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Eighth Circuit Upholds Denial of Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Guard Accused of Assaulting Restrained and Compliant Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On May 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a district court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to a Minnesota Department …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
NYC Rehires Former Head of Rikers Island Lockup Where Guard Assault Left Detainee Quadriplegic by On May 11, 2024, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) rehired Ned McCormick, the former official in charge of a Rikers Island lockup where a massive guard pile-­on exactly one year earlier left …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$23,138 Plus Out-Of-State Transfer for Virginia Prisoner Who Accused Guards of Excessive Force and Altering Video by On March 25, 2024, Virginia prisoner Steven Allen Riddick, 50, agreed to accepted $23,138 from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to settle claims made in several civil rights cases filed in federal …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Suspended South Carolina Sheriff Acquitted of Using Excessive Force on Jail Detainee by Former Sheriff Charles Lemon of South Carolina’s Marlboro County was acquitted by a federal jury on August 19, 2024, of violating the civil rights of a detainee whose brutal assault was caught on video at the county …
Former California Jail Guards Plead Guilty to Fatal Beating of Mentally Ill Detainee by Three former Santa Clara County Jail guards pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter on August 13, 2024, for fatally beating a mentally ill detainee nearly nine years earlier. In their plea deal, Jereh Lubrin, 37, Matt Farris, …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Impoverished Ohio County Gets New Jail Space After Settling Suit for Bloody Detainee Assault by On June 18, 2024, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced $32 million in state funding for a new regional jail to serve Jackson, Lawrence, and Pike Counties. That promises significant savings for Pike County, among …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly “Stomped” In the Head By South Carolina Jailer by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A federal civil rights suit filed on March 12, 2024, accused a guard at South Carolina’s Marlboro County Detention Center of brutalizing a homeless mentally ill detainee—even stomping on his head. …
Ohio Pays $725,000 to Survivors of Two Prisoners Beaten to Death by Lying Guards by On July 17, 2024, the Ohio Court of Claims approved a settlement between the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) and the Estate of mentally ill prisoner Dewey C. McVay, Jr., who died after …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Georgia Guard Gets 15 Years for Using One Prisoner to Assault Another by Former Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Daniel Farmer, 33, was sentenced to 15 years in state prison on July 10, 2024, after pleading guilty to allowing one prisoner to attack another at Augusta State Medical Prison …
Former Warden Added to Suit Over Brutal Killing of Disabled Virginia Prisoner by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an amended complaint filed in federal court for the Western District of Virginia on January 19, 2024, the former warden of Marion Correctional Treatment Center (MCTC) was added to the list …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
“We Killed Him”: Alabama Jailers Cut Plea Deals After Detainee Freezes to Death by On July 31, 2024, a former guard at Alabama’s Walker County Jail agreed to plead guilty to federal charges filed after a detainee was left naked on his cell floor for two weeks and froze to …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
TDCJ Denied Summary Judgment In Suit by Prisoner Who Missed Grievance Deadline Because Guard’s Assault Left Him In a Coma by It’s hard to tell who is slimier, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guard who allegedly beat a prisoner into a coma or prison officials who then attempted …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Tenth Circuit Affirms Former Oklahoma Jail Captain’s 46-Month Sentence For Brutalizing Detainees by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 28, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a 46-­month sentence handed to former Kay Correctional Detention Center (KCDC) guard Matthew Ware for depriving detainees …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Ohio Guard Drives Over Prisoner by Disturbing video from the body-­worn camera of a guard at the Ohio Reformatory for Women captured him on March 14, 2024, as he drove a Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV) at high speed across the grounds of the Maryville lockup and plowed into a group …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Baton Rouge Cops Indicted for Violent In-Custody Strip-Search by On June 26, 2024, a special grand jury in Louisiana’s East Baton Rouge Parish indicted four officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) for their violent strip search of a suspect in custody. The September 2020 incident was recorded when …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Missouri Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Proceeds Against Guards After Court Excuses Missed Deadlines Under “Unavailable” Grievance Procedure by David Reutter On February 12, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri denied a motion to dismiss a prisoner’s pro se lawsuit by Defendant officials with the state …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
$60,000 Settlement for Kansas Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim, $578,000 for His Attorneys by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a district court’s award of more than $578,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs made as part of …
Chicago Jailers Publicly Call Detainee Death a Medical Emergency, Privately Admit Guard Brutality by After Corey Ulmer, 41, died at Chicago’s Cook County Jail on June 21, 2024, deputies of Sheriff Tom Dart informed the detainee’s survivors that “he went to the hospital, and unfortunately he didn’t make it,” recalled …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
46 New York Prisoners Accuse Guards of Beatings—Even Waterboarding by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 29, 2023, New York state prisoners Eugene Taylor, 32, and Charles Wright, 44, filed separate lawsuits alleging that guards with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) beat and waterboarded them …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Prisoner Admissions Soar at Massachusetts Psychiatric Lockup Plagued by Overcrowding and Violence by As of March 11, 2024, almost half those held at Massachusetts’ Tewksbury Hospital were forensic patients, admitted to the state-­run mental health lockup from the criminal justice system. At the same time, the state Department of Mental …
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