Texas Settles Suit Over Rape and Beating of Transgender Prisoner by On March 15, 2018, Lambda Legal, an organization that advocates for LGBT rights, announced the settlement of a lawsuit brought by a male-to-female transgender Texas prisoner who was beaten and raped while serving 14 years in all-male facilities. After …
Mother of Prisoner Who Died at Texarkana Jail Challenges $200,000 Settlement; Nurse Pleads Guilty by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On November 11, 2017, notice of a $200,000 settlement was filed in a federal lawsuit over the death of a diabetic Texarkana jail prisoner who died after a nurse ignored …
Texas Uses Failed Private Prison to Hold Civilly Committed Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2015, Texas converted its outpatient program for civilly committed sex offenders into a “tiered” treatment program, in which participants start out in a “total confinement facility” at twice the cost of the …
Former Mexican Mafia General Turned Informant Receives $25,000 from GEO Group, 20 Years in Prison from Feds by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke After former Mexican Mafia general Raymond S. “Indio” Tellez agreed to testify against the gang, two gang members stabbed him multiple times in a secure area of …
Human Rights Defense Center v. The GEO Group, Inc. Texas Public Records, 2018 FILED 8/28/2018 11:39 AM Donna Kay McKinney Bexar County District Clerk Accepted By: Victoria Angeles Cause No. HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, 2018CI16343 § § § § § § § § v. THE GEO GROUP, INC., Defendant. …
Texas Rates September 2018 8/28/2018 Texas prison system slashes price of inmate phone calls by 77 percent - Houston Chronicle X Your California Privacy Rights Privacy Notice Advertising Interest Based Ads Terms of Use Contact Us IMAGE 1 OF 24 The Texas prison board approved a lower cost phone contract …
Texas Towns with Private Prisons Experience Job Losses by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke Over a decade ago, with the promise of cost savings as well as stable jobs for the community, local governments in Texas agreed to issue bonds to finance the construction of prisons and jails operated by …
Texas Couple Wrongly Convicted in “Satanic Panic” Receive $3.4 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An Austin, Texas couple wrongly convicted of sexually abusing a child at the day-care center they ran in the 1990s has been declared innocent and received over $3.4 million in compensation from the state. …
Lawsuit Against Private Prison Firm Over Prisoner’s Death at Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke The family of a prisoner who died at the Bi-State Jail in Texarkana has filed a federal civil rights suit alleging his death resulted from inadequate medical care. The jail is unique in …
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Federal Jury Awards Texas Man $169,128 in Excessive Force Claim Against Sheriff’s Deputy by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zouki Richard Uekert, who suffered a fractured nose and teeth from a San Patricio County sheriff’s deputy, was awarded $169,128 by a federal jury after it determined that the deputy used excessive …
Here’s What It’s Like to Work at a Shelter for Immigrant Kids by Kavitha Surana, Robert Faturechi Some facilities are so overstretched; employees often wait hours for a break to go to the bathroom by Kavitha Surana and Robert Faturechi, ProPublica BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The employees were in the ninth hour …
Texas Prisons Stop Using Solitary Confinement as Punishment, but Thousands Kept in Administrative Segregation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 1, 2017 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) changed its policy on prisoner discipline to eliminate solitary confinement as a punishment for violating institutional rules, though thousands …
Fifth Circuit Holds Denial of Diabetic Diet During Lockdowns States Claim by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 29, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held a diabetic prisoner’s allegation that he was denied a medical diet and required to repeatedly eat high-sugar meals during prison lockdowns stated …
State Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Gaining Traction by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On the federal level, hopes for criminal justice reform have fallen victim to partisan bickering in Congress and a lack of substantive interest from the White House. Fortunately, state officials are not waiting around, and state-level reform …
$10,000 Federal Jury Award in Texas Prisoner’s Suit Over Retaliatory Beatings by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 22, 2017, a federal jury awarded $10,000 to a prisoner against six Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guards for beating him and issuing false disciplinary reports in retaliation for grievances …
Litigation Heats Up Over Extreme Temperatures in Prisons, Jails by Matthew Clarke, Christopher Zoukis by Matt Clarke and Christopher Zoukis During a heat wave in the summer of 2017, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Medium Security Institution in St. Louis, Missouri and chanted “shut it down,” after a video …
Doctors giving kids psychotropic drugs lost certification by Aura Bogado By Aura Bogado / Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting The psychiatrist who has been prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children at a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas has practiced without board certification to treat children and adolescents for …
Atomanczyk v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al., TX, opinion and order, compensatory damages, religious infringement, 2018 Case 4:17-cv-00719 Document 70 Filed in TXSD on 06/26/18 Page 1 of 13 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED June 26, 2018 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR …
Dept. of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General - ICE's Inspections and Monitoring of Detention Facilities Do Not Lead to Sustained Compliance or Systemic Improvements, 2018 ICE’s Inspections and Monitoring of Detention Facilities Do Not Lead to Sustained Compliance or Systemic Improvements June 26, 2018 OIG-18-67 DHS OIG HIGHLIGHTS ICE’s …
