Police Misconduct Blog

Janene Wallace hanged herself at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania’s Delaware County in 2015. At the time of her death, at age 35, the prison was run by the for-profit Community Education Centers (CEC) Inc. On November 9, CEC agreed to pay her family $7 million in a...

This story begins in Birmingham, Alabama. The governor ordered hundreds of National Guard troops and state troopers to assist city police who were struggling to maintain order after four young black girls were killed at a local church. Police arrested nineteen people on the night of September 15th,...

There’s an appalling sameness to articles about jail suicides – the victim’s families are always “seeking answers.” Actually receiving an answer to why their loved one supposedly killed themselves in jail is the exception.
In Roanoke, Virginia, five families want...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Department of Justice charged former Bordentown NJ police chief Frank Nucera with federal hate crimes. Prosecutors say that while acting as police chief, Nucera assaulted an 18 year old black male. They say the assault was motivated by Nucera’s...

Two New York City police detectives accused of raping a handcuffed 18- year old woman inside their van earlier in the month were arraigned on October 30. Charges against Eddie Martins, 37 and Richard Hall, 33, include first-degree rape, first degree criminal sexual act and second-degree...

September 18th, 2010 will be a day that William Jennings will never forget. Neither will the six deputies sued for senselessly beating Jennings. Even the jurors who heard the case for two weeks in the fall of 2016 probably can’t forget what they saw at trial. Much of Jennings torture was...

Spend a few minutes on the Internet and you will find plenty of advice on how to interact if stopped by the police or if incarcerated. Unfortunately, when it comes to police and corrections officer misconduct, most of that advice is bad.
As well intended as it may seem, most of that advice is...

Judge Roy Payne has just awarded $6.3 million to the family of William Livezey Jr.; a man who died of a heart attack while he was being arrested by an off-duty cop in Malakoff, Texas in December, 2013.
In 2014, Livezey’s widow and his four adult children had filed a lawsuit against the...

Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. (ACHS) receives $25 million annually to care for the inmates at Broward County’s four jails.
Under their contract, they must pay up to $50K if an inmate is sent for care outside the jail facility – an amount that gives ACHS an...

Bernard Victorianne died in the San Diego Central Jail in 2012 from a drug overdose. His death could have been prevented if the jail officials had acted on the fact that they knew he had swallowed a bag full of methamphetamines and ignored warnings from a local hospital to get Victorianne prompt...