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Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Indiana Indemnification Statute Not Retroactive; Prisoner’s Estate Unable to Collect $56.5 Million Judgment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a 2003 Indiana statute that requires indemnification of government employees under certain circumstances has prospective application only. Before the Court was …
Brief • March 16, 2010
Glover v. CCA, VT, Release and Settlement, 2010 LAN CROCK SPERRY & WOOL, LLP MIDDLEBURY BURLINGTON ATTORNEYS AT LAW Peter F. Langrock Ellen Mercer Fallon William B. Miller, Jr. James W. Swift Emily J. Joselson Mitchell L. Pearl Kevin E. Brown Frank H. Langrock Beth Robinson. F. Rendol Barlow Devin …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
Defendants Denied Qualified Immunity in Tennessee Jail Detainee’s Death by Mark Wilson The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a lower court improperly deferred a qualified immunity determination to the jury. The appellate court decided that jail guards, a jail physician and a paramedic were not entitled to …
$750,000 Settlement in Alabama Prisoner’s Heat Death by A $750,000 settlement was paid to the mother of an Alabama mentally ill prisoner who died as the result of exposure to extreme heat while on psychotropic medication. Just four days after his admission to Kilby Correctional Facility (KCF), prisoner Farron Barksdale, …
Brief • March 9, 2010
Barkes, et al. v. First Correctional Medical Inc., et al., DE, Memorandum Opinion, Wrongful Death, 2010 Case 1:06-cv-00104-JJF-MPT Document 146 Filed 03/09/10 Page 1 of 15 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE KAREN BARKES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 06-104-JJF FIRST CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL, …
Preventable Sacramento County Jail Death Costs Taxpayers $1.45 Million by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The systemic failure of medical care at California’s Sacramento County Main Jail (SCMJ) resulted in a prisoner’s avoidable death that has cost taxpayers $1.45 million. For years, SCMJ’s healthcare system has been severely deficient …
Denial of Medical Care Causes Two Riots at GEO Group Texas Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 12, 2008, a riot erupted at the GEO Group-run Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC) in Pecos, Texas, which houses federal immigration detainees. The uprising was triggered by the death of …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Department of Justice Releases Arrest-Related Death Statistics by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released statistics on state and local law enforcement arrest-related deaths for the years 2003 to 2006. Although Georgia, Montana and Maryland failed to respond to the survey and Nevada and Wyoming …
Arizona Prisoner, Abandoned in Outdoor Cage, Bakes to Death by Gary Hunter On May 19, 2009, Arizona state prisoner Marcia Powell, 48, collapsed after being left in an unshaded outdoor chain-link cage for four hours under a scorching summer sun. She later died. Temperatures at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
$245,000 Settlement in Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Death by In what one lawyer described as round one, Michigan’s Lenawee County has paid $245,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the deficient medical care at the County’s jail caused a prisoner’s death. The 24 page second amended complaint in the action begins …
$2.1 Million Award in Excessive Force Death of California Prisoner by In April, 2009, a federal jury awarded $2.1 million in a lawsuit filed against guards at California’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility for their negligence and excessive use of force that caused a prisoner’s death. The prisoner, John Fitzgerald …
Blakely v. Kershaw County Sheriff's Office, SC, Complaint, Wrongful Death Due to Excessive Force by Police, 2010 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ) ) ) COUNTY OF KERSHAW of the ) ) Plaintiff(s) ) Deloris Blakely, as Personal Representative Estate of Lori Jean Ellis IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL …
Prison Health Care, Political Choice and the Accidental Death Penalty in Michigan by Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander1 In Hadix v. Caruso, I represent a class of prisoners in a decades-long case challenging conditions of confinement, including medical care, at various Michigan prison facilities.2 Since August 2006 I have been …
U.S. DOJ Calls Houston Jail Unconstitutional, Prisoner Death Rate Alarming by Gary Hunter As a follow-up to PLN’s October 2009 cover story, this article examines in greater detail findings by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) related to conditions at the Harris County jail in Houston, Texas. From 2001 through …
$75,000 Settlement in Heart Attack Death of Missouri Jail Prisoner by On June 3, 2009, Greene County, Missouri agreed to pay half of a $75,000 settlement in a wrongful death action brought by the family of a prisoner who died while at the Greene County Jail. In July 2005, Winston …
$125,000 Settlement in Suicide Death Of New York Jail Prisoner by On April 29, 2009, Onondaga County, New York agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a prisoner who committed suicide at the Onondaga County Justice Center (OCJC) for $125,000. On October 7, 2006, William O’Neil hung …
BOP Guard Found Guilty in Prisoner’s Death, Sentenced to Life by Brandon Sample On July 30, 2009, a federal jury found a former prison guard at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Coleman, Florida guilty of civil rights violations in connection with a prisoner’s death. She later received a life …
Oneida County, NY Jail Suicide Litigation Settled for $225,000 by In May 2008 the County of Oneida agreed to pay $100,000, and CNY Services agreed to pay $125,000, in settlement of a wrongful death claim brought by the parents of a 17-year-old detainee who committed suicide in the Oneida County …
Eighth Circuit Rejects Failure to Protect Claim by On July 9, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected a failure to protect claim brought by the family of a prisoner who was killed at the Sherburne County Jail in Minnesota. Carl Moyle was killed by his …
Brief • December 31, 2009
Brandon v. Advanced Correctional Healthcare, IL, Deposition of Scott, Wrongful Death, 2009 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 190-48 Page 1 of 487 E-FILED Thursday, 31 December, 2009 01:34:33 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD 1 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 3 PEORIA DIVISION 4 5 LAZINNIAL BRANDON, ) …
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