Legal
Legal issues in the correctional system encompass various topics, including inmate rights, staff conduct, and compliance with state and federal laws. This directory offers articles and resources on the legal aspects of correctional facility operations, helping staff stay informed about the regulations and policies that govern their work. Understanding legal responsibilities is essential for minimizing liability and ensuring facilities operate within the law. For more information, explore our section on Corrections Policies.
The Florida attorney general had warned Orange County officials of removal if they failed to support immigration enforcement
Matthew Millar was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the 2022 death of Jason Rothe at the Secure Psychiatric Unit in Concord
Edward Zakrzewski’s execution is the ninth in 2025 — more than any other state and the most Florida has carried out in a year since 1976
Lawsuit by family members of man who died in custody alleges guards at Monroe’s Richwood Correctional Center beat and pepper-sprayed handcuffed prisoners in area without security cameras
Complaint argues that IDHS is violating the Illinois Code of Criminal Procedure by not taking custody of defendants within 20 days of their being found unfit to stand trial and remanded to the agency for mental-health treatment
Senators “concerned” about recent press reports of retaliation and violence against inmates at FCI Sheridan for their claims of mistreatment
The loss of the federal contract to hold the detainees likely will create a $6 million hole in the county budget that will have to be filled, according to officials
Last month, the General Assembly passed a budget amendment that excluded those with violent offenses from state’s earned sentence credit program
In the “kids-for-cash” scandal, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan shut down county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from co-owner of two for-profit lockups
The board of supervisors wants to speed the process of filling more than 350 vacancies for deputies, nurses and mental health clinicians
Program reduced spending on services such as emergency shelters and hospital care, offsetting between 50% and 100% of the cost of housing
The 25 state correctional officers were accused in 2019 of using excessive force against inmates and functioning as a criminal enterprise in jails around the city
The story got national attention after a judge ordered the plaintiff’s attorney to stop tweeting about it
The changes - replacing the term with “incarcerated person” - signed into law Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul are intended to reduce the stigma of being in jail
Friedmann moved locked storage crates to a friend’s house in nearby Joelton that contained 21 firearms, including assault rifles, handguns, shotguns and a 37mm launcher
Robin Limon claims she was demoted in retaliation for complaining about a deputy kneeling on an inmate’s head in March
The COs filed a complaint after an official barred officers of color from entering the floor where Chauvin was being held
Court ruled a jury could find that punching the inmate in the face and applying pressure to her neck, back and legs after her resistance was controlled was excessive
Prosecutor will not oppose post-conviction litigation in eight cases following a 2019 review of cases related to allegations of police misconduct involving Reynaldo Guevara
The case against him was largely based on testimony from jailhouse informants who claimed Deering admitted starting the fire that killed 5 children
Rape and sexual battery of female inmates at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center “was rampant, routine, and widespread,” according to the woman’s lawsuit
The incident drew national attention when Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced that the reporter who wrote the story was under criminal investigation
“These three-digit temperature days and the heat index is pretty strong evidence that we need to take a real look at what needs to be done,” an official said
Congressman “dismayed” that Michael Carvajal is staying on through the end of the month as a senior adviser to Peters, the former director of Oregon’s state prison system
Lawyers for four South Carolina death row inmates argued this week the prisoners would feel terrible pain whether their bodies were “cooking” by electricity or heart stopped by marksman’s bullet
James Coddington, 50, was convicted and sentenced to die for killing 73-year-old Albert Hale by beating him on the head with a hammer
“This is one of the worst cases of murder I’ve ever seen,” said Jones, a former Houston, Texas, prosecutor.
Lawyers content officials can’t know whether killing someone by these methods won’t cause “unacceptable levels of mutilation and damage to the body.”
Two men say a former New Orleans judge forced them to use and pay for ankle monitors from ETOH, a company owned by the judge’s former law partner
Published in 2016, the book is one of the most comprehensive accounts of the uprising, where more than 1,300 inmates took over part of a prison in upstate New York
Colette Peters, former director of the Oregon state prison system, replaces Michael Carvajal
Gregory A. Evans admitted he abused an inmate by strangling him, putting him in a chokehold, and punching him in April 2021
The judge said that deficiencies in supervision and staffing lead to “a stunning array of assaults, as well as deaths
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