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$250,000 Awarded To Virginia Guard After Stabbing By Prisoner Upheld by Virginia State pro se prisoner Lament Douglas appealed a prison guard's counterclaim grant and the dismissal of the denial of medical care allegations in a federal action resulting from a 1999 mutually injurious altercation. The judgment was affirmed. Douglas …
Article • July 15, 2008
New Jersey Appeals Court Upholds Disabled Guard’s $236,000 Award by On June 30, 2006, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, upheld a jury’s award of $236,000 to a former Gloucester County jail guard who claimed he was forced to retire because of an eye disability. Plaintiff Michael Raspa, …
Retaliation Against Female Kentucky Prison Guard Nets $240,000 by A Kentucky jury awarded a female guard $240,000 for retaliation. Patricia McCullough was employed for 13 years as a guard at North Point Training Center in Boyle County, Kentucky. “Despite appropriate reviews and a clean record,” she was “passed over for …
Texas Juvenile Justice Whistleblower Settles for $175,000 by On the eve of trial Bowie County, Texas and Bowie County Juvenile Center (BCJC) employee Bruce Ballou agreed to pay former BCJC employee Karen Foster $175,000 to settle her whistleblower complaint in federal court. The action was filed by Karen Foster, a …
Article • July 15, 2008
North Carolina Guard Settles Failure-to-Promote Suit for Over $155,000 by Gwendolyn Gordon, a North Carolina prison guard at Pamlico Correctional Institute sued the state Department of Corrections (DOC) officials in state and federal court for damages arising from the DOC's failure to promote her to warden. The DOC agreed to …
Article • July 15, 2008
White Oregon Guards Wrongly Fired in Reverse Discrimination Suit Win $1,000,000 Jury Verdict by Russell Rice and Larry Lytle, both career employees of the Oregon state Department of Corrections, were fired by superintendent Frank Thomas of the Santiam Correctional Institute in early 2004. Both had long histories of exemplary performance. …
Article • July 15, 2008
Oregon Guard Wins $402,000 in Disability Discrimination Suit by Bruce Anglin, an Oregon state prison guard, was off work for an undisclosed amount of time and reason. When he was again ready for work, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) didn't reinstate him to suitable work. He filed a disability …
Alabama Guard Wins $205,000 in Sexual Harassment Suit by Mark Dempsey, a guard at an Alabama state prison, complained that his supervisor, Jim Gates was sexually harassing him. Gates, among other things, had made inappropriate homosexual remarks and jabbed Dempsey in the anal area with his nightstick. They met with …
Article • July 15, 2008
New York DOC Settles Guard's Religious Observance Suit for $50,000 by Abdul Haqq, a New York state Department of Correctional Services (DOC) guard and devout Muslim, was ordered to stop wearing his kufi (small close-fitting skullcap) at work. He filed suit in federal district court, alleging that the same violated …
Article • July 15, 2008
West Virginia Jail Payroll Records not “Public Records” for Purposes of State FOIA by The Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation sued a West Virginia jail in state court to compel the compilation and disclosure of payroll records for jail guards, pursuant to the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), W.Va. Code …
Article • July 15, 2008
Texas Juvenile Justice Whistleblower Settles for $175,000 by On the eve of trial Bowie County, Texas and Bowie County Juvenile Center (BCJC) employee Bruce Ballou agreed to pay former BCJC employee Karen Foster $175,000 to settle her whistleblower complaint in federal court. The action was filed by Karen Foster, a …
Rikers Island Guard Awarded $1 Million For Sexual Harassment By His Captain by Rikers Island (New York) prison guard Scott Singleton brought federal action against the City of New York for civil rights violations after sexual harassment by his captain ruined his home life and separated him from his daughter. …
Article • July 15, 2008
Arizona Pre-Litigated Investigative Reports Not Subject To Disclosure Absent Compelling Grounds by The Maricopa County (Arizona) Adult Probation Department (Department) appealed the court-ordered production of investigatory files concerning the requestor's disciplinary action. The appellate production order was vacated. Department employee Frederic London was suspended for alleged misconduct in 2000 pending …
Nevada Prisoner Health Care So Atrocious, Prisoners Volunteer for Execution to Avoid Suffering by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “It is my opinion that the medical care provided at Ely State Prison amounts to the grossest possible medical malpractice, and the most shocking and callous disregard for human life …
33,000 California Prisoners May Need Credits Recalculated Due To Retroactive State Court Decisions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Three recent California court decisions interpreting California’s sentencing laws have spawned a need for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to recalculate the release dates of an estimated …
Article • June 15, 2008
Maryland Settles Suit Over Guard Wearing Dreadlocks by On 05-24-04, Maryland settled a suit brought by a prison guard who was disciplined for failing to cut his dreadlocks. Jonathan Booth was a 35-year old, married, black Maryland prison guard when he was ordered to cut his dreadlocks. Booth, who is …
Article • June 15, 2008
MI FOIA Didn’t Require Disclosure of Documents for Jail Guards’ Disciplinary Proceedings; ERKA Might by The Deputy Sheriffs’ union (Union) requested reports on which the Kent County Sheriff (Sheriff) based disciplinary decisions against two jailers, pursuant to the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.231 et …
Summer of Discontent by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Underlying the purported societal goal of prisoner rehabilitation lurks the reality of what impedes it: systemic violence that defines the adversarial relationship between all men and women behind bars, prisoners and guards alike. Driven by racial animus, drugs, anger, gang …
Article • May 15, 2008
Virginia Policy Prohibiting Staff From Marrying Prisoners Upheld by The plaintiff prison guard married a convicted felon, the father of her child, and resigned under pressure in light of the prison system's anti-fraternization policy. (The man was convicted and incarcerated after he fathered the child but before they got married.) …
PHS Not Liable for Prisoner Attack on Nurses by The plaintiffs were nurses employed by Prison Health Services, Inc., and were attacked and beaten by a prisoner. The Supreme Court's decision in Collins v. Harker Heights overrules prior authority suggesting that there might be a special relationship supporting liability in …
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