Fourth Circuit Says Virginia May Require Muslim Prisoner to Purchase Prayer Oil From Vendor Also Selling Pork and “Idols” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) did not violate the …
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 3, 2022, a guard was arrested for having sex with a prisoner at Alabama’s Pickens County Jail, according to a report by WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi. The guard, Marquita Booker, 28, was fired after her arrest, which followed an investigation that earlier in …
Wall v. Rasnick, VA, Opinion, Spoliation of Video Evidence, 2022 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 21-6553 GARY WALL, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. E. RASNICK, Correctional Officer of R.O.S.P.; J. HICKS, Correctional Officer of R.O.S.P.; E. HESS, Correctional Officer of R.O.S.P.; C. HOLBROOK, Correctional Officer …
Virginia DOC’s Interference Hamstrings Local and Regional Jail Board by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss When the Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails (BLRJ) met unannounced and in closed session on April 20, 2022—in plain violation of the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)—Executive Director Ryan McCord shrugged it …
Virginia Prisoner Awarded $5,000 in Suit Alleging Retaliation for Reporting Abuse by Guard, But So Far Unable to Collect by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On November 4, 2020, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel C. Hoppe of the Western District of Virginia recommended an award of $5,000 plus costs to prisoner …
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was indicted on April 22, 2022, for assaulting three prisoners and then filing a false report to cover it up, the Associated Press reported. The guard, Lorenzo Mills, 55, was charged with beating three male prisoners with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional …
Boley v. Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc, VA, Order Approving Settlement, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2022 Case 2:21-cv-00197-RCY-LRL Document 74 Filed 05/04/22 Page 1 of 6 PageID# 1287 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA N orfolk Division JAMES A. BOLEY, JR., ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF …
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
Ford v. Corizon Health, Inc, VA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-00411-RDA-JFA Document 1-1 Filed 04/13/22 Page 1 of 29 PageID# 6 .. VIRGINIA: IN THE CIR.COIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF ARLINGTON MONIQUE SHBN.BLL FORD, AD:MINISTRATOR OF THE BSTATB OF DARRYL TERRELL BECTON, DECEASED, Plaintif( ease: v. CL'Zt-<cfo JURY …
Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare by Ashleigh Dye Plans to de-privatize prisoner healthcare by Ashleigh Dye On December 11, 2021, the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that the state Supreme Court had denied an Emergency Motion to Stay and Petition for Review filed by Armor Correctional …
Wellpath Founder and CEO Pleads Guilty to Federal Bribery Charges by David Reutter A lesson in why privatized prison health care is the wrong answer by David M. Reutter On Friday, January 18, 2022, three days before sentencing in a pay-to-play bribery and corruption scandal involving health care at the …
After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health by Jayson Hawkins, Keith Sanders Corizon Employee Charged with Falsifying Records by Jayson Hawkins and Keith Sanders On February 1, 2022, a 41-year-old Black man being held on a trespassing charge was found unresponsive in his cell …
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 …
Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison by The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also has the dubious distinction of reporting seven prisoner deaths in 2021. One of those deaths has been confirmed as a homicide. One is suspected …
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into the jail. According to a report by Huntsville TV station WHNT, the guard, Matthew Moran, faces one count …
What’s in a Name? by Jeffrey Ross Exconvict, formerly incarcerated, or returning citizen? by Jeffrey Ian Ross In the field of corrections, there are lots of labels, names, and terms that the public frequently applies to people who are housed in, live in, and are processed by jails and prison …
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 19, 2021, twoconvicted robbers were convicted of murder in the death of a fellow prisoner they and two others attacked in 2017 at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama. According to a report by Montgomery TV station WSFA, Dominique Covin and Roderick DeLaune …
Fourth Circuit Rules Prisoner Sex Offender has No Right to In-Person Visitation with His Minor Children by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney James Desper is a convicted sex offender incarcerated at the Augusta Correctional Center in Craigsville, Virginia. For six years, Desper received visits from his minor child without incident. …
