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Federal Prison Guard Receives $58,000 Settlement in Racial Discrimination Case by Lonnie Burton On November 9, 2001, a federal prison guard entered into a settlement agreement with the United States in which he agreed to drop his complaints for racial discrimination in exchange for just over $58,000, back pay, and …
Federal Prison Guard Receives $45,000 Settlement on Claim of Workplace Discrimination Due to Military Status by Lonnie Burton Matthew Tully worked as a prison guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Complex in New York (MCC-New York) City from 1998-2000. Tully had been a member of the United States Army and was …
Federal Bureau of Prisons Settles Overtime Dispute with Leavenworth Guards for Nearly $400,000 by Lonnie Burton On November 27, 2000, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Council of Prison Locals, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 919 entered into a settlement agreement in a grievance filed by …
$340,000 Settlement for Federal Prisoner Severely Beaten by Cellmate While Handcuffed by Lonnie Burton On October 2, 1997, the United States agreed to pay a federal prisoner a total of $340,000 to settle a lawsuit filed just months earlier alleging that negligence and deliberate indifference on the part of prison …
$250,000 Settlement for Family of Federal Prisoner Who Suffered Fatal Heart Attack After Being Refused Medical Attention by Lonnie Burton On December 2, 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a settlement agreement with the family of a former federal prisoner who died of a heart attack after he …
$55,000 Settlement for Federal Prisoner Repeatedly Raped By Guard by Lonnie Burton On November 20, 2003, a federal prisoner settled a lawsuit she filed against the United States, a guard, and the warden at a federal prison in San Diego on a claim that she was repeatedly raped by a …
$31,500 Settlement for Federal Prison Guard for Racial, Military Discrimination by Lonnie Burton Larry D. Milner was a guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego (MCC-SD) while at the same time being on active duty in the U.S. Navy. Milner, an African-American, filed a complaint alleging he was …
Article • September 9, 2016
Report Finds Systemic Waste, Unproven Programming in New Mexico's Prisons 825 words by A New Mexico legislative committee is perplexed by the state's $2-million giveaway to GEO Group, since the Florida-based private-prison company has cut staff at one prison but continues to charge New Mexico's Corrections Department (NMCD) as if …
Justice Department Impedes Release of "Legally Innocent" Prisoners by Derek Gilna Despite several recent high-profile cases where the U.S. Justice Department has urged the release of prisoners who all parties agreed were "legally innocent, dozens more remain behind bars.in North Carolina. The cases arise in instances where men were imprisoned …
Federal Prison Whistleblower Receives $2,400 in Retaliation Complaint by Lonnie Burton On July 17, 2003, a former federal prison employee settled his multiple discrimination and retaliation complaints against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for $2,400. Documents related to the case just recently were released to Prison Legal News as …
Article • September 7, 2016
Delaware: Prisoners Have No Right of Access to Certain DOC Policies; Court Rules Statute Denying Access Constitutional by Lonnie Burton On May 25, 2016, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware upheld the constitutionality of a state statute which prohibits the Department of Correction (DOC) from providing certain …
Arbitrator Awards $1 to Prison Worker in Harassment and Retaliation Claim by Lonnie Burton John K. Faber had been employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) since 1981. He held the position of Specialty Instructor at the Staff Training Academy (STA) in Artesia, New Mexico, when in 1997 he …
AP: Sex Offenders Especially Vulnerable in California's Prisons by Joe Watson As soon as he arrived at Salinas Valley State Prison in northern California, Alan Ager believed his life was in danger. "The very day they let him into the yard, he was filing complaints, 'Get me the hell out …
$60,000 Plus Back-Pay Awarded to Federal Prison Worker to Settle Discrimination Complaint by Lonnie Burton Jai Mutreja worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) South Central Regional Office in Dallas as an electrical engineer. Mutreja is of Indian descent and had filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of …
Article • September 6, 2016
Connecticut Town Raises Stink, Sues DOC for Wastewater Plant's Upgrade by The town of Cheshire, Connecticut, has decided it won't take anymore crap from the state's Department of Corrections. A lawsuit filed by Cheshire officials in July 2012 seeks to renegotiate the terms of an agreement with Connecticut's DOC to …
Article • September 6, 2016
South Carolina TV Crew Tails Warden Driving Across State for Free by South Carolina's prison towns might be great places to work, but apparently, the wardens wouldn't want to live there. A TV news crew discovered that, six months after South Carolina's Department of Corrections was caught by a state …
New Mexico Community Custody House Arrestees Used to Clean Private Land by Matthew Clarke An investigation by Albuquerque television station KRQE revealed that Bernalillo County house arrestees who were assigned to wash cars, pick up trash and pull weeds as part of their community service spent close to the same …
Report Finds Abuse of Blind, Deaf, Elderly and Disabled Texas Prisoners by Matthew Clarke The Prison Justice League (PJL), a group advocating prison reform in Texas, released a report entitled Cruel & Unusual Punishment: Excessive Use of Force at the Estelle Unit. The report found that blind, deaf, elderly and …
Sexual Discrimination Suit Against Bureau of Prisons Settled by Christopher Zoukis A complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding sexual harassment, abuse and intimidation brought against the Bureau of Prisons has been settled. Lynda Kay Laurin, a Human Resource Specialist at Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood, Pennsylvania, filed her …
Article • September 6, 2016
Discrimination Complaint Against Bureau of Prisons Settled by Christopher Zoukis A discrimination complaint filed by a Mexican-American female employee of the Bureau of Prisons was settled in August 2001. Maria Elena Carnera, a Mexican-American woman, was employed as a prison guard at Metropolitan Correctional Center New York when she filed …
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