Detailed federal lawsuit against Kinross prisons officials, MDOC officials, and food service officials who worked for the scandal plagued Aramark and now its replacement “Trinity”
By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
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Editor’s note/and promise needed in wake of MDOC deaths: Inmate Ronnie Boone better be the safest prisoner in MDOC facilities and not die from freak one-of-a-kind “accidents” like allegedly happen to a prisoner in his Marquette Branch Inmate segregation cell. In the wake of deaths and numerous medical allegations in Michigan state prisons, U.P Breaking News renews our editorial demand and plea that the feds take over state prison – or at very least the riot-torn Kinross Correctional Facility.
(Marquette, MI) – An inmate is asking for a consent decree or federal injunction be filed against the state of Michigan and Kinross prison plus its contracted meal service companies due to raw, undercooked, unsanitary and horrible food.
Plus the prisoner is demanding a damages trail in a federal lawsuit outlining disgusting food at the riot-torn Kinross prison and may help explain why so many inmates get sick and have to be taken to the hospital.
The unusually well-prepared and detailed 45-page lawsuit filed on December 8, 2016 by Kinross inmate Ronnie Boone against the warden and deputy warden plus other prison grievance officials and two food service companies and their officials. It was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
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To the state gunshot victim and inmate Ronnie Boone is prisoner No. 501976 and has been in prison since 2004 for an armed robbery conviction in Berrien County. Boone suffers from numerous health issues after being shot including a head injury, nerve damage, gastro-refux, liver and other digestive/bowel issues. He claims the MDOC allows these companies to served raw and half-cooked food, reused spoiled food, small portions – and then the state allegedly all but ignores his grievances ensuring he and other inmates always lose even though they participate in extensive state requirements to make a complaint prior to case going to federal court.
Boone says the unsanitary conditions and obscene food is exacerbating his contagious disease Hepatitis C. He claims his health condition shave worsened due to unsanitary conditions and equipment” plus serving rehashed spoiled food and more. Boone says he suffers depression, borderline personality disorder, panic attacks/related profuse sweating and says the food has made him violently ill and hinder recover from chronic illnesses.
The lawsuit reveals that while the state got rid of Aramark Food Services for awful food – a new food services company has been staffed with former Aramark employees – now working for the new Trinity Services Group.
In fact, the allegations include ongoing inappropriate food – and this prior to the September 2016 riot – caused by food, medical, abuse and other concerns. The state lied about the Saturday evening and night riot, causing a U.P. Newspaper to have egg on the face of its Sunday editions that proclaim a small peaceful protest at Kinross.
Current and former Kinross staff claim to U.P. Breaking News the prisoners could easily “take over the prison again” if they organize and especially during food service times and areas. Since the riot, sources says, a climate of “walking on eggs shells” fear, desperation, and retribution fill the air at Kinross. Since the riot, many of the Kinross inmates have been shipped around the U.P.
One of the defendants was the deputy warden at Kinross, but now Kathy Olsen is the warden at the Baraga Maximum Security Correctional Facility
The suit alleges things are just as bad now, as it\ was under the infamous Philadelphia-based Aramark, as disgraceful food service was one many allegations made against the company and its employees – some of whom went to prison.
Dozens of ambulances calls have occurred in the past year at the Kinross Correctional Facility in Chippewa County – and U.P. Breaking News is probing how many of these incidents can be chalked up to the food.
Boone’s lawsuit was filed after he followed detailed and extensive “administrative remedies” through MDCO and his grievances of unacceptable food in 2014 ad 2015 involve “unsanitary conditions” at Kinross presenting “a serious health risk of physical harm.” Plus accuses Kinross of refusal to provide “humane treatment and living.”
Named as defendants in the federal civil suit are Kinross Warden Duncan Maclaren, Kinross Deputy Warden Kathy Olsen, MDOC Grievance Section Manager Richard D. Russell at the office of legal affairs” in Lansing and Kinross Grievance Coordinator L. Berlinger plus the two food companies Trinity Service Group (TSG) and Aramark Correction Services (ACS) – ACS Supervisor S. Lewis and ACS Director Shawn McMullen.
The suit states “defendant S. Lewis was the food supervisor” for ACS at the penitentiary and then became the “supervisor for the new food service vendor Trinity Services Group.” In addition, former ACS Director at Kinross turned defendant Shawn McMullen is now the director for Trinity at Kinross.
Having already served 12 years in prison, the 57-year-old Boone says those named the the lawsuit were deliberately indifferent to his concerns and health adding the prison provided “inadequate nutrition.” Not sued but mentioned in the lawsuit is Kinross “Sargeant Cryderman.”
In a request for a judge trial, inmate Ronnie Boone is “alleging violations of his constitutional rights and seeking injunctive relief, declaratory/judgment, monetary damages” plus “exemplary and/or punitive damages.” While judges often dismiss poorly prepared or unsubstantiated inmate lawsuits, if a judge “dismisses this suit out of hand” – then virtually no inmates will win a civil lawsuit in U.P. Federal court, a source says.
