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Help Wanted: 31,000 Prison Guard Jobs Open Nationwide by David Reutter The efficiency and functionality of every enterprise rests largely upon the staff put in place to carry out its operations. But at the heart of the most dysfunctional prisons PLN has reported on over the last 35 years is …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Watchdogs Fault Nebraska Prisons for Suicide Response, Overpaid Staff by Boris Bastidas On August 20, 2024, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released a report detailing its investigation into three prisoner suicides, finding that DCS did not provide psychological autopsies after …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
New York Lowers Minimum Age for Prison Guards by An approved bill in New York state will lower the minimum hiring age of its prison guards from 21 to 18, following a strike that resulted in over 2,000 guards being fired earlier this year [See: PLN, March 2025, p.61.] The …
Eleventh Circuit Tells BOP Prisoner in Georgia: Bivens Is On “Endangered Species List” by On October 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit told a federal prisoner in Georgia that he could not hold the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) liable for damages caused by …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Former Warden at Troubled Illinois Lockup Promoted to Run BOP Training Academy by Overlooking a troubling record of overseeing abusive conditions, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) promoted Andrew Ciolli in July 2024 to serve as director of the agency’s Management and Specialty Training Center (MSTC) in Aurora, Colorado. Ciolli …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Texas Looks to Find Prison Guards in High Schools by Any prison or jail needs three things: guards, prisoners and money. Texas has money, at least enough to build more prisons and jails than any other state; the last state budget allocated $200 million for even more lockups. To keep …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
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Suit Against Pennsylvania Jail and Controversial Trainer Down to Just Two Plaintiffs by With an order denying class certification on March 24, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania left just two plaintiffs to proceed with claims against York County Prison and a controversial training contractor it …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
A Lesson in Pleading: Utah Jail Suicide Complaint Fails for Alleging Failure to Train Rather than Failure to Provide Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for defendant jailers in a lawsuit seeking …
Article • May 1, 2022
Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Training Officer J. Marte Martinez, who oversaw the training of thousands of state prison guards and deputy …
Publication • 2021
California State Prison Corcoran Medical Inspection OIG Report - April 2021 Roy W. Wesley , Inspector General OIG Bryan B. Beyer, Chief Deputy Inspector General OFFICE of the INSPECTOR GENERAL Independent Prison Oversight April 2021 Cycle 6 Medical Inspection Report California State Prison Corcoran Electronic copies of reports published by …
Publication • 2021
California OIG Discipline Monitoring Report Jul-Dec 2020 Roy W. Wesley , Inspector General Bryan B. Beyer, Chief Deputy Inspector General OIG OFFICE of the INSPECTOR GENERAL Independent Prison Oversight May 2021 Monitoring Internal Investigations and the Employee Disciplinary Process of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Semiannual Report July …
Herrera v. United States, et al., NY, complaint, sexual abuse of female prisoners, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-10206 Document 1 Filed 12/04/20 Page 1 of 50 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK KARILIE HERRERA, FRANCHESCA MORALES, and CAROLYN RICHARDSON, Plaintiffs, -againstUNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COLIN AKPARANTA, NORMAN …
Split Summary Judgment Order in California Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Suit by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On September 17, 2019, a federal judge denied several summary judgment claims urged by CoreCivic while granting one. Federal prisoner Gerardo Cruz-Sanchez entered the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) in San Diego, California, operated …
Walker v. City and County of Denver, CO, Settlement, Sexual Harassment, 2019 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release ("Agreement") is made between the City and County of Denver ("the City") and Terri Eddy, Rebecca Esquibel, Denita Hartzog, Giovanna Kemp, Lisa Maes, Peggy Major, Courtney Mickelson, Sadie Montano, …
Gohranson v. Snohomish County, WA, Complaint, Withdrawal Death, 2019 Case 2:16-cv-01124-MJP Document 160 Filed 08/09/19 Page 1 of 20 1 THE HONORABLE MARSHA J. PECHMAN 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 JOHN T. GOHRANSON, et al., 8 9 …
Article • June 26, 2019
Jail Suicide Suit Rejected by Nebraska's Courts by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Gage County, Nebraska, pretrial detainee Chad Gesin hanged himself in a jail cell in 2013, shortly after being booked for domestic assault and third-degree assault. Five days later, he died. Gesin had been placed in a sobering …
Publication • June 1, 2019
Not In Isolation, Stop Solitary for Kids, 2019 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT STOP SOLITARY FOR KIDS Stop Solitary for Kids is a national campaign to end solitary confinement of youth in juvenile and adult facilities in the United States. The campaign is a joint effort by the Center for Children’s Law and …
Bryant and Garcia v. Orange County, FL, order, wrongful death, 2019 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION WILLINE BRYANT and MAX GRACIA, SR., Plaintiffs, v. Case No: 6:17-cv-1423-Orl-31LRH ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, ROBERT J. BUCK, III , KAREN CLAIRMONT, ELSA GALLOZAGONZALEZ and LYNN MARIE HARTER, Defendants. ORDER …
Thomas v. Milwaukee County, WI, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2019 SETTLEMENT SETT'LPI\{BIIT AGREEMENT RBLtrÄSB AGRDEN{BNT AND RELEASE Definitions Definitions 1. "ReleasiLrg Parties" shall l. As used herein, the Balnes n/k/a tenn "Releasing As used to Terrill the term sllall refer Terrill Barnes refer to Terrill Terrill Thomas, Thornas, Jr., Arnari Thomas-Acosta, …
Green v. State of Alaska, AK, Judgment, Jail Death, 2019 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE ESTATE OF KELLSIE GREEN Plaintiff, vs. STATE OF ALASKA, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. …
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