Second Circuit: New York Prisoner’s Prior Cases Not PLRA Strikes by David Reutter On March 14, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a New York prisoner’s civil rights action for violating the “three strikes” provision of the Prison …
Second Former BOP Guard Sentenced in Smuggling Scheme at Brooklyn Lockup by Former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Quandelle Joseph, 34, was sentenced on July 30, 2024, to 30 months in federal prison for a brazen smuggling scheme at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. Former fellow …
3,500 Body-Worn Cameras Recalled from Rikers Island Guards After One Catches Fire by At New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on May 3, 2024, a guard’s body-­worn camera (BWC) malfunctioned and ignited, leaving the unnamed captain suffering burns and smoke inhalation. The city’s Department of Correction (DOC) then suspended …
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
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 …
Dead Rikers Island Detainees Had Missed Dozens of Mental Health Appointments by A report released by New York City’s Board of Correction (BOC) on February 9, 2024, chided city jail officials for allowing mentally ill detainees to miss dozens of mental health appointments before they died. Nine deaths were recorded …
New York Revises 2,772 Prisoner Disciplinary Records After Inspector General Finds Defects in Another Contraband Drug Test by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A November 2023 report by the New York Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailed grave defects uncovered by an investigation into the Contraband Drug Testing Program …
Federal Judge Calls BOP Brooklyn Lockup Too Deplorable to House Defendant by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a massive federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, is known for its harsh conditions. So harsh that on January 4, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman refused to send a convicted …
Exonerated Prisoner Sues New York City for 16 Years of Wrongful Incarceration by Former New York prisoner Ricardo Jimenez, 55, filed suit in federal court for the Southern District of New York on August 2, 2023, accusing New York City and three former officers with its Police Department (NYPD), as …
$8.9 Million Settlement Reached for N.Y. Prisoner’s Death Following Guards’ Baton Beating by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 13, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York gave final approval to a settlement paying $8.9 million from the state to the family …
Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners by Marina Bueno, an incarcerated writer, hopes to attend college but faces a harsh reality—no college classes are offered at her Florida women’s prison in Homestead. In fact, only 326 out of 80,000 state prisoners were enrolled in a college class as of …
Bankruptcy Threatens $500,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Housing Discrimination Against Former Prisoners in New York City by Formerly incarcerated residents of New York City appeared to land a punch in their fight to secure housing in the city’s notoriously tight real estate market on August 14, 2023, when the Fortune …
New York Court of Appeals Lets DOCCS Skate from Liability for Doctor’s Malpractice on State Prisoner by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 14, 2023, the New York Court of Appeals refused to hold officials with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) liable for malpractice …
Trans Detainee Sues Over Housing With Men on Rikers Island by Transgender Rikers Island jail detainee Dylan “Ali” Miles sued the City of New York and its Department of Correction on August 24, 2023, alleging her civil rights were violated when she was housed with men for two months before …
Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Dept., NY, Presentation on Excited Delirium, 2024 Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Department Psychological behaviors • Paranoia • Delusional • Agitation • Cannot follow commands • Emotional changes • Disoriented • Hallucinations • Looks like \\just snapped" …
NYS DOCCS Halt Report 08-05-24 State of New York Offices of the Inspector General Review of the First Two Years of HALT at the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision August 2024 Lucy Lang Inspector General EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On March 31, 2021, the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term …
Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Lapses in Epstein Death, Pushes Back Against Rumors It Wasn’t Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 27, 2023, the Office of U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz (OIG) released a report corroborating a New York City medical examiner’s conclusion that …
BOP Guards Plead Guilty in Smuggling Ring at Closed Manhattan Lockup by On October 10, 2023, a former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan was sentenced for her role in a contraband-smuggling conspiracy. Prosecutors had already gotten guilty pleas from three …
Second Circuit Grants New York Officials Qualified Immunity for Prisoner’s Stolen Sentence Credits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 12, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community …
After Stripping Crucial Jail Services, NYC Splurges on $90,000 in Submachine Guns for Rikers Island Guards by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi According to a purchase order posted online by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services on June 22, 2023, the city Department of Correction [DOC] paid …
