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BOP Settles Claim of Race and Gender Discrimination by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a claim of racial and gender discrimination in September 2002. Lisa Pinkston Druey, a white female prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Yazoo City, Mississippi, filed a claim of discrimination against the Bureau of …
BOP Loses Disability Discrimination Suit Filed by Prison Guard by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons has been found to have discriminated against a prison guard on the basis of physical disability. Keith E. Beck, a GS-7 prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island, California, filed a complaint with …
Discrimination Complaint by White Male Prison Guard Settled by Christopher Zoukis An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint filed by Kevin J. Erickson, a white male prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg, Virginia, was settled in March 2002. Erickson's EEOC complaint, filed in April 2001, alleged that Wanda Hunt, …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Prison and Jail Officials Face New Challenge: Drones Used to Smuggle Contraband by Lonnie Burton Drones are increasingly being used in attempts to smuggle drugs and other contraband into prisons worldwide. Previously, smugglers had to bribe guards, use their body cavities or have accomplices sneak forbidden items through prison visitation. …
Brief • September 1, 2016
Cox v. Baxley, VA, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION COX, DEWAYNE JACKSON (a/k/a Dwayne Cox), Plaintiff v. BENJAMIN BAXLEY; JUSTIN MILES; JOSHUA PINKERMAN; AND BRADLEY QUINN; Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Lieutenant Gable v. Howard County MD Sheriff's Office, MD, Decision and Order, Employment Discrimination, 2016 HOW ARD COUNTY OFFICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION AND ORDER * IN THE MATTER OF: * * Lieutenant Charles M. Gable 5304 Tims Cou1t Ellicott City, MD 21043 Complainant * * * Howard County MD …
MN Judge Sends HIV-Positive Prisoner to Psych Hospital, Blasts System that Jails Mentally Ill by A Minnesota judge in April 2012 blamed political indifference for a justice system that warehouses the mentally-ill in county jails and ultimately led to a guard's death 10 weeks after he fought with a schizophrenic …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Employee Litigation
Seventh Circuit Holds Contested Absences under FMLA Must Be Litigated Within Two Years of Absence by Illinois Department of Corrections (COC) employee Cindy Barrett was terminates after accruing 12 unauthorized absences over 7 years. DOC subjected employees to termination after accumulating 12 unauthorized absences, but expunged all previous unauthorized absences …
Article • August 25, 2016
Fifth Circuit Upholds Settlement Agreement in Discrimination Suit by Robert Quesada filed a Title VII discrimination against his employer Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The District Court required both parties to complete alternative dispute resolution. At the end of the mediation, Quesada's attorney made a $5000 …
Article • August 24, 2016
Filed under: Employee Litigation
Eleventh Circuit Finds for Plaintiff in DOC Wage-Hour Act Claim by The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed and remanded on September 30, 1991, the circuit court’s decision on a federal Wage-Hour Act (the Act) claim brought by a Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) employee against …
Article • August 24, 2016
Filed under: Employee Litigation
$2 Million Award to New Hampshire Guards Falsely Accused of Beating Prisoner by On May 19, 2008, a New Hampshire jury awarded nearly $2 million to two prison guards who were fired when other guards lied about their involvement in an assault on a prisoner. After guards Shawn Stone and …
Article • August 24, 2016
New York DOC’s Changing Staff Job Classifications Upheld by New York’s Court of Appeals has held that it was not irrational for the Classification and Compensation Division in the New York State Department of Civil Service to revise the classification standards for the civil service titles of Education Supervisor, Plant …
Escapes and Crime at New Jersey's Privately-Run Halfway Houses by Matthew Clarke New Jersey has embarked on a grand experiment – shifting state prisoners from expensive state prisons into less expensive, privately-run halfway houses. The state prison system bas less than 25,000 beds while the around two dozen halfway houses …
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Spurs Re-Training of Syracuse, N.Y. Jail Guards by In the wake of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a former prisoner's widow, guards at the Onondaga County Justice Center Jail in Syracuse, N.Y., have purportedly been re-trained in the humane treatment of prisoners with drug abuse and …
Ohio's Prisons Grow More Violent, Especially Toward Guards, Report Says by Prisoners in Ohio are reportedly sending each other to the infirmary less often, but according to the state's Department of Rehabilitation & Correction (DRC), they are increasingly assaulting prison guards to the point of serious injury. In a newly-released …
Article • August 23, 2016
Department of Justice Publishes Report on Non-Federal Law Enforcement Hiring by Matthew Clarke In October 2012, the bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice published a report on the hiring and retention of state and local law enforcement officers in 2008. The report showed a strong growth …
Article • August 19, 2016
Ninth Circuit: California Personnel Board Decision Not Issue Preclusive by On September 14, 2015, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals held that decisions of the California State Personnel Board did not have an issue preclusive effect in a federal lawsuit based upon the same claims of retaliation for whistleblowing. David …
Fired Oregon Prison IG Brings $3 Million Retaliation Suit against Director by The terminated Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Inspector General (IG) has ' filed a $3 million federal lawsuit, alleging that he was terminated in retaliation for raising ethical concerns about his boss. Oregon prison officials created the IG …
Article • August 19, 2016
Eighth Circuit: Officers Who Tased Arrestee to Force Clothing Change Immune by On September 3, 2015, the Eighth Circuit court of appeals held that St. Ann, Missouri police officials who used a Taser on an arrestee after she refused to change into orange jail clothing were protected against suit by …
Article • August 19, 2016
$2,500 Paid to Disabled Vietnam Vet to Settle Discrimination Complaint Stemming From His Job as a Federal Prison Guard by Lonnie Burton James Vaughn and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) entered into a settlement agreement in July 2001 to settle a discrimination complaint brought by the Vietnam veteran. The …
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