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Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
California Prison Guards Sentenced for Assaulting Prisoners by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett A pair of former guards with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) have been sentenced to federal prison for assaulting prisoners, one of whom died. A third guard has also been indicted on charges of …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
BOP Settles for $4.18 Million With Six Prisoners Raped by Guard at Now-Shuttered Manhattan Federal Jail by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been under intense scrutiny from lawmakers over misconduct by guards and officials at multiple prisons. Some of the worst behavior …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
After $90,000 Settlement for Sexual Abuse of Oregon Juvenile Detainee, Second Suit Filed Against Now-Imprisoned Former Youth Counselor by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On December 30, 2021, a second suit was filed in Oregon state court accusing former state youth worker Frank Milligan of sexually assaulting a juvenile detainee. …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
New Jersey Supreme Court Forces County to Cough up Settlement Documents With Prisoner Raped By Jail Guard Who Snitched on Fellow Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a settlement agreement resolving a disciplinary action against a …
Article • September 29, 2022
$15,150 Paid by Illinois for Neglect and Harassment of Three State Prisoners by David Reutter by David Reutter Mistreatment of three prisoners held by the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) cost the state over $15,000 to settle their claims in separate agreements completed during 2021. On August 12, 2021, a …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
$7,500 Settlement Reached for Assault in California Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 29, 2021, a lawsuit against California’s San Joaquin County was dismissed by a former detainee at the county jail, after he agreed to accept $7,500 to settle his claim that guards yanked him …
Article • August 25, 2022
Guard Sentenced for Montana Women’s Prison Rape by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 30, 2022, a former guard at Montana Woman’s Prison (MWP) was sentenced in Yellowstone County District Court to 10 years in prison, with five years suspended, for raping a prisoner at the lockup …
Article • August 5, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
More BOP Guards at FCI-Dublin “Rape Club” Accused of Sex Abuse by Female Prisoners by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Marie Washington and Laura Chaney, former prisoners at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California, are the latest women to allege they were victims of sexual abuse …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Kentucky Judge Gives Ex-Jail Guard Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Prisoner Chance to Re-Enlist in Army to Avoid Jail Time by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders As a federal lawsuit proceeds against Kentucky’s Franklin County filed by a former jail detainee forced into sex by a former guard, a state court …
Article • July 18, 2022
Elderly Georgia Jail Guard Charged with Committing Rape While On Duty and In Uniform by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On May 31, 2022, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) agents announced the arrest of an 81-year-old jail guard in Walker County who allegedly “had sex with a woman …
Eleventh Circuit Says Florida Prisoner Alleging Sexual Assault by Guard Need Not Also Prove Excessive Force and Malicious Intent by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has decided that when a prisoner alleges sexual assault by a prison official, the only …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$500,001 Settlement Against Guard Who Groped Delaware Prisoner With Long History of Lost Cases by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On December 16, 2021, a federal jury awarded Delaware prisoner DeShawn Drumgo $500,001 in damages after concluding a prison guard had inappropriately fondled him. This was the same prisoner who …
Article • May 16, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
Be “Good Bitches”: New Mexico Prisoners Sue Over Sexually Degrading Abuse by Brooke Kaufman By Brooke Kaufman A lawsuit filed by 14 state prisoners in the District of New Mexico federal court on April 4, 2022, alleges their civil and constitutional rights were violated with “intentionally punishing strip searches” while being held by the …
Article • May 9, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
Guard Accused of Organizing Prisoner “Sex Shows” at Tennessee Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman A former jailer was fired and the sheriff is now being sued after two women detained at the Grainger County Jail complained they were forced to stage “sex shows” at the Tennessee lockup on …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Fifth BOP Staffer Arrested in “Rape Club” at California Federal Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Once known for famous prisoners from Hollywood, the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) at Dublin, California, is now in the spotlight for a different reason: As of March 2022, at least five …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
“The Worst Prison in New York State” by Victoria Law The situation at Rikers is bad, but at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility more than 200 miles north of New York City, it’s worse. by Victoria Law Conditions in New York City jails have reached a boiling point, …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Suit Over ‘Orange Crush’ Shakedown by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on August 25, 2021, that a district court erred in dismissing a state prisoner’s pro se lawsuit by failing to make a finding …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$1 Million Default Judgement for Michigan Jail Prisoner Against Health Care Provider in Sexual Assault by Mark Wilson But She Probably Won’t Collect It From the Defunct Provider by Mark Wilson On April 1, 2021, a Michigan federal court entered a $1 million default judgement for a woman who was …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Four Female Prisoners Seek Damages Over Abuses at Oregon Prison Called A “Cesspool” of Staff Sexual Abuse, Latest in Abuse Saga by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson In a report on pervasive sexual abuse of prisoners at Oregon’s only women’s prison in 2017, Prison Legal News reached another five years …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
California Federal Prison Warden Charged with Sexually Abusing Prisoner by The Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin, California, about 20 miles southwest of Oakland, has had its share of publicity since it opened in 1974. Publishing heir-turned-bankrobbing-militant Patty Hearst did time there, as did “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss, as well as …
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