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News in Brief
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: The Alabama Reflector reported that state lawmakers authorized $800,000 in contracts on February 5, 2026, to defend the state Department of Corrections (DOC) against civil rights lawsuits accusing guards of brutalizing prisoners. $200,000 each will be paid to Capell & Howard in …
Delaware Settles Suit Over Depriving Young Prisoners of Special Education
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Education, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Delaware Settles Suit Over Depriving Young Prisoners of Special Education by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under a legal settlement approved on December 2, 2025, prisoners with learning disabilities held by the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) moved several steps closer to receiving the educational instruction necessary to achieve a …
Delaware’s ACLU Files Action on Behalf Of Six Prisoners 
Assaulted During Midnight Raid
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints
Delaware’s ACLU Files Action on Behalf Of Six Prisoners Assaulted During Midnight Raid by Anthony Accurso On behalf of six prisoners in Delaware, the ACLU filed a civil rights complaint against a Warden and his Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) for assaults and abuse that occurred during a midnight raid. …
News in Brief
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
News in Brief by Alabama: Kadarius Shermaine Todd, 28, a new guard still on probationary status at the Madison County Jail, was fired on April 4, 2025, after allegedly attempting to smuggle contraband into the lockup. He was apprehended upon arrival to meet a contact with a package containing Suboxone, …
Suit Against Delaware DOC Advances With 39 Prisoner Plaintiffs and 40 Defendants
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Lockdowns, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Class Actions
Suit Against Delaware DOC Advances With 39 Prisoner Plaintiffs and 40 Defendants by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 17, 2023, lawyers for a group of 39 current and former prisoners at Delaware’s Sussex Correctional Center (SCC) largely beat back a motion brought by defendant prison officials to …
Guessford v. Douglas, DE, Offer of Judgment, Retaliation, 2023
Brief • September 1, 2023
Filed under: Retaliation
Guessford v. Douglas, DE, Offer of Judgment, Retaliation, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-00185-MAK Document 30 Filed 09/01/23 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: 114 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE JONATHAN B. GUESSFORD vs. Plaintiff CORPORAL STEPHEN DOUGLAS, TROOPER NICHOLAS GALLO, and MASTER CORPORAL RAIFORD BOX, individually and in …
$15,001 Verdict Against Delaware Guard for Gaping Prisoner’s Butt During Strip Search
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Strip Searches, Settlements
$15,001 Verdict Against Delaware Guard for Gaping Prisoner’s Butt During Strip Search by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On February 6, 2023, Judge Paul Wallace in Delaware Superior Court upheld a jury’s $15,001 award for damages against George Pyle, a guard with the state Department of Corrections (DOC), in a …
Bad Lawyering, Bankruptcy Torpedo Suit Over Delaware Prisoner’s Death
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Bad Lawyering, Bankruptcy Torpedo Suit Over Delaware Prisoner’s Death by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins After a long run of bad news,formerDelaware prison health care contractor Connections Community Support Programs (CCSP) caught a break when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit involving a prisoner’s withdrawal death after a CCSP nurse …
News in Brief
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WBAM in Birmingham reported that a guard at the Blount County Jail was taken into custody and fired on January 31, 2023. Joseph Snow, 43, was charged with second-degree assault for injuring a detainee during an incident captured on surveillance video. Sheriff Mike Moon called …
Delaware Prison Guard Indicted for Death of His K-9
Article • February 22, 2023
Filed under: Dogs, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
Delaware Prison Guard Indicted for Death of His K-9 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 31, 2023, a veteran Delaware prison guard was indicted by a state grand jury on a felony count of first-degree assault, for recklessly confining and causing the death of a law …
Third Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity From Delaware Guards Who Held Mentally Ill Prisoner in Solitary for Seven Months
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Mental Health, Immunity - Absolute and Qualified
Third Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity From Delaware Guards Who Held Mentally Ill Prisoner in Solitary for Seven Months by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a decision filed on November 28, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the grant of qualified immunity (QI) to …
Award Slashed for Delaware Prisoner Sexually Groped by Guard
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Settlements
Award Slashed for Delaware Prisoner Sexually Groped by Guard by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On August 24, 2022, the federal court for the District of Delaware granted a state prison guard’s request and nearly eliminated the damages against him awarded to a prisoner that a jury found had …
Davis v Neal, DE, Complaint, Denial of Medical Care, 2022
Brief • July 21, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Davis v Neal, DE, Complaint, Denial of Medical Care, 2022 IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE WILLIAM DAVIS 143 Gabriel Drive Bear, Delaware 19701 ISAAC MONTAGUE Sussex Correctional Institution 23203 Dupont Blvd. Georgetown, Delaware 19947 LUKE ERIXSON 24281 German Road Seaford, Delaware 19973 KEITH CAMPBELL 11 Lochview …
$500,001 Settlement Against Guard Who Groped Delaware Prisoner With Long History of Lost Cases
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Settlements
$500,001 Settlement Against Guard Who Groped Delaware Prisoner With Long History of Lost Cases by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On December 16, 2021, a federal jury awarded Delaware prisoner DeShawn Drumgo $500,001 in damages after concluding a prison guard had inappropriately fondled him. This was the same prisoner who …
News in Brief
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
Drumgo v Kuschel, DE, Notice of Appeal, Sexual Assault, 2021
Brief • December 22, 2021
Filed under: Sexual Assault
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Davis v. Neal, DE, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2021
Brief • December 17, 2021
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Failure to Treat, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Deliberate Indifference
Davis v. Neal, DE, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2021 Case 1:99-mc-09999-UNA Document 1494 Filed 12/17/21 Page 1 of 13 PageID #: 152030 IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE WILLIAM DAVIS 143 Gabriel Drive Bear, Delaware 19701 ISSAC MONTAGUE Sussex Correctional Institution 23203 Dupont Blvd. Georgetown, Delaware 19947 Plaintiffs …
Drumgo v Kuschel, DE, Judgment, Sexual Assault, 2021
Brief • December 16, 2021
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Drumgo v Kuschel, DE, Judgment, Sexual Assault, 2021 Case 1:14-cv-01135-CFC Document 213 Filed 12/16/21 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: 1920 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELA WARE DESHAWN DRUMGO, ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, V. SGT. WILLIAM KUSCHEL, Defendant. ) Civil Action No. …
Drumgo v Kuschel, DE, Jury Verdict Sheet, Sexual Assault, 2021
Brief • December 15, 2021
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Drumgo v Kuschel, DE, Jury Verdict Sheet, Sexual Assault, 2021 Case 1:14-cv-01135-CFC Document 211 Filed 12/15/21 Page 1 of 3 PageID #: 1914 JURY VERDICT SHEET Do you unanimously find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the following: 1. Did DeShawn Drumgo prove that William Kuschel committed an act that …
$15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC’s Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Medical, Malpractice
$15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC’s Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under a pair of consent judgments filed in federal court on October 29 and November 1, 2021, troubled former Delaware Department of Corrections (DOC) health care contractor Connections Community …
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