Missouri Office of Administration, Evaluation and Award for Prisoner Health Care Services to Centurion of Missouri, 2021 Michael L. Parson Governor Sarah H. Steelman Commissioner State of Missouri OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Division of Purchasing 301 West High Street, Room 630 Post Office Box 809 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0809 (573) 751-2387 …
Letter Re Evaluation and Award -Response to Request for Proposal for Comp Health Care Services for DOC -05-21-21 Michael L. Parson Governor Sarah H. Steelman Commissioner State of Missouri OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Division of Purchasing 301 West High Street, Room 630 Post Office Box 809 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0809 (573) …
News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2021, Huntsville TV station WHNT reported a delay in the trial on theft and ethics charges of Mike Blakely, sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama. According to the report, retired Colbert County Circuit Judge Pride Tompkins, who had been appointed to hear the case …
Why Did a St. Louis Man Die in a Federal Prison Coronavirus Hotspot? by Mike Fitzgerald by Mike Fitzgerald, originally published by the Riverfront Times Derrick Howard was tough — prison tough. Howard grew up in the St. Louis suburb of Normandy. In his late teens, before his first stretch …
Federal Court Finds Missouri Parole System Unconstitutional by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri entered an order on November 12, 2020, finding that Missouri’s parole system was unconstitutional, handing down a laundry list of corrections needed. The problem was Missouri’s handling …
Estate of Reavis v. Saint Louis County, MO, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2021 ... SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS (hereinafter the Jfl Bt+O xxxxx 16th "Agreement'') is made and entered into as of the day of 20;i{ (the _j_f" ur\l.,,~ , …
Missouri Prisoner Pleaded for Release Before Dying of COVID-19 by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel Rosen Waylon Young Bird, a 52-year-old federal prisoner with serious kidney disease, wrote over a dozen letters to the judge who sentenced him asking for compassionate release. He died of COVID-19 in early November 2020, …
St. Louis, Missouri Guard Has History of Taser Abuse by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen A captain with the St. Louis County Justice Center is under investigation for potentially inappropriate use of a Taser in several recent cases. In May 2020, he employed a Taser to subdue a …
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 21, 2020, Sylvester Hartley became the seventh prisoner to die of complications from COVID-19 at Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to a report in the St. Clair News-Aegis. The 60-year-old, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence for three counts of first-degree kidnapping, …
CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 31, 2020, a motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri revealing that CoreCivic and Securus Technologies (Defendants) had …
Estate of Reavis v. Saint Louis County, MO,Receipt and Satisfaction of Partial Judgment, Wrongful Death, 2020 Case: 4:19-cv-02916-MTS Doc. #: 70 Filed: 12/31/20 Page: 1 of 2 PageID #: 393 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI TAMARA REAVIS, Plaintiff, v. SAINT LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI, et al. …
Estate of Reavis v. Saint Louis County, MO, Partial Judgment Approving Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2020 Case: 4:19-cv-02916-MTS Doc. #: 69 Filed: 12/23/20 Page: 1 of 5 PageID #: 388 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI TAMARA REAVIS, Plaintiff, v. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI, et al. Defendants. …
Malcich v. St. Louis County, MO, Complaint, Failure to Provide Medical Needs, 2020 Case: 4:20-cv-01030-AGF Doc. #: 20 Filed: 12/11/20 Page: 1 of 20 PageID #: 128 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY STATE OF MISSOURI ANGELA MALCICH, Plaintiff, v. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, and TROY DOYLE, in his …
Missouri Executes Prisoner During COVID-19 Crisis by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Whenever the subject of the death penalty comes up, people usually think of Texas, the capital of capital punishment in the United States. [PLN, November 2018, p. 15] However, even the death merchants in the nation’s most carceral, …
News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …
Captain Accused of Abusing Mentally Ill Prisoners Cleared in Internal Investigation by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A captain with the St. Louis County Justice Services Center in Clayton, Missouri was under investigation for allegedly abusing prisoners with histories of mental health problems. The captain had been accused of assaulting …
Missouri Downsizing Prisons to Save Cash by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Missouri Governor Mike Parson on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, announced a plan to close a number of housing units at prisons throughout the state. Budget director Dan Haug said, ‘‘What they are doing is they are consolidating space …
Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections, Motion for Preliminary Injuction, Medical Neglect of Hepatitis C, 2019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI CENTRAL DIVISION 1 2 3 4 MICHAEL G. POSTAWKO, et al., Plaintiffs, 5 6 7 V. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., 8 ) …
Former Missouri Jail Prisoner Ordered to Repay $1.3 Million Settlement for Faking Injuries But Whereabouts Unknown by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On October 17, 2019 a former Missouri prisoner accused of faking injuries while in Boone County Jail was ordered to repay almost $1.3 million from a settlement in which …
$200,000 Awarded to Missouri Prison Guard Over Sexual Harassment, Retaliation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 3, 2019, a Missouri jury entered judgment in favor of a former Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) employee who alleged she had suffered workplace sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation. The jury …
