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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, …
News in Brief
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
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News in Brief by Alabama: A Jefferson County Jail guard was briefly abducted and assaulted by detainee Reontay Harley, 33, on January 13, 2025. WBMA in Birmingham said that after Harley took the unnamed guard hostage inside a cell, responding jail Extraction Unit guards rescued their fellow guard and restrained …
News in Brief
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
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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 • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
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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 …
News in Brief
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
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News in Brief by Alabama: A guard with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was indicted on April 27, 2023, on charges he sexually abused two prisoners at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Aliceville, according to a report by the Birmingham News. Robert D. Smith allegedly had sexual intercourse …
News in Brief
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
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News in Brief by Arizona: A private prison guard in Arizona was picked up on drug charges in California on April 18, 2023, as he made his way back from Mexico with his wife and kids – along with almost 53 pounds of meth and heroin stashed in the gas …
News in Brief
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
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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 …
News in Brief
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
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News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
News in Brief
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
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News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
News in Brief
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
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News in Brief by Alabama: On August 19, 2021, twoconvicted robbers were convicted of murder in the death of a fellow prisoner they and two others attacked in 2017 at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama. According to a report by Montgomery TV station WSFA, Dominique Covin and Roderick DeLaune …
News in Brief
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
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News in Brief by Alabama: On June 9, 2021, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he had sexual intercourse with a prisoner in the laundry room at the women’s prison west of Tuscaloosa. According to the Birmingham …
Opioid Crisis in Canadian Prisons Needs to be Addressed
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Drug Addiction
Opioid Crisis in Canadian Prisons Needs to be Addressed by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Claire Bodkin, Matthew Bonn and Sheila Wildeman wrote an article in March 2020 for The Conversation addressing the need for more comprehensive opioid testing and treatment programs in Canada’s prisons and jails. The crisis has …
Unlike U.S., Many Governments Releasing Large Numbers of Prisoners to Reduce Threat of COVID-19
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Compassionate Release
Unlike U.S., Many Governments Releasing Large Numbers of Prisoners to Reduce Threat of COVID-19 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Around the globe, governments are releasing prisoners in an attempt to mitigate the threat of COVID-19-related mass deaths in their jails and prisons. However, Third World countries are far ahead …
Francis v. Ontario, Canada, Reasons for Decision, Solitary Confinement, 2020
Brief • April 20, 2020
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
Francis v. Ontario, Canada, Reasons for Decision, Solitary Confinement, 2020 CITATION: Francis v. Ontario, 2020 ONSC 1644 COURT FILE NO.: CV-18-591719CP DATE: 2020/04/20 ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE BETWEEN: ) ) CONREY FRANCIS ) ) Plaintiff ) ) – and – ) HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN ) RIGHT OF …
Francis v. Ontario, Canada, Cross Exam Ryan Labrecque, Solitary Confinement, 2019
Brief • August 14, 2019
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
Francis v. Ontario, Canada, Cross Exam Ryan Labrecque, Solitary Confinement, 2019 Court File No. CV-18-591719-00CP ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE BETWEEN: CONREY FRANCIS Plaintiff - and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF ONTARIO Defendant Proceeding under the Class Proceedings Act, 1992 CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RYAN LABRECQUE on his affidavit affirmed …
Canada: Long-Term Segregation of Mentally Ill Prisoners Unconstitutional; $20 Million in Damages
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Mental Health
Canada: Long-Term Segregation of Mentally Ill Prisoners Unconstitutional; $20 Million in Damages by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Recently, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) violated the nation’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms by placing mentally ill prisoners in administrative segregation for …
News in Brief
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
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News in Brief by Alabama: Antwone Wilson broke out of the St. Clair County Correctional Facility on December 4, 2017 along with fellow prisoner Ronald Odell King. The pair separated, and King was quickly captured. While on the lam, Wilson contacted a TV station in his hometown to clarify why …
News in Brief
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
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News in Brief by Alaska: On January 17, 2018, a 43-man riot flared and quickly dissipated on the yard of the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center, leaving five prisoners with injuries and resulting in a facility-wide lockdown. Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Megan Edge said guards deployed pepper spray when …
Canadian Woman Wins Settlement for Death of Son Born in Jail
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: OB/GYN, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners
Canadian Woman Wins Settlement for Death of Son Born in Jail by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Julie Bilotta obtained a settlement from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in the Canadian province of Ontario after staff took nine hours to call emergency personnel when she went into early labor. Her son, …
Canadian Non-profit Seeks Plant-based Focus, No Animal Slaughter at Prison Farms
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Prison Labor, Statistics/Trends, Environmental Law
Canadian Non-profit Seeks Plant-based Focus, No Animal Slaughter at Prison Farms by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A Canadian non-profit organization, Evolve Our Prison Farms (EOPF), has come out in opposition to the Canadian government’s plan, announced in early 2018, to reinstitute prison farms that will include the slaughter of …
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