Police Misconduct Blog

While the private prison healthcare system has come in for its fair share of criticism on the way inmates receive health care, it’s not the only culprit in the inmate medical system. Many local jails, especially in the South, simply do not want to deal with sick inmates.
A process...

September was a particularly tragic month for inmates in California’s Shasta County Jail in Redding. In a matter of weeks, three inmates succumbed, two within the jail itself and another returning after medical treatment at a local hospital.
Two Weeks, Three Deaths The first death...

Joseph Guglielmo will never forget what happened to him on the night of January 15th, 2015. While in the intake area of the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, he was beaten so severely by a guard that he lapsed into a coma. Although he eventually emerged from the coma, he is now wheelchair...

Over the past five years, Baltimore taxpayers have ended up paying more than $24.5 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits – and the amount is rising. A pending settlement amounts to $15 million and was not included in this total. Many more lawsuits are currently working their way...

What’s in a name? When you want to rebrand a toxic product, try calling it something it obviously isn’t, such as a path to wellness. Already the country’s largest private provider of healthcare to inmates, in November 2018, Correct Care Solutions, based in Nashville, merged with a...

There is no question summer heat in Texas is oppressive. In the past 20 years, at least 22 Texas inmates have died from heat stroke, but the majority of Texas prisons do not have air conditioning.
On September 6, U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison in Houston said he is considering putting...

What happens when corrections officers are scared and vastly outnumbered at the facilities at which they are employed? Like Nature, prison abhors a vacuum, and soon gangs are calling the shots. At the South Mississippi Correctional Institute (“SMCI”), gangs set the rules and those who...

At least five inmates were injured on Friday, August 23, after a riot broke out at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa, San Diego County. Two of the inmates suffered serious injuries and were brought to the hospital via air ambulances.
Approximately 80 inmates were...

A jury in Ohio awarded an East Cleveland man $50 million. The man claimed after he was arrested in 2012, cops beat him and then locked him without food in a concrete storage room.
The incident occurred in 2012. It took 7 long years for Arnold Black to receive justice. He originally won $22...

Each year, 1 million people are arrested for possession of drugs. Most are sentenced to incarceration and a fine, but a few unlucky people get sentenced to death—not by a judge and jury, but by police officers. That’s what happened to 35-year-old Michigan man William Marshall, who was...