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Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Minnesota Supreme Court: Prisoner Abused with Overtight Handcuffs Need Only Show Deliberate Indifference, Not Malicious Intent by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clark On December 14, 2022, the Minnesota Supreme Court took up a state prisoner’s claim that he was left with permanent nerve damage from restraints guards misused during a …
Article • June 13, 2023
Florida Prison Guard Arrested in Apparent Love-Triangle Shooting by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman An off-duty Florida prison guard was arrested on June 7, 2023, after he allegedly shot a woman several times outside her home. Wilner Cyprien, 31, a state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard at Martin Correctional Institution …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Sing Sing Prisoners File Suit Against New York State Alleging Vicious Beating by Guards by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 31, 2023, a group of 26 prisoners housed in New York’s notorious Sing Sing maximum-security prison brought suit against the state for an assault on them by guards …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
“All Signals Blinking Red” at Federal Prison in West Virginia After DOJ Releases Report on Killing of Mobster “Whitey” Bulger by Benjamin Tschirhart, Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian and Benjamin Tschirhart Citing “bureaucratic incompetence,” as well as “flawed, confusing and insufficient” policies and procedures, a December 2022 report by …
Article • May 24, 2023
Lawsuit Accuses New Mexico Guards of Beating and Abusing Prisoner During Shakedown by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A civil rights complaint filed by attorney Mallory Gagon of the New Mexico Prison and Jail Project in April 2023 alleges that five Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility guards, two …
Oklahoma County Pays $1.1 Million After Jail Guards Fatally Beat Detainee by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On September 1, 2022, the federal courtfor the Western District of Oklahoma granted dismissal to plaintiffs in a suit against Oklahoma County, after they agreed to a $1.1 million settlement in the death …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Fourth Circuit Rejects Appeal of $700,000 Award to Maryland Prisoner Assaulted by Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 13, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to review its dismissal of an appeal …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Claim That LaSalle Guards Fatally Beat Louisiana Pre-Trial Detainee by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 22, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated claims previously dismissed in a lawsuit filed over a detainee’s fatal beating at a prison privately operated by …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Texas Detainee’s Asphyxiation by Jail Guards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 13, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed dismissal of a lawsuit filed over the death of a Texas detainee during an altercation with jail guards. Kelli …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Fifth Circuit Upholds Qualified Immunity for Texas Prison Guard Who Beat Prisoner’s Arm With Baton Until It Broke by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 31, 2022, the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of qualified immunity (QI) to a Texas prison guard …
Brief • April 28, 2023
Silva-Prentice v. Turco, MA, Affidavit-Kara Morello-Quinn, Excessive Force, 2023 Case 1:21-cv-11580-PBS Document 100-1 Filed 04/28/23 Page 1 of 8 EXHIBIT 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS ROBERT SILVA-PRENTICE and DIONISIO PAULINO, Plaintiffs, CIVIL ACTION NO. I :21-cv-11580 V. THOMAS TURCO and CAROL MICI, et al., Defendants …
Brief • April 28, 2023
Silva-Prentice v. Turco, MA, Dft's Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion to Compel, Excessive Force, 2023 Case 1:21-cv-11580-PBS Document 100 Filed 04/28/23 Page 1 of 17 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS (EASTERN DIVISION - BOSTON) ROBERT SILVA-PRENTICE and DIONISIO PAULINO, Civil No. 1:21-cv-11480-PBS Plaintiffs, v. …
Article • April 27, 2023
New Riker’s Crisis Response Chief Accused in Beating of Teen Detainee Kalief Browder by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Old ghosts have come back to haunt the promotion of Vincent Grinnage to head the Emergency Services Unit (ESU) for the New York City Department of Correction (DOC). It cost the …
Article • April 19, 2023
Sing Sing Prisoners Sue, Alleging Vicious Beatings During CERT Shakedown by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 31, 2023, a group of 26 prisoners at New York’s notorious maximum-security Sing Sing Correctional Facility sued the state for assaults allegedly carried out by guards during a two-day prison-wide shakedown in …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Former State Prison Guards in Georgia Sentenced for Prisoner Assaults and Cover-Up by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On September 28, 2022, four former guards at Georgia’s Valdosta State Prison were sentenced for beating a handcuffed prisoner and then attempting to conceal what happened. Sgt. Patrick Sharpe, 30, received four …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Former Georgia Sheriff Gets 18 Months for Punishing Detainees in Restraint Chair by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 14, 2023, a federal judge in Georgia sentenced former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill to an 18-month federal prison term for violating the civil rights of pretrial detainees in …
Former CoreCivic Guard Pleads Guilty to Deprivation of Tennessee Prisoner’s Rights by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On April 8, 2022, a former supervising guard at a private prison operated for the Tennessee Department of Corrections pleaded guilty to two counts of civil rights violations for assaulting a compliant prisoner. …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
$11.75 Million Settlement for Prisoner Beating in Pheonix Jail by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On June 7, 2022, the federal court for the District of Arizona granted dismissal to claims made by the mother of an 18-year-old prisoner left permanently disabled in a brutal beating at Maricopa County’s …
$35,000 Awarded to Federal Prisoner in Kentucky Who Accused Guards of Using Excessive Force by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In July 2019, Jonathan Lee Smith was a prisoner at the U.S. Penitentiary near Kentucky’s Big Sandy River, when he got in a fight with another prisoner and guards responded. …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Second Circuit Reinstates N.Y. Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim, Finding Grievance Procedure ‘Unavailable’ in Mental Health Unit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 15, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a New York prisoner was excused from exhausting administrative remedies as required …
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