None of the guards were ever disciplined

Ohio: Cleveland man says guard at private prison severely beat him A Cleveland man filed suit against a private prison in Ashtabula County that says a guard beat him unconscious in 2016, and that the beating was so severe that he required an emergency medical procedure on his brain. A surveillance camera at the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut captured part of the incident at the center of Timothy Davis' lawsuit. However, most of the beating that he says he endured at the hands of prison guard Aaron Lawrence was not captured on camera after another staff member opened a door and blocked most of the action. Ashtabula County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci's office presented a case against Lawrence to a grand jury, which declined to charge him with a crime. Davis, 31, filed his lawsuit in federal court in Cleveland last week. The suit names private prison owner CoreCivic, Warden Brigham Sloan, Lawrence, fellow guard Laurie Typinski and other staff members as defendants. CoreCivic owns the Conneaut institution and contracts with the state to house inmates. Read More http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/09/cleveland_man_says_guard_at_pr.html Davis says in his lawsuit that he was later flown to a hospital and underwent a procedure that involves removing part of the skull to help reduce swelling on his brain. None of the guards were ever disciplined, and the force was ruled justified, the lawsuit says. Iarocci says an Ashtabula County grand jury heard a lot of evidence before deciding against indicting Lawrence. He said he never makes recommendations to grand juries on whether to charge a suspect. "I'm grateful there's a video," Cristallo said in a statement Monday. "Without visual proof, prisoners have virtually no chance of finding justice. But in Tim's case, even with a video they found in Lawrence's favor and had no problem with Typinski blocking the camera. Tim Davis was almost killed and not one of them had the courage to stand up for what's right. It shouldn't take a corpse for someone to speak up." -----------------------------------------------------------

Corrections Officer Punched Her in 2015 While She Was Handcuffed

By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com Madeline Chappell CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County and the city of Euclid will pay a combined $70,000 to a woman who said a Corrections Officer Punched Her in 2015 While She Was Handcuffed to a chair at the Euclid Jail, her attorney said. Lucille Dumas, 57, of Cleveland, said in a lawsuit filed in 2016 that Sheriff's Department Corporal Madeline Chappell repeatedly punched her, pepper sprayed her, drenched her with water and struck her in the face with a Tupperware container after she was arrested in January 2015 in a drunken driving case. Dumas later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges "The senseless and needless attack on Ms. Dumas by a Cuyahoga County corrections officer was a grave violation of her constitutional rights, and one that could have been easily stopped by other officers who witnessed it," Pattakos said in an email. "Ms. Dumas hopes that by her lawsuit she's helped ensure that the county and the City of Euclid will better train their officers to intervene in situations where their colleagues engage in needless violence against citizens, and that no one else will have to endure what she did." http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/10/woman_punched_by_guard_while_h.