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Brief • February 8, 2023
Hezlitt v. Ryan, AZ, Order to Show Cause, Assault, 2023 Case 2:18-cv-03021-ROS-ESW Document 103 Filed 02/08/23 Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Todd Hezlitt, No. CV-18-03021-PHX-ROS (ESW) Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 …
Article • February 7, 2023
Two Prisoners Stabbed, One Overdosed: Just Another Day at Rikers Island by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 14, 2023, the violence at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex began early, when a guard saw one detainee slashed by others. In a separate incident later that …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Ninth Circuit Revives Failure-to-Protect Claim of Arizona Prisoner Beaten by Gang by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 5, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that giving a jury a standard instruction to defer to prison officials was error when the jury needed …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Federal Judge Refuses to Shorten Corruption Sentence for Former Head of New York City Jail Guards’ Union by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 10, 2022, the federal court for the Southern District of New York denied a habeas corpus petition filed by the former head of the union …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says California Felons Can Fight Fires While Imprisoned, But Not After by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Most prisoners quickly learn that slavery has never been fully abolished in the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution allows prisoners to be compelled to work for little or …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Arizona DOC Accused of Cheating Both Guards and Prisoners Out of Hourly Wages by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Many state prison agencies have in-house for-profit companies that utilize the labor of guards and prisoners to provide products and services to private companies and other state agencies. Not surprisingly, such …
Brief • January 31, 2023
Bowden v. The State of New York, NY, Claim, Assault, 2023 CLAIM NO. 138757 FILED: NYS COURT OF CLAIMS 01/31/2023 04:49 PM NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 01/31/2023 NEW YORK STATE COURT OF CLAIMS EDWARD BOWDEN, WILBER BUTLER, SILVESTRE CAMPO, AUBREY CARTER, SEAN DAVIS, ROBERT GREGORY, ANTHONY GRIGOROFF, SHARDELL …
Article • January 20, 2023
Sex Assaults Mount at Illinois Federal Penitentiary, Guards’ Union Calls for Warden’s Removal by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In early January 2023, five prisoners escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Thomson, Illinois, according to the union representing the prison’s guards. Local 4070 of the American Federation of …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Oklahoma Raises Pay for Execution Doctors From $300 to $15,000 Per Execution, Still Won’t Say Who They Are or What They Do by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Before Oklahoma killed prisoners Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle in early 2022 [See: PLN, May 2022, p.60], the state told a federal …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Guards/Staff
‘Time for Me to Go’: Troubled Oklahoma Jail Loses Administrator by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When Greg Williams resigned from the Oklahoma County Jail on December 5, 2022, the administrator of the scandal-plagued lockup said only that “It is time for me to go.” That was after one detainee …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Georgia Prisoner Sentenced to Death for Killing Two Guards Dies by Apparent Suicide by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Just ten days after being sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two state prison guards, a prisoner was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison …
Article • October 21, 2022
After Massachusetts Prisoner Beats Guard, GOP Lawmakers Push to Eliminate Prison Workout Equipment by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On October 20, 2022, Massachusetts prisoner Roy L. Booth, Jr. 40, was formally charged with armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
CoreCivic Workers Unionize and Go On Strike at Arizona Prison by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart Some 20 newly unionized workers and their supporters manned a picket line at CoreCivic’s Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex (CAFCC) on August 12, 2022, after pay negotiations broke down over a company offer the …
Brief • August 26, 2022
Parker v. Slaughter, MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:22-cv-00065-BMM Document 13 Filed 08/26/22 Page 1 of 12 Timothy M. Bechtold BECHTOLD LAW FIRM, PLLC 317 East Spruce Street P.O. Box 7051 Missoula, MT 59807 406-721-1435 tim@bechtoldlaw.net Attorneys for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT …
Article • July 25, 2022
Fourth Circuit Refuses to Hold North Carolina Liable After State Prisoner Murders Guard by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On November 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that no civil rights violation had been committed by North Carolina officials in the murder of a …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Staffing, Guards/Staff
Nebraska Prison Staffing Crisis Sees Supervisors Take Demotions to Get Hourly Overtime Pay by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Despite a watchdog report finding state prisons so short-staffed that some guard supervisors sought demotions to take advantage of ballooning hourly overtime pay, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) will …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions
BOP Guard Terminated for Making Prisoner Do His Work, Union Blames Staff Shortages by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian As of March 31, 2022, nearly one-third of guard positions were vacant in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), leaving the remaining guards’ duties “augmented” with additional prisoner supervision. Cooks, nurses, …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Guards Saluting Fascism on the Job—Literally by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison guards in Arizona, Utah and West Virginia have recently been reported indulging white supremacist and anti-prisoner views on the job. Most recently, members of the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) Special Tactics and Operations team proudly sported …
Brief • July 5, 2022
Bartman v. Slaughter, MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:22-cv-00063-BMM-JTJ Document 1 Filed 07/05/22 Page 1 of 13 Timothy M. Bechtold BECHTOLD LAW FIRM, PLLC 317 East Spruce Street P.O. Box 7051 Missoula, MT 59807 406-721-1435 tim@bechtoldlaw.net Attorneys for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Guards/Staff
State of Texas Auditor-Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover Fiscal Year 2021, March 2022 Lisa R. Collier, CPA, CFE, CIDA State Auditor An Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover for Fiscal Year 2021 March 2022 Report No. 22-702 State Auditor’s Office reports are available on the Internet at http://www.sao.texas.gov/. An …
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