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Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …
Six Florida Federal Prison Guards Convicted, Sentenced On Rape and Corruption Charges by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Five former prison guards convicted in federal court on criminal charges stemming from a sex-for-contraband scandal at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Tallahassee, Florida have been sentenced; four received prison …
$27,500 Settlement for Rape of Four Women Prisoners in Pittsburgh Jail by There have been settlements in four separate lawsuits involving the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Jail. The suits alleged that seven Allegheny County Jail guards sexually assaulted four women prisoners. In May 2006, Allegheny County began settling a series of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Texas County Jail Settles Sex Assault Suits For Undisclosed Sum by On December 22, 2006, Goliad County, Texas, agreed to settle with a prisoner who claimed she was raped by a guard at the county?s jail in September 2001. Under the agreement the county will pay a confidential amount to …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Alaska DOC Liable for Rape of Federal Prisoner by Prison Doctor by Alaska?s Supreme Court has held that the intentional-tort immunity law does not prevent a suit against the state when it breaches a duty separate from its role as an employer. B.R., a federal prisoner housed at the state …
Article • June 15, 2007
$225,000 Settlement in Rape of Female New York Prisoner by Guard by A female prisoner at a New York Prison was told by a male guard that she either comply with his request that she have sexual intercourse with him or he would file a complaint that she assaulted him. …
Second Hawaii Sex Assault Case Settled for $25,000 by The state of Hawaii has agreed to settle with a second prisoner who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a former warden while imprisoned at the Maui Community Correctional Center, as reported in a February 9, 2007 article in the Honolulu …
Motion to Quash Subpeona of DNA Sample Denied by Motion to Quash Subpoena of DNA Sample Denied A South Carolina U.S. District Court has ordered a female prison guard to produce a DNA sample for a grand jury. Shaddie Clark Shabazz is a female guard at a South Carolina federal …
Qualified Immunity Ends Lawsuit by Juvenile Raped by Staff by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that various supervisors were not deliberately indifferent to the medical needs of an incarcerated juvenile, and they were thus entitled to qualified immunity from suit. The court further held that …
Article • May 15, 2007
$90,000 Settlement for Alabama Prisoners Raped by Jail Guards by In June 2002, the City of Homewood, Alabama, paid a total of $90,000 to settle with two unidentified women who claimed they were forced to provide sexual favors to guards while imprisoned at the city jail. The plaintiffs, Jane Doe, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Virginia Supreme Court Resolves Administrative Exhaustion Issues in VDOC Sexual Assault Suit by The Virginia Supreme Court reversed a trial court's dismissal of a prisoner's suit alleging sexual abuse by a Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) employee. VDOC prisoner Paula Billups was assigned to work in the kitchen at the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Oklahoma Prisoner's Federal Civil Rights Complaint For Alleged Rapes Denied by Oklahoma state prisoner Pamela Smith filed a Federal civil rights complaint against former Oklahoma Department of Public Safety ("ODPS") employee Don Cochran, claiming violations of her Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights for repeatedly being raped by Cochran …
Article • May 15, 2007
$225,000 Settlement in Rape by Idaho Prison Guard by Guard John Pribble was a sexual predator overseeing women held at the Idaho State men's prison for orientation or punishment. On two occasions he removed the female plaintiff from her cell, taking her to his office to rape her. Pribble was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Deposition of Juvenile Prisoner Rape Victim Postponed Until Release by The mother of a juvenile detainee alleged that an officer had sexually assaulted her son. The deposition of a person confined in prison may be taken only "with leave of court on such terms as are just" under Rule 30(a)(2). …
Jail Liable for Guard's Rape of Female Prisoner by The plaintiff was sexually abused by a jail officer on two occasions. The plaintiff denied this conduct when jail administrators investigated based on another prisoner's report. She filed a grievance upon leaving the jail and the officer was suspended and a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sexual Predation Rampant At FMC-Carswell; Another Employee Convicted by By Michael Rigby A pair of semen-stained sweatpants has led to the conviction of former prison guard Michael Lawrence Miller, making him the seventh employee of the Federal Medical Center for women in Carswell, Texas, to be convicted of sexually abusing …
Summary Judgment Against Sexually Assaulted Prisoner Denied in Part by The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio granted in part and denied in part Ohio officials' motion for summary judgment against a prisoner who was sexually assaulted by a guard. While a prisoner at the Ohio Reformatory …
Article • May 15, 2007
$385,000 Paid to Connecticut Prisoner for Guard's Sexual Assault by On April 15, 1991, a jury awarded a 34-year-old former prisoner of Connecticut's Women's Correctional Institution $385,000, which included $250,000 in punitive damages, against a prison guard who sexually assaulted her during incarceration. The guard was ultimately fired and criminally …
Raped Georgia Prisoner Awarded $300,000 Against Jailer, City by In this civil rights lawsuit, a Georgia-prisoner who was allegedly raped in her cell by a city jailer was awarded $300,000 plus attorneys fees and court costs. Plaintiff, Mary Isdell, claimed that while she was imprisoned in the Forest Park Jail, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Michigan Prisoner Civil Suit for Sexual Abuse by In an unpublished ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that a Michigan district court erred in dismissing a prisoner's civil rights suit for sexual assault by two guards and an emergency room doctor. The prisoner had chest …
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