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Seitz’s attorneys said they were disappointed in the ruling and “will continue to seek justice.” “Mr. Seitz and his family, as we have previously stated, are longtime supporters of law enforcement, and remain so, but they expect accountability for the assault and the events that followed,” said attorney Josh Stambaugh.

if you had asked me to predict what the plaintiff's attorney would say in a statement this would have been nowhere in my top 10 or 20 guesses tbh

Lawsuit against L.A. County deputies involved in fight outside Santa Clarita bar dismissed A lawsuit claiming that a man was beaten outside a Santa Clarita bar by off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, who then conspired with a high-ranking sheriff’s official to cover up the incide...

well then www.latimes.com/california/s...

Plaintiffs continue their outreach and report here on “the number of Plaintiffs who wish to travel independently to a U.S. port of entry or who wish to be flown from a third country to the United States for their court proceedings, understanding that in both scenarios they will be detained upon arrival.” ECF No. 247 at 7. There are nineteen (19) such Plaintiffs as of the date of this filing. Further details are submitted separately under seal, as ordered by the Court.

Incredible.
19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.

This is the full OIG report from the above screenshot:

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Oh hey guys look the LA Sheriff's Dept investigated itself and found no deputy gangs.

WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT

screenshot of 1421 postings showing nothing new since december

LASD has not posted any new deputy disciplinary files to its portal since December so i guess that's it, no more problems in the department everything's good you guys

lmao i was literally about to text you this link but i see you found it yourself first

Update: The (very annoyed) federal judge issued an order to show cause, naming all the officers individually involved and telling them and ordering them to explain why they should not be held in civil contempt: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs Citing a ProPublica investigation that found that workers at federal lockups had been lured away to ICE, lawmakers asked how the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to address the agency’s “unsafe conditi...

Full story here: www.propublica.org/article/bop-...

The reps gave the agency a 30-day deadline to respond in writing with concrete solutions.

BOP declined to publicly discuss the letter, saying it will communicate directly with Congress.

Last yr, when oversight officials visited 1 prison they found all housing units well staffed – tho lawmakers said that was a “trick” accomplished by using extreme augmentation and that the bureau tried to mislead oversight officials abtwhat they’d done democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

table showing a high of 718174 augmentation hours in 2025

One way the agency has tried to skirt the problem is by forcing prison nurses, teachers and plumbers to step in and work as corrections officers, an unpopular practice known as “augmentation.”

Last year, BOP staff worked more hours of augmentation than in any other year in the past decade.

That decrease in staffing actually makes life worse for both staff and prisoners. With mandatory OT, staff are sometimes working 4 doubles a week, and prisoners are getting locked down more and have less access to programming.

New Hires and Separations

As part of a monthslong recruiting blitz, ICE has been offering up to 50k signing bonuses and higher pay, luring away officers from prisons across the country - so many that by the end of last year the agency lost a net of 1800 workers. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

The lawmakers’ questions come after a ProPublica investigation found that corrections officers are leaving BOP jobs in large numbers for better-paying roles at ICE: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

Citing my reporting for @propublica.org, 4 House Dems have formally asked the head of the federal prison system to explain how the agency will fix severe staffing shortages affecting safety and operations.

My latest:

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Court is taking a recess right now - though I have to step away in a few so might miss it when they return, but will update in this thread if/when I hear more afterward.

Wow: Govt. lawyer asking to file motion for reconsideration on a prior ruling w/r/t retaliation and the judge chuckled at the thought: “In light of this you think I’m gonna reconsider retaliation?”

The judge is demanding to know the name of the warden at Butner, and is not happy that the govt lawyer doesn't know.

Wow, judge is NOT happy. He is dissatisfied with the BOP's lack of information at the last hearing.

”I want the facts and you don’t know them!" he says, adding that it's a "blatant disregard of this court's orders.

Hearing ongoing right now and the government lawyer is responding to the plaintiffs' lawyer, saying that the staff accused of retaliatory actions have been referred to internal affairs.

There's a hearing on this right now, and the plaintiffs' lawyer is asking the court to issue an order to show cause, requiring the govt to explain itself. And they're asking BOP to transfer Pinson to a halfway house and take another client out of SHU.

On February 20, officials at the “Central Office” ordered FCI Butner’s medical director to terminate Ms. Pinson’s hormone treatment. Declaration of Grace Pinson ¶ 4 (Feb. 24, 2024) (hereinafter “Feb. 24 Pinson Decl.”). In the days that followed, prison officials made Ms. Pinson strip naked and subjected her to a demeaning visual cavity search in front of multiple male guards; they rifled through her personal and sensitive papers, including legal documents, and tossed them into a cell covered in feces, and extended her detention her in a segregation unit after she was supposed to return to general population. Id. ¶¶ 5-8. One of the officials who engaged in this conduct, Lt. Teague, told Ms. Pinson that if “you want to make it home alive, you need to stop sending stuff to that fucking judge.” Id. ¶ 6. Lt. Teague told Elmer Moreno, another incarcerated person who conferred with class counsel about this litigation, that Mr. Moreno was being held in solitary confinement because he had “been talking to [Ms. Pinson’s] lawyers.” Id. ¶ 9. Summarizing his management philosophy, Lt. Teague informed Ms. Pinson: “I’ve told you before, and I’ll tell you again, I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.” Id. ¶

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Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs Citing a ProPublica investigation that found that workers at federal lockups had been lured away to ICE, lawmakers asked how the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to address the agency’s “unsafe conditi...

NEW: The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director.

By @keribla.bsky.social

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Books do not bring drugs into prison. Prison guards bring drugs into prison.

Haha honored to be in the same thought as them !!!

look like everything in the BOP is going well, as per usual

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do

They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do

They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do.

Then they *lost* him.

www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...