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Father of Four Dies in Privately-operated Texas Jail; Civil Suit Expected by On October 5, 2016, the Huffington Post released disturbing video from inside a private prison in Texarkana, Texas that showed Michael Sabbie, a 35-year-old father of four, being violently flung to the ground by a group of six …
Attica Prison Guards Who Viciously Beat Prisoner Avoid Jail Time but Lose Jobs by George Williams, now 33, was in his prison cell watching TV as the scene that would lead to his brutal beating unfolded below him. Williams’ ordeal began during mail call in New York’s Attica Correctional Facility. …
Brief • November 23, 2016
Price v. Walsh, IL, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2016 ' 2:16-cv-02357-CSB•EIL # l E-FILED Page 1 or 7 Wednesday. 23 November, 2016 03:25:38 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court. ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Rodney D. Prke, f lain tiff, ) ) ) ) ~ No. 16-CV. ) …
Guards Liable in Maryland Prisoner’s Murder on Transport Bus by The Maryland Court of Appeals held a trial court erred in striking a jury’s finding that a guard was liable for gross negligence in the murder of a prisoner on a transport.  The court further held gross negligence disentitles a …
New York Prisoner's Misbehavior Conviction Upheld by Christopher Zoukis On Sept. 20, 2016 the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York upheld the conviction of state prisoner Aaron Isaiah Young for violating prison rules. Young allegedly refused prison guard orders, and assaulted staff. During the altercation, multiple guards …
Maryland Prisoner’s Death Occurs Under Unusual Circumstances by The death of prisoner Louis S. Leysath III, 35, at Maryland’s Jessup Correctional Institution was the subject of an investigation after he was found dead in a steam-filled cell on February 20, 2015. Leysath, serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to …
Nevada Attorney General Investigates Shooting of Two Handcuffed Prisoners by Derek Gilna Two handcuffed Nevada state prisoners held in administrative segregation at the high-security High Desert State Prison were shot by guards on November 12, 2014 after they began fighting, allegedly after those same guards deliberately encouraged them to fight. …
Full Senate Report on CIA Torture Remains Classified, Largely Unread by Matthew Clarke “I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world. The United States does not torture” – George W. Bush On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a heavily-redacted, 525-page executive summary of …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Eleventh Circuit Reverses Finding that Seizure of Prisoner’s Legal Mail Stated Claim by A Georgia federal district court, in denying a motion to dismiss, found an attorney has a Fourth Amendment right to “privacy and possessory interest in letters mailed to him, and that the government may not take and …
Book Review: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Dr. Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon Books, 2016). 752 pages, $24.00 (hardcover) Book review by Alan Mills Anyone who wants to …
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Allocation of Fault Required in Verdict Regarding Alaska Detainee’s Suicide; Case Settles for $900,000 by In September 2015, the Alaska Supreme Court vacated a $1,078,233 judgment in a lawsuit alleging the City of Hooper Bay was liable in the suicide of a 21-year-old detainee in a police holding cell. The …
Suit Over Guards Beating Transgender New York Prisoner Settles for $80,000 by On February 23, 2015, a lawsuit alleging two New York prison guards beat a transgender state prisoner while voicing anti-transgender slurs was settled for $80,000, which included $50,000 in attorney fees. Bryan Woodall was a pre-operative transgender New …
Article • October 31, 2016
Ohio Jail Prisoner's Assault-by-Guards Suit Settled for $7,000 by A federal civil rights action by an Ohio prisoner alleging multiple jail guards assaulted him without provocation was settled for $7,000 on April 9, 2014. Kevin Holcomb was incarcerated at the Lucas County jail in Toleo, Ohio on March 26, 2012, …
NY: Prisoner's Abuse Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss by Lonnie Burton On December 2, 2014, a federal judge denied New York City's attempt to dismiss a suit filed by a Riker's Island prisoner who claimed he was attacked and beaten by a jail guard without provocation or justification. The excessive …
Mentally Ill Texas Jail Prisoner Celled in Fetid Squalor for Months by Matthew Clarke Almost a year after a surprise inspection of the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) resulted in the discovery of a mentally ill prisoner who had been locked …
Jail Officials Compelled to Provide Medical Reports in Wrongful Death Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has ordered the defendant in a lawsuit stemming from the beating death of a prisoner to provide county morbidity and mortality reports to the plaintiff …
Article • October 27, 2016
Former Prison Guard Escapes from Texas State Jail by Charlie Davis, Jr.--a former Texas prison guard--escaped from the Wheeler State Jail in Plainview, Texas, on October 27, 2014. Davis, 36, worked as a guard at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Clements Unit in Amarillo, a maximum-security prison, from April …
Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2016 SETTLEMENTAGREEMENT,RELEASEAND COVENANTOF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($700,000.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, HEATHER SPURLOCK, SOPHIA CARRASCO, and NINA CARRERA do hereby release, acquit …
Colorado Guards Joke While Prisoner Dies from Easily Preventable Cause by Matthew Clarke The death of 35-year-old Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Christopher Lopez at the San Carols Correctional Facility on March 17, 2013, would have been rejected if submitted as a plot for a novel. It is too …
Article • October 24, 2016
9th Circuit Dismisses Most of Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by Lonnie Burton The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld the dismissal of the majority of a lawsuit brought by the estate of a prisoner who was beaten to death by his cellmate. In 1997, prisoner Daniel …
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