Inmates

On Monday, a coalition of Colorado-based civil rights organizations released a letter calling on the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commissions to assign inmates to their home parishes to prevent racial prejudice from…

Civil rights groups on Wednesday called on the Justice Department (DOJ) to reconsider its position on the return to prison of thousands of federal prisoners who were detained during the pandemic, and offered a legal analysis they believed…

LEXINGTON, Kentucky - On separate charges, two former law enforcement officers working for the Federal Medical Center of the Bureau of Prisons in Lexington were charged with federal civil rights violations and sexual abuse. A…

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 5, 2021 / PRNewswire / - New Jersey civil rights attorneys Shelley L. Stangler, of Shelley L. Stangler, PC and Oliver Barry, by Barry, Corrado & Grassi, PC, who collectively represent several inmates of the…

A former Valdosta State Prison (VSP) inspector in Valdosta, Georgia pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of two inmates in two separate incidents. According to court documents and permits obtained during the September 24,…

A former correctional officer for the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office (RPSO) at Detention Center 1 in Alexandria, Louisiana, was convicted in federal court today of violating the civil rights of three inmates in his custody. 31-year-old…

DUBLIN (AP) - The County of Alameda has violated civil rights by failing to provide adequate psychiatric services, particularly in Santa Rita Prison, where 19 people have committed suicide since 2014. This emerges from a federal report…

WASHINGTON - A Georgia correctional officer pleaded guilty to violating an inmate's civil rights.According to documents filed in connection with the confession of guilt, 33-year-old Jamal Scott, a law…

items VALDOSTA, Ga. - - A Georgia jailer pleaded guilty to violating a prisoner's civil rights by beating him while handcuffed and lying on the ground. Prosecutors said 33-year-old Jamal Scott and other guards took the man to an outside…

LITTLE ROCK - The St. Louis 8th County Appeals Court on Tuesday dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by a state prisoner against a Jefferson County prison guard he and three other inmates while prison guards suppressed a disturbance.…