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$52,500 for Trans Florida Prisoner Sexually Assaulted by Cellmate by Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Joseph “Joey” Luzier III, a transgender woman, was housed at the Tomoka Correctional Institution, a men’s facility, when on August 25, 2020, she was placed in a cell with Rene Valentin Rivas—a registered sexual …
Almost $4.4 Million for Illinois Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Claim by David Reutter On April 11, 2025, amended judgment was entered in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois, awarding $4,384,216.16 to state prisoner Timothy Kyles, who successfully prosecuted his claim that state Department of Corrections (DOC) officials were …
No Charges in Alabama Prisoner’s Torture, Rape and Murder by Terry Williams, the father of a murdered Alabama prisoner, was reportedly left “speechless” in late October 2024 after an Elmore County grand jury refused to indict his son’s alleged attacker, another prisoner identified as “X.” Just a year earlier, Daniel …
Indiana Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Corruption, County Pays $328,000 to Jail Detainees for “Night of Terror” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In federal court for the Southern District of Indiana on April 11, 2024, Clark County officials agreed to pay $328,000 to settle claims filed by 25 former detainees …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
$500,000 for Texas Teen Sodomized in Jail by According to final judgment entered in federal court for the Southern District of Texas on December 18, 2023, Brazos County paid $500,000 to a former detainee assaulted at the county jail in October 2022. The victim, identified as “A.R.,” was a minor …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Texas Detainee Raped in Jail Sues Macy’s for False Facial-ID Match That Led to Arrest by A lawsuit filed on January 18, 2024, accuses retail giant Macy’s of employing faulty facial recognition technology that falsely identified a Texas man as an armed robbery suspect, landing him in a Houston jail …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Trans Detainee Sues Over Housing With Men on Rikers Island by Transgender Rikers Island jail detainee Dylan “Ali” Miles sued the City of New York and its Department of Correction on August 24, 2023, alleging her civil rights were violated when she was housed with men for two months before …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Alabama Denied Summary Judgment in Prisoner’s Suit Over Knifepoint Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On August 22, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Alabama declined to dismiss all but a few claims against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) that were made …
Shocking Video Footage Reveals Rampant Violence and Neglect in Los Angeles County Jails by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman   A collection of graphic videos reported by the Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2023, pulled back the curtain on rampant violence and chaos inside Los Angeles County jails. The …
Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since 2018, at least seven vulnerable detainees have died at the 366-­bed Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center, 30 miles east of Oklahoma City. Yet despite state law requiring deaths be reported within five …
Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless” by In a weird-but-true story that’s oddly fitting for Alabama’s wretched prison system, the body of a state prisoner murdered on November 16, 2023, was returned to his survivors five days later without a heart. That is the claim of a lawsuit filed in federal …
$10,000 Verdict for Fired Guard’s Failure to Protect Louisiana Prisoner From Stabbing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The federal court for the Middle District of Louisiana found on July 18, 2023, that a guard at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (EHCC) violated a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights by failing …
West Virginia Pretrial Detainee’s Lawsuit for Sexual Abuse Survives Dismissal Stage by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 9, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia affirmed denial of defendant state prison officials’ motion to dismiss all but a negligent supervision and training claim that arose …
Eighth Circuit Says Arkansas Prisoner’s Medical Incapacity May Excuse PLRA Exhaustion Failure by As often reported in PLN, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, imposes numerous requirements on incarcerated litigants—including exhaustion of administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit, by first filing a grievance and seeing it completely …
Brief • December 18, 2023
A.R. V. Brazos County, TX, Final Judgment, Sexual Assault, 2023 Case 4:23-cv-01167 Document 48 Filed on 12/18/23 in TXSD Page 1 of 2 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION A.R., Plaintiff, v. BRAZOS COUNTY, TEXAS …
18 Stabbings in Less Than Nine Months at Oklahoma CoreCivic Prison by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Violence occurs inside America’s prisons every day. But those held or working inside Oklahoma’s Davis Correctional Facility (DCF) have endured an unprecedented amount of bloodletting at the lockup, which is operated by Tennessee-based …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
$14,000 Paid by California to Mentally Ill Prisoner Who Alleged Repeated Maulings by Guards by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney How blatant is a violation of rights when a prisoner who is both mentally ill and proceeding pro se wins his case? The answer for California prisoner Benjamin Justin Brownlee …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Ex-Felon “Dirtbags” Accused of Ordering Hit on Detainee at Florida Jail, But Questions Linger by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 1, 2022, Florida’s Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) arrested two ex-felons for orchestrating a beat-down in the county lockup. Sheriff Rick Staly called Margaret Watkins, 37, …
CoreCivic Still Accruing Fines for Short-Staffing Florida Jail Where Developmentally Disabled Teen Was Raped by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye At its meeting on January 24, 2023, the Board of County Commissioners of Florida’s Citrus County voted to deduct $116,250 off its December 2022 bill from private prison operator …
Third Circuit: Federal Prisoner Exposed to Risk of Assault Cannot Collect Damages if One Didn’t Occur by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On March 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s lawsuit, finding that even though a Bureau …
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