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News in Brief
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Male Reproductive, Malpractice, Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Juvenile Prisons, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bribery/Extortion/Theft
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
First Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Maine Guards who Ogled Prisoner During Childbirth
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Qualified Immunity, Children of Prisoners
First Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Maine Guards who Ogled Prisoner During Childbirth by David Reutter On September 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) for a pair of Maine jailers whom a prisoner accused of violating her …
Connecticut Court Denies Access to Video of Prisoner’s Fatal Beat-Down by Guards
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Videotaping, Guard Brutality/Beatings
Connecticut Court Denies Access to Video of Prisoner’s Fatal Beat-Down by Guards by On April 9, 2025, Defendant Connecticut prison officials lost their second attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed over the death of prisoner J’Allen Jones, 31, following an altercation with guards at Garner Correctional Institution on March 25, …
News in Brief
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: Clarke County Jail guard Larissa Thompson was arrested on December 5, 2024, for plotting to smuggle drugs into the lockup, the Thomasville Times reported. An investigation by state law enforcement, the office of County Sheriff DeWayne Smith, and Jackson Police uncovered evidence that Thompson planned …
Charges Dismissed Against Connecticut Guards Who Assaulted Prisoner
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Dismissal, Social Media, Acquitted Conduct/Uncharged Crimes/Dismissed Counts
Charges Dismissed Against Connecticut Guards Who Assaulted Prisoner by Misdemeanor assault charges were tentatively dismissed in November 2024 against three Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) guards accused of assaulting Garner Correctional Institution prisoner Elijah Hamlin, 26, in a 2023 incident captured on leaked cellphone video. Danbury Superior Court Judge Charles …
News in Brief
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Brisbane Correctional Center prisoner Jack James Peterson, 29, was sentenced to an additional 18 months in January 2023 for assaulting a guard with a squash racket, the Courier reported. Peterson struck the unnamed 34-year-old during a confrontation involving a riot response team, leaving him with …
News in Brief
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Henry Guice, Jr., 46, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on September 9, 2024, for his role in a drug smuggling conspiracy at Staton Correctional Facility. The Birmingham News reported that a fellow guard was inspecting …
News in Brief
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Mobile Metro Jail guard Robert Aaron Small was fired and arrested for assault on June 27, 2024, one day after he allegedly used excessive force against an unnamed detainee. WKRG in Mobile said that the guard had worked at the lockup since 2019. Mobile County …
News in Brief
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
$25.2 Million Settlement for Two Connecticut Prisoners Exonerated After 35 Years
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
$25.2 Million Settlement for Two Connecticut Prisoners Exonerated After 35 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A unanimous vote by Connecticut’s House Committee on Judiciary on March 1, 2024, all but assured state lawmakers would approve an agreement made in August 2023 by state Attorney General William Tong …
Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Transgender, Transgender Medical Procedures, Discrimination (Transgender)
Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria by Douglas Ankney Douglas Ankney On September 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted a transexual prisoner’s motion for summary judgment in a suit accusing the state Department of Correction (DOC) of violating …
In Suit Over Connecticut Prisoner’s Death, Attorney General Will No Longer Represent Guard Convicted of Assault
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Filed under: Attorneys General, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
In Suit Over Connecticut Prisoner’s Death, Attorney General Will No Longer Represent Guard Convicted of Assault by On August 20, 2023, Connecticut newspapers reported that state Attorney General William Tong (D) announced his office would no longer defend a former state prison guard convicted of assaulting a prisoner in a …
Second Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity from Connecticut Officials Who Ignored Prisoner’s Scalp Lesions
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Filed under: Skin, Failure to Treat, Infections, Qualified Immunity, Medical Expenses/Treatment, Dismissal, Deliberate Indifference
Second Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity from Connecticut Officials Who Ignored Prisoner’s Scalp Lesions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Observing that “Eighth Amendment claims for the deprivation of medical care are not analyzed body-part by body-part,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on July 14, …
News in Brief
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Three jail guards in the Yellowhammer State were hit with drug smuggling charges in August 2023 and another the month after. WAFF in Huntsville reported that Morgan County Jail guard Bobby Simmons, 19, was arrested on August 3, 2023, when he was charged with promoting …
Connecticut Lawmakers Punt on Limiting Prison Strip Searches
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Strip Searches, Body Cavity Searches, Pat Searches, Search and Seizure
Connecticut Lawmakers Punt on Limiting Prison Strip Searches by David Reutter by David M. Reutter During their 2023 session, Connecticut lawmakers took a pass on legislation to rein in routine prison strip searches, which advocates testified were “humiliating” and “intrusive.” There was, however, widespread interest in appearing interested in the …
Birch v. Town of New Milford, CT, Settlement -Birch Signature, Wrongful Conviction, 2023
Brief • September 19, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Birch v. Town of New Milford, CT, Settlement -Birch Signature, Wrongful Conviction, 2023 SETTLEMENT AND RELEASE AGREEMENT THIS SETTLEMENT AND RELEASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made and 19th entered into this _____ day of September 2023 between the plaintiffs Ralph Birch and Shawn Henning (hereinafter collectively referred to as the …
Former Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge Proceeds Against “Pay-to-Stay” Fees
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Booking Fees, Constitutional Challenges/Law
Former Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge Proceeds Against “Pay-to-Stay” Fees by According to an analysis published by the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice on April 19, 2023, the cost of locking up America’s two million prisoners and detainees exceeds government agencies’ ability to afford it. With the help of tough-on-crime lawmakers, that …
Clark v. Quiros, CT, Memorandum of Decision on Cross Motions for Summary Judgment, Transgender-Failure to Provide Care, 2023
Brief • September 15, 2023
Filed under: Transgender, Transgender Medical Procedures
Clark v. Quiros, CT, Memorandum of Decision on Cross Motions for Summary Judgment, Transgender-Failure to Provide Care, 2023 Case 3:19-cv-00575-VLB Document 194 Filed 09/15/23 Page 1 of 73 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT VERONICA-MAY (Neé Nicholas) Clark Plaintiff, v. ANGEL QUIROS, DR. GERALD VALLETTA, RICHARD BUSH, AND BARBARA …
Connecticut GOP Lawmakers Force Governor to Replace Pardon Board Chair, Stopping All Commutation Hearings
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Connecticut GOP Lawmakers Force Governor to Replace Pardon Board Chair, Stopping All Commutation Hearings by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi A spate of Connecticut commutations in 2022 didn’t come close to resolving the backlog in applications, only one of which had been granted in two years. But it piqued the …
Cox v. City of New Haven, CT ,Settlement, Excessive Force, 2023
Brief • August 9, 2023
Filed under: Excessive Force
Cox v. City of New Haven, CT ,Settlement, Excessive Force, 2023 SETTLEME NT AGREEMEN T AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release (the "Settlement Agreement") is made and entered 9th August, _ _ _ __, by and between: _ _2023 _ _ _ _ _ day of _ into this …
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