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Eleventh Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Jail Guards Who “Did Nothing” in Face of Florida Detainee’s Suicide Threats by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Finding that two guards at Florida’s Bay County Jail (BCJ) did “essentially nothing to prevent” a pretrial detainee from committing suicide, the U.S. Court of …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Mentally and Physically Disabled Texas Woman Hospitalized After Mistreatment at Jail by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye A disabled woman, who suffers from a severe seizure disorder, ended up spending eight weeks hospitalized in a coma with a black eye and bruises, after spending ten days in Texas’ Tarrant …
Ninth Circuit Won’t Spring Oregon Sex Offender Trapped in Self-Incrimination Box by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 8, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined to offer any relief to an Oregon sex offender who challenged his removal from parole-required sex offender treatment—which led …
Mentally Ill Maine State Prisoner Finally Leaves Solitary, But Can’t Push State Lawmakers to Pass Bill Limiting Its Use by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon By the time he was released from Maine State Prison (MSP) on March 7, 2022, Zachary Swain estimated he had spent half of his seven-year …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Suit Over California Detainee’s Suicide Survives Corporate Shell Game by Wellpath and HIG Capital by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On February 7, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of California allowed claims to proceed against Nevada County and a group of its jail guards for the 2019 …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
$1 Million Settlement Reached in Suicide of Mentally Ill Detainee at San Diego Jail by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders   People incarcerated at the San Diego County Jail have been suffering through a raging public health crisis. Unfortunately, this crisis has been as lethal or more so than COVID-19. …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Mental Health
Court Bars Electroshock Therapy for Incompetent California Prisoner Without Considering Whether He Would Consent If Competent by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On January 11, 2022, the Court of Appeal for the State of California, Fourth District, vacated a lower court’s authorization of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for a state prisoner, …
Brief • July 12, 2022
Estate of Moore v. Cumberland County, NJ, Complaint, Suicide- Inadequate Medical Care, 2022 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS The SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS ("Agreement") is being entered into among and between ESTATE OF MEGAN MOORE BY AND THROUGH ITS ADMINISTRATOR AD PROSEQUENDUM CHRISTINE B. MOORE …
Article • June 29, 2022
Pennsylvania Jail Guards Accused of Smuggling, Assaulting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Three guards at the Beaver County Jail in western Pennsylvania were hit with contraband charges in May 2022 after allegedly taking Cash App transfers from the families of prisoners under their supervision …
Locked Up and Left to Die by Michael Barajas, Sophie Novack, In Texas, dying in jail is “par for the course.” by Michael Barajas and Sophie Novack, Texas Observer Armando Carrillo had been waiting outside the Nueces County Jail for hours when he heard sirens approaching in the middle of the night …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
New Jersey Sex Offenders Excluded From Programming, Chances for Early Release by Mario Palomo byMario Palomo Prisoners at New Jersey’s Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC)—all convicted sex offenders—do not have access to the same programs and benefits that other state prisoners do, according to a letter excerpted in a …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$275,000 Settlement Reached After Detainee’s Attempted Suicide at Illinois Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In April 2021, Illinois’ DuPage County Jail (DCJ) and its Psychiatric Services Medical Director agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by detainee Dean Fuerstenberg, who attempted suicide at the jail …
Article • May 31, 2022
Overdoses Climb in Colorado Prisons and Jails With Drugs Smuggled by Mail, Uber Eats by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A Denver jail guard was fired on April 29, 2022, after an investigation revealed he allowed deliveries from Uber Eats in which drugs were hidden and later used by a …
Article • May 31, 2022
Mentally Ill Detainee Paralyzed in Brutal New Jersey Jail Beating Files Suit by Edward Lyon By Ed Lyon A lawsuit was reportedly filed in New Jersey Superior Court for Essex County on April 26, 2022, on behalf of a mentally ill man left paralyzed from a brutal beating he suffered …
Article • May 31, 2022
Filed under: Staffing, Mental Health
BOP Raises Hackles With Ad Using Prisoners’ Mental Illness As Selling Point to Recruit Psychologists by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott In advertising for staff psychologists which appeared on Facebook in April 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) played a new trump card: the prevalence of mental …
Four Florida Guards Charged in Fatal Beating of Elderly, Mentally Ill State Prisoner by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On April 29, 2022, nearly ten weeks after the death in transport of an elderly and mentally ill state prisoner, a fourth guard with the state Department of Corrections …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$5.5 Million Settlement to California Prisoner Left Incapacitated After Suicide Attempt at Santa Cruz County Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 16, 2021, a federal court in California approved a $5.5 million settlement between Santa Cruz County and the estate of a former prisoner at the county …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
California Federal Court Approves Consent Decree Upgrading Mental Health Care at Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a Consent Decree in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Alameda County Jail in …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$725,000 Settlement Reached in North Carolina Prisoner’s Suicide at Troubled Jail by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 18, 2019, Melissa Middleton Rice committed suicide while in custody at the Jackson County Detention Center (JCDC) in Sylva, North Carolina. As she sat in the jail’s booking room, Rice hanged …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Drug Treatment/Rehab
Con Who Conned Cons is Sentenced to Federal Prison by The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has no parole, but there are ways for a federal prisoner to shorten a sentence length. One way is to successfully complete a 13-week Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), earning up to 12 months …
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