News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was indicted on April 22, 2022, for assaulting three prisoners and then filing a false report to cover it up, the Associated Press reported. The guard, Lorenzo Mills, 55, was charged with beating three male prisoners with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional …
Kentucky Supreme Court Rules ‘Incarceration Fees’ May Not Be Collected After Charges Are Dismissed by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On October 28, 2021, the Supreme Court of Kentucky unanimously ruled that when criminal charges are dismissed, a detainee then released is not required to pay costs associated with …
Thurman v. Crews, KY, Complaint, Religious Freedom, 2022 Case: 5:22-cv-00109-DCR-CJS Doc #: 1 Filed: 04/29/22 Page: 1 of 16 - Page ID#: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CARLOS THURMAN, Plaintiff, v. COOKIE CREWS, in her official and individual capacity as Commissioner of …
NeSmith v. County of San Diego, CA, Settlement Agreement, Lack of Mental Care, 2022 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT OF ALL CLAIMS For the consideration of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00), Plaintiffs CHASSIDY NeSMITH, individually and as Guardian ad Litem on behalf of and as Successor in Interest to THE …
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
$4,000 Federal Bench Verdict to Kentucky Prisoner Assaulted by Guard While Restrained by On March 26, 2021, the U.S. DistrictCourt for the Western District of Kentucky granted summary judgment to a state prisoner who sued a former guard for assaulting him while he was compliant and restrained. Kentucky State Penitentiary …
News in Brief by Alabama: According to Birmingham Real-Time News, a kidnapper was recaptured after being erroneously released from jail in Jefferson County, Alabama, on December 17, 2021. The prisoner, Matthew Burke, 35, was apprehended during a traffic stop after being released from the Jefferson County Jail on Dec. 11 …
News in Brief by California: A guard at San Quentin State Prison and one of two outside co-conspirators were arraigned on September 8, 2021, on federal charges they smuggled cellphones to an unnamed prisoner on death row at the California lockup. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of …
Kentucky’s Prison HCV Policy of Monitoring Without Treatment Constitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, held that the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC) policy of refusing to provide Direct-Acting Antivirals (DAAs) to all prisoners infected with hepatitis C virus …
Louisville Jail Moves to Have Free Phone Calls for Prisoners by First of the Year by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Louisville, Kentucky’s Metro Department of Corrections (MDOC) who operates the city jail has been ordered by the Metro Council Budget Committee to stop charging prisoners for phone calls from …
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 19, 2021, twoconvicted robbers were convicted of murder in the death of a fellow prisoner they and two others attacked in 2017 at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama. According to a report by Montgomery TV station WSFA, Dominique Covin and Roderick DeLaune …
$2.1 Million Awarded in Beating Ordered by Kentucky Jail Guard by On July 9, 2021, a federal jury awarded $2.1 million in damages to an alleged Kentucky shoplifter who was beaten by fellow prisoners at the Shelby County Detention Center on the orders of a jail guard. According to the …
Sixth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Kentucky Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 29, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reinstated a claim against a Louisville, Kentucky jail classification officer who, contrary to jail policy, moved a prisoner to a segregation …
Prince v. Warren County, KY, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00100-GNS Document 1 Filed 07/06/21 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY BOWLING GREEN DIVISION [Filed Electronically] CHRISTOPHER L. PRINCE, and BETSABE PUGA, Guardian of C.W.P.P., a minor PLAINTIFFS v. WARREN COUNTY, …
District Court Certifies Class Status in Louisville Jail Overdetention of Prisoners’ Suit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky granted plaintiffs’ motion seeking class certification in a suit alleging the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections (LMDC) holds people after their court-ordered …
$200,000 Settlement for Kentucky Woman in Jail Childbirth Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 17, 2021, a Kentucky federal court dismissed a lawsuit brought by a woman who was abandoned by jailers while a pretrial detainee and forced to give birth alone in a cell. The lawsuit …
Sixth Circuit Refuses to Extend Bivens to BOP Prisoner’s First Amendment Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 16, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a federal prisoner’s Bivens action, because First Amendment claims are not cognizable …
News in Brief by Australia: A February 2021 ruling by the Supreme Court in the Australian province of Victoria presented “a rare win” for a prisoner contesting prison procedures, according to a report by The Conversation. The convict, 56-year-old Craig Minogue, argued that Barwon Prison’s random drug testing and strip-searching …
Kentucky Consolidated Local Government Entitled to Sovereign Immunity by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Kentucky Supreme Court held that the Louisville Metro Government (LMG) are entitled to sovereign and qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging violation of Ky. Rev. Stat. 71.040. The court’s December 17, 2020, opinion was …
