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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 …
Article • August 25, 2016
Former Prison Warden Pleads Guilty in Misconduct Case by A former warden at a prison in American Samoa pled guilty to conspiring to violate the civil rights of a prisoner. Mike Kelemete, as the warden of Tafuna Correctional Facility, was accused of beating one of his prisoners with a board …
Article • August 24, 2016
Appeal for Summary Judgment Upheld for Qualified Immunity by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Georgia Federal District Court’s order granting dismissal of a lawsuit alleging use of excessive force on a prisoner. On January 28, 2007, Reginald Fennell was arrested for several misdemeanor charges. As he was …
$4,000 Settlement in Assault at CCA Prison by Corrections Corporation of America paid $4,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a guard at the Shelby Training Center in Tennessee assaulted a juvenile, Brandon D. Jones. The April 2006 confidential settlement was obtained via public records request by PLN. The complaint was …
7th Circuit Affirms as Proper Jury Instructions on Intent and Harm Elements of Excessive Force Claim Brought by Wisconsin Pretrial Detainee by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s use of jury instructions including harm and subjective intent elements of a use of …
Article • August 23, 2016
Federal Jury Awards $45,001 to Maryland Prisoner Assaulted By Guards by Michael Rigby On October 22, 2004, a federal jury awarded a Maryland state prisoner $45,001 in damages after concluding that Institution (WCI) guards violated his civil rights by beating him while he was handcuffed. The jury found guards Gary …
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
Ohio: Hunger Striker Represents Himself, Beats Attempted Murder Charges by An Ohio supermax prisoner, representing himself while on a month-long hunger strike, won his acquittal in February of attempted murder charges stemming from fights with prison guards. Cornelius Harris, a 27-year-old prisoner serving a 97-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping …
Article • August 22, 2016
Second BOP Guard Convicted In Assault-For-Hire by Brandon Sample A second Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard involved with arranging the assault of a prisoner has been convicted of federal civil rights violations. On July 8, 2010, Michael Kennedy was found guilty of violating the civil rights of Richard Delano, …
$1 Million Settlement in Oklahoma City Jail Fatal Prisoner Beating Suit by Matt Clarke by Oklahoma County approved a $1 million settlement in a civil rights suit involving a prisoner who was first denied his anti-seizure medication then fatally beaten by guards when he had a seizure in an Oklahoma …
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