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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
First Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Maine Guards who Ogled Prisoner During Childbirth by David Reutter On September 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) for a pair of Maine jailers whom a prisoner accused of violating her …
New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New Jersey judiciary came to an end when the state Supreme Court held that the failure of former prison …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Two Guards Arrested in Two Weeks at Texas Jail by Two jailers were arrested in two weeks at Texas’ Hays County Jail, beginning on April 25, 2025, when guard John Duran, 45, was accused of sending a detainee to shower and watching her bathe on surveillance video. An investigation was …
Minnesota Supreme Court Says Randy Guard Must Face Prisoner’s Sexual Harassment and Assault Claims by The Supreme Court of Minnesota held on June 20, 2024, that a state Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner plausibly stated a claim under the Minnesota Tort Claims Act (TCA) when he alleged that a guard …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$110,000 Paid By Tennessee Jail to Women Allegedly Forced to Stage “Sex Shows” for Guard by On October 26, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Tennessee granted dismissal to a complaint filed by two former detainees at the Grainger County Jail, after they accepted $110,000 to settle …
Article • February 7, 2023
Welsh Prisoner Used Phone Hidden in Rectum to Snag Guards with “Flirty” Calls by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A former guard and a former nurse at a prison in the United Kingdom – who both fell for “flirty” calls on a contraband cellphone from a “Romeo inmate,” …
Over $237,000 Awarded in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Suit Accusing Guard of Unwanted Sexual Advances by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On June 16, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ordered a state prison guard to pay $110,042.38 in legal costs and fees for a former state …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Ohio County Pays $2.5 Million for Photographing Female Detainees’ Tattooed Private Areas by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On January 7, 2022, Ohio’s Franklin County Board of Commissioners settled a suit brought by a class of former female detainees in the county jail who claimed their constitutional rights were …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
She Tried to Report Sexual Harassment in Jail. After Her Suicide, the Guard Was Convicted of Assaulting Four Other Women by C.J. Ciaramella by C.J. Ciaramella, Reason.com The family of a 23-year-old woman who committed suicide in a rural Washington jail in December 2019 says she tried to report sexual …
Gray v. City of Forks, WA, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Suicide, 2021 Case 3:21-cv-05778-DGE Document 1 Filed 10/21/21 Page 1 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 6 7 8 9 JUDSON GRAY as Personal Representative …
Brief • September 17, 2021
Moore v. Calderon, CA, Brief of Amici Curiae, Sexual Harassment, 2021 Case: 21-15849, 09/17/2021, ID: 12231435, DktEntry: 20, Page 1 of 33 Case No. 21-15849 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT TERRENCE JESSE MOORE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. S. CALDERON, Defendant-Appellee On Appeal from Order of the United States …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Ohio Guard Added to Sex Offender List and Sent to Prison for Sex with Detainee by A former guard at the Highland County jail in Ohio was sentenced to 24 months in prison and lifelong registration as a Tier III sex offender for engaging in sexual activity with a female …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
California Female Prisoners Used as Honey Trap Bait for Rapist Guard by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On April 29, 2021, Los Angeles attorney Jennifer A. Bandlow filed a federal civil rights lawsuit urging four causes of action on behalf of two unnamed female prisoners who suffered actual sexual assaults …
Brief • August 10, 2021
USA v. State of NJ, NJ, Settlement, Sexual Assault by Staff, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY and THE NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendants. SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT I. INTRODUCTION 1. On August …
Girard v. Battin, OR, Complaint, Sexual Assault of Inmate, 2021 Case 3:21-cv-01137-AC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Page 1 of 33 David G. Terry OSB 791149 Of attorneys for Plaintiff 1228 SE Douglas Avenue Roseburg, OR 97470 …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Georgia Sheriffs Entitled to Eleventh Amendment Immunity When Setting Jail Policies That Lead to Prisoners Being Sexually Abused by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights complaint against a Georgia Sheriff. The Court held the Sheriff was entitled …
Six Howard County, Indiana Jail Guards Fired Over Sexual Assaults and Harassment of Prisoners by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Following multiple PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) investigations into the inappropriate actions of six sheriff’s Office employees, all were summarily fired from their positions at the Howard County …
Pryor v. Yurkovich, IL, Settlement, Strip Searches, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case # Case# 16-50105 Case Name 16-CV-50105 Pryor, Priest #K54777 v. Yurkovich, et al. Plaintiffs: Opposing Counsel: Institutions: IDOC# Defendants: Received Filed 02/21/18 Date Served Status closed 1/11/18 Class Action D OnAppeal D Spears D Pro …
Doe 2 v. Merrill, CA, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2021 Case 5:21-cv-00771-JGB-KK Document 1 Filed 04/29/21 Page 1 of 24 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 BRIAN T. DUNN, ESQ (SBN 176502) Email: bdunn@cochranfirm.com EDWARD M. LYMAN III., ESQ. (SBN 248264) Email: elyman@cochranfirm.com THE COCHRAN …
Endicott-Orren v. Peters, OR, Complaint, Sexual Assault of Inmate, 2021 Case 3:21-cv-00564-AC Document 1 Filed 04/14/21 Page 1 of 44 Ginger G. Mooney, OSB # 031261 Ginger G. Mooney, LLC 1017 May Street, Suite 200 Hood River, Oregon 97031 Telephone (541) 716-5650 Fax (503) 389-1585 contact@mooneylaw.org Attorney for Brittany Endicott-Orren …
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