Keil v. MHM Services, INC, MO, Jury Verdicts, 2022 VERDI CT Note: Complete this form by writing in the names required by your verdict. On Plaintif f Karen Keil 's claim against Defendant Bearden, as submitted in Instruction No. 15, we find in favor of (Plainti ff Keil) Note: or …
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders After a trial on November 3, 2021, a Missouri court ruled in favor of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) in a challenge to its decision replacing its private healthcare contractor Corizon with a competitor, …
Eighth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Private Companies Providing Missouri Prisoner’s Health Care by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 24, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that private companies providing health care for prisoners are not entitled to assert qualified immunity or appeal …
News in Brief by Alabama: According to Birmingham Real-Time News, a kidnapper was recaptured after being erroneously released from jail in Jefferson County, Alabama, on December 17, 2021. The prisoner, Matthew Burke, 35, was apprehended during a traffic stop after being released from the Jefferson County Jail on Dec. 11 …
Eighth Circuit Rules Guard’s History of Excessive Force too Prejudicial or a Jury to Hear in Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Case by Jacob Barrett, Matthew Clarke Another Guard Escapes Liability by Refusing to Participate by Jacob Barrett and Matt Clarke What happens to a prison guard accused of using excessive force who …
Hoppock Law Firm v. Munita, MO, Complaint, Censorship, 2022 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF WESTERN MISSOURI Hoppock Law Firm, LLC and Kelly Hewitt, ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) Cynthia Munita, Director of FOIA ) Operations with U.S. Citizenship and ) Immigration Services, ) ) Ur Jaddou, …
St. Louis Jail Guard Charged with Allowing Brutal Beating of Prisoner by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A former guard at the St. Louis Justice Center (SLJC) was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 28, 2021, on charges that she allowed two prisoners to beat a third in …
News in Brief by California: A guard at San Quentin State Prison and one of two outside co-conspirators were arraigned on September 8, 2021, on federal charges they smuggled cellphones to an unnamed prisoner on death row at the California lockup. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of …
Benevolent or Predatory? by Casey Bastian Lake Ozark Politician Gives Women Prisoners Help, Gets Sex by Casey J. Bastian In 2015, Gerry Murawski was an elected city alderman for Lake Ozark, Missouri. Murawski was also engaging in questionable relationships with several young women. During the period of 2015-2016, Murawski would …
News in Brief by Alabama: A former guard at the Mobile Metro Jail was scheduled to be arraigned on May 19, 2021, after being indicted for his role in an alleged scheme to smuggle cellphones into the Alabama lockup in exchange for bribes. According to a report by local TV …
Eighth Circuit Holds Lack of “Clearly Established” Law Requiring Staffer to Notify of Prisoner’s Suicide Risk Prevented Damages by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Finding that qualified immunity prevented a lawsuit against a jailer who failed to notify a receiving jail that a prisoner was at-risk for suicide and he …
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 9, 2021, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he had sexual intercourse with a prisoner in the laundry room at the women’s prison west of Tuscaloosa. According to the Birmingham …
Ltr Sent to Corizon Re Denial of Bid Appeal 7-30-21 Michael L. Parson Governor Sarah H. Steelman Commissioner State of Missouri OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Division of Purchasing 301 West High Street, Room 630 Post Office Box 809 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0809 (573) 751-2387 FAX: (573) 526-9815 TIO: 800-735-2966 Voice: 800-735-2466 …
Jones v. City of St. Louis, MO, Memo in Opposition to Def. Motion to Dismiss, Excessive Force - Pepper Spray, 2021 Case: 4:21-cv-00600-JCH Doc. #: 29 Filed: 07/28/21 Page: 1 of 17 PageID #: 192 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION DERRICK JONES, JEROME …
News in Brief by Alabama: According to a report by the Alabama Political Reporter, a state prisoner was fatally stabbed by another man incarcerated with him at Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore on May 4, 2021—just one day before his scheduled release, which would also have been his twenty-fourth birthday. …
“We Want Court dates!” by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders According to the protestors, conditions at the local lockup have become intolerable. On April 4, 2021, at approximately 8:30 p.m. detainees at the St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC) covered security cameras, smashed windows, threw furniture out onto the street …
News in Brief by Australia: A February 2021 ruling by the Supreme Court in the Australian province of Victoria presented “a rare win” for a prisoner contesting prison procedures, according to a report by The Conversation. The convict, 56-year-old Craig Minogue, argued that Barwon Prison’s random drug testing and strip-searching …
Does Visitation in Prison Reduce Recidivism Does Visitation in Prison Reduce Recidivism? Yuki Otsu∗† Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo October 21, 2021 Abstract Visitation in prison is associated with a low recidivism rate after release, but the causality is not clear. This paper tries to estimate …
