Kentucky Leases Closed Private Prison to Use as State Facility by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Kentucky in December 2020 reopened Otter Creek Correctional Center (OCCC), leasing it from CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), but staffing it with state employed Department of Corrections (DOC) staff. Its …
Kentucky Dept of Public Advocacy v. Kentucky DOC, KY, Complaint, Prisoners' Right to Mail, 2021 COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT 48TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DIVISION ____ CIVIL ACTION NO. __________________ – Electronically Filed – KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADVOCACY, PLAINTIFFS KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, CHRISTOPHER KOTERAS, MICHAEL FUGATE, …
Troutman v. Louisville Metro Government, KY, Expert Report, Medical Neglect, 2021 STEPHANIE TROUTMAN, Administratrix of the ESTA TE OF CHARLES R. TROUTMAN, Jr., Plaintiff, vs. LOUISVILLE JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT, MARKE. BOLTON, JAMES COX, CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, KIMBERLY BROWN, and DONNA SMITH, MD, Defendants, in the U. S. DISTRICT COURT, …
$1.1 Million Settlement in Kentucky Jail Sex Abuse Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 7, 2020, Kentucky’s Larue County Detention Center agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging former guard Jerome Perry sexually abused nine prisoners. The women’s lawsuit alleged that between February …
Kentucky Consolidated Local Government Entitled to Sovereign Immunity by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Kentucky held that the Louisville Metro Government (LMG) and its employees are entitled to sovereign and qualified in a lawsuit alleging violation of Ky. Rev. Stat. 71.040. The court’s December 17, 2020, opinion was …
Rapper Sues BOP Alleging Torture by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Rapper Kodak Black filed a lawsuit on September 21, 2020, alleging he “is suffering torture and religious persecution” at the hands of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guards and officials. Kodak Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was …
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 21, 2020, Sylvester Hartley became the seventh prisoner to die of complications from COVID-19 at Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to a report in the St. Clair News-Aegis. The 60-year-old, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence for three counts of first-degree kidnapping, …
6th Circuit: Prisoner’s Seizure Condition Not Attributable to Drug Withdrawal; SHP Nurses Not Deliberately Indifferent by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that nurses working for Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP) were not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s detox condition that led to seizures. The court’s September 21, 2020, …
Bramblett v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, KY, Complaint, Sentence Credit, 2020 Case: 3:17-cv-00100-GFVT-EBA Doc #: 146 Filed: 11/17/20 Page: 1 of 14 - Page ID#: 3774 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at FRANKFORT [Filed Electronically] KEATH BRAMBLETT, et al., individually and on behalf of all others …
News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …
$400,000 Settlement in Lawsuit over Kentucky Prisoner’s Starvation Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2020, WDRB News revealed a previously undisclosed $400,000 settlement paid by the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) to the family of a state prisoner who starved to death while in segregation at the …
News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2020, a grand jury in Limestone County, Alabama, returned an indictment for “possession/receipt of a controlled substance” against Travis Wales, a former guard at the Limestone County Correctional Facility in Harvest. According to Columbus, Georgia, TV station WBRL, Wales was arrested in September …
HRDC v. Henderson County, KY et al, KY, complaint, book censorship, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-00159-JHM-HBB Document 1 Filed 09/21/20 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY OWENSBORO DIVISION [Filed Electronically] HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff v. Case Number: 4:20-CV-159-JHM HENDERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY Serve: …
HRDC v. Henderson County, KY et al, KY, complaint, book censorship, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-00159-JHM-HBB Document 1 Filed 09/21/20 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY OWENSBORO DIVISION [Filed Electronically] HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff v. Case Number: 4:20-CV-159-JHM HENDERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY Serve: …
Can Kentucky Keep Charging Prisoners for Their Jail Stay if They Are Found Not Guilty? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Kentucky State law allows county jails to charge prisoners a daily fee during their stay while fighting their case. But what happens when the person is found not guilty …
Sixth Circuit: Courts Must Construe Pro Se Notice of Appeal as Motion for Extension of Time to Appeal by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell While filing a notice of appeal on time is a mandatory, jurisdictional requirement that may not be waived or ignored, there is a provision that allows …
HRDC Prevails in Censorship Suit Against Kentucky Prison System, Wins $104,711 by David Reutter by David R. Reutter A Kentucky federal district court awarded the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) and its co-counsels $104,711.37 in attorney fees and costs in a lawsuit alleging the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC) censored …
News in Brief by Arizona: A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Daniel Davitt, 60, on January 14, 2020 on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Lower Buckeye Jail guard Gene Lee on October 30. Buckeye Jail video shows Davitt talking to Lee on October 29, then suddenly grabbing …
Prison Postcards: A Plea from Kentucky and Dispatches from Texas and Massachusetts by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, prisoners, their families and advocates have braced for major outbreaks at America’s prisons and jails. It’s still not clear just how bad prisoners are going to …
Prison Postcards: Official Accounts Differ from Prisoner Accounts as the Pandemic Spreads by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein Ever since the coronavirus epidemic exploded in the United States earlier this year, government officials have reassured the public that they had things tightly under control. On February 26, before anyone in …
