A former DeKalb County corrections officer remains at large following his conviction Monday by a Fulton County jury. Charles Barry Pinckney had been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at his home in January 2016. Pinckney said the girl told him she was 19 and the sex was consensual, but doctors said her injuries were … Read more
The man who filmed Eric Garner’s death says he’s been beaten by corrections officers in a prison near the Canadian border and tossed into solitary confinement in retaliation for the video. A letter from Ramsey Orta dated Oct. 16 says he was roughed up by corrections officers at Franklin Correctional Facility that day and taken … Read more
MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. – The Justice Department is releasing hundreds of documents for the first time in the death of an inmate inside the Macomb County Jail. David Stojcevski’s death sparked a national debate on the treatment of inmates after the Local 4 Defenders aired video of his final days, which included agonizing suffering due … Read more
The settlement was filed recently in U.S. District Court in Albany, where Cannon’s mother had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Cannon’s infant daughter. Cannon’s symptoms steadily worsened after employees of a medical company that had a contract with the county brushed off his severe neurological symptoms as heat exhaustion, instructing guards to give … Read more
LOS ANGELES – It’s disturbing video the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department does not want the public to see – inmates howling in pain, some dragged away bloody and unconscious during a mass cell extraction at Men’s Central Jail in August of 2008. Eyewitness News fought to get dozens of videos unsealed by the courts, … Read more
There’s widespread agreement that prisoners in the US pay far too much for phone calls, but several of the Federal Communications Commission’s attempts to cap those prices have been blocked in court. One of the biggest obstacles is that phone companies have to pay large “site commissions” to prisons and jails in order to win … Read more
Lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit focused on the death of Holding Center inmate Richard A. Metcalf Jr. have agreed to keep the depositions of Sheriff Timothy B. Howard and two of his top aides sealed, one of the attorneys said Wednesday. Jim Brown, whose Brown Chiari law firm represents Metcalf’s father, said his … Read more
A lawsuit was filed Monday against three doctors and 11 nurses who work at a prison in Kansas as well as the company contracted to provide medical services for inmates throughout the state’s prison system after medical staff ignored an inmate who told them, “it feels like something is eating my brain.” Even after Marques … Read more
Montgomery County officials have reached terms for a settlement with a 60-year-old woman who was taken down to the floor in the county jail after asking a corrections officer for milk instead of juice while eating breakfast in the women’s waiting area. Marsha Pate-Strickland reached a financial settlement with the county, her attorney and county … Read more
A former Georgia prison guard has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually assaulting three female inmates and then coercing them into helping him cover up the assaults. Edgar Daniel Johnson, 51, pleaded guilty Monday, admitting that between Nov. 1, 2012, and Sept. 30, 2013, he had non-consensual sex multiple times with three female inmates … Read more
ANTIOCH, Calif. – A former Hercules police officer was sentenced Friday to more than 28 years in prison for trying to kill his estranged wife in a drive-by shooting in Antioch. John Goodner showed no visible emotion as Judge John Kennedy of Contra Costa County Superior Court pronounced sentence in Martinez. A jury previously convicted … Read more
WARREN, Ohio – The Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office has released its video that led to the termination of two corrections officers at the Trumbull County Jail. The video of the August ordeal, with also led to the discipline of six other employees, was released on Thursday. The video shows Corrections Officer Matthew Abbott yank inmate … Read more