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Article • March 15, 2011
$12,500 Settlement in D.C. Prisoner’s Assault by Guards Lawsuit by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $12,500 to settle the cruel and unusual punishment lawsuit of prisoner John Lee, Jr. While incarcerated the D.C. Jail segregation until on February 2, 2001 Lee was handcuffed and escorted to the infirmary by …
Article • March 15, 2011
$1,000 Settlement for DC Jail Prisoner Assaulted by Guards, Property Destroyed by The District of Columbia (DC) paid $1,000 to settle the lawsuit of prisoner Gardner Bradley, arising from his assault by guards and the destruction of his property. The facts underlying the complaint occurred at the DC Jail. The …
Article • March 15, 2011
$1,000 Settlement in Washington DOC Prisoner’s Guard Assault Lawsuit by The State of Washington paid $1,000 to settle the lawsuit of prisoner Louis Batista for injuries sustained from being assaulted by Charles Rohrer, a Sergeant employed at the Stafford Creek Correction Center (SCCC). While incarcerated at SCCC on March 9, …
Article • March 15, 2011
Indiana Excessive Force Suit Not Heck-Barred by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s dismissal of an Indiana prisoner’s excessive force suit, concluding that the prisoner’s claims were not barred by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994). “Police burst into the home of Ty Evans to …
Article • March 15, 2011
Taser and Asphyxiation Death By New Mexico Cops Leads to $1,000,000 Settlement by The City of Raton, New Mexico has agreed to pay $1,000,000 to the estate of a man who died after police Tasered him 23 times and essentially asphyxiated him. On November 18, 2007, in the wee hours …
Article • March 15, 2011
Motion to Dismiss in Eighth Amendment Suit Denied in Part by U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner has granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss filed by four Bureau of Prisons (BOP) defendants accused of Eighth Amendment violations. David Lee Womack sued D. Scott Dodrill, Harley Lappin, …
D.C. Pays $80,000 to Settle Prisoner’s Civil Rights Suit by On August 2, 2006, the District of Columbia paid $80,000 to settle with a prisoner who alleged violations of his civil rights under the 5th and 8th Amendments and D.C.’s Lorton Act. The suit was filed in the U.S. District …
Brief • March 4, 2011
Coleman v. Presciti, FL, Notice of Plaintiff Discovery, excessive force ADA, 2011 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FT. MYERS DIVISION CASE NO. 2:08-cv-780-FtM-29SPC CECIL COLEMAN Plaintiffs, vs. VICTOR PRESCITI, et al., Defendants. NOTICE OF SERVING PLAINTIFF CECIL COLEMAN'S FIRST REQUESTS FOR DISCOVERY ON …
Publication • February 25, 2011
Filed under: Stun Guns/Tasers
Fontenot v. Taser International,Inc, NC, Declaration of Gary M. Vilke, Taser, 2011 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA 3 CHARLOTTE DIVISION NO. s:10-cv-125 4 5 6 7 T.AIVWY LOU FONTENOT, as Administratrix of the Estate of DARRYL WAYNE TURNER, deceased, Plaintiffs, 8 …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
$240,001 Verdict in Boston Jail Beating Suit by Brandon Sample On February 23, 2009, a federal jury returned a $240,001 verdict in favor of a man who was violently beaten by a guard at the Suffolk County House of Correction (SCHC). Rodney Chaney ended up at the SCHC in August …
Mass Torture in America: Notes from the Supermax Prisons by Lance Tapley “Exterminate all the brutes!” – Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad “They beat the shit out of you,” said Mike James, hunched near the smeared plexiglass separating us. He was talking about the cell “extractions” he’d endured at the …
Study: CIA Doctors ‘Gave Green Light to Torture’ by Muriel Kane A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized. As …
Blind Texas Prisoner Dies after Confrontation with Guards by Thord “Catfish “ Dockray, 42, a blind Texas state prisoner with a history of mental illness, died on May 13, 2010 following a violent altercation with prison guards. Dockray was housed alone in a cell in the medical wing of the …
Physicians for Human Rights: CIA Performed Illegal Medical Experiments While Torturing Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a report released by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in June 2010, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) performed illegal non-consensual human medical experiments on high-value terrorism detainees in connection with …
Florida Guard’s Conviction for Falsifying Use-of-Force Report Affirmed by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 13, 2010, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of a former Florida prison guard for making a false entry in a report with the intent to impede a federal investigation. …
Ninth Circuit Holds Private Prison Companies Can Be Sued Under Bivens for Violating Federal Prisoner’s Rights by Derek Gilna On June 7, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that Richard Lee Pollard, a prisoner in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at …
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Injunction in Florida DOC Mental Health Conditions Pepper Spray Case by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 20, 2010, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s order that found a warden and the secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) had …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
$42,000 Verdict in Iowa Jail Excessive Force Case by A federal jury has awarded $42,000 to a woman who was placed in a restraint chair for seven hours. On January 25, 2006, while incarcerated at the Scott County Jail in Scott County, Iowa, Lillian Slater had a painful flare-up of …
Publication • February 4, 2011
Filed under: Stun Guns/Tasers
Expert Report of Terry Jackson by Gary Vilke-2011 Case 2:09-cv-08671-RGK-FFM Document 71-1 Filed 02/04/11 Page 1 of 8 Page ID #:1369 Gary M Vilke, MD., FACEP, FAAEM 112 79 Breckenridge Way San Diego, California 92131 (858) 653-5292 January 26, 2011 Martin Li Arias & Lockwood 225 W. Hospitality Lane, Suite …
St. Louis Lockups Violate Constitutional Rights, ACLU Asserts by Mark Wilson A troubling investigative report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) has exposed a culture of abuse, corruption and cover-ups at the City Justice Center and the Medium Security Institution in St. Louis (CJC/MSI). The most …
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