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“Too brutal, too disgusting”: Prison Guards Flee as Working Conditions Worsen by The nonprofit Marshall Project reported on January 10, 2024, that dire prison staffing shortages nationwide have left the number of people working in state prisons at the lowest level in over two decades. The resulting thinning of supervision …
Georgia Guard Fired, Charged With Setting Up Assault that Left Prisoner Dead by A Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was fired and arrested on May 25, 2024, for allegedly letting three August State Medical Prison (ASMP) prisoners into the cell of a fourth to carry out an assault, during which …
Missouri Warden, Four Guards Out After Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) is fighting hard to keep details secret about the departure of five employees—including a prison warden—after the brutal death of prisoner Othel Moore at Jefferson City Correctional Center on December 8, 2023. A cellphone search …
Brief • July 9, 2024
Bell v. City and County of San Francisco, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2024 FILE NO. 240572 1 ORDINANCE NO. 179-24 [Settlement of Lawsuit - Vincent Keith Bell - $500,000] 2 3 Ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by Vincent Keith Bell against the 4 City and County of San …
Missouri Muslim Prisoners Advance Suit Against Guards For Assault During Prayer by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney   On December 14, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted only part of a motion by defendant state prison officials to dismiss a complaint filed by Muslim …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Four BOP Guards Sentenced for Three Federal Prisoner Assaults at Kentucky Lockup by A former guard supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary in Big Sandy, Kentucky, was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison on December 6, 2023, for covering up three prisoner assaults by fellow guards. The …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
For Beating Handcuffed Prisoners, Former Alabama Guard Supervisor Gets 87 Months by On December 19, 2023, the federal court for the Northern District of Alabama sentenced former state prison guard supervisor Mohammad Jenkins, 52, to seven years and three months in federal prison for assaulting two handcuffed prisoners at William …
Eighth Circuit Largely Restores Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guards in Use of Force on Bipolar Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 26, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit largely reversed a lower court and restored qualified immunity (QI) to guards …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Seventh Kentucky Guard Sentenced for Restrained Prisoner’s Beat-down by Former Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Sgt. Eric L. Nantell, 48, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on June 11, 2024, for beating a restrained prisoner at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex. The federal court for the Eastern District …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
$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 …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
“You Just Broke My Neck”: Ohio Detainee Sues Jail Where Guards Are Accused of Multiple Assaults by Calling it “one of the most blatant and outrageous uses of excessive force” he’s ever seen, Cleveland attorney Nick DeCello of Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP filed suit in federal court for the …
Brief • June 17, 2024
Fisk v. Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners, CO, Excessive Force, 2024 \~ SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement"), dated for reference purposes May 28, 2024, is entered into between Frederick Fisk ("Claimant") and the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners (the "County") (collectively, the "Parties"). WHEREAS, Claimant has asserted …
“Are You Freaking Kidding Me?” Former BOP Warden Accuses Guards of Recruiting Prisoners for Assaults at Troubled Lockup in Illinois by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   Before he retired in July 2023, Warden Thomas Bergami was sent by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to the U.S. Penitentiary (USP) …
Lawsuit Alleges Black ICE Detainee Subjected to Racial Slurs, Choked in Restraint Chair at Pennsylvania Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   According to a federal civil rights action filed by Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project attorneys Matthew A. Feldman and Evangeline Wright on November 15, 2023, a Black …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
$500,000 Jury Award Cut to $250,000 for Pennsylvania Prisoner Brutally Beaten by Guards by Douglas Ankney Lack of expert testimony halved a $500,000 award made by a federal jury to Pennsylvania prisoner Michael Sherman Allen on November 1, 2023, for injuries sustained in a brutal 2019 beating at the hands …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Two Ohio Prisoners and Two Guards Tried for Assaults by Two Ohio prisoners have pleaded guilty to assaulting guards, while trials of two other guards accused of assaulting jail detainees in the state resulted in one conviction and one acquittal. On October 25, 2023, Ohio prisoner Drequan K. Abdullah, 24, …
Two West Virginia Jail Guards Plead Guilty in Detainee Death, Six More Charged by Six guards at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail were charged on November 30, 2023, in the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, less than a month after two fellow guards pleaded guilty to federal …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Pennsylvania Jail Warden Fired, Deputy Warden Resigns After Guard Assaults Detainee by Warden Dave Gallagher of Pennsylvania’s Clearfield County Jail was fired and escorted off the job on December 7, 2023, just over a month after Deputy Warden Eric Bush resigned on October 28, 2023. Their departures follow an alleged …
“There you go, Agent Orange!” Former South Carolina Sheriff Federally Indicted for Assaulting Jail Detainee by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Charles B. Lemon, the former Sheriff of South Carolina’s Marlboro County, pleaded not guilty on February 6, 2024, to federal civil rights charges laid out in an indictment unsealed …
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