Death Toll Mounts at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail with Reports of Malnutrition, Medical Neglect and Vermin by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When a 35-year-old detainee died in his cell at the Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta on September 13, 2022, he was found covered in lice. …
Nelson v. CorrectHealth Muscogee, LLC, GA, Order, Negligence, 2022 Case 4:20-cv-00213-CDL Document 198 Filed 12/05/22 Page 1 of 24 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMBUS DIVISION JERRY NELSON, as personal * representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., and * MICHELE …
News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
$54,000 Award for Georgia Prisoner in Failure-To-Protect Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Georgia prisoner who got into a spat with a prison gang and was allegedly sold out to them by guards received a $54,000 judgment in a federal civil rights action on November 21, 2021. …
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
Georgia Sheriff Agrees To Provide Muslim Prisoners With Halal Meals for Ramadan by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On April 19, 2022, Georgia’s DeKalb County Jail (DCJ) and county Sheriff Melody M. Maddox filed a stipulation in a civil suit agreeing to provide religious meals for Muslim prisoners observing daylight …
Georgia Jail Settles Suit Filed by Mentally Ill Female Detainees With Policy Changes and $1.2 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 4, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia gave final approval to a settlement in a lawsuit brought …
11th Circuit Tells Sexually Assaulted Transgender Georgia Prisoner: PREA Violations Aren’t Per Se Eighth Amendment Violations by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On February 2, 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear her appeal, a transgender Georgia prisoner was thwarted in her …
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, …
