Securus v. FDOC, FL, Complaint, Phone Justice, 2019 Filing # 84039055 E-Filed 01/29/2019 10:15:45 AM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., and BRYAN E. CARRELL, Plaintiffs, vs. Case No. __________________ FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS and MARK INCH, in his official capacity as Secretary of the …
Memo to Chairman Russell from to Majority Staff, Subcommittee on National Security, re Independent Investigations and Employee Discipline at the Bureau of Prisons, 2019 MEMORANDUM TO: Chairman Russell FROM: Majority Staff, Subcommittee on National Security DATE: January 2, 2019 SUBJECT: Independent Investigations and Employee Discipline at the Bureau of Prisons …
Ex-Washington Prison Superintendent Under Investigation for Misuse of Funds by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Douglas Cole, the former superintendent of the Cedar Creek Corrections Center in Thurston County, was quietly moved to another Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) position after a whistleblower exposed his alleged misuse of prison money. …
Leibelson v. Cook, WV, Amicus Brief, Abuse of Inmates, 2018 Appeal: 18-1202 Doc: 33-1 Filed: 09/05/2018 Pg: 1 of 38 No. 18-1202 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ________________________ MICHAEL LEIBELSON, Administrator of the Estate of Benjamin Leibelson, deceased Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CHRISTOPHER COOK and DOUGLAS …
Some Arizona Prison Logs Show Temperatures up to 119 Degrees; Others Falsified by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since February 2015, a settlement and stipulation in Parsons v. Ryan has required the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to monitor and log indoor temperatures at state prisons. According to the Phoenix …
Gaines v. Jones FDOC starvation death complaint 2018 Case 4:18-cv-00367-MW-CAS Document 1 Filed 08/01/18 Page 1 of 23 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLASSEE DIVISION LORINE GAINES, as Personal Representative of the Estate and Mother of VINCENT GAINES, Civil Division Plaintiff, v. Case No. JULIE JONES, in …
Williams v. Connell, NY, Order, DOC Failure to Protect, Wrongful Death, 2018 Case 6:17-cv-00750-TJM-ATB Document 63 Filed 07/18/18 Page 1 of 23 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------SHIKEMA WILLIAMS, administratrix of the estate of FREDERICK VELEZ, SHIKEMA WILLIAMS, administratrix of the estate of CHRISTINE COX, FREDERICK …
California: Defendants’ Repeated Discovery Obstruction Sanctioned in Guard Sex Abuse Case by On June 5, 2017, a California federal district court imposed sanctions against prison officials for destroying a warden’s personnel file and concealing or misrepresenting his involuntary termination and the existence of personnel file documents. The court granted the …
Global Tel*Link Settles Mississippi Prison Bribery Case for $2.5 Million by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis As previously mentioned in PLN, Global Tel*Link Corp. (GTL), the largest provider of prison and jail phone services in the United States, has settled a lawsuit that accused the company of conspiring to bribe …
Prisoner Abuse at Parchman: Minimum Punishment and Impeded Investigations by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal investigation into an assault on a prisoner by guards at Mississippi’s State Penitentiary at Parchman included a claim that then-Superintendent Earnest Lee impeded the prison’s own review of the incident. As previously …
Controversy Surrounds Angola Prison Warden’s Retirement, Indictment of Family Members by David Reutter by David M. Reutter One month after a November 2015 investigative report by the New Orleans Advocate, Louisiana State Penitentiary warden Burl Cain, 73, announced his retirement. He stepped down from his longtime position at the Angola …
Kansas Uniform Trust Code Established Exclusive Venue For Prison Trust Fund Proceedings by David Reutter by David Reutter The Kansas Supreme Court held that a prison trust fund is an actual trust, subject to the provisions of the Kansas Uniform Trust Code (KUTC), therefore the lower courts erred in applying …
First Circuit Reverses Convictions of Massachusetts Probation Officials by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In December 19, 2016, the First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the convictions of several former public officials in Massachusetts for their roles in a hiring scheme at the Office of the Commissioner of Probation (OCP). …
Global Tel*Link Fails to Derail Prison Phone Suit but Dodges Class Certification by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna An order entered by Western District of Arkansas federal judge Timothy L. Brooks on September 28, 2017 gave a mixed result to both sides in a hotly-contested lawsuit over excessive costs for …
Hood v. Keefe Commissary, MO, Complaint - Commissary Kickback Conspiracy, 2017 Case: 25CI1:17-cv-00081-WLK Document #: 1 Filed: 02/08/2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL DIST OF HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI JIM HOOD, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, ex rei. THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Plaintiff, Page 1 of …
A Prison Closes in Upstate New York, but Employees Continue to Show Up and Get Paid by Joe Watson by Joe Watson Who does a doctor care for, or a teacher teach, at a prison without prisoners? What do employees do to earn a paycheck when the prison closes and …
Another Oregon Guard Arrested for Sex with Prisoner by An Oregon prison guard faces eleven felony sex abuse charges and a misdemeanor official misconduct charge for having sex with a female prisoner, according to court documents and the Oregon State Police. Edgar P. Mickles, 50, began working at the Coffee …
At Virginia's Supermax Prisons, Isolation and Abuse Persist Despite Reforms by By Katie Rose Quandt and Jack Denton, Solitary Watch Red Onion State Prison, a supermax complex in the southwest corner of Virginia near the Kentucky border, has long had a reputation as one of the harshest prisons in the nation. …
No place to be sick: When jail cell becomes a death chamber by Olympia makes no effort to regulate Washington’s jails, the state’s psychiatric hospitals of last resort By Levi Pulkkinen, SeattlePI.com Jimi Johnson, bottom, was 27 when he killed himself at Mason County Jail on April 23, 2013. Two …
BOP Pays $31,491 for Biased EEOC Investigation by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was ordered to pay $31,491 in an employee’s Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint. The complaint was filed by Sheila R. Hendley, a former Inmates Systems Officer at the Federal Prison Camp in El Paso, Texas. She …
