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South Carolina Sheriff Fires Whistleblower Instead of Jailer Who Assaulted Prisoner by Matthew Clarke After a guard at a South Carolina jail repeatedly struck a prisoner who was being strapped into a restraint chair, York County Sheriff Bruce Bryant took decisive action. He fired the jailer who told a television …
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Third Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Restraint Chair Case by Mark Wilson The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower court did not follow controlling Supreme Court precedent when granting summary judgment to prison officials on a mentally ill prisoner’s restraint chair-related claim. Since childhood, Pennsylvania prisoner Leonard …
Francis v. Wroten, MS, Complaint and Request for Jury Trial, Guard Assault, 2016 Case 5:16-cv-00086-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 09/28/16 Page 1 of 7 Case 5:16-cv-00086-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 09/28/16 Page 2 of 7 Case 5:16-cv-00086-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 09/28/16 Page 3 of 7 Case 5:16-cv-00086-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 09/28/16 Page …
Brief • September 23, 2016
Ellison v. FL DOC, FL, Complaint - Prison Beating, Death and Coverup, 2016 Case 5:16-cv-00584-JSM-PRL Document 1 Filed 09/23/16 Page 1 of 9 PageID 1 Case 5:16-cv-00584-JSM-PRL Document 1 Filed 09/23/16 Page 2 of 9 PageID 2 Case 5:16-cv-00584-JSM-PRL Document 1 Filed 09/23/16 Page 3 of 9 PageID 3 Case …
D.C. Prisoner’s Stabbing Suit Nets $3,000 Settlement by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $3,000 to settle the negligence lawsuit of prisoner Cardell Richard Torney, Jr., for failure to protect his assault and stabbing. While being held at the D.C. Jail on December 27, 1998, Torney was stabbed by another …
D.C. Agrees to Pay $40,000 to Settle Excessive Force & Inadequate Medical Care Claims by On September 23, 2002, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $40,000 to a man who was assaulted by guards at the D.C. Central Detention Facility. Mark Franklin, unaware of protocol used for moving prisoners …
Former New Mexico Jail Lieutenant's Prisoner Mistreatment Convictions Upheld by On February 28, 2012, the Tenth Circuit court of appeals upheld the convictions of a former guard lieutenant for abusing prisoners and falsifying records at two different New Mexico jails. Based on speedy trial and exclusion-of-evidence grounds, John Gould, a …
Report Finds Abuse of Blind, Deaf, Elderly and Disabled Texas Prisoners by Matthew Clarke The Prison Justice League (PJL), a group advocating prison reform in Texas, released a report entitled Cruel & Unusual Punishment: Excessive Use of Force at the Estelle Unit. The report found that blind, deaf, elderly and …
Article • September 6, 2016
Georgia Prison CERT Members Sentenced to Prison for Beating Prisoners by  A Georgia Federal District Court sentenced former members of a Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Macon State Prison (MSP) to serve prison time for their actions in beating prisoners and covering up the assaults with false reports. The …
Article • September 6, 2016
Nine Maryland Prison Guards Federally Indicted in 2008 Beatings by On Feb. 27, 2013, nine current and former prison guards at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Maryland, were charged in a federal indictment accusing them of conspiring to assault a prisoner and then covering up the attacks. The …
New York City’s Rikers Island Jail Agrees to Federal Consent Decree, Reforms by Derek Gilna The Rikers Island jail complex in New York City is notorious for excessive use of force against prisoners. It has been sued dozens of times by prisoners, prisoners’ rights organizations and even the U.S. Department …
Louisiana Sheriff Faces Recall Petition, Federal Indictments by Organizers hope that a petition circulating throughout Louisiana’s Iberia Parish will result in the recall of Sheriff Louis Ackal. According to Donald Broussard, the activist who started the petition, a “dark cloud is being cast over Iberia Parish” due to corruption attributed …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
North Carolina Prisoners and Former Employees Describe “Boom-Boom Room” by Inside the Lumberton Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison near Fayetteville, North Carolina, there is said to be an isolated office known as the “boom-boom room.” There, according to prisoners and former staff members alike, unlucky prisoners were taken by guards …
Martinez v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2016 CLAIM AGAINST THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Please submit the completed form to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, 70 W . Hedding St., th East Wing, 10 Floor, San Jose, CA 95110 .MAND-DELIVER.~r ) b - 280 …
Publication • September 1, 2016
Brutality Case Summaries, PLS Plattsburgh Office, 1997 BRUTALITY CASE SUMMARIES for the PLATTSBURGH OFFICE of PRISONERS’ LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK Prepared and compiled by Michael Cassidy, Managing Attorney for Litigation, Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, 22 Broad Street, Plattsburgh, New York 12901 Revised, October 1997 1 I. Successful …
Missouri Jail Head Receives Ten-Year Federal Sentence for Assaulting Prisoners by Matthew Clarke On July 13, 2011, a Missouri federal judge sentenced a former chief jailer to ten years in prison for violating the civil rights of prisoners and lying to the FBI. The jailer's daughter, a deputy sheriff, pleaded …
Article • August 25, 2016
Oklahoma DPS Hires Former DOC Guard Dismissed for Excessive Force by Matthew Clarke On November 15, 2011, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) Commissioner Michael Thompson 'created a high-rank, $60,000-per-year job and hired an old friend, who had been fired for beating prisoners while a guard captain in the Oklahoma …
New Wrongful Death Trial Prompts Potential $600,000 Settlement; Judge Gave Faulty Jury Instructions, Finds Excessive Force by On December 5, 1999, 29 year-old Damon Lowery’s life came to a tragic and, in police custody.  Now, more than five years later, the new trial looming, Portland, Oregon, officials are considering paying …
Article • August 25, 2016
Wisconsin DOC Unexpectedly Releases Use of Force Video by The Associated Press (AP) settled a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC) for $5,000 in attorney’s fees and an edited copy of a use of force video. The AP sued the WDOC in October 2009 when it refused to …
Article • August 25, 2016
Guard’s Internet Boasts Expose Jail’s “Culture of Violence” by “Seeing someone get TASER’d is second only to being the guy pulling the trigger. That is money. Puts a smile on your face—My job is sweet sometimes,” wrote Multnomah County Jail Deputy David B. Thompson on an Internet gaming site called …
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