Police Misconduct Blog

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an investigation into the Georgia prison system in the wake of allegations of unconstitutional abuses of inmates.
According to Kristen Clarke, the head of the DOJ’s civil rights division, the dangerous conditions in the Georgia prison...

Nursing aide Rickia Young, 29, was driving her 2-year-old son and 16-year-old nephew in West Philadelphia in the early morning hours of October 27, 2020 when she found her vehicle in the middle of a protest. She was in the area to pick up her nephew.
Crowds had gathered to protest the killing...

On September 8, 2021, Karen Garner was unaware that her attorney was in the midst of settlement negotiations with the city of Loveland, Colorado regarding a lawsuit filed against the city and five police officers. The 74-year-old suffers from dementia and resides in a nursing home memory care...

The former director of Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Jail will learn what it is like to live behind bars after a judge sentenced him to nine months for creating inhumane conditions in the facility he oversaw.
Following a three-week trial, Ken Mills, 56, the former director, was found guilty on...

Justice for Rikers Island Inmates Rikers Island is a small 413 acre island in the middle of New York’s East River. It is also the home of New York City’s primary jail complex. For years, the city has promised to close the archaic facility and replace it with a network of modern...

Curtis Flowers is now 51 years old. He spent almost half of his life to date in prison after conviction for killing four people at a Winona, Mississippi furniture store. He was employed by the store for less than a week.
At the time of his arrest in 1997, he had no criminal record. There was...

For nearly three decades, Gulia Dale III, 61, called Newton, New Jersey home. On the Fourth of July, the Black military veteran was shot and killed by police in front of his residence. His wife, Karen, had called 911 to report that her husband was “acting crazy,”–and she mentioned...