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Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Eight Washington Prison Premises Liabilities Claims Settled for $35,058 by Premises liabilities claims by injured Washington state prisoners and visitors were settled in eight unrelated claims totaling $35,058 over a two year period in 2001 and 2002. Pro per Walla Walla State Penitentiary prisoner Marcus Ogans filed a 42 U.S.C. …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
$35,000 Settlement in New York Jail Cell Door Injury by On November 25, 2002, the New York City Department of Corrections settled a prisoner's personal injury suit by agreeing to pay $35,000. Rasheed Bolden was a 24 year old prisoner in the Rikers Island Jail. On October 22, 1994, a …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Florida Jury Awards $390,000 Over Defective Prison-Produced Chair by A Pinellas County (Florida) jury found that an office chair assembled by the Florida DOC's prison industries was defective, and the proximate cause of a state office worker's injuries. The jury awarded the woman $390,000 in damages; however, the recovery was …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
New York Court Awards Prisoner $180,000 in Slip and Fall by On June 3, 2003, a court of claims in Rochester, New York, awarded prisoner Samuel K. Tambe $180,000 for injuries he sustained when he tripped over an elevated sidewalk slab at the Groveland Correctional Facility in Sonyea, New York. …
EMSA and Nevada Jail Pay $40,000 Settlement to Quadriplegic by In April, 2002, Robert Cornwall, 30, a quadriplegic, settled a lawsuit against the Washoe county jail in Nevada for $40,000. The lawsuit stemmed from Cornwall being arrested on domestic violence charges against his wife on July 25, 2000. Cornwall spent …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
$27,848.30 Award in Texas Jail Slip and Fall Upheld by An award of $27,848.30 to a pris-oner who slipped and fell on a food spill in a Texas jail has been upheld by a Texas state court of appeals in an unpublished opinion. Mickey Caves, a Dallas County (Texas) Jail …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Alaska Prison Design Case Settles for $1 Million by In August, 2001, the state of Alaska settled a lawsuit involving faulty prison design which resulted in serious injury to a prisoner for $1,000,000. In February, 1994, Carry Johnson was returning to his cell at the Ketchikan Correctional Center in Alaska. …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Ohio Nearly Closes 100 Year Old Asylum/Prison by Gary Hunter In April 2002, state budget cuts threatened to force the closure of Orient Correctional Institution near Columbus Ohio. Orient originally opened as a mental asylum in 1902 and was converted to a prison in 1984. The closing would have relocated …
Audit Shows Folsom Prison Mismanaged by Gary Hunter In December 2001, the state inspector general concluded an excoriating audit of a city-run prison in Folsom, California. The audit was the result of a six-month investigation that met a great deal of resistance from Folsom officials. It "revealed deteriorating buildings, broken …
Oklahoma Jailhouse Informants Settle Failure to Protect Suit for $80,000 by Federal prisoners Curtis Sherfield and Hugh Grayson, who were being held at the Oklahoma County jail on federal drug charges, were given a total of $80,000 in December 2001 to settle their lawsuit against the county after they were …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Colorado Denial of Motion to Amend Complaint Reversed by The Colorado Court of Appeals held that provisions of the Colorado Government Immunity Act (CGIA) which precluded a prisoner's claim does not violate equal protection. The court also held that the trial court erred in denying the prisoner's motion to amend …
Illinois Court Reduces Prisoner's Eye Injury Award to $850,000 by The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois has denied a motion for a new trial by an Illinois Department of Corrections (ILDOC) physician but granted remittitur of both the compensatory and punitive damages awards given to …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
Equitable Tolling May Apply to Administrative Exhaustion by The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's grant of summary judgment against a prisoner for failure to file a tort claim notice with the Attorney General's office within 180 days of his injury as required by ARS § 12821.01(A). On …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
Res Judicata Dismissal of Texas Prisoner's Suit Reversed by by Matthew T. Clarke A Texas court of appeals has reversed the district court's res judicata based dismissal of a Texas state prisoner's personal injury suit chastising the lower court for using an improper procedure. Steven W. Howell, a Texas state …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
$1,500 for Failure to Assist Disabled Prisoner by $1,500 for failure to assist disabled prisoner In 1999, Ronald Christner was confined at the AHCC. Mr. Christner is disabled and requires assistance in attending to his personal hygiene needs. On August 8, Mr. Christner was given a bath by AHCC nursing …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
$62,000 in Slip and Fall/Medical Neglect/Retaliation Case by $62,000 in slip and fall/medical neglect/retaliation case Karen Posey was incarcerated at the WCCW on April 25, 1996. During her medical intake, Ms. Posey informed clinic staff that she had a large screw in the front of her foot that made it …
CCA Settles New Mexico "Failure To Protect" Suit For $41,885 by CCA Settles New Mexico "Failure To Protect" Suit For $41,885 In February 2001, representatives for the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) agreed to settle a prisoner lawsuit for $41,885. Marco Lopez filed the suit in a federal district court …
Texas Jury Awards $70,000 in Prison Stabbing by Ronald Young In May 2001, a federal court jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, held three Texas prison officials responsible for a 1997 attack during which a prisoner at the McConnell Unit was stabbed about a dozen times by another prisoner who had …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Alaska Supreme Court Reverses Former Prisoner's $2.4 Million Jury Award by The Supreme Court of Alaska reversed a jury verdict and a $2.4 million damage award in favor of a former prisoner who was injured when he fell down a stairway. In February 1994, Carry Johnson was returning to his …
Arizona Judgment Seizure Statute Upheld; Fees Protected by An Arizona appellate court has held that a state law allowing the Arizona Department Of Corrections (DOC) to seize 80% of all money won in prisoner lawsuits is valid under that State's constitution. Charles Holly, an Arizona prisoner, sued that State after …
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