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Criminal Guards in Texas by Four female guards were each freed from Jefferson County Jail on $6,000 bond early in January 2002 after being charged with crimes involving sex with Texas prisoners. The four women were employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) at the Mark W. Stiles …
CCA Conditions Claim Not Frivolous by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Tennessee Federal District Court's dismissal of a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims as frivolous, vacating and remanding part of the lower court's decision with instructions. David Dellis is a Wisconsin prisoner who was for a …
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
New Florida Trend: Abuse in a Spray Can by Frank Valdes may have accomplished in death what he could not in life: a decrease in prisoner beatings by guards. The problem of abusive guards, nonetheless, has not disappeared after Valdes's murder. The form of the abuse has progressed to frequent …
Two Private Kentucky Youth Facilities Closed for Abuse by Gary Hunter It took only six weeks for the Juvenile Justice Department (JJD) to close two Kentucky Youth Academy (KYA) facilities. On Sept. 14th, 2001 the Kentucky Division of Protection and Advocacy (DPA) filed suit in federal court charging the Central …
Deputy Causing Loss of Fingertip States Federal and State Claims by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in North Carolina has ruled that a prisoner who lost his fingertip when a deputy slammed a cell door window cover on his finger has stated a proper claim under state …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
$540,000 Settlement in Minnesota Jail Beating by In October 2001, Hennepin County, Minnesota, agreed to pay $540,000 to settle a brutality suit against the county jail. It is believed to be the largest brutality settlement in county history. On September 4, 2000, Derek Martin, 43, was arrested on suspicion of …
U.S. Supreme Court: Administrative Exhaustion Required for All Prisoner Section 1983 Suits by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The US Supreme Court ruled that under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), exhaustion of administrative remedies is required in all prisoner civil rights suits pertaining to prison life, regardless …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
$1,500 Awarded in New York Slapping Case by A New York federal district court has held that minor injury incurred from excessive force by a prison guard is actionable, and awarded damages after a bench trial. The court found it was undisputed that while prisoner Larenzo Romaine was housed at …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
Third Circuit Vacates $300,000 Beating Award, Orders New Trial by by Matthew T. Clarke The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a $300,000 jury award in a prisoner's excessive-use-of-force suit and ordered a new trial for liability and damages. Raymond T. Pryer, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, filed a civil …
Three Arkansas Guards Sentenced in Beating by On August 22, 1999 Arkansas prisoner Terry Botts received a beating at the Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys by three guards while his hands were handcuffed behind his back. The guards determined the severity of the injuries he sustained would not require hospitalization, …
Ohio Prison Supervisors Possibly Liable for Employing Known Racist Guard by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment to Ohio prison officials and remanded for trial a case involving alleged official indifference to the actions of a known racist guard. The appeals …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
New York Assault and Medical Case Settled for $5,000 by On August 28, 2001, New York state prison officials agreed to pay $5,000.00 to settle a prisoner's lawsuit that he was beaten by prison guards and then denied medical care. In 1993, prisoner Easton Beckford, who is also wheelchair bound, …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Oregon Jail Settles Taser Suit for $197,000 by In December 2000, the Clackamas county jail in Oregon settled a lawsuit with Stephen J. Thom for $197,000. On July 24, 2000, Thom, who suffered brain damage in a 1981 accident, was drunk and brought to the jail's booking section. While he …
$377,500 Awarded in Tennessee Jail Death by In September 2001, a federal jury in Memphis, Tennessee, awarded $377,500 in damages to the estate of a mentally ill jail prisoner killed by guards. In November 1996, Calvin Shaw, a paranoid schizophrenic, was arrested on sexual assault charges and imprisoned at the …
Former CCA Captain and Texas Probation Officer Pleads Guilty by On October 25, 2001, Jason Driskell, 27, a former captain at the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) operated Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCF) in Tennessee, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges in federal court. Driskell admitted that in 1999 he …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
Angola Prisoner Wins $1.5 Million Verdict Against Five Guards for Assault by Lonnie Burton In January 2001, pro se prisoner John Poullard won a $1.5 million judgment against five guards who beat him in retaliation for other lawsuits and complaints he had previously filed. Poullard, who is serving time at …
PLRA Protects Lawless Guards Accused in Prisoner Beating by A lawsuit filed by a federal prisoner in Colorado provides a clear example of how the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) protects lawless prison guards from the consequences of their blatantly illegal actions. William Vance Turner is a Federal Bureau of …
Death Toll Hits 87 as Turkish Prison Protest Strike Continues by Julia Lutsky On November 4, 2001, Turkish police used armored vehicles to batter down the barricades protesters had erected in Kucakarmutlu, an outlying district on the European side of Istanbul. The semi-official news agency Anatolia reported four protesters had …
BOP Settles Prisoner Beating/Restraint Lawsuit for $99,000 by BOP Settles Prisoner Beating/Restraint Lawsuit For $99,000 In the summer of 1997, Lealon Muldrow was incarcerated in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) of the United States Penitentiary (USP) at Atlanta .On July 1 of that year, Muldrow was threatened with being chained …
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