Darren Rainey Died in Scalding Prison Shower Eight Years Ago Today, Still No Charges Filed by Jessica Lipscomb by Jessica Lipscomb, originally published in Miami New Times, June 23, 2020 Eight years ago, today, Florida prison guards locked 50-year-old Darren Rainey inside a shower room, set the water temperature to …
Quarantine Fatigue vs. Escalating Prison Lockdowns (During COVID-19 & Black Lives Matter Protests) by Ava Martoma KidsMates, Inc. Blog Post By Ava Martoma, Age 13 Like much of America, I’m feeling quarantine fatigue. On the upside, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on … well, everything. Lately, George …
Paulcin v. Wexford Health Sources, FL, Affidavit of Dr. Thomas Fowlkes, Medical Neglect, 2020 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FORT MYERS DIVISION CASE NO. : 2:17-cv-232-JLB-MRM PROPHET PAULCIN, Plaintiff, V. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., JOHN D. WILLIS, KARA R. WILLIAMS, JAMES LICATA, JONATHAN T. REID, J. BRUSSELL, …
Paulcin v. Wexford Health Sources, FL, Affidavit of Dr. Thomas Fowlkes, Failure to Treat-Mental, 2020 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FORT MYERS DIVISION CASE NO. : 2:17-cv-232-JLB-MRM PROPHET PAULCIN, Plaintiff, V. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., JOHN D. WILLIS, KARA R. WILLIAMS, JAMES LICATA, JONATHAN T. REID, J. …
Phillips v. Centurion of Florida LLC, FL, Expert Report-Thomas D. Fowlkes, FL, Medical Neglect, 2020 Case 4:18-cv-00139-AW-MJF Document 360-1 Filed 07/28/20 Page 1 of 20 Exhibit “A” Case 4:18-cv-00139-AW-MJF Document 360-1 Filed 07/28/20 Page 2 of 20 Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)2(B), Thomas D. Fowlkes, M.D. submits the …
Phillips v. Jones, FL, Exhibit a Expert Report, Denial of Medical Care, 2020 Case 4:18-cv-00139-AW-MJF Document 360-1 Filed 07/28/20 Page 1 of 20 Exhibit “A” Case 4:18-cv-00139-AW-MJF Document 360-1 Filed 07/28/20 Page 2 of 20 Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)2(B), Thomas D. Fowlkes, M.D. submits the following Expert …
Arciero v. USA, FL, Order Accepting Report and Recommendation, Sexual Assualt, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-00064-MW-HTC Document 21 Filed 07/09/20 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION MALIA ELENA ARCIERO, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 4:20cv64-MW/HTC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., …
Florida Prisoners Win 3.9 Million in Media Credits in MP3 Player Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) agreed to place 3.9 million Tablet Media Credits into the accounts of prisoners who bought songs through the now-defunct digital music player program. In 2011, …
News in Brief by Arizona: A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Daniel Davitt, 60, on January 14, 2020 on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Lower Buckeye Jail guard Gene Lee on October 30. Buckeye Jail video shows Davitt talking to Lee on October 29, then suddenly grabbing …
Florida’s Refusal to Release Prisoners During COVID-19 Resulting in Death Sentences by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread across the nation, so did the push to release prisoners from the “Petri dish” of close confinement that exists inside jails and prisons. While some …
With Lives of Immigrant Detainees at Risk to COVID-19, Federal Judge Forces ICE’s Hand by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis As a result of a ruling June 5, 2020, hundreds of immigrant detainees held by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in south Florida may have to be released. That …
11th Circuit Rules Florida Prisoner Claiming Sexual Assault by Guard Can Proceed With Cruel and Unusual Punishment Claim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment for defendants in a civil rights action alleging a guard sexually assaulted and …
Florida Guards and Prisoners Fear COVID-19 Infection by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Much has been made of essential employees as the economy shut down in an effort to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus has been on the bravery of health-care workers in hospitals and …
Florida’s “Pay-to-Vote” System Struck Down by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida federal district court declared portions of Florida’s felon voting system unconstitutional. It issued injunctive relief that orders a new process put in place for indigent persons who owe financial obligations as part of a criminal sentence. …
ACLU v. FL Dept of Corrections, FL, Motion for Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2020 Filing # 109468561 E-Filed 06/26/2020 01:59:43 PM IN THE FLORIDA SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF FLORIDA, INC., Plaintiff, Case No.: 37 2020 CA 000854 Judge Flury v. …
McCrimmons v. Centurion of Florida, FL, Motion to Dismiss, Wrongful Death, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-00036-BJD-LLL Document 63 Filed 06/23/20 Page 1 of 23 PageID 452 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE DIVISION SARAH MCCRIMMON and CARON DETTMANN, as Co-Administrators of the Estate of Curtis …
Huff v. Corizon,LLC, FL, Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion for Entry of HIPAA Qualified Protective Order, Excessive Foce, 2020 Case 3:18-cv-01338-TKW-EMT Document 31 Filed 06/04/20 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION RYAN HUFF, Civil Division Plaintiff, v. Case No. 3:18-cv-1338-TKW-EMT CORIZON, LLC, Defendants. PLAINTIFF’S …
Federal Judge Keeps Heat on Florida to Implement Amendment 4 Voter Restoration for Ex-Felons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 7, 2020, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and its GOP-dominated legislature lost another round in their battle to limit a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution providing …
Prison Postcards: Official Accounts Differ from Prisoner Accounts as the Pandemic Spreads by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein Ever since the coronavirus epidemic exploded in the United States earlier this year, government officials have reassured the public that they had things tightly under control. On February 26, before anyone in …
Eleventh Circuit Says COVID-19-Wracked Miami Jail Can’t Be Forced to Give Prisoners Soap, Masks by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 5, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a Florida district court’s preliminary injunction that required officials at Miami’s Metro West Detention Center (Metro West) …
