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Bivens Action is Not Time Barred When in Compliance With Rule 3 by Afederal court of appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a wrongful death complaint filed by the mother of a federal prisoner, Shelia Moore. Moore was put in an administrative segregation cell on suspicion of taking an …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
$350,000 Awarded in Ohio Prisoner Death by $350,000 Awarded In Ohio Prisoner Death Sybil Norris, 29, was doing a six-month stretch for shoplifting at the Ohio Reformatory for Women when she died, needlessly, of an asthma attack. Two years later, in December 1997, the Ohio Court of Claims awarded $350,000 …
Brief • July 10, 1998
Filed under: Accidents
Martin v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Cargo Accident, 1998 4&~"""'" \~ * . f" -~ . _.~ :CEtVED SO JUL 1 0 1998 \() 1 ,----_._-_._--_. '-"---'" . FILED RECEIVED Office of the Attorney General r.\ .JUN I R IS03-"! JUL 15 98 Vancouver Office 2 3 , IN TIlE …
Mis-Managed Health Care in Texas Prisons by In 1993, Texas state prisons over-flowed with 70,000 prisoners. But the state was nearing completion of a $1.5 billion prison construction program that would more than double the number of state prisons. State Comptroller John Sharp appreciated what few Texans knew: the $1.5 …
Pelican Bay Cellie Slayings by Felipe Cruz, more than seven years into a 17-to-life sentence for second degree murder out of L.A. County, was found unconscious in his Pelican Bay SHU cell on the morning of November 1, 1997. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced …
Fatal Mismanagement at Ohio CCA Prison by In February 1998, federal judge Sam Bell ordered the Corrections Corp. of America to halt the transfer of inmates from Washington, D.C., to the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NOCC), a CCA-owned prison in Youngstown, Ohio. Bell agreed with Alphonse Gerhardstein, the Cincinnati attorney …
Brief • April 3, 1998
Filed under: Accidents
Lott v. WA DOC, WA, Tort Settlement and Release, Phallam Bay Accident, 1998 • Claim # 31031273-01 RELEASE (TORT) I},I/( FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of, One Thousand Sixty Three Dollars and 49/Cents 51,063.49, inclusive of all liens known and unknown), Alvina Lott, Ilis/her heirs. assigns, or other …
Inadequate Prison Security Violates 8th Amendment by Afederal district court in Puerto Rico held a prison security officer could be held liable for a prisoner's murder when he knew of inadequate staff supervision and non functioning cell locks, among other things, and did nothing to improve security. Angel Orta Fernandez, …
Brief • December 22, 1997
Filed under: Accidents
Cruz v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint for Damages, McNeil Island Bus Accident, 1997 "'. '. F I LED IN COUNTY CLERK'S OFFiCE: 3 REr r= , ~:'}a.: r)NO V 2 4 1997 '97 DEC 22 PPl 1 31 ?M. .• . .. PIERc:i: COUNTY. WASHINGiON . ~7 5 •• ~ …
Knowledge of Risk May Establish 8th Amendment Liability by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that a prison investigator's report indicating a prisoner was at risk of attack was sufficient to establish eighth amendment liability on the part of supervisory prison officials, if they read it. The …
Private Transportation Firms Take Prisoners for a Ride by Alex Friedmann by Alex Friedmann Many of the hundred-thousand-plus prisoners of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are familiar with the BOP's buses that shuttle convicts around the country. The federal government also maintains a fleet of a dozen planes designated …
Ohio Prison Doctor Liable in Asthma Death by A federal district court in Ohio held that factual disputes required a trial to determine if Ohio DOC medical staff were liable in the death of a prisoner who died from an asthma attack. Ernest Davis was an Ohio state prisoner with …
Managed Care Infects Prison Health Services by by Adrian Lomax In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest pains and having trouble breathing. Nurses at the jail, finding no discernible blood pressure, concluded that Bird was suffering a heart …
Montana Paying for 1991 Prison Uprising by The state of Montana agreed to pay $60,000 to the parents of a prisoner killed during a 1991 uprising at the maximum security Deer Lodge prison. It was the second settlement among 13 state court cases filed against prison officials. In January 1995, …
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
Prisoners Roasted Alive by A van carrying prisoners burst into flames alongside a Tennessee interstate highway, killing all six prisoners shackled inside a wire mesh cage in the back of the van. The prisoners were being transported in a van operated by Federal Extradition Agency, a private Memphis-based company that …
Lucasville Uprising: $4.1 Million Settlement by In January, 1997, a settlement was filed in federal court in the three-year-old class action based on injuries stemming from the 1993 Easter Day uprising and 11-day siege at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) at Lucasville, OH. The settlement establishes a $4.1 million …
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
Suit Seeks to Expose BOP 'Suicide' Cover-up by A former U.S. Congressman and his organization are offering a $10,000 reward in the death of Kenneth Michael Trentadue. Congressman George Hansen says the U.S. Citizens Human Rights Commission is offering the money for the identification, indictment and conviction of the people …
Brief • June 4, 1997
Filed under: Accidents
Petrycki v. State of Washington, WA, Release Tort, Airway Heights Scaffolding Accident, 1997 Claim # 31027639-01 '. r; ~." 1 ..:: { I:U; i RELEASE (TORT) FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of Fifteen Thousand and 00/100 ($15,000.00 inclusive of all liens known and unknown), Michael W. Petrycki, his …
Hill v. Germantown, TN, Plaintiff Consolidated Brief Supporting Fed Damages Claims - Joint and Several Liability in Wrongful Death (1997) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TENNESSEE FOR THE THIRTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT MEMPHIS GREGORY HILL, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. NO. 70577-9 T.D. CITY OF GERMANTOWN, et al., Defendants. RONALD CROWDER, …
PLRA Codifies Injunction Standards in Conditions Case by In the December, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Smith v. Arkansas DOC, 877 F. Supp. 1296 (ED AR 1995) in which the district court ordered increased staffing levels in open bay barracks prisons in Arkansas. The defendants appealed and the eighth …
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