From His Georgia Cell, Prisoner Cons Billionaire of $11 Million by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On October 14, 2022, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified the victim of a spectacular con carried out by a Georgia prisoner from his cell. In June 2020, while serving time at Georgia Diagnostic …
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
SCOTUS Sides With Condemned Georgia Prisoner Who Wants To Be Executed by Firing Squad by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Though Georgia has no other way to kill him, a condemned state prisoner convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to agree on June 23, 2022, that his objection to lethal …
Mom Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth to Doomed Baby in “Georgia’s Toughest Para-Military Jail” by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman On September 2, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia accepted an amended complaint from a former detainee in the Clayton County Jail who …
Estate of Thomas Giles v. Ga Dept of Corrections, GA,Complaint, Wrongful Death-Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-00084-JRH-BKE Document 18 Filed 09/22/22 Page 1 of 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA AUGUSTA DIVISION VANESSA LOYAL, Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, ROBERT ROBERSON, individually, MARCUS PHILLIPS, individually, REGGIE …
“Unconscionable and Unacceptable” Conditions in Georgia DOC With 57 Prisoners Murdered in Two Years by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian In August 2022, during their federal civil rights trial for running down and fatally shooting an unarmed jogger, Ahmaud Arbury, in Brunswick in February 2020, attorneys for father and son …
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Githieya v. Global Tel Link Corp, GA,Order Granting Settlement, Breach of Contract, 2022 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 369 Filed 08/30/22 Page 1 of 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CIVIL ACTION NO: 1:15-CV-00986-AT GLOBAL TEL LINK CORP., Defendant. ORDER GRANTING …
Githieya v. Global Tel Link Corp, GA, Judgment, Breach of Contract, 2022 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 370 Filed 08/30/22 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, et al., Plaintiff(s), CIVIL ACTION FILE vs. NO. 1:15-cv-986-AT GLOBAL TEL LINK CORP, Defendant(s). JUDGMENT This …
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 …
Elderly Georgia Jail Guard Charged with Committing Rape While On Duty and In Uniform by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On May 31, 2022, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) agents announced the arrest of an 81-year-old jail guard in Walker County who allegedly “had sex with a woman …
News in Brief by Alabama:The Birmingham News reported that a jail guard in Mobile was arrested on May 17, 2022, for smuggling adult movies intoMobile County Metro Jail. The guard, Fredrick Johnson, 37, was charged with 21 counts of promoting contraband that included a camera, phone chargers, and flash drives, …
Class Certified in Discrimination Suit by Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Georgia Prisoners by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On December 29, 2021, a federal court in Georgia granted a group of deaf and hearing-impaired state prisoners class certification in their suit against state prison and parole officials, challenging the adequacy of …
Barrientos v. CoreCivic, GA, Memorandum of Law, Unfair Labor, 2022 Case 4:18-cv-00070-CDL Document 239-1 Filed 07/01/22 Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMBUS DIVISION WILHEN HILL BARRIENTOS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CORECIVIC, INC., Civil Action No. 4:18-cv-00070-CDL (REDACTED) Defendant. MEMORANDUM OF LAW …
Barrientos v. CoreCivic, GA, Memorandum of Law, Abuse of Detained Workers, 2022 Case 4:18-cv-00070-CDL Document 239-1 Filed 07/01/22 Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMBUS DIVISION WILHEN HILL BARRIENTOS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CORECIVIC, INC., Civil Action No. 4:18-cv-00070-CDL (REDACTED) Defendant. MEMORANDUM …
Barrientos v. CoreCivic, GA, Memorandum, Abuse of Detained Workers, 2022 Case 4:18-cv-00070-CDL Document 238-1 Filed 07/01/22 Page 1 of 48 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMBUS DIVISION WILHEN HILL BARRIENTOS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CORECIVIC, INC., Defendant. Civil Action No. 4:18-cv-00070-CDL (REDACTED) MEMORANDUM OF LAW …
Environmental Justice for Unaccompanied Migrant Children—Response to Request for Information (RFI): 2022 HHS Environmental Justice Strategy and Implementation Plan Draft Outline (Document No. 2022-07514) Earthjustice · American Friends Service Committee Florida · Hispanic Federation Respond Crisis Translation · Alianza Nacional de Campesinas · GreenLatinos Farmworker Association of Florida · National …
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 …
Georgia Sheriff Victor Hill Facing Criminal Trial for Using Restraint Chair to Punish Jail Detainees by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Victor Hill, Sheriff of Georgia’s Clayton County, will face a jury trial on September 26, 2022, on seven federal charges of violating the civil rights of jail detainees …
$2.2 Million Settlement Over Transgender Georgia Prisoner’s Suicide Is Largest in State DOC History by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 7, 2021, the parents of a 25-year-old transwoman who committed suicide while imprisoned in the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) dismissed their federal civil rights lawsuit against DOC …
