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Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Arkansas County Pays $40,000 To Handicapped Man Raped In Jail by Michael Rigby On May 22, 2006, Saline County, Arkansas, agreed to pay $40,000 to a deaf man who was raped by other prisoners in the Saline County Detention Center. Johnny Jones, a deaf man who is unable to speak, …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Florida DOC Cuts Prisoner Collect Call Costs by 30% by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For over 10 years, the family and friends of Florida prisoners have paid exorbitant costs to communicate with their imprisoned loved one. I dont think that's right, said interim secretary of Florida's Department of …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
EMSA, Florida County to Pay $500,000 for Untreated Ectopic Pregnancy by Michael Rigby Broward County, Florida, and EMSA Correctional Care, Inc., must pay $500,000 to a county prisoner who suffered permanent injury and weeks of unnecessary pain because jail medical personnel failed to diagnose or treat her ectopic pregnancy, a …
Arkansas Mayor, Sheriff, Wife Jailed for Burglary, Drugs, Sex and More by Gary Hunter On February 6, 2006, just weeks after Lonoke Arkansas Mayor Thomas Privett, 68, and Sheriff Jay Campbell, 46, admitted to a state monitoring committee that they had illegally used state prisoners for personal benefit, the two …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Audit Reveals California DOC Employees Illegally Received Holiday Pay for Scheduled Days Off by The California State Auditor found that Sierra Conservation Center (SCC) State Prison management permitted exempt health and social services professional employees to accrue holiday credits when a holiday fell on a scheduled day off, notwithstanding that …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Female Missouri Prisoners Make $291,000 as Sexy Pen Pals, AG Wants His Cut by Some Missouri prisoners have been making money by soliciting donations from pen pals found using internet web sites. Attorney General Jay Nixon says Missouri wants a piece of the action. Well, actually, the state wants all …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Filed under: Excessive Force, Restraints
$600,000 Settlement for Abuse at Maine Juvenile Prison by In 2004 the state of Maine paid $600,000 to settle with a former prisoner at the Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC), a juvenile prison. In his lawsuit, filed in 2001, plaintiff Michael Taylor alleged he was placed in solitary confinement …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Michigan Prisoner Wins $20,000 on Failure to Protect Claim by Michael Rigby On March 29, 2006, a federal court in Michigan awarded $20,000 to a state prisoner who was attacked and cut with a razor after prison officials repeatedly ignored his requests for protection. Reggie Williams, a prisoner serving 2 …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Beaten Texas Prisoner Who Was Denied Safekeeping Awarded $87,500 by Michael Rigby On March 20, 2006, a federal jury awarded $87,500 to a Texas prisoner who was beaten by gang members after his request for transfer to protective custody was denied. While imprisoned at the McConnell Unit in southeast Texas …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Maywood, Illinois Jail Settles Failure to Protect Suit For $750,000 by The Village of Maywood, Illinois, paid $750,000 to settle with a former Maywood prisoner who was severely beaten by his cellmate at the village jail, according to a January 19, 2006, settlement agreement. George Caithamer, 22, was arrested by …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Michigan Prisoners Deliberate Indifference Claim Nets $73,906 In Fees by Michigan Prisoner's Deliberate Indifference Claim Nets $73,906 In Fees On October 20, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, awarded $73,906 in attorneys fees to a plaintiff who prevailed on his claim of deliberate …
WA Youth Detention Officer Awarded $603,500; Remitted Damages Reinstated by The Washington Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeals improperly reduced a plaintiff's non-economic-damage award from $260,000 to $25,000. From 1979 to 1991, Ralph Bunch worked as a prison guard at the Washington State reformatory in Monroe. In 1991 …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
$1.35 Million Settlement for Wrongful Death of Illinois Prisoner by On March 17, 2005, Cook County, Illinois, agreed to pay $1.35 million to the surviving son of a woman who died in a county jail after she was denied medical attention. Marilyn Bones, 37, was arrested on August 14, 2000, …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Filed under: Medical, ENT, Vision
New York Prisoner Paid $1.25 Million for Untreated Glaucoma by On October 4, 2005, prisoner Abraham Mitchell settled his claim against the State of New York for $1,250,000. Mitchell had claimed in his lawsuit, filed in the Albany Court of Claims, that the New York Department of Correctional Services was …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California Parole Board Squelches Life Prisoner Writs on Procedural Grounds by The California Court of Appeal, Sixth District (San Jose), granted the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT) petition for writ of mandate to prohibit a Santa Clara County superior court from appending an order from one unrelated life prisoner's …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Florida Gain Time Revocation Clarified by Florida's First of District Court of Appeal has held that a prisoner serving a split sentence where one of the crimes occurred before the effective date of a statute authorizing forfeiture of gain-time upon revocation of probation prohibits imposing a sanction. Before the Court …
L.A. County Pays $300,000 for Wrongful Death of Psychiatric Jail Prisoner by Los Angeles County settled with the estate of a deceased prisoner who died in the County Jail from inadequate care for his known psychiatric needs. Darran Craig, 31, was arrested on January 13, 2004. On January 14, intake …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
No Qualified Immunity for Arkansas Detainees Miscarriage by No Qualified Immunity for Arkansas Detainee's Miscarriage The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's denial of qualified immunity to jail officials who denied medical care to a female detainee, causing a miscarriage of her 4-5 month old fetus. Talisa …
Brief • October 7, 2006
Filed under: Attorney Client
Gyasi v. City of New York et al, NY, Def Res to Plf 2nd Set of Interrogations, attorney-client privileged info, 2006.pdf Deo 07 2086 2:+BPH HP LRSERJET 3330 UNITED STATES DlSTRICT COURT SOWWERBl DlSTRICT OF NEW YORK . . a - ------PliintifZ X. DEFENDANTS' suwLEMEmAL RESPONSES TO l % m …
Brief • October 5, 2006
Filed under: Shootings
Toure v. New York, NY, Trial Transcript, Police Shooting, 2006 file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Richard%20Gross/My%20Document...II%20Transcript%20Files/Monaghan.Dir..X.and.Cross.X.(1018-1077).txt 1017 1 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS - CIVIL TERM - PART 13 2 ----------------------------------------------X MORY TOURE, 3 Plaintiff, 4 -against5 THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 6 Defendant. 7 ----------------------------------------------X Index No. 11022/96 …
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