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Article • May 15, 2007
Deliberate Indifference to Strong Likelihood that Prisoner Will Commit Suicide Implicates Eighth Amendment by Deliberate Indifference to Strong Likelihood that Prisoner Will Commit Suicide Implicates Eighth Amendment Stephanie Poiroux Snow committed suicide while in the Citronelle, Alabama jail for drunk driving. Her estate sued city officials and jailers in the …
Article • May 15, 2007
$440,000 Paid in Pennsylvania Detainee's Suicide by A Pennsylvania federal district court held that guards at the Philadelphia Detention Center can be liable for their acts and omissions in a pretrial detainee's hanging death. While at the Detention Center, Patrick Gaudreau exhibited behavior that resulted in him being involuntarily committed …
Article • May 15, 2007
California County Pays $400,000 For Mentally Ill Prisoner's Suicide by On July 13, 2001, Contra Costa County, California, agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a federal wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the suicide of a mentally ill prisoner in the county jail. In 1999, Kyle Kentera, a 32-year-old man with …
$7,500 Paid in Beating of WA Female Prisoner by Lila McCrary filed a tort claim with the office of Risk Management stating that while she was imprisoned at the Washington Corrections Center for Women on April, 27, 1997, she was assaulted by Jerry Keen, Correctional Mental Health Counselor I. She …
CCA Settles Wrongful Death Suit in Texas For $60,000 by In 1998, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $60,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the father of a prisoner who died from a drug overdose at a CCA-operated prison. Hugh Wayne Martin, a Texas state prisoner, was transferred to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Michigan Doctor's Termination of Prisoner's Suicide Watch Upheld by On March 2, 1995, Billy Montgomery was on suicide watch in a Michigan prison. He was interviewed by Norris McCrary, a prison psychologist, who, without reviewing his file, found that Montgomery no longer needed to be on suicide watch. McCrary had …
Iowa Supreme Court Holds Prison Sex Offender Screening Process Constitutional by On October 22, 2004 the Iowa Supreme Court ruled on a prisoner's claim that a prison rule concerning sexually violent prisoners enacted after his imprisonment effectively removed him from consideration for early parole. The court held that although the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Prisoner Suicide Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Settled for Deliberate Indifference by Prisoner Suicide Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Settled for Deliberate Indifference A federal district court in Maine has dismissed claims of deliberate indifference against two Somerset County Deputy Sheriffs in a lawsuit filed by Mary Martin, personal representative of the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Alabama Jail Still not Liable for Suicides by The plaintiff, a crack addict with a history of suicidal ideation and other psychiatric problems, was arrested for shoplifting and behaved in a deranged fashion. Once locked up, she calmed down, but then starting tearing up her mattress and tied part of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Probation Revoked Despite Lack of Mental Health Treatment by In revoking the defendant's probation, the court said that he should receive psychiatric counseling, and also said it realized that local facilities for that purpose were nonexistent. The defendant now argues that his probation should therefore have been continued. At 302: …
Article • May 15, 2007
Stripping Detainees Naked for Hours States Claim by The plaintiffs are arrestees who refused to answer suicide screening questions. They were treated as posing a suicide risk and were placed in a cell completely naked for periods from 6 to 18 hours, subjected to video surveillance and in most cases …
Article • May 15, 2007
SD Prison Officials Not Liable for Suicide by The decedent committed suicide. About 10:30 that morning, he asked his case manager if he could make a phone call, but he wasn't on the authorized list for that day. He made an unauthorized call to his ex-wife and said he was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Forcible Drugging of IL Prisoner Upheld by The plaintiff complained of being medicated against his will. Defendants followed their procedures, which are constitutional, except that the plaintiff never received a decision on his appeal to the Medical Director. At 880: ". . . [T]he failure of the prison officials to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Suicide Suits Must be Filed by Decedent's Estate by The plaintiff sued the Sheriff because her son committed suicide in his jail. She sued in her own behalf and not as representative of her son's estate. The plaintiff does not have standing to assert her son's rights and recover for …
Article • May 15, 2007
Alabama Jail Not Liable for Suicide by Here's another cookie-cutter jail suicide case. The decedent, who had twice before tried to kill himself and had been placed on suicide watch during his previous stays in the jail, was arrested for DUI, driving without a license, and possession of drugs and …
Parole Board Can Consider Dismissed Sex Offenders by The plaintiff's sex offense charge had been dismissed as part of a plea bargain, with the parole board forbidden to consider it. Seventeen years later, prison staff classified him as in need of sex offender treatment. He was paroled and then his …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Jail Not Liable in Suicide Case by The decedent committed suicide in jail and his estate brought state tort and federal constitutional claims. Under Virginia law, an adult detainee who hanged himself committed common law suicide, and the estate could not recover on wrongful death and gross negligence claims unless …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment Denied to Jail Guards Who Killed Mentally Ill Prisoner by The decedent died after a use of force in jail. He said on admission that he had a history of mental illness and was on psychotropic medication "for rest"; though the jail usually obtained medical records for inmates …
Failure to Treat Mental Illness Not Actionable in NY Case by The plaintiff, suffering from bi-polar disorder, experienced repeated manic episodes resulting in misbehavior that increased his SHU time as well as subjecting him to unpleasant confrontations and treatment. At 296: "Because Plaintiff has not submitted any verifiable evidence indicating …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Rejects Mental Patient's Toilet Deprivation Suit by The plaintiff, an involuntarily committed psychiatric patient, urinated on himself when an aide did not let him go the bathroom immediately. His claim is adjudicated under the Eighth Amendment, even though it is inapplicable to mental patients, because neither party questioned its …
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