Roppolo v. Linthicum, et al., complaint, failure to correctly treat prisoner with Hepatitis C, 2019 Case 2:19-cv-00262 Document 1 Filed on 09/11/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION MATTHEW ROPPOLO Plaintiff v. LANNETTE LINTHICUM, in her official capacity as …
Texas Prisoner’s Excessive Heat Death Reveals Continuing Danger by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a lawsuit over excessive heat filed by prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit, by agreeing to air condition the facility and move heat-sensitive prisoners to cooler cells, …
Grassroots Leadership v. DHS, TX, Complaint, FOIA, 2019 Case 1:19-cv-00872-RP Document 1 Filed 09/09/19 Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP, Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, Defendants. § § § § § …
Texas Passes Laws to Preserve Dignity of Women Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke With the passage of House Bill 650, which Governor Greg Abbott has already signed into law, Texas took a first step toward protecting the dignity of women held in state prisons. There are more women …
Sanchez v. Bell County, TX, Reply in Support of Opposed Motion for Protective Order, Public Records Request, 2019 Case 6:19-cv-00221-ADA-JCM Document 35 Filed 08/26/19 Page 1 of 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION KATHY R. SANCHEZ, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of, and on behalf …
Sanchez v. Bell County, TX, Ptf's Response to Opposed Motion for Protective Order, Public Records Request, 2019 Case 6:19-cv-00221-ADA-JCM Document 34 Filed 08/19/19 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION KATHY R. SANCHEZ, individually and as dependent administrator of, and on …
Peña Arita v. United States of America, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death by Police Brutality, 2019 Case 7:19-cv-00288 Document 1 Filed on 08/18/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MCALLEN DIVISION ORLANDA DEL CARMEN PEÑA ARITA,§ Individually, as Next …
Sanchez v. Bell County, TX, Opposed Motion for Protective Order, Public Records Request, 2019 Case 6:19-cv-00221-ADA-JCM Document 33 Filed 08/12/19 Page 1 of 8 UNITEDSTATESDISTRICTCOURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION KA THY R. SANCHEZ, Individually and as Dependent Administ rator of, and on behalf of, the EST ATE OF …
Preliminary Settlement in Lawsuit Against JPay Over Prison Video Calls Ending Early by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Oumer Salim, a resident of Colley­ville, Texas, wanted to communicate with his brother, who was in an Ohio state prison. The facility used JPay for video calling, at a cost of $9.90 …
Lawsuit Proceeds Over Death of Prisoner at Privately-Run Jail by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Michael Todd Sabbie, 35, died on July 22, 2015 at the Bi-State Jail, which sits astraddle the border between Texas and Arkansas. He left behind four children. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven, in a 169-page …
TX Travis County RFP 2016 April 20, 2016 Dear Proposers: You are invited to submit proposals in accordance with the attached specifications packet, Request For Proposal (RFP)# P1604-002-SW, for Inmate Communications and Educational Services for Travis County, Texas. All proposals must be submitted with an Original and twelve (12) copies …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 16, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated excessive force claims raised by a Texas prisoner in a federal civil rights suit. Michael Bourne was being held in a segregation cell when he …
Texas Prisoner Sues Former Guards for Planting Screwdrivers in His Cell by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2019, Texas state prisoner Neil Giese filed a lawsuit against four former Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guards – including a major, a lieutenant and a sergeant – who allegedly …
Texas Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Reaction to Prison Blankets Moves Forward by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A lawsuit filed by a Texas prisoner with a wool allergy, who has spent a decade trying to get a blanket that will not cause an adverse reaction, has survived the state’s attempt to …
Texas Bans All Clergy from Death Chamber after Supreme Court Stays Execution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Texas prisoner Patrick H. Murphy on March 28, 2019, based upon his challenge to a prison policy that effectively allowed only Christian …
Mentally Ill Texas Woman “Ignored to Death” After Five Months in Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Janice Dotson-Stephens, 61, died of natural causes at the Bexar County jail in San Antonio, Texas on December 14, 2018. The circumstances of her death were anything but “natural,” though. She spent …
Fifth Circuit Holds Transgender Prisoner Not Entitled to Sex Reassignment Surgery by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a 23-page opinion issued on March 29, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) did not violate the Eighth Amendment by refusing to provide …
Native American Prisoners Win Lawsuit Over Right to Wear Long Hair by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 24, 2019, a Texas federal district court held that three Native American prisoners had the right to wear long hair as required by their religious beliefs. Teddy Norris Grey Hawk Davis, …
Klick v. Cenikor Foundation, TX, Class Action Complaint, Failure to Pay Minimum Wage, 2019 Case 4:19-cv-01583 Document 20 Filed on 06/27/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION TIMOTHY KLICK, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, …
Texas Lawmakers Consider State Jails a “Complete Failure” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2019, the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence issued a report that called the state jail system “a complete failure.” Created in 1993, the category of crime known as a state jail felony was intended …
