More details have emerged about the April 2008 race riot that occurred at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Florence, Colorado, as prisoners who participated in the violent disturbance have pleaded guilty after being criminally charged.
The riot started after members of the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) began yelling racial epithets ...
On September 24, 2009, Suffolk Superior Court Judge John C. Cratsley held in a class-action lawsuit that Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson in Bristol County, Massachusetts was housing prisoners under cruel and unusual conditions.
Originally filed in 1998, the suit alleged that Hodgson was improperly triple-bunking prisoners at the Ash Street ...
By Brandon Sample
On November 17, 2003, the County of Sacramento agreed to pay $2,500 to settle a claim by a prisoner who alleged that he was assaulted by guards at the Sacramento County Main Jail.
Eduardo Diaz alleged that he was assaulted by two guards. Diaz’s nose was broken ...
By Brandon Sample
On June 7, 2004, the County of Sacramento agreed to pay $2,219.01 to settle a false imprisonment claim by a man who was arrested while attempting to visit a prisoner at the Sacramento Main Jail (SMJ).
Darren Thompson was arrested when he went to visit a friend ...
The FBI has arrested two men in an unusual and brazen plot to defraud prisoners and their families out of tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for reduced sentences.
Monterro Paul, who previously served time in federal prison for counterfeiting and drug charges, allegedly told an FBI agent that ...
The story of Herbert Moncier, a prominent attorney in Knoxville, Tennessee, seems foreign, as if it were from another time and place. In fact, it is almost Gestapo-like.
Moncier’s problems began on November 17, 2006 during a sentencing hearing for one of his clients before U.S. District Court Judge J. ...
Prisoners at the Danville Correctional Center in Illinois have sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) in federal court over the predominantly soy-based diet they are served.
According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, which promotes the consumption of whole, traditional and largely unprocessed foods, Illinois prisoners are being served ...
Jeffrey M. Rush, the son of U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.), was sentenced in October 2008 to serve six months behind bars plus three years on probation for having sex with female prisoners at the Fox Valley Adult Transition Center in Aurora, Illinois. He had been employed as the ...
A 2005 amendment to Iowa’s good time statute making participation in a sex offender treatment program (SOTP) a prerequisite to earning good time may not be applied to sex offenders convicted before the amendment’s effective date, the Supreme Court of Iowa decided on January 23, 2009.
Denny Propp, an Iowa ...
On February 23, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew F. Kennelly granted partial summary judgment to the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit challenging certain strip and visual body cavity searches conducted at Illinois’ Cook County Jail (CCJ).
The plaintiffs were separated into two classes. The Class I members comprised ...
