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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
CDCR Held in Contempt, Fined $112 Million in Longstanding Litigation Over Mental Health Care by Coleman v. Newsom, a class-action case challenging inadequate mental health care for California state prisoners, has been ongoing for the past 35 years. Over the course of that litigation, a bench trial was held where …
$550,000 Settlement After Juvenile’s Suicide at Charlotte Jail by David Reutter On January 2, 2025, a settlement was signed by the Plaintiff in a lawsuit over the suicide of a juvenile pretrial detainee held at the lockup in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County. Under the terms of the agreement, the County …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Watchdogs Fault Nebraska Prisons for Suicide Response, Overpaid Staff by Boris Bastidas On August 20, 2024, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released a report detailing its investigation into three prisoner suicides, finding that DCS did not provide psychological autopsies after …
Ninth Circuit Revives Complaint Over Sloppy Cell Checks Before Psychotic Detainee’s Death at L.A. Jail by Douglas Ankney On October 17, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that 26 cell checks performed within 13 hours by six Los Angeles County jailers who nevertheless failed to …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Self-Harming Wisconsin Prisoner Settles Failure-to-Protect Suit for $7,000 by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution has been plagued by prisoner deaths and suicides, the most of recent of which are reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, Apr. 2025, p.33.] One of those who survived a suicide …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Federal Watchdog Calls Out BOP for Spiking Suicide Risk at Pennsylvania Lockup by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 26, 2024, United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz released findings from an unannounced inspection of the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Numerous violations …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 18, 2024, the United States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a …
DOJ Directs BOP, U.S. Marshals to Improve Suicide Prevention by On December 3, 2024, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco issued a directive updating suicide prevention protocols and improving mental health assessments for federal prisoners and detainees. The reforms apply to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the U.S. …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Suicidal Texas Prisoners Held in Phone-Booth-Size “Containment Cages” by In an essay published by Slate on October 20, 2024, Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner Jeremy Busby admitted that even after 20 years behind bars, what he found when released from a 23-month solitary confinement in 2022 left him …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$28.75 Million Settlement Paid by New York City in Suit Alleging Rikers Guards Stood by and Watched Detainee Hang Himself by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 5, 2024, the City of New York agreed to pay $28.75 million to settle a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint filed by Madeline …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Ninth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for California Jail Nurse Who Cleared Detainee for Release Just Before His Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On May 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Los Angeles County Jail nurse Trieste …
$1.5 Million Settlement Approved in Chicago Jail Suicide Case by On July 12, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a $1.5 million settlement in a case involving the suicide of detainee Areon Marion in Chicago’s Cook County Jail. The order directed how the funds …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$7.25 Million Paid for Psychotic Detainee’s Suicide After 20 Days in Solitary at Indiana Jail by On May 28, 2024, remaining claims were dismissed in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana by the Estate of Joshua McLemore, a psychotic Jackson County Jail detainee who starved himself to death …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Watchdog Faults BOP for Averaging 43 Prisoner Deaths a Year—More Than 23 by Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report issued by the federal Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on February 15, 2024, identified “operational and managerial deficiencies” in the federal Bureau of …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Psychiatrist Settles Virginia Jail Suicide Suit for $1.75 Million by The leading cause of death among people held in local jails is suicide. The family of Christopher Lapp, 62, learned that the hard way when he killed himself at Virginia’s Alexandria Adult Detention Center in 2021, while being held on …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arizona Agrees to $40,000 Settlement in Suit Over Mentally Ill Prisoner’s Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After a federal court found its provision of healthcare and mental health care to all state prisoners was “plainly, grossly inadequate,” Arizona settled a suit over one prisoner’s suicide on November 11, …
$7.5 Million Settlement in Suit Over California Jail Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 29, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement under which Riverside County paid $7.5 million to the survivors of a county jail detainee who died in custody. …
First Circuit Tolls Claim for Maine Jail Death from Date of Detainee’s Injury, Rather Than When He Died by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Of the many hurdles prisoners and jail detainees face, the statute of limitations for a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is among the first. …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Fourth Circuit Revives Claim Over North Carolina Jail Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on December 8, 2023, that pretrial detainees no longer need show that a detention official “knew of and disregarded a substantial …
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