Boone says ACS “knowingly provided food to KCF prisoners that was nutritionally inadequate, prepared under unsanitary conditions including serving meals on contaminated food trays, spoiled food from previous meals” and accuses the company “inadequate supervision of employees” resulting in “improper food handling, preparation and sterilization of equipment.”
Laws and federal prison rules that Boone cites are the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Seventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Boone “demands a jury trial”unless “a consent decree” is issued or there is an agreement reached between all parties.
At great expense, U.P. Breaking News has reviewed dozens of federal lawsuit filed by prisoners against the Michigan Department of Corrections and its personnel from the top on down., however this is one of the most detailed and includes a few exhibits that are filed to back up some of the claims.
Michigan prisoners have few ways of documenting their allegations – and charges sometimes include abuse, improper medical care and food that can not be called decent or fair. Judges like proof like audio and video tapes – and photos – all out of reach of prisoners. Even some of the worst allegations of physical and non-physical abuse often get dismissed by federal judges because you have a prisoner’s word against a state of Michigan Corrections Officer.
Disgusting food in Michigan prisons and a pattern of health care abuses are a shocking indictment of the bosses in charge of the MDOC. U.P. Breaking News has written editorials insisting that the federal authorities take over Michigan [prisons until the excessive abuses continue and more inmates die.
2016 Kinross Lawsuit:
Why won’t the feds take over Michigan Prisons – or at least Kinross and Marquette Branch – even thought deaths and other abuses have been documented for several year? Is it because federal officials don’t care or are seriously understaffed, just like the state of Michigan and some members of the public.
The Kinross prison is located at 4533 West Industrial Parke Dr. in Kincheloe, Michigan.
U.P. Breaking News has witnessed some members of the public in Facebook comments just do not care about prisoner’s rights or health – and maybe severely understaffed prisons causes a “who cares” attitude that some say is systemic in the Michigan prison system. If the feds do not take over or if the abuses continue – U.P. Breaking News will start publishing ALL lawsuits filed by inmates involving incidents in U.P. Prisons because the issues have become so excessive and young inmates are dying, yet Michigan State Police seem unable to police the system because your rarely see charges filed against Cos – and certainly not the bosses.
Marquette Branch Prison (MBP) death of young healthy inmate – will it be chalked up to a freak accident by state police? State police are already clear everyone and all personnel – including bosses – in three Upper Peninsula police involved shootings that would have had livable outcomes if nonlethal force was used – instead two retired men were killed during well being checks in thei own homes – and the most recent in his own bed and bedroom.
U.P. Breaking News has been told that officers shot, and possibly tazed, and then shot again killing a man in his Chippewa County home. The victim’s dog was angry about what happened to his friend – the dog guarded the body of the victim from troopers and deputies. It is not clear whether they also decided to kill the dog.
A Michigan State Police detective has told the mother of a 30-year-old Derrick Siminski of Saginaw – that her healthy son died in some sort of one-of-the kind, freak and unheard of fall off his segregation cell bench. Plus the Michigan State Police detective has no first-hand idea the original position of the body – if in fact MBP personnel really conducted CPR and other medical procedures as was stated over the radio in which prison officials were demanding a Marquette doctor declare the inmate death sight unseen. An extensive probe by U.P. Breaking News, has uncovered shocking abuses, yet it usually takes the Detroit News/Detroit Free Press to print stories before anything changes – and the U.P.media are fast asleep about prisson issues unless they get a press release.
Related info/links:
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Ronnie Boone MDOC page
Racial Identification:
Black
Current Status:
Prisoner
Earliest Release Date:
08/04/2026
Assigned Location:
Maximum Discharge Date:
02/04/2079
Scar- Center Back – Surgical scar to remove bullett
Scar- Knee
Scar- Lower Left Arm
Scar- Lower Right Hand – Gun shot wound
Offense:
Robbery Armed
Minimum Sentence:
22 years 6 months 0 days
MCL#:
Maximum Sentence:
75 years 0 months
Court File#:
04410635-FC
Date of Offense:
01/29/2004
County:
Berrien
Date of Sentence:
07/19/2004
63-year-old Michael Keith Feighner of Rudyard, MI was indicted on two federal felony charges of attempted enticement of a minor and attempted travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Mike Keith Feighner is married, a father of two grown sons, and and lists former Michigan addresses in Brimley, Grand Ledge, Niles and Kalamazoo – plus several Indiana cities. A 1975 Grand Ledge High School grad, Feighner studied criminal justice/corrections at Lansing Community College, according to his Facebook page.
The federal grand jury sitting in Marquette returned a forfeiture allegation stating the feds want to permanently seize related items allegedly used in the crimes.
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