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Brief • November 3, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Estate of Maurice Monk v. Alameda County, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2023 COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR SUSAN S. MURANISHI COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR December 22, 2023 Tiffany Hollis Human Rights Defense Center PO Box 1151 Lake Worth, FL 33460 Sent via email to FOIA@humanriqhtsdefensecenter.org Dear Ms. Hollis, The County of Alameda received your California …
Brief • October 30, 2023
Roe v. Rodriguez, CA, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2023 Page 1 of 4 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE I. PARTIES This Settlement Agreement and Release (Agreement) concerns (Plaintiff) proceeding under pseudonym ''Jane Roe'' (Order, ECF No. 14) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on behalf of Defendants CDCR, Michael …
Brief • October 24, 2023
Doe #2 v. State of California, CA, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2023 Page 1 of 4 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE I. PARTIES This Settlement Agreeme11t and Release (Agreement) concerns (Plaintiff) proceeding under pseudonym ''Jane Doe #2'' (Order, ECF No. 6) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on behalf …
Brief • October 24, 2023
Doe #3 v. State of California, CA, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2023 Page 1 of' 4 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE I. PARTIES This Settlement Agreement and Release (Agreement) concerns (Plaintiff) proceeding under pseudonym ''Jane Doe #3'' (Order, ECF No. 6) and the California Departme11t of' Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on behalf' …
Brief • October 24, 2023
Doe v. Rodriguez, CA, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2023 Page I of 4 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE I. PARTIES This Settlement Agreement and Release (Agreement) concerns. (Plaintiff) proceeding under pseudonym "Jane Doe" (Order, ECF No. 9) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on behalf of Defendants CDCR, M. …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 12, 2023, an Alabama jail guard was caught – in uniform – stealing Pokemon cards from a Walmart. WBMA in Birmingham reported that Josh Hardy then fled store security on foot before cops caught him in a nearby restaurant. Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Third Prisoner Dies in 2023 at California’s New Folsom Prison by At California State Prison in Sacramento on May 1, 2023, prisoner Mario Rushing, 46, was choking another prisoner when ordered by guards to cease and desist. Ignoring their commands, Rushing continued the attack – even after guards deployed chemical …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Reached Over COVID-19 Measures, Home Confinement Releases at FCC Lompoc by On October 11, 2022, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement resolving a suit over COVID-19 precautions and releases filed by prisoners at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Lompoc, California, in May …
CoreCivic Fails to Defeat California’s Anti-SLAPP Law at Ninth Circuit, Must Pay $45,630 in Attorney Fees by In November 2022 the federal court for the Northern District of California shot down a suit by private prison giant CoreCivic which sought to weaponize anti-defamation law against one of the company’s more …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$1 Million Settlement for California Prisoners Used to Bait Guard Charged with Sexual Misconduct by PLN previously reported a remarkably poor decision by prison officials at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino in 2017, who used two prisoners as “honey trap” bait to snare a male guard accused …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
JPay Denied Motion to Compel Arbitration in Suit Over Debit Release Cards by On March 1, 2023, prison financial services profiteer JPay hit a legal wall in a challenge to fee-laden debit cards issued to prisoners on release. As PLN has reported, former California state prisoner Adam Cain — represented …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
San Francisco Jail First in Nation to Provide Detainees Tablets With Totally Free Content by The jail in San Francisco County is the first in the nation to provide its detainees with tablets and free access to content, such as legal resources, e-books and music. The county Sheriff’s Office (SFSO) …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$1.25 Million Settlement for California Jail Prisoner’s Loss of Limbs by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As PLN previously reported, a man arrested and taken to jail in California’s San Bernardino County in March 2018 ended up in a hospital eight days later in critical condition, suffering severe dehydration, …
Almost $1.1 Million Awarded to One-Legged Pretrial Detainee Forced to Hop to California Jail Cell by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a jury in the federal court for the Northern District of California awarded $504,000 in compensatory damages in the excessive-force case he brought against the San Francisco …
Brief • October 10, 2023
Ashker v. Newsom, CA, Motion for Leave to File Brief or Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for Rehearing en Banc, Solitary Confinement, 2023 Case: 21-15839, 10/10/2023, ID: 12807437, DktEntry: 99, Page 1 of 44 No. 21-15839, 22-15345 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT TODD …
Brief • October 6, 2023
Estate of Maurice Monk v. Alameda County, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2023 Case 3:22-cv-04037-TSH Document 70 Filed 10/06/23 Page 1 of 59 1 ADANTÉ D. POINTER, ESQ., SBN 236229 PATRICK M. BUELNA, ESQ., SBN 317043 2 TY CLARKE, ESQ., SBN 339198 POINTER & BUELNA, LLP 3 LAWYERS FOR THE PEOPLE …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
California Supreme Court Remands Guards’ Overturned Murder Convictions In Detainee Death At Santa Clara County Jail by On May 31, 2023, the Supreme Court of California vacated and remanded to the Court of Appeal a decision handed down in August 2022, overturning the second-degree murder convictions of three guards who …
Shocking Video Footage Reveals Rampant Violence and Neglect in Los Angeles County Jails by A collection of graphic videos reported by the Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2023, pulled back the curtain on rampant violence and chaos inside Los Angeles County jails. The footage, saved on a discarded thumb …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: According to WSFA in Montgomery, a guard at the Montgomery County Detention Center was charged on July 18, 2023, with conspiracy to provide contraband to a prisoner as well as bribing a public official. Timothy Bernard Summerlin, 33, had worked at the lockup for roughly …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Calls for California Sheriff’s Department Oversight After Jail Deaths, $30,000 Settlement for Botched Traffic Stop by By January 7, 2023, after the second death in the county jail in just over 10 weeks, a grassroots nonprofit calling for civilian oversight of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department (SMSD) had rounded …
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