On October 17, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that 26 cell checks performed within 13 hours by six Los Angeles County jailers who nevertheless failed to …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
New Mexico Watchdog Group Sues for Video Allegedly Showing Jailers Killing Detainee by David M. Reutter The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (NMFOG) has filed an enforcement complaint under the state Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) against the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners, seeking release of video and …
Oklahoma Supreme Court Kills One Jail Death Suit, Threatening Settlement of Another by In a case with enormous implications for Oklahoma jail detainees, the state Supreme Court ruled on March 11, 2025, that a jail’s subcontracted medical providers are “employees” for the purposes of the Oklahoma Governmental Tort Claims Act …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$6 Million Settlement in Illinois Detainee’s Gruesome Untreated Heroin Withdrawal Death by David Reutter On December 18, 2024, notice was filed in the federal court for the Central District of Illinois that a $6 million good-faith settlement had been reached resolving a lawsuit seeking compensation for the April 2022 death …
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 …
Kansas Pays $150,000 for Prisoner Killed by Cellmate, Centurion Settlement Confidential by Kansas state prisoner Gary Lee Raburn, 62, was incarcerated at the Lansing Correctional Facility on January 6, 2023, when he was fatally strangled by his cellmate, Ladarious R. Barkers, 25.  According to the complaint later filed on his …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Three New York Guards Plead Guilty to Beating Black Prisoner in “George Floyd Challenge” by A third New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard pleaded guilty on April 23, 2025, to assaulting a Mid-State Correctional Facility prisoner and lying about it to cover it up. Brandon Montanari, …
$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 …
$1.2 Million in Settlements Reached in Suit Over Sacramento Jail Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 7, 2025, California’s Sacramento County made a $600,000 offer of judgment that was accepted by the Plaintiffs in a suit filed over a detainee’s murder at the County lockup in 2019. …
Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer by In a lawsuit filed by a former Florida prisoner who was released to die from prostate cancer that private prison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$2.95 Million Settlement for Untreated Pneumonia Death in Washington Jail by Washington’s Pacific County agreed in state Court on November 22, 2024, to a $2.95 million settlement resolving claims by the survivors of Crystal R. Greenler, 38, who died of untreated pneumonia in the county lockup nearly two years earlier. …
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 …
New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths by A suit filed in federal court for the District of New Jersey on February 19, 2025, accused officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of failing to protect prisoner Phillip Kellerman from …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Six Deaths in Eleven Months at Washington Jail by The South County Correctional Entity, a jail shared by six cities in Washington’s King County and located in the Seattle suburb of Des Moines, recorded its sixth death in 11 months on February 1, 2025. Known locally as SCORE, the lockup …
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