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Privately-operated Texas Prison Rebounds by Matthew Clarke Despite years of controversy that included sitting vacant for months after it was built and staff members being arrested for smuggling contraband and having sexual relationships with prisoners, the Jack Harwell Detention Center in Waco, Texas has rebounded. It now houses more prisoners, …
Hammond v Kates, DC, Amicus Brief - HRDC, transgender abuse discrimination, 2014 USCA Case #13-5212 Document #1485371 Filed: 03/25/2014 Page 1 of 50 [ORAL ARGUMENT NOT YET SCHEDULED] ______________________________ Nos. 13-5212 & 13-5213 ______________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT ______________________________ PATTI HAMMOND …
Illinois: Prisoner Wins Settlement from Cook County Sheriff on Battery Claim by Derek Gilna Illinois’ Cook County Jail is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous correctional facilities in the nation. An antiquated jail lacking many of the updated security features found in other jails, it is riddled …
Texas State Jails: Private Drug Counselors Ordered to Downplay Mental Illness by Matthew Clarke Former employees of Houston-based Turning Point, Inc., a private, for-profit company which contracted with Texas to provide substance abuse treatment in its state jail system, are revealing how supervisors pressured them to falsify Addiction Severity Index …
Systemic Abuse of Prisoners in U.S. by By John Kiriakou Two federal prison guards in Florida recently agreed to plead guilty for beating a prisoner and then covering it up. One officer faces up to three years in a federal prison, while the other is looking at a year. The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) issued …
Widespread Corruption in L.A. County Jails Leads to Federal Investigation, Indictments by David Reutter by David M. Reutter and Rod L. Bower Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy David “Lee” Baca faces up to six months in prison after pleading guilty on February 10, 2016 to charges that he lied …
Federal Jury Awards $950,000 to Prisoners Beaten at L.A. County Jail by Derek Gilna As indicated by this month’s cover story, violence or the threat of violence has long been part of life for prisoners in Los Angeles County’s jail system. An incident that occurred in August 2008, however, demonstrated …
Report Highlights Continuing Problems with Florida Department of Corrections by Derek Gilna The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) was the subject of a recent Prison Legal News cover story that detailed prisoner deaths, excessive use of force by guards, and other types of misconduct and corruption. [See: PLN, Feb. 2016, …
Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Suit Filed by Widow of Workplace-Harassed Prison Guard by Derek Gilna California state prison guard Scott Jones committed suicide in 2011, leaving a note that said, “the job made me do it.” His wife, Janelle Jones, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the California …
Texas County Jail, Beset by Prisoner Deaths, has Highest Suicide Rate by Matthew Clarke A wrongful death suit filed by the parents of a 30-year-old Bexar County, Texas jail prisoner who died of a methadone overdose while in solitary confinement at the lock-up settled in February 2015 for $200,000, and …
Brief • February 26, 2016
Stephens v. Sheriff of Palm Beach County, FL, Judgment, sheriff shooting unarmed paraplegic, 2014 Case 9:14-cv-80425-BSS Document 297 Entered on FLSD Docket 02/26/2016 Page 1 of 2 U NITED STATES DISTRICT C O URT SO UTH ER N DISTRICT O F FLO RIDA CASE NO .9:14-cv-80425-CO H N/SELTZER EVETT L.SIM …
Article • February 17, 2016
Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss Colorado Warden from Prisoner's Inadequate-Medical-Care Suit by Matthew Clarke On June 26, 2015, a Colorado federal court denied a warden's motion to dismiss him from a prisoner's lawsuit claiming near-fatal deliberate indifference to his serious medical. The warden was included in the suit for failure …
Burke v. CorrectCare-Integrated Health, KY, Complaint, Inmate Starved to Death, 2016 Case 5:15-cv-00007-TBR Document 105 Filed 02/04/16 Page 1 of 30 PageID #: 684 Case 5:15-cv-00007-TBR Document 105 Filed 02/04/16 Page 2 of 30 PageID #: 685 Case 5:15-cv-00007-TBR Document 105 Filed 02/04/16 Page 3 of 30 PageID #: 686 …
Jackson v. Jesus Tellado et al, NY, Verdict, police racial bias, 2016 Case 1:11-cv-03028-PKC-SMG Document 99 Filed 02/03/16 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 2187 FILED IN CLERK'SOFFICI! U.S. DISTRICTCOURrE.D.ll.Y. * *FEBD32016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK BROOKLYN OFACE LARRY JACKSON, Plaintiff; SPECIAL VERDICT SHEET 1!-CV-3028 …
Florida’s Department of Corrections: A Culture of Corruption, Abuse and Deaths by David Reutter Florida, with the nation’s third-largest prison system, has a long and sordid history of abusing, neglecting and even killing its prisoners. Because most state prisons are in insular rural areas, the general public, aside from those …
Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons? by Laura Cepero Florida’s prisons have become notorious for their abuse and neglect of the people in their care. Now, as per an agreement between the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) and Disability Rights Florida, the state will be overhauling …
Crouse v. Allegheny County, PA, Pltff Proposed Jury Instructions, Wrongful Death, 2016 Case 2:09-cv-01221-DSC Document 209 Filed 01/19/16 Page 1 of 42 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA BEVERLY CROUSE, as Administrator of ) the Estate of Shiva Lal Acharya, deceased, ) on behalf …
Article • January 12, 2016
Ohio County Jail Overcrowded, Understaffed and On Verge of 'Catastrophe' by Joe Watson The results of a September 2013 inspection of the Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio, revealed that the facility failed to adequately meet 48 of 69 standards set by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC). …
Article • January 12, 2016
Escape from Jail in Small Washington Town Not, Like, a 'Big Raging' Deal by Joe Watson When Johnny Cagle, 53, escaped from the Wapato jail near Yakima, Washington, on the evening of July 1, 2013, he probably assumed he had precious, little time to get as far away as possible …
Article • January 11, 2016
Washington State Must Rehire 3 Guards Fired for Complacency by David Reutter An arbitrator ordered the state of Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) to rehire three guards fired on the heels of a guard’s murder. The arbitrator’s ruling found that “widespread… complacency” existed at the Monroe correctional Complex (MCC), which …
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