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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$1.75 Million Settlement Reached in Washington Jail Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Washington city of Lynnwood agreed on September 20, 2023, to pay $1.75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging guards at the Lynnwood Municipal Jail were negligent in the suicide death of Tirhas Tesfatsion two …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
N.J. Prison Guard Sacked Over Mock George Floyd Killing by On September 20, 2023, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission upheld a decision by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) allowing the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to fire a state prison guard involved in a mock killing of George Floyd …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Four TDCJ Guards Resign, Seven Suspended for Beating Handcuffed Prisoner Into Coma by After allegedly attacking one guard on September 5, 2023, Texas prisoner Kiheem Grant, 48, was brutally beaten by a group of 11 more, four of whom have now resigned from the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Guard and Four Summit Food Service Employees Arrested for Smuggling at Troubled Atlanta Jail by A former guard at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta and four employees of its food service contractor, Summit Food Services (SFS), are among a half-dozen people accused of running a smuggling ring at the …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
With Guard Arrests at Georgia Jail, Sheriff Asks, “What Are We Doing Wrong?” by As much as he works to maintain a highly trained and ethical staff, Sheriff Richard Roundtree of Georgia’s Richmond County finds the goal elusive. As of August 2023, 33 deputies had been arrested over the last …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Former Oklahoma Undersheriff Gets 22 Months In Prison for Beating Handcuffed Jail Detainee by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 13, 2023, Kendall Brian Morgan, 45, a former undersheriff in Oklahoma’s LeFlore County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison, followed by 36 months of …
Seventh Circuit Finds Jail Guard May Be Liable for Delayed Response to Illinois Detainee’s Fatal Heart Attack by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a suit alleging delayed medical care caused the …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Rikers Island Guard Accidentally Records Himself Planting Shiv in Prisoner’s Cell by Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber announced on October 27, 2023, that a guard at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex had been indicted for evidence …
Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless” by In a weird-but-true story that’s oddly fitting for Alabama’s wretched prison system, the body of a state prisoner murdered on November 16, 2023, was returned to his survivors five days later without a heart. That is the claim of a lawsuit filed in federal …
Former Florida Guard Gets Five Years for Fatal Assault on Mentally Ill Prisoner by A former Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) guard at Lake Correctional Institution (LCI) was sentenced on October 20, 2023, to five years in state prison for killing a mentally ill prisoner. That was after another prisoner …
Multiple Staffers Arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail by Eight employees were arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail in 2023, including guard Jalen Clausel. He was taken in five days after Sheriff Levon Allen said the guard let four detainees assault a fifth on October 28, 2023. None of the …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Fifth BOP Employee Sentenced in California “Rape Club,” Another Lawsuit Filed by Former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Andrew Jones, 36, is now part of the notorious “rape club” at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, receiving the longest sentence so far in the ongoing scandal when U.S. District …
“Brushed It Under the Rug”: Investigation Refutes Florida Sheriff’s Story About Jail Detainee’s Death by On September 8, 2022, Carl Harper, Jr. died in Florida’s Lee County Jail, a day after his arrest. A press statement five days later from the office of the county Sheriff (LCSO), Carmine Marceno, and …
$7.75 Million Paid by San Diego County After Jail Detainee Severely Injured in Fall from Top Bunk by A lawsuit filed in federal court against San Diego County and various jail employees settled on March 20, 2023, for $7.75 million, following four years of litigation. The underlying facts unfolded the …
New York State Struggles to Hold Prison Guards Accountable for Abuse by An investigation published by The Marshall Project on May 19, 2023, examined the struggle by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to hold its guards accountable for abusing state prisoners. Over a span …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
“Missing” Texas Prisoner Prompts Lockdown by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 20, 2022, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDJC) said that a prisoner reported missing the day before at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont had been “found within the prison’s perimeter fence.” But in a letter …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Arkansas Guard Accused of Provoking One Prisoner to Attack Another by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the judgment of a lower court in favor of Arkansas prisoner Deverick …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
New York Succeeds in Firing Fewer Than 10% of Guards Accused of Prisoner Abuse by A report published by The Marshall Project (TMP) on May 19, 2023, found that the disciplinary process in the New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) “fails to hold many guards accountable” in …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$110,000 Paid By Tennessee Jail to Women Allegedly Forced to Stage “Sex Shows” for Guard by On October 26, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Tennessee granted dismissal to a complaint filed by two former detainees at the Grainger County Jail, after they accepted $110,000 to settle …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Louisiana Prison Guard Helps Pregnant Prisoner and Learns That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished by When she met a pregnant young prisoner struggling with drug addiction, a guard at Louisiana’s Transition Center for Women (TCW) offered to care for the baby when it was born. On May 17, 2023, the …
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