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Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$6,500 Settlement After Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Florida Jail Officials Who Repeatedly Opened Detainee’s Legal Mail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2021, a settlement was reached under which four officials at the Duval County Jail (DCJ) in Jacksonville agreed to pay …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$5.5 Million Settlement to California Prisoner Left Incapacitated After Suicide Attempt at Santa Cruz County Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 16, 2021, a federal court in California approved a $5.5 million settlement between Santa Cruz County and the estate of a former prisoner at the county …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$11 Million Settlement Reached in Tennessee Suit Alleging False Arrest and False Imprisonment of Minors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 20, 2021, a settlementwas approved by a federal court in a lawsuit alleging the illegal arrest and detention of some 1,500 children at the Rutherford County Juvenile …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
DOJ Reaches Settlement Over Disability Access With Vermont Prison System by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) to remedy conditions in state prisons that fail to comply with the Americans with …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$725,000 Settlement Reached in North Carolina Prisoner’s Suicide at Troubled Jail by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 18, 2019, Melissa Middleton Rice committed suicide while in custody at the Jackson County Detention Center (JCDC) in Sylva, North Carolina. As she sat in the jail’s booking room, Rice hanged …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$316,673 Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Stabbing at GEO-Operated Private Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 1, 2021, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) and the private operator of one of its prisons, the GEO Group, agreed to pay $316,673.53 to settle a lawsuit brought …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$8.5 Million Paid by Pennsylvania DOC for Death of Asthmatic Prisoner Improperly Pepper-Sprayed by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 18, 2021, a federal court in Pennsylvania approved an $8.5 million settlement reached the prior month between the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and the family of an asthmatic …
$2.2 Million Settlement Over Transgender Georgia Prisoner’s Suicide Is Largest in State DOC History by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 7, 2021, the parents of a 25-year-old transwoman who committed suicide while imprisoned in the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) dismissed their federal civil rights lawsuit against DOC …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$100,000 Paid by Pennsylvania DOC to Family of Pro Se Prisoner Litigant Who Committed Suicide by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A Pennsylvania prisoner’s long and contentious history with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) came to a bitter end on September 29, 2021, with an agreement by the state …
Settlement Relieves Death Row Isolation in Louisiana: Four Hours Daily Out of Cell, Five Hours Per Week in New Yard by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In recent years, courts have begun to recognize that extended periods of solitary confinement are detrimental to the physical and mental health of prisoners. …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$325,000 to Detainee Assaulted at East Texas Jail, 90 Days to Former Deputy Who Beat Him While Restrained in Wheelchair by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 24, 2022, a former sheriff’s deputy in Harrison County, Texas, was sentenced for savagely beating a restrained detainee at the …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$1.65 Million Settlement Reached in Connecticut Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Lupus by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 7, 2021, the Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) paid $1.65 million to settle a lawsuit alleging medical personnel failed to diagnose and treat a 19-year-old state prisoner who died of …
Prison Telecom Giant GTL Agrees to $67 Million Settlement in Class-Action Over Inactive Account Seizure Policy by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Prison phone services provider Global*Tel Link (GTL) agreed to a settle a long-running class-action on December 20, 2021, with changes to company policies and up to $67 …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$1.5 Million Awarded for Failure to Protect Rikers Jail Prisoner Who Was Attacked Repeatedly by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On June 2, 2021, a federal jury in New York City ruled in favor of a prisoner at the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex, deciding the city and …
$170,000 in Attorney’s Fees, Solitary Confinement Reforms Achieved in Settlement of Maine Prisoner’s Lawsuits by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2021, the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) settled state and federal lawsuits brought by a prisoner kept in solitary confinement for 22 months without seeing any evidence of …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$199,000 Awarded to California Detainee Assaulted by Santa Clara County Jail Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 13, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarded a former Santa Clara County pretrial detainee $11,000 in damages for injuries received when he was assaulted …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$781 Settlement Paid to Oregon Prisoner Over Censorship of ‘Sexually Explicit’ Text Message by On July 21, 2021, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a suit filed by a state prisoner whose private text message to his intimate partner was flagged for violating prison policy because it contained the …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$170,000 Damages and Fees As New Jersey Prisons Settle Transgender Lawsuit With New Policy by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins As of June 29, 2021, the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) has changed its policy of housing prisoners according to their gender assignment at birth, regardless of whether they …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$325,000 Paid by Colorado County to Jail Detainee Brutalized by Guards Equipped with Controversial Training by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On October 28, 2021, a Colorado man dismissed his suit against Weld County after agreeing to accept a $325,000 settlement for injuries allegedly inflicted on him by guards at …
$500,000 Default Judgment for Tennessee Woman Sexually Assaulted by Probation Officer by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 17, 2021, a federal district court in Tennessee awarded a $500,000 default judgment, plus another $60,863.75 in attorney’s fees, to a woman who alleged in a lawsuit that her probation …
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