GTL Ordered to Pay $18.675 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs in Prison Phone Class Action by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W Accurso On August 30, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia granted final approval to a class-action settlement in a suit accusing prison telecom giant …
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: On January 9, 2023, the Montgomery Police Department (MPD) arrested a guard at the city jail for an alleged off-duty assault, the Birmingham News reported. It’s unclear who filed the misdemeanor complaint against Reba Foulks, 36; MPD didn’t begin its investigation until …
Smuggling Ring Busted in Georgia Jail, 11 Arrested Including Four Guards and Former Nurse by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 19, 2022, a six-month investigation into contraband smuggling at the Dougherty County Jail (DCJ) in southwest Georgia resulted in charges against 11 suspects. In a stunning …
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News in Brief by Alabama: WHNT in Huntsville reported on December 16, 2022, that a Morgan County Jail detainee was charged with assaulting a guard. Ashley Nicole Taymon, 36, had gotten into an altercation at the Community Corrections Office five days earlier and was taken to a hospital. There she …
Georgia Jails Faulted in Struggle With High COVID-19 Infection Rates by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Nearly all of Georgia’s 159 counties struggled with medium to high levels of COVID-19 infections, especially in county jails. But an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation published on August 22, 2022, blamed a laissez-faire approach …
Fulton County Jail Detainees Ended 2022 Freezing and Defecating in Trash Bags by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott With no end in sight for staffing shortages at the Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta, detainees got a cruel blow the last week of 2022: A winter storm froze …
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 2, 2022, a former state prison guard at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility near Birmingham pleaded guilty to federal contraband smuggling charges. The Birmingham News reported that Wilson Brian Clemons, 32, was arrested on November 23, 2021, on state counts of marijuana …
OIG Report Defers Claims That ICE Detainees in Georgia Had Forced Hysterectomies by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye Did 19 women detained for federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Georgia jail have forced hysterectomies? [See: PLN, Dec. 2020, p.60.] A whistleblower complaint said so. That led to …
Georgia Prisoner Sentenced to Death for Killing Two Guards Dies by Apparent Suicide by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Just ten days after being sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two state prison guards, a prisoner was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison …
‘Tragic and Wholly Unacceptable’ Gang Violence Erupts at Georgia Women’s Prison by Jenifer Lockwood by Jenifer Lockwood On June 23, 2022, gang violence at Georgia’s second-largest women’s lockup sparked a sharply worded letter from U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) calling on FBI Director Chris Wray to get involved and stop …
Eleventh Circuit: Prisoner’s Religious Rights Not Violated by Georgia’s Shower Escort Policy by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed judgment for Georgia prison officials in a lawsuit alleging the policy governing prisoner shower escorts violated their …
Death Toll Mounts at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail with Reports of Malnutrition, Medical Neglect and Vermin by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When a 35-year-old detainee died in his cell at the Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta on September 13, 2022, he was found covered in lice. …
Nelson v. CorrectHealth Muscogee, LLC, GA, Order, Negligence, 2022 Case 4:20-cv-00213-CDL Document 198 Filed 12/05/22 Page 1 of 24 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMBUS DIVISION JERRY NELSON, as personal * representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., and * MICHELE …
News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
$54,000 Award for Georgia Prisoner in Failure-To-Protect Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Georgia prisoner who got into a spat with a prison gang and was allegedly sold out to them by guards received a $54,000 judgment in a federal civil rights action on November 21, 2021. …
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
Georgia Sheriff Agrees To Provide Muslim Prisoners With Halal Meals for Ramadan by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On April 19, 2022, Georgia’s DeKalb County Jail (DCJ) and county Sheriff Melody M. Maddox filed a stipulation in a civil suit agreeing to provide religious meals for Muslim prisoners observing daylight …
Georgia Jail Settles Suit Filed by Mentally Ill Female Detainees With Policy Changes and $1.2 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 4, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia gave final approval to a settlement in a lawsuit brought …
11th Circuit Tells Sexually Assaulted Transgender Georgia Prisoner: PREA Violations Aren’t Per Se Eighth Amendment Violations by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On February 2, 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear her appeal, a transgender Georgia prisoner was thwarted in her …
