Judge Sanctions Lawyers Defending Alabama’s Prisons For Citing Fake Cases From AI July 28, 2025 A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings...
Lawsuit Filed Over Jailhouse Killing of Deaf Man in Maryland June 16, 2025 By Lea Skene In the days before Javarick Gantt was strangled to death in jail, he was forced to share a cell with...
Mother of Dead Inmate Sues Troubled Wisconsin Prison May 5, 2025 By Todd Richmond The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at Wisconsin’s oldest maximum security prison last year has...
Rikers Island Inmates Sue City Claiming They Were Trapped in Cells During Fire July 10, 2024 By Philip Marcelo Inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island are suing the city claiming they were trapped in their cells during a...
Family of Inmate Who Died by Suicide in Virginia Jail Gets $1.75M From Psychiatrist January 22, 2024 By Matthew Barakat The family of a man who died by suicide at a Virginia jail after his antipsychotic medication was discontinued has...
West Virginia Taps $4 Million in Insurance to Pay Settlement With Inmates November 13, 2023 The state of West Virginia has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who...
Family Alleges Negligence, Discrimination in Lawsuit Over Autistic Prisoner’s Death October 20, 2023 By Claudia Lauer Eleven days after 57-year-old Anthony Talotta arrived at a Pittsburgh jail, he died from what his family says was a...
Louisiana Prisoner Suit Claims They’re Forced to Endure Dangerous Conditions at Prison Farm September 18, 2023 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been...
Inmate Sues Private Kansas Prison Operators Over His 2021 Stabbing August 1, 2023 LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) – An inmate is suing one of the nation`s largest private prison operators over his 2021 stabbing...
Suit Over Texas Woman’s Jail Death Settles for $7M April 28, 2023 By Jake Bleiberg DALLAS (AP) – A private company that ran a Texas jail where a woman allegedly went blind following days of...