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NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement approved by the federal court for the Eastern District of California on January 16, 2024, recalls an all-­too familiar jail story. A wheelchair-­bound detainee named …
Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since 2018, at least seven vulnerable detainees have died at the 366-­bed Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center, 30 miles east of Oklahoma City. Yet despite state law requiring deaths be reported within five …
$33 Million Awarded to Family of Oklahoma Jail Detainee Mocked By Nurse and Guards As He Died Begging for Help by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 23, 2023, a jury in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma made a massive award of $33 million to …
$8.5 Million Settlement After Pretrial Detainee Suffocated by Guards and Medical Staff at Virginia Psychiatric Hospital by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 19, 2023, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Henrico and its Sheriff Alisa A. Gregory agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle claims arising …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Louisville Jail Records 15 Detainee Deaths, 16 Employees Fired by On September 26, 2023, Louisville Metro Corrections Department (LMCD) suspended guard Terry Henderson after he crashed his car into a vehicle driven by fellow guard Andrew Young. Responding Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers reportedly suspected Henderson was drunk, but …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails by Quietly, on October 4, 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law a measure to boost transparency in the state’s local jails, also adding a layer of oversight vested in a new statewide “detention monitor”—who will act much like an …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$1.75 Million Settlement Reached in Washington Jail Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Washington city of Lynnwood agreed on September 20, 2023, to pay $1.75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging guards at the Lynnwood Municipal Jail were negligent in the suicide death of Tirhas Tesfatsion two …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Alaska Prisons Report Three Deaths in Three Days by
Brief • April 1, 2024
Hynes v. Missouri Dept of Corrections, MO, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2024 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY STATE OF MISSOURI WILLA HYNES, Individually, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jahi Hynes, deceased, Plaintiff, Case Number: v. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Serve: 2729 Plaza Drive …
Brief • March 20, 2024
Mathis v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2024 Centurion 003092 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETILEMEN T AGREEMEN T THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SEITLEMENf AGREEMENT ("Agreement'') is t)1} executed this day of March 2024, by Eugenio Mathis, as personal representative …
Brief • March 18, 2024
Estate of Melody Morgan v. The State of Nevada, NV, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND FULL AND FINAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS Case Name: Bonnie Lopez, individually as sister and for the Estate of Melody Morgan, deceased; Colleen Lackey, individually and as mother of Melody Morgan, deceased V. The …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
After Eight Deaths in Eight Years, Virginia Jail Introduces—Pickleball? by Having recorded eight deaths in eight years, Virginia’s Arlington County Jail was likely desperate for good news when it reported in mid-November 2023 that detainees competed in the lockup’s first pickleball tournament. The densely populated county adjacent to Washington, D.C., …
Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far by Douglas Ankney, Casey Bastian by Douglas Ankney and Casey J. Bastian A spate of jail deaths in California’s San Bernardino County dating back to 2017 has led to at least four legal settlements …
$470,000 Settlement After Texas Jail Nurses Fabricate Vital Signs for Detainee Who Died by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 14, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dealt a death blow to claims filed by the estate of a Texas jail detainee against the county …
$900,000 Settlement Reached With Ohio Jail in Detainee’s Fatal Seizure by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In October 2023, an attorney representing the estate of an Ohio pretrial jail detainee who suffered a fatal seizure after her June 2018 incarceration said the parties had reached a $900,000 settlement agreement. …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Colorado Sheriff Resigns After Deputies Fatally Shoot Motorist by On August 3, 2023, Rick Albers resigned as Sheriff of Colorado’s Clear Creek County, caving to pressure from county commissioners who accused him of failing to accept responsibility after his deputies fatally shot mentally ill motorist Christian Glass, 22, in June …
Suit Filed After Mentally Ill Detainee Starves to Death in Miami Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A civil rights action filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 1, 2023, alleged that officials at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGKCC) …
Brief • March 1, 2024
Estate of Carlos Escobar Mejia v. USA, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024 PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL-SETTLEMENT COMMUNICATION-FED. R. EVID. 408,501 CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS, AND COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE RELEASORS: The Estate of Carlos Escobar Mejia by and through its Successor in Interest Rosa Escobar, Rosa Escobar, Maribel Escobar, …
Brief • February 29, 2024
Estate of Christopher Zumalt v. County of Riverside, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024 Case 5:21-cv-01791-JGB-SP Document 88 Filed 02/29/24 Page 1 of 3 Page ID #:3610 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA LEEYONNIE HERNANDEZ, …
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