Georgia Prison Warden Fired, Seven Guards Arrested in Prisoner’s Massive Drug Operation by The Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) took the extraordinary step of firing a prison warden on July 1, 2024. Warden Ralph Shropshire was walked off the job after just 16 months at Valdosta State Prison (VSP). During …
Georgia Jail Detainee Released After 10-Year Wait for Trial by When he was freed on March 27, 2024, Maurice Jimmerson described how it felt to see his daughter, now 14, for the first time since she was three: “Blessed.” Jimmerson spent over a decade in jail before he was convicted. …
Intellectually Disabled Georgia Prisoner Executed After SCOTUS Denies Appeal by Georgia executed Willie Pye, 59, on March 20, 2024, despite last-­minute appeals questioning his mental competency and the adequacy of his legal representation. The execution sharpened debate over capital punishment in the treatment of intellectually disabled prisoners. Pye was convicted …
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
Eleventh Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Georgia Jailers Who Housed White Detainee With Black Cellmate Held for Racially Motivated Attack by On January 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court’s finding that defendant guards and a nurse at Georgia’s Muscogee County Jail …
Fifth Savannah Jail Employee Arrested for Smuggling in Just Over a Year by A guard at Georgia’s Chatham County Detention Center (CCDC) in Savannah was arrested on March 5, 2024, after she admitted taking bribes to smuggle drugs to detainees. Sheriff John Wilcher said he then fired Megan Barbee for her …
Georgia Guard Fired, Charged With Setting Up Assault that Left Prisoner Dead by A Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was fired and arrested on May 25, 2024, for allegedly letting three August State Medical Prison (ASMP) prisoners into the cell of a fourth to carry out an assault, during which …
Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation by Under contract provisions that went into effect on January 1, 2024, prison telecom giant Pay Tel secured a monopoly on video visitation services at Georgia’s Glynn County Jail. A contract addendum inked in June 2023 says that the …
$15,000 Net Award for Georgia Prisoner’s Delayed Hep-C Treatment by David Reutter by David Reutter On April 26, 2024, a long legal battle over his delayed Hepatitis C (HCV) treatment netted Georgia prisoner Ricky Johnson just over $15,000 from Defendant state prison officials and medical personnel. As PLN has …
$5 Million Settlement in Death of Georgia Prisoner Left by Guards in Cell on Fire by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 16, 2023, the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $5 million to the estate of Thomas Henry Giles, 31, a mentally ill prisoner …
Georgia Prisoner Stabs Warden by Georgia’s Telfair State Prison went on lockdown on March 21, 2024, after a prisoner stabbed Warden Andrew McFarlane with a homemade knife. McFarlane, 54, a 25-year veteran of the state Department of Corrections (DOC), was not seriously injured in the attack, according to DOC spokesperson …
Georgia Prisoner’s Challenge to “Deplorable” Conditions Survives Motion to Dismiss by On October 3, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss filed by defendant state prison officials in a prisoner’s challenge to isolation in conditions he called “deplorable.” While incarcerated at Georgia …
USA v. Hill, GA, Opinion, Excessive Force, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-01945-ELR Document 1-4 Filed 05/03/24 Page 1 of 56 USCA11 Case: 23-10934 Document: 60-1 Date Filed: 04/29/2024 Page: 1 of 56 [PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 23-10934 ____________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, …
Peterkin v. Hill, GA, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-01945-ELR Document 1 Filed 05/03/24 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION RAHEEM PETERKIN, Plaintiff, Civil Action No.: v. VICTOR HILL, individually, CORRECTHEALTH CLAYTON, LLC, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Defendants. COMPLAINT 1. When Raheem Peterkin …
$7,500 Settlement Reached After Georgia Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment by Just 10 days after the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied them summary judgment on July 31, 2023, officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a prisoner’s retaliation claim for $7,500. The case …
Horton v. Fulton County, GA, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2024 State Court of Fulton County **E-FILED** 24EV003756 5/1/2024 2:01 PM Donald Talley, Clerk Civil Division IN THE STATE COURT OF FULTON COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA MICHAEL HORTON, Civil Case Number.: PLAINTIFF, vs. FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA & FULTON COUNTY SHERRIFS OFFICE, …
Eleventh Circuit: “More than Gross Negligence” Required to Prove Deliberate Indifference by David Reutter [See update at end of article] by David M. Reutter On May 22, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Georgia’s Walker State …
Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison by David Reutter by David Reutter On March 13, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for private prison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally …
NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement approved by the federal court for the Eastern District of California on January 16, 2024, recalls an all-­too familiar jail story. A wheelchair-­bound detainee named …
Eleventh Circuit Calls Georgia Prisoner’s Dismissed Suit Outside PLRA “Strike Zone” by by David M. Reutter In an en banc ruling on February 1, 2023, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a Georgia prisoner’s case dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies might amount …
