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Article • February 19, 2022
$25,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Prisoner Suffering Mental Health Episode Beaten by Guards at County Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman  Lawyers finished executing an agreement on July 27, 2018, under which Santa Clara County, California, consented to pay $25,000 to settle claims by a prisoner at …
Article • February 19, 2022
$35,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Amputee Prisoner Who Slipped Off Crutches in Jail Shower Not Outfitted for the Disabled by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman An agreement was reached on December 5, 2018, in which Santa Clara County, California, agreed to pay $35,000 to an amputee who slipped …
Article • February 19, 2022
$50,000 Paid by Santa Clara County, California, to Prisoner Brutalized by Guards at County Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman  In a settlement fully executed on June 4, 2018, Santa Clara County, California, agreed to pay $50,000 to a former prisoner who suffered a cruel beating at the hands …
Article • February 19, 2022
$65,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Disabled Man Medically Ignored and Roughed Up by Guards at County Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman On December 31, 2020, a settlement was fully executed by Santa Clara County, California, in which it agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a federal …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Inmate Magazine Service Settlement Prohibits Further Sale of Magazine Subscriptions, Orders Payment of $2.2 Million for ‘Consumer Redress’ by On September 7, 2021, Inmate Magazine Service (IMS) owner Roy Snowden entered into a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) that prohibits him …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$900,000 Settlement in Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Securus Recorded California Prisoner-Attorney Calls by David Reutter Company Walks From Similar Case in Maine by David M. Reutter In November 2021, a year after a federal district court in California approved a $900,000 settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging Securus Technologies, Inc. …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$4,000 Federal Bench Verdict to Kentucky Prisoner Assaulted by Guard While Restrained by On March 26, 2021, the U.S. DistrictCourt for the Western District of Kentucky granted summary judgment to a state prisoner who sued a former guard for assaulting him while he was compliant and restrained. Kentucky State Penitentiary …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
After Second Circuit Rules in His Favor, Connecticut Prisoner Required to Exercise in Full Restraints for Six Months Takes $100,000 Settlement by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After a federal appeals court vacated a district court’s judgment in favor of Connecticut prison officials, they settled for $100,000 with a prisoner …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$90,000 Paid by Illinois County to Prisoner Tasered by Two Guards He Wasn’t Resisting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After guards at the Lake County Jail (LCJ) in Illinois were sued for using excessive force by tasering an unresisting prisoner, the parties reached a settlement for $90,000 on …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$10,000 Awarded by Nevada Federal Court to Prisoner Assaulted by Former State Prison Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 23, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada awarded a former state prisoner $5,000 for physical pain and another $5,000 for mental anguish caused by …
Settlement for New Jersey Special Needs Prisoner Students Includes Damages, Fees and Education by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 15, 2021, a settlement agreement and order was entered in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, putting an end to a four-year-old class action lawsuit against …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$7,500 Settlement for Pennsylvania Prisoner Assaulted by Guards And Denied Medical Care by On March 23, 2021, an agreement was executed paying $7,500 to settle three complaints a former pretrial detainee had brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$1 Million Default Judgement for Michigan Jail Prisoner Against Health Care Provider in Sexual Assault by Mark Wilson But She Probably Won’t Collect It From the Defunct Provider by Mark Wilson On April 1, 2021, a Michigan federal court entered a $1 million default judgement for a woman who was …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Hepatitis, Settlements
Texas Agrees to Settlement Providing Prisoners Hep C Treatment, Will Pay $950,000 in Attorney Fees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A trio of pro se prisoner appeals denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on September 22, 2021, left intact an agreement approved earlier in …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$500 Default Judgement in Female Michigan Prisoner’s Pro Se Excessive-Force Claim by A Michigan federal district court awarded a $493.80 default judgement on October 29, 2020, to a prisoner in a civil rights action alleging excessive use of force by guards at Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$2 Million Paid by North Carolina Jail for Prisoner’s Wrongful Death; Undisclosed Amount Paid by Southeastern Medical Services by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On January 8, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina approved a $2 million settlement to be paid by Buncombe County, …
$650,000 Jury Verdict Upheld in NY Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim; Motion for Fees Denied Due to Contingency Agreement by David Reutter by David M Reutter On October 20, 2020, a federal judge in New York refused to overturn a $650,000 award made by a jury earlier that year to a state …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$150,000 Paid to Family of California Pretrial Detainee Who Died from Valley Fever by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal court approved a $150,000 settlement on October 13, 2021, for the estate of a prisoner who died of valley fever at the Merced County Jail. The prisoner, …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Strip Searches, Settlements
$53 Million Settlement in Los Angeles Jail Strip Search Lawsuit Approved by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal district court approved a $53 million settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging women held by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) were subjected to “highly invasive body …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
$170,000 Settlement and New Policy on Gender Identity from Lawsuit Against New Jersey DOC by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The New Jersey Department of Corrections had a policy of housing prisoners according to their gender assignment at birth, regardless of whether they are transgender or of any non-binary sexual …
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