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Article • February 8, 2018
$750,000 Settlement After Opioid Withdrawal Death in Kentucky Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Opioid addiction has reached epidemic proportions. Handling withdrawal from those drugs is something that many jails are unprepared to handle. Kentucky’s Mason County Detention Center (MCDC) was so unprepared that it allowed Jenny Fulton, …
Bread for the World Institute - Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger, 2018 BRIEFING PAPER NUMBER 35, FEBRUARY 2018 Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger by Marlysa D. Gamblin Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and poverty, as well as strategies to end it. …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Ninth Circuit Blocks Deportation of ICE Detainee Who Received $125,000 for County Jail Rape by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In August 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the deportation of Audemio Orozco-Ramirez, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2013, …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Total Cost of Pretrial Detention Estimated at up to $140 Billion Annually by According to a report by the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) released in January 2017, U.S. taxpayers “spend approximately $38 million per day to jail people who are awaiting trial (63% of the total jail population, or more …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Prison Policy Initiative Report Addresses Jail Populations by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The non-profit, Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published a report on May 31, 2017 that argued local jails, which hold “one of every three people behind bars” in the United States, have for too long been ignored …
Barnes v. Zaruba, IL, Amended Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2018 Case: 1:17-cv-01901 Document #: 28-1 Filed: 01/23/18 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:171 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION KEVIN D. BARNES, SR., Plaintiff, vs. JOHN E. ZARUBA, both individually and in his official capacity …
Brief • January 17, 2018
Christianson v. Markquart, MN, Order, 2018 CASE 0:16-cv-01034-JRT-KMM Document 43 Filed 01/17/18 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Civil No. 16-1034 (JRT/KMM) ERIK DANIEL CHRISTIANSON, Plaintiff, v. ORDER JEFFREY MARKQUART, in his official capacity as Martin County Sheriff, Defendant. Bradford W. Colbert, LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
$160,000 Settles New Jersey Jail Class Action Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna After eleven years of litigation and five failed consent decrees, Camden County, New Jersey corrections officials have finally agreed to pay $160,000 to settle a federal civil rights suit that alleged severe overcrowding, sanitation, poor nutrition …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
New York: Inhumanity in the Guise of Education at Rikers Island Jail by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The New York City Board of Correction (BOC), which provides oversight of the city’s jails, has approved the use of controversial “restraint desks” for violent prisoners aged 18 to 21 held at …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
$10,000 Settles Kansas Suit Over Fall From Upper Bunk by In June 2017, Shawnee County, Kansas agreed to pay $10,000 to a woman who fell from an upper bunk in her jail cell, resulting in “severe and permanent” injuries. When Giusepinna Lidia Rogers was booked into the jail, she told …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Jail Specific, Suicides
$500,000 Settles Illinois Jail Suicide Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 27, 2017, the County Board of Knox County, Illinois agreed to a $500,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit over the suicide of a pretrial detainee. Joey Corbin, 26, had a history of mental illness and was …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Drug Addicts Suffer Preventable Deaths in U.S. Jails by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis There is a growing epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, over 33,000 opioid-related deaths occurred in 2015, representing a quadrupling of such fatalities since 1999. It …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
$3.6 Million: California Prisoner Killed by Guards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Santa Clara County, California has agreed to pay $3.6 million to the family of a mentally ill man who was beaten to death by guards in the county’s San Jose jail. The three guards who killed him, …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Jail Specific
$1.23 Million Settles Indiana Jail Conditions Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Officials in Floyd County, Indiana agreed on July 24, 2017 to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that alleged jail officials kept prisoners in padded cells, “deprived [them] of clothing, bedding, and hygiene products,” and tased and pepper-sprayed …
Slinker v. Grundy County, IA, Complaint, Jail Suicide, 2018 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA CEDAR RAPIDS DIVISION EARL SLINKER, individually and as Personal Representative of the ESTATE of JARED SLINKER, deceased, and as next friend of C.K.S., W.J.S. I, and W.J.S. II, Case No.: _________________ …
Brief • January 3, 2018
Hilliard v. Southern Health Partners, SC Deposition of Jonathan Fish, Medical Neglect, 2018 1 1 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF 2 COUNTY OF MARLBORO COMMON PLEAS 3 Civil Action No.: 4 2016-CP-34-00202 5 ROBERT KENNETH HILLIARD 6 Plaintiff 7 vs. 8 SOUTHERN HEALTH PARTNERS, 9 INC., et …
Estrada v. Otero County, NM, Settlement Agreement, 2018 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT PRISCILLA SANCHEZ, as Next Friend of Roxanne Estrada, and ROXANNE ESTRADA ("SANCHEZ/ESTRADA") desire to settle and discharge any and all claims which have or could have been asserted by Sanchez/Estrada against the Otero County Board of County Commissioners …
Publication • January 1, 2018
"It Makes Me Want to Cry" Visiting Rikers Island ‘It Makes Me Want to Cry’: Visiting Rikers Island NYC Jails Action Coalition January 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Section I: The Importance of Visits 1 Section II: Visiting Rikers Island 2 Section III: What Visitors Say About Visiting 3 …
Jasmine Still v. El Paso County, CO, Complaint, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2017 Case 1:17-cv-02656-KLM Document 10 Filed 12/28/17 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 19 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 17-cv-02656-KLM Jasmine Still, Plaintiff, v. El Paso County, Colorado, Defendant. ______________________________________________________________________________ FIRST AMENDED …
Article • December 27, 2017
Fifth Circuit Gives Pass to Texas Jail in Suit Over Prisoner Death by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On November 23, 2004, Wilbert Lee Henson was arrested for an outstanding warrant related to a driving with a suspended license charge, and was booked into the Wichita County jail. Six days …
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