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Grainger County settles suit over “sex shows” in jail
Grainger County taxpayers will be shelling out $110,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a former corrections officer forced female inmates to put on "sex shows" that he viewed from atop milk crates in a control room as he masturbated, records show.
Mother Files Lawsuit Against Scott County Sheriff For 2016 Jailhouse Death Of Her Son
Donna Jean Sexton-Pemberton filed a $5 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Scott County, Tennessee, and its sheriff, Ronnie Phillips, for the July 20, 2016 death of her son, Benny Shane Pemberton. Lance Baker of The Baker Law Firm, is representing Ms. Sexton-Pemberton in the litigation.
Learn about how a cut on Benny's foot led to his death, what the lawsuit alleges happened to him while in Scott County custody, and who else is named in the suit by reading an online article about it on the WBIR 10 news site.
Knox County And KCSO Face $5M Lawsuit Over Treatment Of Mentally Ill Inmate
A November 2014 staff beating of a Knox County jail inmate, caught on video, is at the center of a $5 million lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in late 2015. Lance Baker, founder of The Baker Law Firm, is representing Louis Flack. The suit alleges that Flack's civil rights were violated by the Knox County Sheriff's Office personnel involved in the beating as they were moving him from one cell to another. The lawsuit further alleges that the jail's personnel are ill-equipped to deal with mentally ill inmates such as Flack, whose condition causes him to sometimes be angry, combative and paranoid.
Learn more about the suit, and how the county is responding to requests for better treatment for mentally ill inmates, in this article in USA Today.
Former Hamblen County inmate files $5M Civil Rights Violation Lawsuit Over Beating By Fellow Inmate
Lance Baker of The Baker Law Firm is representing Jeremy Garcia, a Knox County man who alleges he received a jailhouse beating in 2015 severe enough to cause memory loss and ongoing depression and in which he suffered multiple facial fractures. Garcia alleges that his jailers did little or nothing to protect him from more dangerous inmates who threatened him multiple times. Learn about which county officials are named in the $5 million civil rights violation suit, and how a $38 debt and two boxes of pop-tarts figured into the incident in this news article.
Knoxville Man Faces Charges After Human Torso Found In His Car
What might have been an ordinary traffic stop turned into an unusual encounter on June 17, 2019, when Dorrae Debrice Johnson attempted to evade arrest after a police officer spotted him weaving in and out of his lane of traffic. A car chase and a chase on foot followed. To discover what charges Dorrae faced after his arrest, as well as how he came to have a human torso in the passenger side of his car, you can read more about the case here: Tennessee man arrested after police say human torso found in car: report.
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