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$150,000 Verdict in Failure to Train Suit for Withdrawal Death of CT Jail Prisoner by $150,000 Verdict in Failure to Train Suit for Withdrawal Death of CT Jail Prisoner A jury awarded $150,000 to the estate of a 41 year old Polish prisoner who died in his jail cell of …
Sheriff's Delay Or Denial Of Detainee's Serious Medical Needs Ruled Sufficient To Defeat Summary Judgment Motion by The Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that a sergeant's actions that resulted in delay or denial of medical care to a county jail detainee who subsequently died from alcohol withdrawal seizures …
Heroin Withdrawal a Serious Medical Need in Addict's Jail Death by A Maryland federal district court has held that withdrawal from a heroin addiction is a serious medical need. This action was filed by the widow of a pretrial detainee who died two days after being incarcerated at Maryland's Cecil …
Prison Doctor's Lack of Knowledge Does Not Constitute Deliberate Indifference by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a Hawaii prison doctor's medical malpractice resulting in the death of a prisoner, while demonstrating negligence, did not rise to the level of "deliberate indifference" to establish Eighth Amendment cruel …
$275,000 Awarded to Washington Prisoner For Negligent Medical Care After Falling In Jail by $275,000 Awarded to Washington Prisoner For Negligent Medical Care After Falling In Jail Plaintiff and Washington State prisoner Michael Shea fell in jail injuring his spine and causing permanent damage. He brought action against the City …
Prisoner Has No Right to Medication Accommodation by Bob Williams On de novo review, the Maine Supreme Court held that Jon Scott, a prisoner in Androscoggin County Jail, failed to establish actionable state court claims under the Maine Human Rights Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act …
Article • May 15, 2007
Michigan Law Bars Tort Claims If Intoxication Causes 50% Or More Responsibility On Injured Party. by Michigan Law Bars Tort Claims If Intoxication Causes 50% Or More Responsibility On Injured Party. Michigan's Court of Appeals has held that a claim alleging medical malpractice, intentional misconduct, and ordinary negligence arising from …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Immune in Alcohol Withdrawal Death by The decedent was arrested for DUI and died in jail about 18 hours later. An autopsy found that he died from an arrhythmia resulting from an electrolyte imbalance caused by fatty liver. The court assumes that alcohol withdrawal is a serious medical need, …
Article • May 15, 2007
MI Jail Not Liable for Heroin Addict's Suicide by The decedent, a heroin addict, was arrested and killed himself four days later. At 792: "Heroin withdrawal is a serious medical condition." The failure to notify authorities at the jail where the decedent hanged himself of the plaintiff's condition did not …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
$75,000 Settlement for Untreated Wisconsin Methadone Patient by Michael Rigby Outagamie County, Wisconsin, has agreed to pay $75,000 to a man whose withdrawal from methadone went untreated at the county jail. Richard Foelker was participating in a methadone treatment program for heroin addiction when he checked himself into the Outagamie …
New York Jail Doctor Put on Probation After Wrong Prescription Kills Detainee by by John E. Dannenberg The former medical director for Rensselear (New York) County Jail was put on probation for three years by state health authorities for improper treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome that caused the death of …
Sanchez v. MTC, NM, Amended Complaint, PNA neglect misconduct drug withdrawal jail inmate suicide, 2005 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO LUCILLE SANCHEZ, Individually and as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF JUAN IGNACIO SANCHEZ, Deceased, and FELIMON SANCHEZ, Plaintiffs, vs. No. CV 05-784 …
City Settles In Death of Prisoner at CCA-Operated Tulsa Jail by The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has agreed to settle its part in a federal lawsuit over the death of a Native American prisoner in the Tulsa Jail. According to the November 7, 2003 settlement, the city will pay the …
Florida Jail Pays Prisoner's Family $2.5 Million in Methadone Withdrawal Death by On May 23, 2001, Karen Johnson, 43, literally died of medical neglect while being held prisoner in the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida. In July, 2002 PLN reported how Johnson desperately pleaded with her captors to continue …
Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Prisoners at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada) have been drinking each other's drug-laced vomit in order to get high. One woman …
Nassau County NY Settles Prisoner's Beating Death Suit for $7.75 Million by On March 31, 2003, Nassau County, New York agreed to settle a suit brought in the wake of the beating death of Thomas Pizzuto at the hands of guards at the Nassau County Correctional Center. The $7.75 million …
$900,000 Settlement in California Alcoholic's Jail Death From "DTs" by The County of San Joaquin agreed to pay $550,000, and the City of Lodi, California, $350,000, in a March, 2003 settlement of the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint by the surviving children of a 31 year-old detainee with a long …
Supreme Court Upholds Federal Tolling Statute; $80,000 Verdict Reinstated by Reversing the Supreme Court of South Carolina, the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, held that 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) is constitutional. The decision reinstates a judgment against a South Carolina county jail in a wrongful death claim. …
Director Out at Scandal-Plagued Washington State Jail by Lonnie Burton Amid numerous scandals and investigations into wrongdoing and prisoner mistreatment by staff, the director of the Snohomish County jail in Everett, WA was relieved of her duties in mid-April 2003. Corrections department director Andrea Bynum was fired due to her …
Deaths in Florida and Virginia Jails Spark National Investigations by Gary Hunter The badly bloated body of Kathy Kearns was removed from her Virginia Beach jail cell in the early morning hours of April 26, 2001. Testimony from witnesses and evidence from jail and city records show that Kearns desperately …
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