A Delaware federal judge has allowed an inmate at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center to proceed with a lawsuit alleging that failures by top corrections officials led to a violent takeover of the prison’s C Building in 2017.
U.S. District Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the District of Delaware ruled this week that Donald Parkell had supported claims that Perry Phelps and Robert Coupe, the current and former commissioners, respectively, of the Delaware Department of Corrections, had undermined a 2016 court settlement requiring increased security, better mental health services at the prison, and more out-of-cell time for prisoners placed in restrictive housing.
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