Individuals held in jails and correctional facilities retain fundamental rights to humane treatment and protection from unlawful uses of force. When those entrusted with their custody abuse that authority or fail to protect individuals from serious harm, the consequences can be devastating. Peck Baxter represents individuals and families in civil rights and personal injury claims arising from deaths, serious injuries, and excessive force in jails and other custodial settings.

Our attorneys handle matters involving excessive or unreasonable force, deaths in custody, failures to provide appropriate medical care, failures to protect, dangerous conditions of confinement, and other serious misconduct. These cases may involve claims against individual officers, correctional personnel, governmental entities, private contractors, and others responsible for the treatment and safety of people in custody.

Claims involving jails and law enforcement present complex constitutional, governmental-immunity, procedural, and evidentiary issues. Peck Baxter carefully investigates these cases, works with appropriate experts, and pursues accountability and compensation through civil rights and other available legal claims. When serious misconduct causes catastrophic injury or death, we are prepared to take on governmental entities, insurers, and other responsible parties through litigation and trial.