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Porn Produced by Georgia Prisoners by On July 16, 2024, the Human & Civil Rights Coalition (HCRC) of Georgia posted screenshots to its Facebook page from pornographic videos produced inside Wilcox State Prison and posted online by state prisoners. As the post noted, the videos ran up to 45 minutes, …
Mayhem, Murder and Staff Misconduct at Brooklyn BOP Lockup by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, has made the news repeatedly thanks to some high-profile detainees held there to await trial. But federal prosecutors have also charged nine detainees for a series of …
Senate Votes to Increase Penalties for BOP Contraband Cellphone Smuggling by On September 28, 2024, the U.S. Senate passed legislation enhancing penalties for contraband cellphone possession in federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lockups. Named after BOP Lt. Osvaldo Albarati, who was killed in a 2013 ambush arranged with contraband cellphones …
Alabama Guard, Prisoners Among 13 Sentenced in Phone Scam and Drug-Smuggling Ring by On July 1, 2024, the last of 13 people was sentenced in a drug-­smuggling scheme at Alabama’s Donaldson Correctional Facility that included five prisoners. The last of those, Otis “Big O” Bowers, 44, had been sentenced on …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Three Former Rikers Island Guards Among Five Ex-Employees Charged in Massive Smuggling Scheme by Corruption charges against three former guards and two other former employees at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex were continued on May 9, 2024, a week after a massive stash of contraband was uncovered at …
Pennsylvania Prisoner Smuggles Cellphones, Federal Prosecutor Breaches Plea Bargain by “Prosecutors must keep their promises,” declared the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on March 8, 2024, “[a]nd if they do not, they must make things right quickly, clearly, and fully.” But that’s not what happened in the …
Mississippi Prison Warden Suspended After Security Chief Caught Smuggling by Warden Terrance Watt was placed on administrative leave by the Mississippi Department of Corrections after his Chief of Security at Winston-­Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility was picked up on smuggling charges on July 11, 2024. Nikita Carter, 35, was arrested and …
$5,000 Settlement for Warrantless Search of Pro Se North Carolina Prisoner’s Cellphone by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A North Carolina prisoner who alleged his constitutional rights were violated during his arrest and pretrial detention eventually filed five federal lawsuits. Three were dismissed by the federal court for the Eastern …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Says Prisoner’s Possession of Cell Phone by Itself Doesn’t Show Threat to Security by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 28, 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court held that possession of a cell phone by a prisoner may not justify an enhanced sentence under the state …
Four BOP Employees, Eight Prisoners Indicted in Widening NYC Federal Jail Smuggling Scandal by Casey Bastian By Casey J. Bastian On March 18, 2022, a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard was indicted in federal court in New York City on charges he smuggled a loaded gun into the now-shuttered …
Brief • April 12, 2021
Response to Federal Grand Jury Subpoena-Signal Messenger, LLC, April 12, 2021 April 12, 2021 BYEMAIL Special Agent Henry Blackwell Homeland Security Investigations, Los Angeles Int'l Airport El Segundo, CA 90245 Re: Response to Federal Grand Jury Subpoena Agent Blackwell: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION National Office 125 Broad Street, 18th …
Brief • March 29, 2021
Federal Grand Jury Subpoena by the Homeland Securty Investigation to Signal Messenger, March 2021 United States Department of Justic•e United States Attorney's Office Central District of California Ian Y. Yanniello Phone.:I E-mail: 1400 United State.s Courthouse JJ 2 North Spring Street Los Angtde.s, California 90012 March 29, 2021 Mountam View, …
Bogut v. City of Concord, CA, Settlement, Unlawful Arrest and Excessive Force, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and General Release ("Agreement") is made by and between SAMUEL BOGUT, Plaintiff ("PLAINTIFF"), and CITY OF CONCORD, CONCORD POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICERS ANTHONY ZALEC, JEFFREY BILODEAU, ZERlNA REDZIC, and MICHAEL …
Bogut v. City of Concord, CA, Complaint, Unlawful Arrest and Excessive Force, 2015 I Case3:15-cv-04572 Documentl Filedl0/04/15 Pagel of 16 I) I Sanjay S. Schmidt (SBN 247475) LAW OFFICE OF SANJA Y S. SCHMIDT 2 Panos Lagos (SBN 61821) LAW OFFICES OF PANOS LAGOS 1388 Sutter Street, Suite RI 0 …
Legal Process Guidelines-Government and Law Enforcement Within the United States  Legal Process Guidelines Government & Law Enforcement within the United States These guidelines are provided for use by government and law enforcement agencies within the United States when seeking information from Apple Inc. (“Apple”) about customers of Apple’s devices, …