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New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths by A suit filed in federal court for the District of New Jersey on February 19, 2025, accused officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of failing to protect prisoner Phillip Kellerman from …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$3.4 Million Settlement for Minnesota Jail Death Called “Real-Life Nightmare” by When Lucas John Bellamy, 41, was booked into jail in Minnesota’s Hennepin County on July 18, 2022, he informed staff that he had swallowed a bag of drugs shortly before his arrest. He was taken to a hospital, where …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
14 Overdoses in Two Weeks Leave One Dead at Phoenix Jail by Two detainees overdosed at the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix on February 18, 2025, joining another dozen who overdosed the week before—one of whom later died. Deputies of newly elected Sheriff Jerry Sheridan suspected that one or more …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Suboxone Manufacturer’s Delayed-Release Buprenorphine Injections Show Promise at Maine Jail by The stock price of Richmond, Virginia-based Indivior PLC was down 20% in the first 12 days of February 2025, after delayed approval from the federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) of label changes on its Sublocade medication—a single injection …
Two-Week Lockdown at BOP Women’s Prison in Minnesota After Nine Overdoses, Two Deaths by The Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Waseca, a women’s prison on the former campus of a University of Minnesota technical school, was locked down for over two weeks after a mass drug overdose sent prisoners to …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$1.8 Million Jury Award for San Diego Jail Overdose Death by Matthew Clarke On April 25, 2024, a federal jury in Southern California awarded $1.8 million to the Estate of a detainee who died of a methamphetamine overdose while incarcerated at the San Diego Central Jail. The verdict was preceded …
No Dismissal for San Diego Jail Medical Contractor from Suit Filed Over Detainee’s Withdrawal Death by On February 8, 2024, the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California declined to dismiss all the claims brought by the family of a San Diego Jail detainee who died in custody …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
New Mexico Jail Sued Again After Paying $787,500 In-Custody Death Settlement by New Mexico’s Santa Fe County was hit with another suit in October 2023 over a detainee’s drug-­related death at the county jail, just over a year after agreeing to pay $787,500 to the father of a young woman …
Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania Jail Guards and PrimeCare in Detainee’s Overdose Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to defendant officials with Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg Police Department …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Two Sentenced in Detainee’s Fentanyl Death at North Florida Jail by Two detainees at Florida’s Okaloosa County Jail were sentenced to federal prison on April 5, 2024, for smuggling fentanyl into the lockup and providing it to a detainee, who overdosed and died on Christmas Eve 2022. Gary Chase, 30, …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Eighth Circuit Says Lower Court “Tilted the Scales Too Far” for Jailers in Missouri Detainee’s Fatal Overdose by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials at St. Louis’ “Workhouse” jail …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Pennsylvania Jail Warden Fired, Deputy Warden Resigns After Guard Assaults Detainee by Warden Dave Gallagher of Pennsylvania’s Clearfield County Jail was fired and escorted off the job on December 7, 2023, just over a month after Deputy Warden Eric Bush resigned on October 28, 2023. Their departures follow an alleged …
Eighth Circuit: Arkansas Detainee Suffering Fatal Seizure Might Have Been Faking or Might Have Gotten Better by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a maddening decision issued on January 31, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed the denial of qualified immunity (QI) to four …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Washington DOC Outfits Guards with Narcan by On August 31, 2023, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) completed implementation of a new policy permitting staffers to carry naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, while on duty. But allowing guards to carry the life-­saving drug—used to counteract the effect of a …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Seven Deaths in Seven Months at Dayton Jail by Though its population is relatively small, with just over 600 detainees, Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail lost seven of them in the first seven months of 2023. That’s more jail deaths than the combined total in the state’s five most populous counties. …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Four Deaths in Seven Weeks at Pennsylvania Prison by During the spring 2023, a troubling number of mysterious deaths took place in the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Rockview, Pennsylvania. Richard Woods, 46, was found unresponsive in his cell on April 20, 2023. He was rushed to Mount Nittany Medical …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Maine’s Jails and Prisons Record 39 Deaths in 34 Months by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 10, 2023, WMTW in Portland reported findings from a months-long investigation of deaths in Maine’s prisons and jails. By comparing information from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with data …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Overdose Rate in New York Jails and State Prisons Double U.S. Average by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett According to an October 2022 report by the New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the state’s prisons and jails have a drug overdose rate “double the rate for the …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
No Pay for Iowa Prisoners Overdosed With COVID-19 Vaccine by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On October 3, 2022, the State Appeals Board of Iowa heeded the advice of the state Attorney General’s office and unanimously rejected the claims of a group of state prisoners overdosed with COVID-19 vaccine. When …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Despite Official Claims, Stopping Mail to Missouri Prisoners Has No Effect on Drug Overdoses by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart The drugs are coming in the mail. Or so they say. There’s no question that the drugs are coming into Missouri state prisons; an average of 34 prisoner overdoses a …
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