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Seventh Circuit Upholds Disciplinary Sanction Revoking Over 15 Years of Indiana Prisoner’s Good Time by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Indiana state prisoner Tony Love participated in a brawl, he was apparently unaware of the severity of the consequences he faced. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Texas Looks to Find Prison Guards in High Schools by Any prison or jail needs three things: guards, prisoners and money. Texas has money, at least enough to build more prisons and jails than any other state; the last state budget allocated $200 million for even more lockups. To keep …
Brief • January 9, 2024
USA v. Franklin County, PA, Complaint, Discrimination-ADA, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-00034-CCC Document 1 Filed 01/09/24 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA ) o/a ) FRANKLIN COUNTY JAIL, …
Former Florida Guard Gets Five Years for Fatal Assault on Mentally Ill Prisoner by A former Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) guard at Lake Correctional Institution (LCI) was sentenced on October 20, 2023, to five years in state prison for killing a mentally ill prisoner. That was after another prisoner …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Officials of Pennsylvania Guards Union Charged with Theft by Five former officials of the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA) were charged with theft in July 2023 after allegedly misappropriating union funds for personal expenses and conspiring to cover it up. A financial crimes investigation by a state police organized …
New York State Struggles to Hold Prison Guards Accountable for Abuse by An investigation published by The Marshall Project on May 19, 2023, examined the struggle by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to hold its guards accountable for abusing state prisoners. Over a span …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
High Profile Escapes from Two Pennsylvania Jails Blamed on Staffing and Infrastructure Problems by After separate escapes from a pair of Pennsylvania jails, two detainees were recaptured during summer of 2023 – but not before making headlines, as one eluded authorities for nine days and the other for two weeks. …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$1 Million Settlement for California Prisoners Used to Bait Guard Charged with Sexual Misconduct by PLN previously reported a remarkably poor decision by prison officials at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino in 2017, who used two prisoners as “honey trap” bait to snare a male guard accused …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
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Suit Against Pennsylvania Jail and Controversial Trainer Down to Just Two Plaintiffs by With an order denying class certification on March 24, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania left just two plaintiffs to proceed with claims against York County Prison and a controversial training contractor it …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Life Sentence for Alabama Jail Escapee After Suicide of Guard Lover Who Helped Him by Chuck Sharman On June 8, 2023, a judge in Alabama’s Lauderdale County handed a life sentence without parole to a state prisoner for escaping the county lockup with his jail-guard lover, who then committed suicide …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Federal Watchdog Finds BOP Staffing, Maintenance in Crisis by The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report in early May 2023, finding “four foundational, enterprise-wide challenges” confronting the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The first involves “weaknesses in the BOP’s internal audit function,” deficiencies …
Brief • July 18, 2023
Briscoe v. LeBlanc, LA, Judgment, Failure to Protect, 2023 Case 3:19-cv-00029-SDD-SDJ Document 100 07/18/23 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MINUTE ENTRY: JULY 18, 2023 DICK, CHIEF JUDGE SHELLY D. SHAWN BRISCOE CIVIL ACTION VERSUS 19-29-SDD-SDJ DALLAS STEWART, et al This matter came on …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
“Night of Terror” in Indiana Jail Sees Detainees Assaulted by Fellow Prisoners Who Purchased Cell Keys From Guard by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An Indiana jail guard and a jail detainee are headed to trial in the summer of 2023 on charges that the guard sold the detainee …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Imprisoned Former Head of New York City Jails Guards’ Union Granted Release by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 23, 2023, a federal judge who had earlier refused to reduce the sentence of the former head of the New York City jail guards’ union convicted in a costly bribery …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Sing Sing Prisoners File Suit Against New York State Alleging Vicious Beating by Guards by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 31, 2023, a group of 26 prisoners housed in New York’s notorious Sing Sing maximum-security prison brought suit against the state for an assault on them by guards …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Massachusetts Settles One of Three Suits Alleging Retaliation by Prison Guards for Assault on One of Their Own by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On February 17, 2023, an assistant to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) signed a settlement with a group of state prisoners, resolving claims they were …
Brief • April 20, 2023
Weisman v. DOJ, USA, Order, Harassment, 2023 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD ANDREA R. WEISMAN, Appellant, DOCKET NUMBER DC-0752-17-0274-I-1 v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Agency. DATE: April 20, 2023 THIS FINAL ORDER IS NONPRECEDENTIAL 1 Andrea R. Weisman, North Chesterfield, Virginia, pro se. Ted Booth, Washington, D.C., for …
Article • April 19, 2023
“What a Nice House You Have”: Head of R.I. Prison Guard Union Accused of Witness Intimidation by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi Just outside the hearing room of Rhode Island’s House Judiciary Committee on April 4, 2023, a witness supporting a proposed law to limit the use of solitary confinement …
Sixth Circuit Won’t Hold Michigan County Liable After Mentally Ill Prisoner Impregnates Another by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On May 3, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment favoring for defendant officials with Wayne County, Michigan, in a complaint filed by one mentally …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
A Lesson in Pleading: Utah Jail Suicide Complaint Fails for Alleging Failure to Train Rather than Failure to Provide Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for defendant jailers in a lawsuit seeking …
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