Calls for Better Pregnancy Care in Georgia Jails after Death of Prisoner’s Baby by A lawsuit filed against Clayton County, Georgia and the county’s sheriff, Kem Kimbrough, has prompted human rights organizations and Georgia lawmakers to examine guidelines for the treatment of pregnant women held in jails across the state. …
Heck Does Not Apply to Released Prisoner Seeking Damages for Sentence Miscalculation by Brandon Sample The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey does not bar a released federal prisoner's false imprisonment claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit …
Georgia Prison Disturbance Linked to Contraband Cell Phones by In the wake of a disturbance which left twelve people injured at Hancock State Prison, Georgia prison officials are suggesting that prisoners used cell phones to plan and coordinate the uprising. On November 25, 2011, while prisoners in one area of …
Prison Legal News v. Sheriff Chapman & Walton County, Order Granting in Part Preliminary Injunction 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00125-CAR Document 42 Filed 03/26/13 Page 1 of 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATHENS DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a Project of : THE HUMAN RIGHTS …
PLN v Chapman, GA, Order PI, Postcard Only, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00125-CAR Document 42 Filed 03/26/13 Page 1 of 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATHENS DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a Project of : THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE : CENTER, a Not for Profit …
Conflict of Interest Alleged in Termination of Probation Services Contract by Georgia’s Dekalb County has a $1 million contract with Judicial Correctional Services (JCS) to operate the County’s probation services. With the recommendation of his campaign manager, County CEO Burrell Ellis terminated JCS’s contract; a termination shrouded in controversy when …
Robinson v. Integrative Detention Health Services, GA, Complaint, Staph Infection Causing Spinal Injury, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00020-CAR Document 41 Filed 01/29/13 Page 1 of 27 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATHENS DIVISION MONICA ROBINSON, Plaintiff, v. INTEGRATIVE DETENTION HEALTH SERVICES, INC., HART COUNTY, GEORGIA, SHERIFF MIKE …
Georgia Judge Removed from Bench for Misconduct, Files Lawsuit Claiming Conspiracy by The Georgia Supreme Court has ordered that Catoosa County Magistrate Judge Anthony Peters be permanently removed from the bench, and barred him from ever holding or seeking elected or appointed judicial office in the state of Georgia. The …
Prison Legal News v Chapman et al., GA, ACLU Amicus Brief, Censorship Mail Policy, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00125-CAR Document 27-1 Filed 01/07/13 Page 1 of 33 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATHENS DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a project of the HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, a Not for Profit …
Prison Legal News v. Sheriff Chapman & Walton County, Complaint 2012 Case 3:12-cv-00125-CAR Document 1 Filed 09/21/12 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATHENS DIVISION ) PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a project of ) the HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE ) CENTER, a Not for …
$93,000 Settlement for Georgia State Prisoners Beaten by Guards by The Georgia Department of Corrections has paid $93,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by four state prisoners who were subjected to retaliatory beatings by guards at Hays State Prison. At approximately 2:00 p.m. on August 12, 2010, the plaintiff …
Hundreds Removed from Georgia’s Sex Offender Registry by A May 2010 revision to Georgia’s sex offender law, one of the toughest in the nation, has resulted in more than 440 people being removed from the state’s sex offender registry as of October 2011. Georgia has 20,676 registered sex offenders. The …
Georgia Court Clerk Liable for Failure to Inform Prison Officials of Sentence Reduction by The Georgia Supreme Court has held that a court clerk is not entitled to official immunity in a lawsuit claiming negligent performance of a ministerial duty. At the heart of the case was the clerk’s failure …
“Voluntary” Work Program in Private Detention Centers Pays Detained Immigrants $1 a Day by Yana Kunichoff In the Stewart Detention Center in rural Lumpkin, Georgia, Pedro Guzman cleaned the communal areas, cooked, painted walls, ran paperwork and buffed floors. But Guzman was not brought into Stewart as an employee – …
Prisoner Lacked Standing to Challenge Georgia’s Failure to Send Absentee Ballot to Jail by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on February 2, 2012 that a former Georgia jail prisoner lacked standing to complain that state and local officials had failed to mail his absentee ballot to the jail, …
Single Incident of Deliberate Indifference Insufficient to Establish Policy or Custom by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment on the grounds that the plaintiff’s evidence, which indicated a single case of a constitutional violation, did not prove a private medical provider …
CCA Contract with Gainesville, GA, 2012 MODIFICATION AND ASSIGNMENT OF LEASE This Modification and Assignment of Lease (also herein the "Agreement") is entered into by and between Hall County, Georgia ("Assignor"), the City of Gainesville, Georgia ("Assignee"), and Corrections Corporation of America ("CCA" or "Tenant"), (the foregoing, collectively, the "Parties"). …
Work Crews Salvage Georgia Prison Contract by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Augusta City Commission voted in July 2011 to extend a contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections to house state prisoners at the city-owned Richmond County Correctional Institution (RCCI), despite the city facing a $9 million …
Georgia Court Rules Prisoners Held in County Facilities Barred from Suing State for Negligence by The Court of Appeals of Georgia held on October 21, 2011 that a county housing state prisoners under a contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) is an independent contractor; therefore, the state is …
