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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 …
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 …
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 …
Fourth Circuit Grants Rare Bivens Extension to Federal Prisoner Allegedly Abused by Guards at Virginia Lockup by On July 25, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed that the constitutional tort first recognized in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Narcotics Bur., 403 U.S. …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Jury Awards $352,300 to Prisoners Tortured at Notorious Utah Jail by After an investigation into rampant abuse by guards, Utah’s Daggett County Jail closed its doors in 2017. A group of four state prisoners held at the jail under contract with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) then filed suit …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Israel Faces Scrutiny Over “Systematic” Abuse of Palestinian Prisoners by The ongoing war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas militia that has governed the Gaza Strip for 23 years escalated dramatically after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack on October 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 Israelis. Over 250 more were …
$38 Million Jury Award for Physical, Sexual Abuse at New Hampshire Juvenile Lockup by In 1995, when David Meehan was 14 years old, he was committed to New Hampshire’s Youth Development Center (YDC), later renamed Sununu Youth Services Center, a secure juvenile detention center in Manchester. There he was raped …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Plea Deal Falls Apart for Accused 9/11 Masterminds by On August 2, 2024, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked a plea agreement that military lawyers reached with three high-profile detainees accused in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. As a result, they will soon mark 22 years of confinement …
Last Charges Dropped in Suffocation Death of Virginia Jail Detainee by On November 4, 2024, Commonwealth’s Attorney Amanda Mann in Virginia’s Dinwiddie County dropped charges against the last two of eight defendants charged in the death of Henrico County Jail detainee Irvo Otieno. That means no one will face trial …
BOP Guard Indicted, Sued for Assaulting Handcuffed Prisoner at Kentucky Lockup by The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced on November 12, 2024, that a federal grand jury had returned an indictment against a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard for violating a prisoner’s rights …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Another Payout Brings Arizona Prisoner’s Total to $92,850 by On June 6, 2024, Arizona prisoner Edmund Powers settled a claim against three state Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) guards for $850. Though relatively small, it was Powers’ third such settlement since 2020, bringing his total payout to $92,850. …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Former Federal Prisoner’s Suit Over Assault By Guards at Louisiana Lockup by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On April 24, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed dismissal of a former federal prisoner’s Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claim for an injury …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Fired Missouri Guards Charged with Murder in Prisoner’s Suffocation Death by Five former Missouri prison guards were charged on June 28, 2024, in the death of prisoner Othel Moore, Jr. at Jefferson City Correctional Center in December 2023. Four guards were charged with second-­degree murder and a fifth with accessory …
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