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Article • January 16, 2018
Fifth Circuit Dismisses Louisiana Prisoner's § 1983 by Edward Lyon by Edward Lyon Prisoner James Davis claimed injuries resulting from a traffic accident to an Avoyelles Parish transport van he was riding in. He sued the deputy driver, a jail captain he alleged ordered a city policeman to falsify facts …
Brief • January 10, 2018
Chapman v. FDC, FL, Mediation Settlement Agreement, Darren Rainey Death, 2018 ·--+" v. ----------·-------~ --------------------------------·--- -- ------
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Seventh Circuit: Injured Federal Detainee Meets Negligence Standard in Fall from Stool by On June 23, 2017, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a detainee in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service met the criteria for application of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine, and the record would permit …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
West Virginia Prisoner Injured on Work Crew Denied Workers’ Compensation by The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals held on June 8, 2017 that “a person confined in a state correctional facility or jail who is participating in a work-release program [is prohibited] from receiving workers’ compensation benefits for any …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
$10,000 Settles Kansas Suit Over Fall From Upper Bunk by In June 2017, Shawnee County, Kansas agreed to pay $10,000 to a woman who fell from an upper bunk in her jail cell, resulting in “severe and permanent” injuries. When Giusepinna Lidia Rogers was booked into the jail, she told …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Michigan’s Macomb County Jail Under Fire for Lack of Medical Care, Deaths by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Since 2012, at least eighteen prisoners have died at the Macomb County Jail (MCJ) in Michigan, a rate twice the national average. As a result, seven lawsuits have been filed against …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Drug Addicts Suffer Preventable Deaths in U.S. Jails by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis There is a growing epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, over 33,000 opioid-related deaths occurred in 2015, representing a quadrupling of such fatalities since 1999. It …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Attica Medical Experiments Exposed by Greg Dober by Greg Dober On November 19, 2017, Heather AnnThompson, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which she described medical experiments that took place at the Attica Correctional Facility in the early …
Brief • January 8, 2018
Teneng v. Trump, CA, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement-Health-Nutrition-Religion, 2018 Case 5:18-cv-01609 Document 1 Filed 08/01/18 Page 1 of 39 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ballard Spahr LLP One Sin, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135-2958 10 11 12 13 …
Slinker v. Grundy County, IA, Complaint, Jail Suicide, 2018 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA CEDAR RAPIDS DIVISION EARL SLINKER, individually and as Personal Representative of the ESTATE of JARED SLINKER, deceased, and as next friend of C.K.S., W.J.S. I, and W.J.S. II, Case No.: _________________ …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Medical, Failure to Treat
$99,000 Settles Federal Prisoner's Deliberate Medical Indifference Suit by Cameron Craven fractured his ankle while being arrested by DEA agents. He was taken to a hospital. A doctor recommended surgery in three to four days. Instead, he was placed in the MCC in San Diego, California where his repeated requests …
Article • January 3, 2018
Miami Guard Sentenced for Assaulting and Scalding Detainee by A former Miami-Dade jail guard pleaded guilty to assaulting a pretrial detainee.  The incident occurred after an argument between the detainee and guard. Joshua Wiggins, 21, was awaiting trial on cocaine trafficking charges in August 2012 when he got into an …
Michigan DOC Creates Contract Compliance Unit by On the heels of a controversy involving its food service vendor, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) is creating a unit to monitor contract compliance. As PLN reported, MDOC tossed Aramark Correctional Services as its food service vendor following a  highly publicized failure …
$4,000 for Injuries After Prison Staff Ignore Bottom Bunk Directive by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On August 18, 2015, the state of Michigan agreed to pay a prisoner $4,000 to settle a lawsuit in which prison staff deliberately ignored a medically-issued "bottom bunk detail" and the prisoner later fell …
$5.75 Million Payout in Death of Rikers' Prisoner Denied Medical by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In a settlement of a lawsuit previously mentioned in Prison Legal News, New York City agreed on September 27, 2016, to pay $5.75 million to the mother of a mentally ill Rikers Island prisoner …
Article • January 3, 2018
South Carolina S.C. Refuses to Order Defendant Maimed from Jail to Psych Hospital by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On November 16, 2016, the South Carolina Supreme Court reversed a lower court order involuntarily committing a defendant who was found incompetent to stand trial to a psychiatric hospital. The state …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Injury -- Misc.
$9,000 Settles Ohio Prisoner's Trip-and-Fall Suit by On December 9, 2015, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) settled for $9,000 a lawsuit brought by a DOR prisoner who fell and injured himself. Dale Tackett, then in his 40s, was transferred to Richland Correctional Institution on July 10, 2012. As he …
$3,802,000 Settlement, Rikers' Guard Conviction in Prisoner Death by On December 17, 2014, former Rikers Island Guard Captain Terrence Pendergrass, 52, was sentenced to five years in a federal prison for violating the civil rights of deceased prisoner Jason Echevarria, 25. Echevarria’s estate received a $3,802,000 settlement from the City …
Article • January 3, 2018
Seventh Circuit Approves Use of "Correctional Cure-All" and Insensitive Treatment of Sick Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled against a prisoner who claimed that his serious medical needs were treated with deliberate indifference at an Illinois prison. …
Brief • January 3, 2018
Hilliard v. Southern Health Partners, SC Deposition of Jonathan Fish, Medical Neglect, 2018 1 1 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF 2 COUNTY OF MARLBORO COMMON PLEAS 3 Civil Action No.: 4 2016-CP-34-00202 5 ROBERT KENNETH HILLIARD 6 Plaintiff 7 vs. 8 SOUTHERN HEALTH PARTNERS, 9 INC., et …
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