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Article • August 25, 2016
Illinois Woman Wins Suit Over Illegal Strip Search by On June 8, 2012, a federal jury found that an Illinois woman had been strip searched by Edgar County Jail staff without probable cause. According to court documents, Angelina Cianfaglione was in her vehicle with her minor son at a McDonald's …
El Paso County Settles Ex-Prisoner's Disabilities Suit for $6,650 by Matthew Clarke On June 26, 2012, representatives of the County of El Paso, Texas signed a settlement in a suit brought by a deaf former jail prisoner over the lack of accommodations for disabled prisoners at the El Paso County …
Article • August 25, 2016
Settlement and $325,000 Attorney Fee Award in Suit over Jail Conditions at Passaic County Jail by Matthew Clarke On February 23, 2012, the American Civil liberties Union (ACLU) and Seton Ha].] University School of Law's Center for Social Justice (CSJ) announced the preliminary settlement of a federal class-action civil-rights lawsuit …
Article • August 25, 2016
Assaultive Oregon Jail Guard Quits for Prisoner-Lover by "I crushed a dude's eye socket from repeatedly punching him in it, then I charged him with menacing and harassment," bragged Oregon jail guard David B. Thompson in one of more than 1,700 internet gaming site postings in eight months while at …
Missouri Jail Head Receives Ten-Year Federal Sentence for Assaulting Prisoners by Matthew Clarke On July 13, 2011, a Missouri federal judge sentenced a former chief jailer to ten years in prison for violating the civil rights of prisoners and lying to the FBI. The jailer's daughter, a deputy sheriff, pleaded …
Article • August 25, 2016
Study Shows High Rate of Sexually-Transmitted Infections at Maricopa County Jails by A study by Arizona State University's Center for Prevention and Community Safety has shown a high rate of infection with sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) among prisoners in the Maricopa County jails in Phoenix, Arizona. 130,000 people are booked into …
Article • August 25, 2016
Vermont Prisoners Riot in Massachusetts County Jail by Derek Gilna Eleven prisoners from Vermont were the principal participants in a recent disturbance at the Franklin County, Masschusetts county jail, according to Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito. Three other prisoners from Massachusetts also took part in the incident, which resulted in …
Article • August 25, 2016
Seventh Circuit: Jail Officials Entitled to Summary Judgment in Prisoner's Medical Deliberate Indifference Suit by Derek J. Burton filed a federal civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alle6inL officials, including medical personnel, at the Jerome Combs Detention Center, an Illinois jail, were deliberate indifferent to his serious …
Sheriff May Be Liable for Cell-Check Policy that Led to Teenager’s Suicide by In July 2010, a federal district court in Illinois held that a sheriff may be held liable in his official capacity for instituting a cell-check policy under which guards could not personally observe all detainees during overnight …
Article • August 25, 2016
Sacramento County California Prisoners Agree to Consent Decree by In a class action lawsuit prisoners entered into an agreement with county officials concerning conditions in the Sacramento County Main Jail (jail) and the Rio Cosumnes Correction Center (center) stipulating in all issues and constitutional claims against defendant officials before the …
Los Angeles County Agrees to Settle Estate’s Lawsuit for $395,000 by In May 2009, the Los Angeles county Claims Board recommended that the County pay $395,000 to settle a lawsuit arising from the death of an HIV-positive man who complained of respiratory problems while in the custody of the Sheriff’s …
7th Circuit Affirms as Proper Jury Instructions on Intent and Harm Elements of Excessive Force Claim Brought by Wisconsin Pretrial Detainee by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s use of jury instructions including harm and subjective intent elements of a use of …
Michigan’s Civil Rights Act Applies to Pretrial Detainees by In reversing a grant of summary judgment to jail officials, Michigan’s Court of Appeals held that the Michigan Civil Rights Act (CRA) does not exclude all people detained in a correctional facility. Rather, it only excludes those who are “serving a …
Los Angeles County Settles Prisoner's Medical Care Suit for $5 Million by On January 22, 2012, the County of Los Angeles, California settled a former jail prisoner's suit for over $5,000,000. The suit alleged that negligent medical care in the county jail injured the prisoner's unborn son. Karen Works, a …
Article • August 23, 2016
Welcome to America by Alan Prendergast He came looking for work. A week in the Park County Jail changed everything. Here is something Moises Carranza-Reyes wants you to know right off: He has never been charged with a crime, in this country or in his native Mexico. Yes, he did …
Tattoo Artist Dies in California Jail Detox Cell by Since the for-profit California Forensic Medical Group (CFMC) took over healthcare at the Santa Cruz County Jail last year, the medical staff has been forcing police to take more injured suspects to the hospital before they get booked, likely because the potential …
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Spurs Re-Training of Syracuse, N.Y. Jail Guards by In the wake of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a former prisoner's widow, guards at the Onondaga County Justice Center Jail in Syracuse, N.Y., have purportedly been re-trained in the humane treatment of prisoners with drug abuse and …
Article • August 23, 2016
Jail Employees Steal from Prisoner Fund in Small-Town Maine by After stealing more than $7,200 from a so-called "inmate benefits account," a county jail employee in small-town Maine snitched on a co-worker and implicated his boss in the scam before finally resigning himself. Capt. Robert Gross, 62, filed his letter …
Unusually High Rate of Prisoners Suicides at San Antonio, Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke In 2009, all five of the Bexar County Adult Detention Center's (the jail) prisoner deaths were suicides by hanging and a sixth Bexar County prisoner being held in the Crystal City jail due to overcrowding at …
The Ultimate Humiliation: Guards Sexually Assault Prisoners Throughout the U.S. by Matthew Clarke Despite federal legislation aimed at preventing the rape of prisoners and the adoption of "zero-tolerance" policies toward sexual assault of prisoners by many jurisdictions, the sexual assault of prisoners by jail and prison employees continues to be …
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