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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
11th Alabama Sheriff’s Employee Pleads Guilty in Jail Detainee’s Death, Admits Stomping Him in Genitals by A deputy sheriff in Alabama’s Walker County Jail pleaded guilty on April 1, 2025, to a federal charge of depriving the civil rights of a mentally ill detainee with a brutal kick to the …
$62,500 For Idaho Prisoner Raped by Guard Who Later Committed Suicide by Anthony Accurso An apparent error by attorneys for a former Idaho prisoner limited her recovery to just $62,500 after she was raped by a guard. In a letter to PLN on August 30, 2024, the Idaho Department of …
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
Ohio Guard Killed by Prisoner in Christmas Day Attack by On December 25, 2024, Ohio prisoner Rashawn Cannon, 27, was accused of killing Ross Correctional Institution guard Andrew Lansing, 62. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director of the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), said that Cannon veered off from a group …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Ninth Circuit Reverses Federal Prisoner’s Conviction for Assaulting Guards at California Prison by On April 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction of a federal prisoner for assaulting two guards. The Court concluded that Gabriel Mirabal should have been permitted to present evidence …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules by In a desperate bid to get new heat-­related workplace safety rules adopted before summer arrived, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) agreed on April 18, 2024, to drop prisons and jails from the measure. Two temperature …
Brief • February 13, 2024
Bleise v. Ohio Department of Rehab and Corrections, OH, Complaint, Breach of Contract -Failure to Protect, 2024 ELECTRONICALLY FILED COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Tuesday, February 13, 2024 2:25:40 PM CASE NUMBER: 2024 CV 00813 Docket ID: 273926626 Mike Foley CLERK OF COURTS MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO IN THE COMMON PLEAS COURT …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$1 Million Settlement for California Prisoners Used to Bait Guard Charged with Sexual Misconduct by PLN previously reported a remarkably poor decision by prison officials at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino in 2017, who used two prisoners as “honey trap” bait to snare a male guard accused …
Brief • July 18, 2023
Briscoe v. LeBlanc, LA, Judgment, Failure to Protect, 2023 Case 3:19-cv-00029-SDD-SDJ Document 100 07/18/23 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MINUTE ENTRY: JULY 18, 2023 DICK, CHIEF JUDGE SHELLY D. SHAWN BRISCOE CIVIL ACTION VERSUS 19-29-SDD-SDJ DALLAS STEWART, et al This matter came on …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
“Night of Terror” in Indiana Jail Sees Detainees Assaulted by Fellow Prisoners Who Purchased Cell Keys From Guard by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An Indiana jail guard and a jail detainee are headed to trial in the summer of 2023 on charges that the guard sold the detainee …
Brief • April 20, 2023
Weisman v. DOJ, USA, Order, Harassment, 2023 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD ANDREA R. WEISMAN, Appellant, DOCKET NUMBER DC-0752-17-0274-I-1 v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Agency. DATE: April 20, 2023 THIS FINAL ORDER IS NONPRECEDENTIAL 1 Andrea R. Weisman, North Chesterfield, Virginia, pro se. Ted Booth, Washington, D.C., for …
Sixth Circuit Won’t Hold Michigan County Liable After Mentally Ill Prisoner Impregnates Another by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On May 3, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment favoring for defendant officials with Wayne County, Michigan, in a complaint filed by one mentally …
Brief • February 8, 2023
Hezlitt v. Ryan, AZ, Order to Show Cause, Assault, 2023 Case 2:18-cv-03021-ROS-ESW Document 103 Filed 02/08/23 Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Todd Hezlitt, No. CV-18-03021-PHX-ROS (ESW) Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 …
Article • February 7, 2023
Two Prisoners Stabbed, One Overdosed: Just Another Day at Rikers Island by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 14, 2023, the violence at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex began early, when a guard saw one detainee slashed by others. In a separate incident later that …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Ninth Circuit Revives Failure-to-Protect Claim of Arizona Prisoner Beaten by Gang by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 5, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that giving a jury a standard instruction to defer to prison officials was error when the jury needed …
Brief • August 26, 2022
Parker v. Slaughter, MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:22-cv-00065-BMM Document 13 Filed 08/26/22 Page 1 of 12 Timothy M. Bechtold BECHTOLD LAW FIRM, PLLC 317 East Spruce Street P.O. Box 7051 Missoula, MT 59807 406-721-1435 tim@bechtoldlaw.net Attorneys for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Guards Saluting Fascism on the Job—Literally by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison guards in Arizona, Utah and West Virginia have recently been reported indulging white supremacist and anti-prisoner views on the job. Most recently, members of the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) Special Tactics and Operations team proudly sported …
Brief • July 5, 2022
Bartman v. Slaughter, MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:22-cv-00063-BMM-JTJ Document 1 Filed 07/05/22 Page 1 of 13 Timothy M. Bechtold BECHTOLD LAW FIRM, PLLC 317 East Spruce Street P.O. Box 7051 Missoula, MT 59807 406-721-1435 tim@bechtoldlaw.net Attorneys for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT …
Brief • May 12, 2022
Snorsky v. Raemisch, CO, Order, Failure to Protect, 2022 case 1:18-cv-03025 -KLM Document 161 FHed 05/12/22 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 54 IN THE UN ITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR T HE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 18-cv-03025-KLM JOHN STANDLEY SNORSKY, Plaintiff. V. RICH RAEMISCH , et al. Defendants.. …
Lake v. CoreCivic, MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:21-cv-00116-BMM Document 17 Filed 03/21/22 Page 1 of 13 Melinda A. Driscoll FRED LAW FIRM, PLLC 214 N. 24th Street P.O. Box 2157 Billings, MT 59103-2157 (406) 294-8396 (T) (406) 294-8398 (F) mdriscoll@fredlawfirm.com Attorney for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES …
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