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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Connecticut Court Denies Access to Video of Prisoner’s Fatal Beat-Down by Guards by On April 9, 2025, Defendant Connecticut prison officials lost their second attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed over the death of prisoner J’Allen Jones, 31, following an altercation with guards at Garner Correctional Institution on March 25, …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Houston Police Fire Former Jail Guard Filmed Brutalizing Detainees, Charges Against Three Other Guards Dropped by The Houston Police Department (HPD) fired Off. Deven Ortiz on January 7, 2025, following an investigation into multiple alleged uses of excessive force while he worked as a guard at the Harris County Jail …
Fourth Circuit Revives Claims Against Virginia Jailers by Detainee They Allegedly Manhandled While Handcuffed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 8, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Virginia’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
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 • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
3,500 Body-Worn Cameras Recalled from Rikers Island Guards After One Catches Fire by At New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on May 3, 2024, a guard’s body-­worn camera (BWC) malfunctioned and ignited, leaving the unnamed captain suffering burns and smoke inhalation. The city’s Department of Correction (DOC) then suspended …
Brief • February 9, 2024
Wall v. Rasnick, VA, Plaintiff's Response to Dft's Objections to Ruling on Motion for Sanctions, Spoliation of Video Evidence, 2024 Case 7:17-cv-00385-JPJ-PMS Document 169 Filed 02/09/24 Page 1 of 26 Pageid#: 2570 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION GARY WALL, Plaintiff, CASE …
Brief • January 26, 2024
Wall v. Rasnick, VA, Plaintiff's Objection to Order and Memo Opinio Regarding Spoilation Sanctions, Spoliation of Video Evidence, 2024 Case 7:17-cv-00385-JPJ-PMS Document 163 Filed 01/26/24 Page 1 of 39 Pageid#: 2493 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION GARY WALL, Plaintiff, CASE NO. …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Court Orders Preliminary Injunctive Relief for Transgender Massachusetts Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In consolidated cases, the Massachusetts Superior Court for Suffolk County ordered preliminary injunctive relief on December 30, 2022, for a pair of transgender women incarcerated at the state’s Souza Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC). Each woman …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Congress Forces BOP to Upgrade Security Cameras by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “Broken prison camera systems are enabling corruption, misconduct and abuse” within America’s 122 federal prisons, declared U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), when Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) signed Ossoff’s bipartisan Prison Camera Reform Act of 2021 …
Brief • August 28, 2023
Filed under: Videotaping, Video Cameras
Alexa A. V. Edwards, LA, Memorandum in Support of Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Regarding Absence of Body-Worn Camera Footage, Body Worn Cameras, 2023 Case 3:22-cv-00573-SDD-RLB Document 242-1 08/28/23 Page 1 of 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEX A., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civ. Act. …
Brief • August 28, 2023
Alexa A. V. Edwards, LA, Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Regarding Absence of Body-Worn Camera Footage, Body Worn Camera, 2023 Case 3:22-cv-00573-SDD-RLB Document 242 08/28/23 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEX A., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civ. Act. No. 3:22-CV-00573-SDD-RLB JOHN BEL …
Article • June 1, 2023
Body Cam Video Contradicts Detainee’s Indictment in Scuffle With Chicago Jail Guards by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A long-term civil detainee in Chicago’s Cook County Jail – the only one, in fact – is facing charges of aggravated battery of a guard, although body camera footage of …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Fourth Circuit Reinstates Virginia Prisoner’s Spoliation Motion for Lost Video of His Alleged Assault by Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 25, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a district court in Virginia abused its discretion by implicitly overruling a …
Article • December 21, 2022
Two Years After Mentally Ill Detainee Strangled to Death by Guards, Florida Jail Still Refuses to Release Video by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss “They [need] to release the tapes,” Secilia Desir said of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), “so I can see how they killed my son.” …
Brief • October 11, 2022
Wall v. Rasnick, VA, Plaintiff's Request for Live Evidentiary Hearing and Brief in Support of Discovery Sanctions, Spoliation of Video Evidence, 2022 Case 7:17-cv-00385-JPJ-PMS Document 141 Filed 10/11/22 Page 1 of 34 Pageid#: 1626 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION GARY WALL, …
Brief • July 25, 2022
Wall v. Rasnick, VA, Opinion, Spoliation of Video Evidence, 2022 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 21-6553 GARY WALL, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. E. RASNICK, Correctional Officer of R.O.S.P.; J. HICKS, Correctional Officer of R.O.S.P.; E. HESS, Correctional Officer of R.O.S.P.; C. HOLBROOK, Correctional Officer …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: Videotaping
Hawaii Fails to Provide Video of Two Prison Disturbances by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Around 3 p.m. on March 11, 2019, prisoners at the Maui Community Correctional Center (MCCC) rioted. Some started a fire, some broke fire-suppression sprinklers, while others smashed fixtures. Outside, police were called in to help …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Videotaping
Oregon Supreme Court Reverses Course: Secretly Taping Prisoner’s Statements Does Not Violate Right to Counsel by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson In a 4-to-3 ruling, departing from its previous recent decisions, the Oregon Supreme Court held on May 23, 2019 that secretly recording a prisoner’s solicitation of another prisoner to …
Article • August 23, 2017
$200,000 Settlement in City Counsel’s Refusal to Film Meetings by David Reutter by David Reutter The City of Cumming, Georgia, agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it prohibited a citizen from filming a City Council meeting. Nydia Tisdale attended an April 17, 2012, Cumming City Council meeting …
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