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U.S. Supreme Court Holds Federal Civil Commitment Statute Lawfully Enacted by Brandon Sample Congress did not exceed its powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause in authorizing the federal civil commitment of “sexually dangerous” federal prisoners upon the completion of their sentences, the U.S. Supreme Court decided May 17, 2010. …
Crouse v. Allegheny County, PA, Complaint, Inmate Suicide, 2010 Case 2:09-cv-01221-DSC Document 47 Filed 12/11/10 Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA BEVERLY CROUSE, as Administrator of ) the Estate of Shiva Lal Acharya, deceased, ) on behalf of the estate …
Fifth Circuit Delineates Process Due Before Imposition of Sex Offender Parole Conditions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 20, 2010, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Texas parolees who had never been convicted of a sex offense, but were subject to onerous sex offender parole conditions …
Prisoner Deaths Continue at King County Jail Despite DOJ Intervention by Mark Wilson A rash of detainee deaths at the King County Correctional Facility (KCCF) in Seattle, Washington prompted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into conditions at the jail on October 30, 2006. As the …
Study of Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation, Colorado DOC, 2010 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: One Year Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation Author: Maureen L. O’Keefe, M.A., Kelli J. …
Brief • October 28, 2010
Riker v. Gibbons, NV, Order Approving Settlement, Medical Conditions, 2010 Case 3:08-cv-00115-LRH-VPC Document 174 Filed 10/28/10 Page 1 of 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 9 DAVID RIKER, et al., 10 Plaintiffs, 11 vs. 12 JAMES GIBBONS, et al., 13 …
Are Doctors Complicit in Prison Torture? The Maine Medical Community Looks at Solitary Confinement by Lance Tapley In the past few years an outcry has arisen over the involvement of military and CIA medical professionals and psychologists in torture, including psychologically destructive solitary confinement of “war on terror” detainees at …
Brandon v. Smith, IL, Pltff Response to Petition for Attorney Fees (2010) 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 217 Page 1 of 10 E-FILED Monday, 27 September, 2010 04:49:33 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PEORIA DIVISION LAZINNIAL BRANDON, Administrator ) of …
14 Years of Litigation Fails to Remedy Deficient Jail Medical Care; Herrera Saga Continues in Washington State by by Mark Wilson In 1996, Tacoma, Washington officials settled a class-action federal lawsuit over unconstitutional conditions and insufficient health care at the Pierce County Jail (PCJ). Fourteen years later, however, prisoners continue …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$850,000 Award in Delaware Prisoner’s Suicide; State Declines to Renew CMS Contract by A federal district court has awarded $850,000 to the family of a Delaware prisoner who hanged himself, after entering default judgment against First Correctional Medical, Inc. (FCM). In other Delaware news, the state’s prison system did not …
Brief • September 2, 2010
Garcia v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Mental Illness Treatment, Failure to Protect, 2010 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX ---------------------------------------------------------------------x CLAUDIO GARCIA, Plaintiff, Index No.: -againstCOMPLAINT THE CITY OF NEW YORK, MARTIN F. HORN, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of …
Everything Revolves Around Overcrowding: The State of California’s Prisons by Donald Specter by Donald Specter, Director, Prison Law Office I. Introduction California has the nation’s largest and the world’s third-largest prison system.1 In two separate class action lawsuits, filed a decade apart, California prisoners sued the governor and corrections officials …
Texas Youth Commission Pays $625,000 to Settle Abuse Suit by Gary Hunter To settle a federal lawsuit, the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) agreed to pay $625,000 in damages to four youths who were grossly abused by the states’ corrupt juvenile justice system. The largest payout of $345,000 went to plaintiff …
DOJ Investigation into New York Jail Finds Unconstitutional Conditions by Justin Miller The findings of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) into conditions at a New York jail describe violations of prisoners’ constitutional rights – violations which, in the words of federal investigators, have resulted in “serious …
Wisconsin: Taycheedah Lawsuit Set for Trial by Michael Brodheim On November 24, 2009, a U.S. District Court judge in Wisconsin substantially denied prison officials’ motion for partial summary judgment and set for trial a class-action suit that alleges medical and mental health care provided to female prisoners at Taycheedah Correctional …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
$140,000 Settlement in Washington Jail Detainee’s Suicide by Pierce County, Washington has paid $120,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed its policies were deliberately indifferent to the risk of suicide by pretrial detainees at the Pierce County Detention and Corrections Center (PCDCC). The City of Lakewood paid an additional …
Brief • July 26, 2010
Smith v. Wayne County, MI, Complaint, jail suicide medical neglect, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION GLORIA H. SMITH, individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Jason Lewis Smith, and CAMILLE MITCHELL, as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Jason Lewis Smith Deleted: …
U.S. Supreme Court to Review California Prison Population Reduction Orders by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On June 14, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court (USSC) agreed to review orders entered by a three-judge federal district court panel in California that would relieve overcrowding in that state’s prison system by …
Dallas County Jail Settles Three Medical-Related Suits for $795,000 by In April 2009, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas awarded $355,000 to Robert Duvall for injuries he suffered when he was denied medical treatment at the Dallas County Jail. Less than three …
Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million by Prison Health Services (PHS), a private for-profit company that provides medical care to prisoners, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the family of a man who died at a Virginia jail, with the sheriff’s office paying another …
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