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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 …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$325,000 Paid to Former Wisconsin Prisoner Whose Cancer Biopsy Was Delayed by Previously Disciplined Doctor by Chuck Sharman On September 19, 2024, Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Mary Kathlin Sickel put the final signature on an agreement paying $325,000 to former state prisoner Darnell Price, settling his claims that a state …
$42,000 Paid to Wisconsin Prisoner Allowed to Harm Himself While Under Observation by Anthony Accurso On November 19, 2024, the State of Wisconsin paid $42,000 to settle a trio of lawsuits filed by a state prisoner making claims of excessive force and deliberate indifference to his medical needs. Waupun Correctional …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Wisconsin Robbery Suspect Frames Immigrant Detainee with Forged Letters Threatening to Kill Trump by Demetric D. Scott, 52, is facing criminal charges in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after forging letters threatening Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) under the name of an undocumented immigrant. Scott, in sending a letter to the Department of …
Preliminary Injunction Issued Against Milwaukee Jail’s Mail Policy in HRDC Suit by Like many local lockups, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) imposes restrictions on the number and types of books and periodicals that prisoners and detainees can receive. As of July 2024, MCJ’s mail policy required periodicals to be “mailed …
Seventh Circuit Revives Former Illinois Prisoner’s Claim for Delayed Hepatitis-C Treatment by David Reutter On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a former Illinois prisoner’s deliberate indifference claim against a healthcare provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) could proceed …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Former Wisconsin Warden Gets No Cell Time, $500 Fine After Prisoner Deaths by Former Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) Warden Randall Hepp took a deal before his sentencing on April 28, 2025, accepting a $500 fine in exchange for his no-contest plea to a misdemeanor charge of violating state and …
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, …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wisconsin Prisoner Inhaled His Own Teeth in Fatal Beatdown by On January 8, 2025, Racine County Jail detainee Davonte Carraway, 29, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the brutal and fatal beating nine days earlier of state prisoner Joseph Lee, 35. Lee was found “stuffed into a garbage can” …
Three More Prisoners Die, Three More Staffers Fired at Wisconsin Prison by At Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution, 11 staffers have now been fired or resigned in the wake of a federal probe sparked by a spate of prisoner deaths that has now reached a total of seven in just two …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Agrees to Improve Services for Hearing-Impaired Prisoners by On September 25, 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) entered into a pre-litigation settlement agreement with the federal Department of Justice (DOJ), promising to improve services provided to deaf and hard of hearing prisoners, in compliance with Title II …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Self-Harming Wisconsin Prisoner Settles Failure-to-Protect Suit for $7,000 by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution has been plagued by prisoner deaths and suicides, the most of recent of which are reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, Apr. 2025, p.33.] One of those who survived a suicide …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Seventh Circuit Offers Wisconsin Prisoner Just a Little Help in Suit Alleging He Was Held in Feces-Stained Cell Without Water by On June 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit partially vacated a summary judgment dismissal of a Wisconsin prisoner’s civil rights suit alleging that …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Under Fire for Hiring Censured Doctors by The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) was on the hot seat after an investigation published in the New York Times on July 2, 2024, revealed that nearly a third of physicians hired by the prison system over the past decade had …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
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News in Brief by Alabama: Wiregrass Daily News reported that Mobile Metro Jail guard Timothy Lee Scarbrough, 39, was arrested on September 9, 2024, and charged with first-degree sodomy for the alleged sexual assaulting of a detainee who was still under the effects of anesthesia after eye surgery. Scarbrough had …
Brief • November 18, 2024
Filed under: Excessive Force
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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 …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Milwaukee County Pays $1.05 Million Judgment for Bankrupt Armor Correctional Health to Former Jail Detainee by Miami-&shy;based Armor Correctional Health had virtually no experience in providing medical care to prisoners when Dr. Jose Jesus Armas started the firm in 2004, but over the next few years it amassed millions of …
“Like Being Back in Jail”: Wisconsin Returns Released Sex Offenders to Lifetime GPS Monitoring by On April 1, 2024, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) signed SB 874 into law, effectively nullifying a state Supreme Court ruling issued the previous year that directed the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to remove …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: State prisoner Brigido Montoya made the briefest of escapes from the State Prison Complex in Eyman on August 10, 2024, before he was recaptured 48 minutes later by Florence Police, the Florence Reminder &amp; Blade-Tribune reported. The state Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) …
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