On August 17, 2012, a federal lawsuit over a guard allowing prisoners to be beaten by other prisoners at a county prison and officials generally allowing unsafe and violent conditions at the prison was settled for $200,000.
John Julius Mucha was a prisoner at the Northampton County Prison in Easton, ...
A doctor has been associated with the medical maltreatment of multiple jail prisoners across several states during close to two decades of practice. Some of the prisoners died. Yet Dr. Stephen Austin Cullinan of Peoria, Illinois still retains his medical license.
On August 14, 2012, the Illinois Department of Financial ...
On November 14, 2012, the Second Circuit court of appeals upheld the award of $290,997.94 in costs, of which $286,065.00 were attorney fees, in a case with a $30,000 judgment for plaintiffs.
Deja Barbour, Shinnel Gonzalez and Rakayyah Massey were leaving a diner in White Plains, New York early in ...
On January 18, 2013, an Illinois federal jury awarded an Illinois prisoner $12 Million against an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) Correctional Medical Technician (CMT) who failed to provide him his anti-seizure medication which allowed him to have a seizure that resulted in severe and permanent brain damage.
Ray Fox ...
In a controversial reaction to a recent Supreme Court ruling declaring mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles unconstitutional, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad commuted the sentences of the 38 Iowa juvenile who had been sentenced to life without parole to a sentence requiring a mandatory 60 years in prison before being considered ...
In a 99-page, unpublished opinion dated June 14, 2006, New York federal district judge John Gleeson dismissed the illegal detention claims by eight ex-prisoners arrested in a post-9-11 sweep of illegal immigrants. He refused to dismiss their conditions-of-confinement claims.
The eight men had all been born in the Middle East ...
In a case that is beyond the pale of the usual high level of corruption in south Texas, a state district judge, the District Attorney of Cameron County and an attorney who was formerly a state representative are all accused of accepting bribes to allow a man who had been ...
FIN has gained access to a confidential report by Tim Higgins, the Investigation and Intelligence Coordinator for the Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) regarding rampant prisoner-on-prison violence at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), a Boise prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America. The report blamed the extraordinarily high level of ...
On August 1, 2010, the Washoe County Sheriff's Office began a pilot program of web-based jail visitation. Two years later, the web-based visitation had grown to encompass about two-fifths of all visits.
In 2010, a local company approached the sheriff's office and asked them to permit a pilot test of ...
Hurricane Sandy and a lack of preparation or training for unusual weather helped prisoners at the notorious Logan Hall halfway house to run rampant, including a mass escape of fifteen prisoners.
Although designated a "halfway house," Logan Hall, which is operated by Community Education Centers (CEC), a private corporation based ...
