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Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed dismissal of Connecticut prisoner’s complaint over an assault he suffered in a Virginia lockup where …
Tenth Circuit Affirms PTS Driver’s Conviction for Torturous Detainee Transport by On June 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld the conviction of a private prison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for private prison …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$23,138 Plus Out-Of-State Transfer for Virginia Prisoner Who Accused Guards of Excessive Force and Altering Video by On March 25, 2024, Virginia prisoner Steven Allen Riddick, 50, agreed to accepted $23,138 from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to settle claims made in several civil rights cases filed in federal …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Ninth Circuit Revives Challenge by Federal Prisoner in Arizona to BOP’s 300-Minute Monthly Phone Cap by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Over $7,600 Awarded to Tennessee Prisoner for Retaliatory Cell Search and Transfer by On March 13, 2023, the federal court for the Western District of Tennessee awarded $3,176.67 in costs to a state prisoner in his suit against the warden and three guards at West Tennessee State Penitentiary (WTSP). After …
Fourth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Prison Official Who Gave Prisoner No Notice Before Hearing That Resulted in Transfer to Security Detention by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a ruling on March 30, 2021, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison officials were entitled to qualified …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Seventh Circuit: Transfer of Indiana Prisoner Based on Substance of Grievances Not Retaliatory by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on March 6, 2020 that prison officials did not retaliate against a prisoner by transferring him to another prison where the transfer was …
Stump v. County of Otero, NM, Settlement, Employment Discrimination, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, FULL RELEASE OF CIVIL CLAIMS, AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT 1. FOR THE SOLE CONSIDERATION of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), inclusive of any liens against this settlement, including but not limited to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, or other insurance liens …
Brief • February 21, 2017
Stump v. County of Otero, NM, Complaint, Employment Discrimination, 2017 FILED 12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OTERO COUNTY NM 2/21/2017 12:07:23 PM KATINA WATSON CLERK OF COURT Claudia Herrera STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF OTERO TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT DANIEL K. STUMP Plaintiff, Cause No. D-1215-CV-2017-00146 vs. BOARD OF COUNTY …
Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online by Prisons are designed to be closed institutions, cut off from the rest of the world. Contraband cell phones, however, are opening them up and exposing the reality of what happens behind the walls. When Demetria Harris saw a photo …
Arbitrator Awards $1 to Prison Worker in Harassment and Retaliation Claim by Lonnie Burton John K. Faber had been employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) since 1981. He held the position of Specialty Instructor at the Staff Training Academy (STA) in Artesia, New Mexico, when in 1997 he …
Bureau of Prisons Pays $300,000 for Claim Relating to Beating of Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons agreed to settle claims relating to the severe beating of one inmate by another in February 1993. The plaintiff, Mark D. Lang, was beaten unconscious on the first day of an …
Massachusetts Prisoners Involved in Reform Efforts Transferred, Held in Solitary by Christopher Zoukis Three Massachusetts state prisoners have been placed in segregation in apparent retaliation for their prison reform activism. Timothy Muise, Shawn Fisher and Steven James, all incarcerated at the medium-security prison MCI Shirley, were taken from their cells …
Idaho DOC Can’t Stop Love; State Senator’s Ex-wife Weds Prisoner by Mark Wilson Lance Conway Wood, 48, was described as “a strong-willed inmate” with an extensive “history of ‘crossing the line’” who “exploits the human weaknesses of prison staff,” according to a federal judge. Wood, however, undoubtedly views himself as …
Prisoners Protest Solitary Confinement at Illinois Facility by Joe Watson More than two dozen prisoners at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois protested conditions in the prison’s high security unit (HSU) by staging a series of hunger strikes, most of them sustained for weeks. The protests at the Menard facility, …
Brief • December 18, 2015
Daniels v. Reddish et al, FL, Plf Res to Def MTD, transfer guard brutality inmate retaliation, 2015 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE DIVISION RONNIE DANIELS, Case No. 3:15-cv-719-J-34MCR Daniels, v. BARRY REDDISH, MARK TAYLOR, HERBERT McCLOUD, CASEY CLARK, WILLIAM BENNETT, JAY GROVES, …
Wood v. Panther, ID, Complaint, OR retaliation harassment transfer marriage, 2015 Case 1:15-cv-00092-CWD Document 2 Filed 03/17/15 Page 1 of 20 Case 1:15-cv-00092-CWD Document 2 Filed 03/17/15 Page 2 of 20 Case 1:15-cv-00092-CWD Document 2 Filed 03/17/15 Page 3 of 20 Case 1:15-cv-00092-CWD Document 2 Filed 03/17/15 Page 4 of …
Eighth Circuit Denies Civilly Confined Minnesota Patients 1983 Action by Derek Gilna Civilly-committed patients in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) and Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) officials, alleging that various conditions of their confinement were …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Illinois Prisoner's Lawsuit Related to Shooting by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a lower court erred in dismissing an Illinois prisoner's excessive force, deliberate indifference and retaliation claims. On May 16, 2009, an unidentified Stateville Correctional Center guard fired two rounds …
Sixth Circuit Orders Judgment Against Three Defendants in Prisoner's Retaliation Case by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated judgments in favor of three prison officials in a prisoner's lawsuit alleging a retaliatory transfer, and ordered that judgment be entered against them. The district court then awarded damages on remand. …
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