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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Louisville Jail Records 15 Detainee Deaths, 16 Employees Fired by On September 26, 2023, Louisville Metro Corrections Department (LMCD) suspended guard Terry Henderson after he crashed his car into a vehicle driven by fellow guard Andrew Young. Responding Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers reportedly suspected Henderson was drunk, but …
Brief • November 7, 2023
Fox v. Arizona, AZ, Order Granting Dft's Motion for Summary Judgment, Sexual Assault, 2023 Case 2:21-cv-01089-MTL Document 177 Filed 11/07/23 Page 1 of 12 1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Marcella Fox, No. CV-21-01089-PHX-MTL Ms. …
Nearly 5,000 Sexual Victimizations Counted in Three Years in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 31, 2023, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report counting 4,895 sexual assaults on U.S. prisoners and detainees in just three years. From 2016 through 2018, the …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Guard’s Lawsuit Claiming Other Guards Raped Her in Texas Prison by On November 18, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated a suit filed by a former Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guard alleging three other guards raped her at the …
Female Texas Prison Guards Allege Sexual Harassment, Abuse, Discrimination by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon During the 10-year period ending in 2017, over 3,500 complaints of sexual harassment and gender bias were filed against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The state’s largest agency, TDCJ employs 37,000 people, including …
$50,000 Settlement for New York Female Prisoner Fondled by Physician's Assistant by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Tunisia Ivory, a female prisoner at Riverhead Correctional Facility in Suffolk County, New York, received $50,000 in a settlement with the county over allegations that she was inappropriately touched on multiple occasions by …
In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018 An examination of private financing for correctional and immigration detention facilities Report · In the Public Interest · June 2018 While governments have traditionally used municipal bonds to finance the construction of correctional …
Prison Broke: The Missouri Department of Corrections Can’t Escape its Own Worst Habits by Karen Dillon by Karen Dillon, The Pitch Each day, as she prepared herself to work another shift at the Missouri Department of Corrections prison, Lashonda Reid knew to expect one thing. It would be bad. Reid …
Montana Refuses to Pay Judge’s $744,371 Sexual Harassment Settlement by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Montana Supreme Court held that the state was not required to indemnify a judge on sexual harassment claims that he settled with his court reporter. Charlene Berdahl worked as the primary court reporter for …
Brief • October 15, 2017
Filed under: Staff-Staff Assault
Cantoni v. Cumberland County, NJ, Amended Complaint, Sexual Abuse, 2017 Case 1:17-cv-07893-NLH-AMD Document 5 Filed 10/25/17 Page 1 of 32 PageID: 55 Law Offices of Leo B. Dubler, III, LLC 20000 Horizon Way, Suite 300 Mount Laurel, New Jersey 08054 (856) 235-7075 By: Mark R. Natale, Esquire (071292014) ATTORNEY FOR …
A Texas-Sized Failure - Sexual Assaults in TX Prisons, PJL TAASA, 2016 A TEXAS-SIZED FAILURE: Sexual Assaults in Texas Prisons A joint report of the Prison Justice League & 1the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Acknowledgements This report was written by Erica Gammill & Elia Inglis. All content copyright © …
BOP Settles Sexual Harassment Suit for $1,000 by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paid $1,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a female guard at the Federal Medical Center in Minnesota. Guard Beth Koenck alleged that in 1992 and 1993 guard Scott Christensen subjected her to “unwanted …
Ex-captain Sentenced for Raping Subordinate at Virginia Prison by Lloyd G. Samuels, a former captain employed by the Virginia Department of Corrections and a naturalized U.S. citizen from Jamaica, was sentenced on March 11, 2016 to 10 years in prison with six years suspended for raping a fellow prison employee …
Oregon Cop Faces Criminal Charges for Coercing Multiple Women into Sex by Mark Wilson An anonymous letter accusing several Oregon police officers of intimidating women into sexual relationships and other misconduct has prompted resignations, suspensions, a criminal investigation, and possible charges. In April 2015, an anonymous letter was sent to …
Article • September 21, 2015
Veteran Oregon Police Officer Guilty of Sex Crimes by Veteran Oregon Police Officer Guilty of Sex Crimes On July 24, 2013, Stefan Zeltvay, a 17-year veteran of Oregon’s Eugene Police Department (EPD), pleaded guilty to sex crimes against six women, including co-workers and a fellow officer’s wife. Zeltvay, 44, was …
Saylor v. Nebraska, NE, Memorandum and Order, re Motion for Summary Judgment, Prisoner Sexual Assault, 2014 4:12-cv-03115-JFB-TDT Doc # 178 Filed: 12/22/14 Page 1 of 28 - Page ID # 2090 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA JAMES SAYLOR, Plaintiff, 4:12CV3115 v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Pennsylvania Jail Official Indicted for Groping Co-workers by Christopher Zoukis Ronald Edward Lensbouer, 44, the Chief Corrections Officer at a jail in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, faces charges of indecently assaulting two female guards at the facility. According to court records, Lensbouer was charged on June 5, 2013 in two separate …
State-by-State Prisoner Rape and Sexual Abuse Round-Up by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke and Alex Friedmann In 2006, Prison Legal News published a cover story, Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight, that presented a compilation of news reports concerning the rape and sexual abuse of prisoners by …
Sexual Misconduct Topples Two Oregon Prosecutors by The elected District Attorney of a small Oregon county lost his job after being accused of using his office for sexual misconduct and then trying to cover it up. In August 2010, a female employee of the Umatilla County District Attorney’s office, Dawn …
EEOC Files Suit Against GEO Group for Sexual Harassment at Arizona Prisons by On September 29, 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against private prison firm GEO Group, alleging that the company and some of its male supervisors permitted a “sexual and sex-based hostile work environment” …
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