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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
“Swing or Kick Rocks”: BOP Guard Alleges Conspiracy to Brutalize Prisoners at Kentucky Lockup by Former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Lt. Terry L. Melvin was not the first to admit brutalizing a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Big Sandy, Kentucky. But with his guilty plea …
$250,000 Settlement But No Charges After Alabama Guards Beat Prisoner To Death by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Alabama Department of Finance issued a $250,000 payment on behalf of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) on August 16, 2024, settling a suit filed by the survivors of state …
Brief • March 26, 2025
Raymond v. Mitchell, NY, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2025 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 1 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 2 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 3 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 4 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK …
Brief • March 11, 2025
Bell v. City and County of San Francisco, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2025 FILE NO. 250004 1 ORDINANCE NO. 025-25 [Settlement of Lawsuit - Vincent Keith Bell - $825,000] 2 3 Ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by Vincent Keith Bell against the 4 City and County of San …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Houston Police Fire Former Jail Guard Filmed Brutalizing Detainees, Charges Against Three Other Guards Dropped by The Houston Police Department (HPD) fired Off. Deven Ortiz on January 7, 2025, following an investigation into multiple alleged uses of excessive force while he worked as a guard at the Harris County Jail …
Mayhem, Murder and Staff Misconduct at Brooklyn BOP Lockup by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, has made the news repeatedly thanks to some high-profile detainees held there to await trial. But federal prosecutors have also charged nine detainees for a series of …
$1.5 Million Settlement For In-Custody Injury by New York Police by Rosie Martinez, then 49, was arrested in January 2015 after police searched her New York City apartment and found heroin that belonged to her boyfriend. While in custody at the 107th Precinct of the City Police Department (NYPD), she …
Sixth West Virginia Jailer Found Guilty After Detainee Death, Estate Dismisses Claims Against PrimeCare Medical Employees by A former West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) guard supervisor was found guilty on January 27, 2025, on charges related to the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, at …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
New York Guards Strike After 10 Charged in Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by On February 18, 2025, charges were announced against nine New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards in the fatal beating of prisoner Robert L. Brooks, 43. The announcement was followed by a rogue strike staged …
Former South Carolina Jailer Spared Prison After Testimony Fails to Convict Former Sheriff by A former South Carolina jailer who cut a plea deal and testified against his former boss is now the only one of the two to be convicted. But David Andrew Cook, 30, will not spend any …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Historic $7 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 20, 2024, the Wayne County Commission in Detroit approved a $5 million payment on top of $2 million paid by the County’s insurer to settle a lawsuit brought by the …
USDC (D. Oregon), Case No. 6:22-cv-00451 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 5, 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a notice of settlement in court indicating that it paid $135,000 to settle a prisoner’s lawsuit accusing a guard of intentionally allowing other prisoners into his cell …
Fourth Circuit Revives Claims Against Virginia Jailers by Detainee They Allegedly Manhandled While Handcuffed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 8, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Virginia’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) …
Charges Dismissed Against Connecticut Guards Who Assaulted Prisoner by Misdemeanor assault charges were tentatively dismissed in November 2024 against three Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) guards accused of assaulting Garner Correctional Institution prisoner Elijah Hamlin, 26, in a 2023 incident captured on leaked cellphone video. Danbury Superior Court Judge Charles …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Lawsuit Over Death or Severe Injury of 29 Houston Jail Detainees Survives Motion to Dismiss by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 7, 2024, the federal court for the Southern District of Texas refused a motion by Defendant Harris County Jail officials in Houston to fully dismiss claims made …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Pennsylvania Jail Guards Accused of Ripping Surgical Pin from Detainee’s Shoulder by On August 27, 2024, the federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania closed a suit against Fayette County Prison (FCP) officials after they reported reaching a resolution with former detainee Chad St. Clair. That followed a year …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Guard Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force at Indiana Jail Sued Nine Times in Two Years by Entering a guilty plea in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana on October 15, 2024, former Henry County Jail guard Curtis Lavon Doughty, 27, admitted using excessive force against a compliant …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Former Kentucky Sheriff Indicted for Murdering Judge in Chambers by Shawn “Mickey” Stines, 43, the former Sheriff of Kentucky’s Letcher County, was indicted by a grand jury on November 21, 2024, for the murder of state District Judge Kevin Mullins. The 54-year-old judge and then-Sheriff Stines had just finished lunch …
New York City Held in Contempt in Long-Running Rikers Island Class-Action by On November 27, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held the city Department of Correction (DOC) in contempt of a consent decree and subsequent remedial orders entered in a long-running class …
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