USA v. Hill, GA, Opinion, Excessive Force, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-01945-ELR Document 1-4 Filed 05/03/24 Page 1 of 56 USCA11 Case: 23-10934 Document: 60-1 Date Filed: 04/29/2024 Page: 1 of 56 [PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 23-10934 ____________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, …
Peterkin v. Hill, GA, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-01945-ELR Document 1 Filed 05/03/24 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION RAHEEM PETERKIN, Plaintiff, Civil Action No.: v. VICTOR HILL, individually, CORRECTHEALTH CLAYTON, LLC, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Defendants. COMPLAINT 1. When Raheem Peterkin …
$7,500 Settlement Reached After Georgia Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment by Just 10 days after the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied them summary judgment on July 31, 2023, officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a prisoner’s retaliation claim for $7,500. The case …
Horton v. Fulton County, GA, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2024 State Court of Fulton County **E-FILED** 24EV003756 5/1/2024 2:01 PM Donald Talley, Clerk Civil Division IN THE STATE COURT OF FULTON COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA MICHAEL HORTON, Civil Case Number.: PLAINTIFF, vs. FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA & FULTON COUNTY SHERRIFS OFFICE, …
Eleventh Circuit: “More than Gross Negligence” Required to Prove Deliberate Indifference by David Reutter [See update at end of article] by David M. Reutter On May 22, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Georgia’s Walker State …
Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison by David Reutter by David Reutter On March 13, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for private prison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally …
NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement approved by the federal court for the Eastern District of California on January 16, 2024, recalls an all-­too familiar jail story. A wheelchair-­bound detainee named …
Eleventh Circuit Calls Georgia Prisoner’s Dismissed Suit Outside PLRA “Strike Zone” by by David M. Reutter In an en banc ruling on February 1, 2023, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a Georgia prisoner’s case dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies might amount …
428 Georgia Prison Employees Criminally Charged in Five Years by On February 28, 2024, prisoner advocates held a press conference outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, demanding that state lawmakers address twin afflictions in the state’s beleaguered Department of Corrections (DOC), whose 51,000 prisoners now represent its highest population …
Georgia Sheriff Resigns After Groping TV Judge’s Breast by Nearly two years after Sheriff Kris Coody of Georgia’s Bleckley County publicly groped television Judge Glenda Hatchett’s chest, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery in state court on August 21, 2023. Coody, 59, was then sentenced to 12 months of …
Guard and Four Summit Food Service Employees Arrested for Smuggling at Troubled Atlanta Jail by A former guard at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta and four employees of its food service contractor, Summit Food Services (SFS), are among a half-dozen people accused of running a smuggling ring at the …
With Guard Arrests at Georgia Jail, Sheriff Asks, “What Are We Doing Wrong?” by As much as he works to maintain a highly trained and ethical staff, Sheriff Richard Roundtree of Georgia’s Richmond County finds the goal elusive. As of August 2023, 33 deputies had been arrested over the last …
Sick Georgia Prisoners Forced to Choose Between Treatment and Early Release by As reported by The Appeal on September 25, 2023, a Georgia prisoner with Hepatitis C was forced to pass up placement in a work-release program in order to maintain his medical care, which was not available to him …
Doe v. Cheeks, GA, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2024 Case 2:24-cv-00036-RWS Document 1 Filed 02/20/24 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA GAINESVILLE DIVISION JANE DOE, Plaintiff, v. CAMERON CHEEKS, Defendant ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Civil Action …
Estate of Joseph Walter Brown v. Hatcher, GA, Complaint, Wrongful Death -Failure to Protect, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA MACON DIVISION DARLENE BROWN and KELVIN BROWN, as surviving parents of Joseph Walter Brown and as putative personal representatives of the estate of Joseph Walter …
Deaths and Lawsuits Mount at “Disgusting” Atlanta Jail by After a gruesome toll of 10 detainee deaths in 2023, Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail (FCJ) recorded its first fatality of the new year on January 10, 2024. Michael Anthony Holland, 36, was found unresponsive in his cell and later died at …
Multiple Staffers Arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail by Eight employees were arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail in 2023, including guard Jalen Clausel. He was taken in five days after Sheriff Levon Allen said the guard let four detainees assault a fifth on October 28, 2023. None of the …
Eleventh Circuit Addresses First Amendment, Due Process Interests in Georgia Prisoner Emails by New communications technology introduced in prisons and jails has raised questions as to how prisoners’ First Amendment rights are implicated. Such concerns were addressed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 23, …
Doe v. Georgia Dept of Corrections, GA, Complaint, Transgender, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-05578-MLB Document 1 Filed 12/06/23 Page 1 of 85 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA JANE DOE, Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF Civ. Case No. _________________ CORRECTIONS; COMMISSIONER TYRONE OLIVER, in his official …
Doe v. Georgia Dept of Corrections, GA, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Transgender, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-05578-MLB Document 2 Filed 12/06/23 Page 1 of 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA JANE DOE, Civ. No. Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY …
