Police Misconduct Blog

On August 14, several protestors with the Jewish activist group Never Again Action (“NAA”) were outside the Wyatt Detention Facility (“WDF”) in Central Falls, Rhode Island. The private prison facility has contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Denver city councilwoman Candi CdeBaca was sworn in just last month. The new councilwoman is a vigorous opponent of renewing the city’s contracts with two of the largest players in the private prison field, CoreCivic and GEO Group. She said the city should not invest in organizations that are...

Tony Timpa’s last words were, “You’re going to kill me.” These words were caught on video after police officers pinned him down. Timpa’s family recently won a legal fight to have body camera footage of his death released as they pursue a lawsuit against the Dallas...

Since the beginning of the year, several major banks have announced they will no longer do business with the private prison industry. Activists have targeted these lenders, and the financing of private prisons has become a Democratic presidential campaign issue.
In 2016, an order was signed...

Lying to a grand jury is a crime. Unfortunately, many men and women are behind bars or stuck with a criminal record because officers of the law committed such crimes.
Too often, law enforcement officers get away with such behavior, but it’s different when video evidence turns up...

The family of Alfonso Bennett was briefly in mourning. Bennett had been missing for several weeks when his sister Rosie Brooks received a phone call on May 13 from Mercy Hospital, looking for his relatives. She was told her brother was in the intensive care unit, and she and her sister Brenda...

On April 7, 2018, Everett Palmer, Jr., 41, an Army veteran, left his home in Delaware and headed to Pennsylvania to resolve an outstanding DUI warrant from an incident two years earlier. On April 9, family members were informed Palmer died while in police custody at the York County...

In 2018, eight inmates died in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Jail. In May 2019, a ninth inmate succumbed. Before 2018, the annual death toll for the past decade at the facility never exceeded two. The causes of the 2018 deaths involved four suicides, three drug overdoses, and one related to...

Over the past eight years, huge changes occurred in California’s criminal justice system. Reduction of prison overcrowding was the impetus behind these changes after a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision required prison downsizing, and there is no question that there are far fewer inmates in the...

It hasn’t been a good year for the private prison industry. Major banks, including Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase, have announced they will no longer provide financing for these companies. The governing body of Denver, Colorado recently voted to stop dealing with two private prison...