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Confidential Report Reveals Rampant Violence at CCA-Run Idaho Prison by Matthew Clarke FIN has gained access to a confidential report by Tim Higgins, the Investigation and Intelligence Coordinator for the Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) regarding rampant prisoner-on-prison violence at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), a Boise prison operated by …
Article • August 23, 2016
Four Oklahoma State Penitentiary Staff Fired After Smoke Kills Prisoner by Matthew Clarke Four employees of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (0SP) were fired and two resigned after a prisoner died of smoke inhalation while guards ignored smoke billowing from his cell and a sabotaged smoke alarm system failed to alert …
Article • August 23, 2016
Oregon Prisoner Paralyzed by Suicide Attempt Seeks $12 Million by An Oregon prisoner who attempted to commit suicide but ended up a quadriplegic is suing jail officials for $12 million. On May 4, 2012, Westley Wilson, 29, was arrested in Portland, Oregon, for violating a restraining order. He was initially …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity to two guards on failure-to-protect claims. Minnesota prisoner Kenneth Young was assigned to Edward Whitefeather’s cell. Almost immediately, Whitefeather threatened Young, telling him that “he would do whatever he wanted …
Article • August 22, 2016
$350,000 Settlement in Florida Prisoner’s Negligence Claim, Failure to Correct Dangerous Condition by The Geo Group, Inc., Florida Correctional Finance Corporation, South Bay Correctional Facilities Financing Corporation and the Florida Department of Corrections paid $35,000 to settle a prisoner’s negligence claim. The settlement came in a lawsuit filed by prisoner …
Sanders v. CoreCivic, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASE AND COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of SEVENTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND 00/100 ($17,500.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, ROGER G. SANDERS does hereby …
Flores v. Morris, AZ, Complaint, Failure to Protect, Inmate Violence and Death, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-02756-SMM--BSB Document 1 Filed 08/16/16 Page 1 of 28 DEVON M. JACOB, ESQUIRE Pa. Sup. Ct. ID: 89182 JACOB LITIGATION P.O. Box 837, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-0837 717.796.7733 | djacob@jacoblitigation.com Counsel for the Plaintiff IN THE UNITED …
Publication • August 15, 2016
Post-Kingsley and Castro Proposed - Jury Instructions and Causes of Action, Shapiro, Pritzker School of Law, 2016 POST-KINGSLEY AND CASTRO PROPOSED JURY INSTRUCTIONS AND CAUSES OF ACTION David M. Shapiro August 15, 2016 Proposed Jury Instructions for Non-Force Claims By Jail Detainees The following suggested instructions are taken essentially verbatim …
Widow of Murdered Maine Prisoner Paid $100,000 Settlement by On February 26, 2014, Janet Weinstein, widow of murdered Maine state prisoner Sheldon Weinstein, was paid $100,000 to settle any claim she had against the State of Maine or Corizon, Inc., the provider of prisoner health care at the Maine State …
Rikers Island Excessive Force Monell Claims Survive Dismissal by Mark Wilson A New York federal court refused to dismiss Monell Claims in a Rikers Island excessive force case. On September 28, 2013, Bobby White was incarcerated at Rikers Island, when guard Marlene Ocasio sprayed him with a chemical agent and …
Partnering with Community Sexual Assault Response Teams - A Guide for Local Community Confinement and Juvenile Detention Facilities, Vera, 2015 CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS Partnering with Community Sexual Assault Response Teams A Guide for Local Community Confinement and Juvenile Detention Facilities DECEMBER 2015 Allison Hastings Ram Subramanian Kristin Littel …
Article • August 11, 2016
Prisoners Bitten by Prison Dogs Snag Settlements from Ohio DOC by Derek Gilna Archie Wilder and Andrew Doan, prisoners in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, both had the misfortune of being bitten by dogs participating in prison training programs. Both filed suit in the Ohio Court of Claims, …
Mentally Ill Held in Canadian Prison's 'Unsuitable' Former Segregation Unit by Joe Watson Despite recommendations from the United Nations, the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and from within its own federal corrections system, Ontario, Canada's Millhaven Institution continues to lock up prisoners with acute mental illnesses inside cells that are …
Article • August 10, 2016
California, Other States Weigh Banning Late-Night Releases from Custody by Joe Watson Late-night releases from prisons and jails place former prisoners across the country at not only an immediate disadvantage—possibly unable to access transportation and shelter or a support system of friends and family— but also in the dangerous position …
New York Woman Raped by Prison Guard Receives $1.1 Million Award by A New York Court of Claims awarded $605,750 to a former prisoner who was the victim of an attempted rape and completed rape by a guard at the Albion Correctional Facility (ACF). The award followed the Court’s grant …
Article • August 8, 2016
Montana Jury Awards $80,000 in Jail Suicide by A Montana jury found that Fergus County and the Fergus County Sheriff’s department was partially negligent in a prisoner’s suicide. It awarded the prisoner’s estate nearly $80,000. Carl Odell Stacy, 40, was no stranger to officials at the Fergus County Jail (FCJ). …
Negligence not Grounds for Prosecution in Deaths of Wisconsin Prisoners by Gary Hunter It was a Thursday in late July 2009 when Myron Weston, a prisoner at Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), drank cleaning fluid from the supplies given to him to perform his janitorial duties. A short time later …
Oklahoma County Settles Suit over Excessive Use of Restraint Chair for $200,000 by On May 20, 2014, Bryan County, Oklahoma agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former Bryan County Jail prisoner over maltreatment, including placing him in a restraint chair multiple times for days at a time and …
Michigan Women’s Prison Investigated for Abusing Mentally Ill by A letter from the Michigan ACLU to the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) charged that mentally ill prisoners were being abused.  One instance involved the hog tying of a prisoner as punishment. The July 2015 letter concerned prisoner treatment at the …
Violence in Mississippi Prisons Exacerbated by Guards’ Assistance by David Reutter A contributor, perhaps the most serious one, to violence in Mississippi prisons is the accessory before the fact by guards. Prisoners being able to access cells and cellblocks not their own due to locks being easily overcoming via design …
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