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Did Haitian Police Murder Over a Dozen Unarmed Prisoners? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 12, 2010, Haiti suffered a major earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people and, as a side effect, allowed thousands of prisoners to escape from the country’s most secure lock-up, the national penitentiary …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Washington State Pays $6.4 Million for Failure to Supervise Parolee by Washington State’s Department of Corrections (WDOC) has agreed to pay $6.4 million to settle claims involving the department’s failure to properly supervise a parolee, resulting in a string of violent crimes that included rape and murder. The settlements, filed …
Prisoner Deaths Continue at King County Jail Despite DOJ Intervention by Mark Wilson A rash of detainee deaths at the King County Correctional Facility (KCCF) in Seattle, Washington prompted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into conditions at the jail on October 30, 2006. As the …
$3.125 Million in Settlements in Oregon Prisoner’s Beating Death by On July 2, 2009, the estate and family of a mentally ill Oregon man who died in police custody settled claims against Multnomah County, a former deputy sheriff and jail nurses for $925,000. The case remained pending against the City …
U.S. Supreme Court: No Bivens Remedy Available Against PHS Staff by Brandon Sample On May 3, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court held that employees of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) may not be sued for constitutional violations under Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). …
Brief • October 6, 2010
Wells v Bureau County Sheriff, IL, Order to Dismiss, wrongful death cell-check policy, 2010 1:08-cv-01128-MMM -JAG # 63 Page 1 of 5 E-FILED Wednesday, 06 October, 2010 02:46:59 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ESTATE OF AUSTIN L. WELLS, Deceased, by JERRY …
Brandon v. Smith, IL, Pltff Response to Petition for Attorney Fees (2010) 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 217 Page 1 of 10 E-FILED Monday, 27 September, 2010 04:49:33 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PEORIA DIVISION LAZINNIAL BRANDON, Administrator ) of …
GEO Group Settles $47.5 Million Texas Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by On January 7, 2010, GEO Group settled a lawsuit over the beating death of a prisoner in Willacy County, Texas that had already resulted in a jury verdict of $47.5 million – one of the largest prisoner wrongful death …
14 Years of Litigation Fails to Remedy Deficient Jail Medical Care; Herrera Saga Continues in Washington State by by Mark Wilson In 1996, Tacoma, Washington officials settled a class-action federal lawsuit over unconstitutional conditions and insufficient health care at the Pierce County Jail (PCJ). Fourteen years later, however, prisoners continue …
$1 Million Award in New York State Prisoner’s Death Caused by Medical Malpractice by A New York Court of Claims has awarded $1,021,915.73 to the estate of a former prisoner who died as the result of a prison nurse and doctor departing from accepted standards of care. Leonard Pickell arrived …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Suit Filed for Oregon Jail Pneumonia Death by Holly Jean Casey, a homeless 36-year-old heroin addict, lived a rough life and died an agonizing death on the floor of an Oregon jail cell on January 4, 2008. The day before she died, Casey was on her way to the hospital …
Brief • September 13, 2010
Dela Torre v. City of Salinas, CA, Depo of Jason Alexander, Wrongful Death Taser, 2010 DELA TORRE v. CITY OF SALINAS Condensed Transcript ALEXANDER JASON September 13, 2010 CRANGLE REPORTING SERVICES Phone:(510) 653-1312 Fax:(510) 839-2304 Email:cranglereporting@sbcglobal.net DEPOSITION OF ALEXANDER JASON Page 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA …
$4.3 Million Award in Preventable Death of Cook County Pretrial Detainee by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a jury’s $4.3 million award to the estate of a pretrial detainee. The jurors found that guards at the jail in Cook County, Illinois …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
Washington DOC Settles MRSA Death Claim for $125,000 by Brandon Sample The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) has agreed to pay $125,000 to the family of a prisoner who died from pneumonia caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). On March 27, 2008, Jeremy Swaser was given a check-up by medical …
Washington DOC Pays $3,275,000 to Family of Deputy Killed by Former Prisoner by In September 2009, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a King County deputy who was murdered by a recently-released prisoner. On December 2, 2006, while …
Problems Persist at Privately-Operated Rhode Island Jail by Justin Miller On June 30, 2009, a former employee at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, a privately-operated jail near Providence, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials about sexual misconduct involving an immigration detainee, marking yet another embarrassing problem …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
$140,000 Settlement in Washington Jail Detainee’s Suicide by Pierce County, Washington has paid $120,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed its policies were deliberately indifferent to the risk of suicide by pretrial detainees at the Pierce County Detention and Corrections Center (PCDCC). The City of Lakewood paid an additional …
Brief • August 12, 2010
Ritch v. DeSue, FL, Affadavits - Failure to Treat Eptopic Pregnancy (2009) _STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF VOLUSIA AFFIDAVIT OF TRUDY H. HAIDER, R.N. , BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, TRUDY H. HAIDER, RN., personally appears who being duly sworn says: That my name is TRUDY H. HAIDER, and I …
Brief • August 2, 2010
Rauda v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Motion for Judgement, Wrongful Death Police Negligence, 2010 Benjamin Schonbrun SBN 118323 schonbrun.ben0lgmail.com 2 Michael D. Seplow, SBN 150183 mseplow0lgmail.com 3 SCHONB'RDN DESIMONE SEPLOW HARRIS & HOFFMAN LLP 4 723 Ocean Front Walk Venice, California 90291 5 Telephone: (310) 396-0731 Fax: (310) 399-1040 …
Brief • July 26, 2010
Smith v. Wayne County, MI, Complaint, jail suicide medical neglect, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION GLORIA H. SMITH, individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Jason Lewis Smith, and CAMILLE MITCHELL, as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Jason Lewis Smith Deleted: …
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