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Sixth Circuit Holds Subjective Prong of Deliberate Indifference Test Inapplicable to Pretrial Detainee’s Claims; Reinstates Lawsuit

Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Pretrial Detention and Detainees, Deliberate Indifference

Sixth Circuit Holds Subjective Prong of Deliberate Indifference Test Inapplicable to Pretrial Detainee’s Claims; Reinstates Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 22, 2021, in a case with enormous impact on the way jails may treat pretrial detainees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided …

Tennessee CoreCivic Prison Guard Indicted for Beating Unresisting Prisoner, Attempting Cover-up

Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Guard Brutality/Beatings, False Statements, Testimony or Documents

Tennessee CoreCivic Prison Guard Indicted for Beating Unresisting Prisoner, Attempting Cover-up by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On September 27, 2021, a three-count indictment was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, accusing a former guard at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville of violating a …

Garrett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, TN, Complaint Wrongful Conviction, 2022

Brief • January 21, 2022

Filed under: Wrongful Conviction

Garrett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, TN, Complaint Wrongful Conviction, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE, AT NASHVILLE PAUL SHANE GARRETT ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, Roy Dunaway, Individually, …

Federal Judge Springs Former PLN Editor from “Iron Man” Pretrial Detention Cell

Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

Federal Judge Springs Former PLN Editor from “Iron Man” Pretrial Detention Cell by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Saying the unduly harsh confinement conditions he’d endured for nearly two years—without ever being convicted of a crime—likely violate the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of …

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Preliminary Injunction Ruling, Solitary Confinement, 2021

Brief • November 23, 2021

Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Pretrial Detention and Detainees

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Preliminary Injunction Ruling, Solitary Confinement, 2021 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN, Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) NO. 3:21-cv-00721 MEMORANDUM OPINION Alexander Friedmann is a pretrial detainee who has …

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Order, Solitary Confinement, 2021

Brief • November 23, 2021

Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Pretrial Detention and Detainees

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Order, Solitary Confinement, 2021 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN, Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) NO. 3:21-cv-00721 ORDER For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, Plaintiff …

Tennessee Department of Corrections Rebids $123 Million Health Care Contract After Corizon Accuses It and Centurion of Bid Rigging

Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021

Filed under: Corizon, Centurion, Bid-Rigging, Price-Fixing, etc.

Tennessee Department of Corrections Rebids $123 Million Health Care Contract After Corizon Accuses It and Centurion of Bid Rigging by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 10, 2021, the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that it would rebid the $123 million contract it had awarded to Centurion to …

Mailbox Rule Inapplicable to Prisoners Represented by Counsel

Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021

Filed under: Due Process, Legal Mail, Periods of Delay, Self-representation

Mailbox Rule Inapplicable to Prisoners Represented by Counsel by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that “in the context of civil complaints, the prison mailbox rule applies only to prisoners who are not represented by counsel and are proceeding pro se.” The court’s February 17, 2021, opinion was issued …

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Complaint, Prison Conditions, 2021

Brief • September 16, 2021

Filed under: Rural Prisons, Prison Conditions

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Complaint, Prison Conditions, 2021 IN THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, TONY MAYS, MICHAEL KEYS, GEORGE FIRESTINE; and CELESTA WILLIAMS In their individual and …

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2021

Brief • September 16, 2021

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2021 IN THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, TONY MAYS, MICHAEL KEYS, GEORGE FIRESTINE; and CELESTA WILLIAMS In their individual and …

News in Brief

Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

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 …

Busby v. Bonner, TN, Order Denying Motion to Terminate, Covid Response, 2021

Brief • August 30, 2021

Filed under: COVID-19, Sanitation, Hygiene Supplies, Inadequate Health Care Facilities

Busby v. Bonner, TN, Order Denying Motion to Terminate, Covid Response, 2021 Case 2:20-cv-02359-SHL-atc Document 258 Filed 08/30/21 Page 1 of 24 PageID 5060 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISION FAVIAN BUSBY and MICHAEL EDGINGTON, on their own behalf and on behalf …

Garton v. Crouch, TN, Complaint, False Arrest, 2021

Brief • August 17, 2021

Filed under: False Arrest

Garton v. Crouch, TN, Complaint, False Arrest, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE JOSHUA GARTON, Plaintiff, v. W. RAY CROUCH, DAVID RAUSCH, BRADLEY NEALON, RUSSELL WINKLER, JOSHUA MELTON, JOSEPH CRAIG, DONALD ARNOLD, ANDREW VALLEE, and CITY OF DICKSON, TENNESSEE, Defendants. § …

News in Brief

Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

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 …

News in Brief

Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

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. …

After Backlash, Tennessee State University President Reverses Decision to Join CoreCivic Board

Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

After Backlash, Tennessee State University President Reverses Decision to Join CoreCivic Board by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Opposition by community leaders forced the president of the historically Black Tennessee State University (TSU) in Nashville to change her decision to join the board of directors of the private prison company …

Grae v. CoreCivic, TN, Stipulation of Settlement, Securities Fraud, 2021

Brief • June 24, 2021

Filed under: Securities Fraud, Fraud/Fraud Offenses

Grae v. CoreCivic, TN, Stipulation of Settlement, Securities Fraud, 2021 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NIKKI BOLLINGER GRAE, Individually and ) on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF ) AMERICA, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) …

Did Tennessee Execute an Innocent Man?

Article • May 24, 2021

Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty/Death Row, Wrongful Death

Did Tennessee Execute an Innocent Man? by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Tennessee executed Sedley Alley by lethal injection on June 28, 2006, for the 1985 rape and murder of Marine Lance Corporal Suzanne Collins. Seeley was denied DNA testing of evidence. His daughter, April Alley, believes Sedly is …

News in Brief

Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2021, Huntsville TV station WHNT reported a delay in the trial on theft and ethics charges of Mike Blakely, sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama. According to the report, retired Colbert County Circuit Judge Pride Tompkins, who had been appointed to hear the case …

News in Brief

Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: Two Alabama jail guards were arrested in just two months for allegedly smuggling cellphones to inmates. In February 2021, 27-year-old D’Mario Jones was fired and charged with two counts of promoting prison contraband at the Lee County Detention Center in Opelika where he worked. According …