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Third Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment on SHU Strip Search Claims

Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017

Filed under: Body Cavity Searches, Summary Judgment

was given only a t-shirt, boxer briefs and socks to wear. He was never allowed to leave the cell except for three, five-minute showers per week. Nevertheless, guards strip-searched Parkell three times each ...

Oklahoma Jail Detainee Handcuffed, Pepper-sprayed and Choked to Death

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Jail Specific, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Failure to Train/Supervise, Children of Prisoners

fatality nor its first controversy. In 2014, prisoner Antonio Jimenez died after being pepper-sprayed by guards. That same year, three jailers were arrested for smuggling methamphetamine, alcohol and tobacco ...

Aramark: Prison Food Service with a Bad Aftertaste

Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Contractor Misconduct, Food, Death Row

they were implicated in the smuggling of a cell phone, battery and charger into the Allegheny County jail's disciplinary unit. Jail spokesman Chuck Mandarino denied that guards had brought it in, instead ...

News in Brief

Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019

Filed under: News in Brief

smuggled drugs, tobacco and other contraband into the maximum-security prison in exchange for bribes. At least eight other guards at the facility have been caught doing the same between 2013 and 2017. Even ...

News in Brief

Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: Doctors have warned about the toxicity of K2, a common synthetic marijuana smuggled into prisons. Alabama Department of Corrections narcotics dog Jake, a 5-year-old ...

Idaho's Prison Labor Scandal

Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prison Industries, Prison Labor, Legal Mail

of the Attorney General, focused on a wide-scale prison labor scandal that involved furniture theft, drug and tobacco smuggling, and the firings or forced resignations of IDOC employees who questioned ongoing ...

News in Brief

Article • January 10, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

,” she said. “The guards at GEO are not respecting their basic human rights.” The hunger strike was reportedly sparked by medical treatment being withheld after a teenage detainee ...

News in Brief

Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014

Filed under: News, News in Brief

Penitentiary, transport guard Lonnie B. Rogers was arrested for bringing 40 cell phones and chargers, 22 ounces of marijuana and tobacco into the facility. Rogers reportedly received $700 from a woman to smuggle ...

Murder, Mayhem, Corruption and Snitches: BOP Florence Exposed

Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Gang Policies, Racial Discrimination, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Prison/Jail Murders, Informants, Escapes, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Guard Unions

-security prisons." But it is better known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," the successor to the USP Marion hell-hole (which had replaced Alcatraz in 1963), "the deepest, most heavily guarded, most ...

News in Brief

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: News, News in Brief

foot tunnel underneath the border to smuggle drugs into the U.S. Missouri: On August 1, 2001, Greene County jail guards Justin Hastings, 21, and Curtis Myers, 26, were charged with four misdemeanor ...

PLRA Physical Harm Requirement Not Retroactive

Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997

Filed under: Retaliation, Snitch Jacketing, Whistleblowing, Physical Injury Rule, Informants (Failure to Protect)

and exposed to harm for exercising his first amendment rights by testifying against the drug smuggling prison guard. The court afforded Thomas an opportunity to amend his complaint to assert a retaliation claim ...

Texas: Prison-Rape Capital Of The Country

Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Crime/Demographics, Crime, Victims, Statistics/Trends

two prisoners who sued TDCJ. When prisoners report it, they are ignored, laughed at, and often punished. Many of the sexual assaults are perpetrated by guards. According to state records, since 2000 ...

Texas: "Prison-Rape Capital Of The Country"

Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Crime, Statistics/Trends

who represents two prisoners who sued TDCJ. “When prisoners report it, they are ignored, laughed at, and often punished.” Many of the sexual assaults are perpetrated by guards. According to state ...

Guard Who Identified Over 100 Prison Rioters Pleads Guilty to Contraband Charge

Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Organizing, Prison Rebellion

Guard Who Identified Over 100 Prison Rioters Pleads Guilty to Contraband Charge by A Kentucky prison guard who identified more than 100 prisoners who allegedly participated in a 2009 riot ...

Quarantine Fatigue vs. Escalating Prison Lockdowns (During COVID-19 & Black Lives Matter Protests)

Article • July 30, 2020

Filed under: Telephone Rates, Fathers in Prison, Children of Prisoners

it feels like to be a prisoner during a lockdown. Prison Lockdown My dad’s prison camp started a lockdown last fall, long before coronavirus changed our world. Guards discovered contraband ...

News in Brief

Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017

guard Michael Chavez smuggled contraband, including tobacco, marijuana, meth, food and coffee, into the county jail. Chavez was arrested in June 2017 and transferred to the Curry County Detention Center ...

News in Brief

Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001

Filed under: News, News in Brief

in Washington county court with two counts of bribing a public official. The indictment claims that Pressley paid Stillwater guard Brian Diethert $3,000 to smuggle loose-leaf Top tobacco into the prison in 1999 ...

Aramark’s Correctional Food Services: Meals, Maggots and Misconduct

Article • December 3, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Aramark, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Contractor Misconduct, Gastrointestinal, Food, Vermin

that included unsanitary conditions, spoiled food, unauthorized menu changes and inadequate meal portions; • Hundreds of Aramark employees have been disciplined, fired or prosecuted for smuggling contraband ...

News in Brief

Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020

Filed under: News in Brief

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 ...

News in Brief

Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013

Filed under: News, News in Brief

. Tennessee: On May 1, 2013, Acting U.S. Attorney David Rivera announced that Derek Wayne Turner, 38, a former Maury County jail guard, had pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle contraband into the facility ...