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Article • December 26, 2017
$15,000 to Wisconsin Jail Prisoner for Medical Neglect by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A former Wisconsin jail prisoner settled his medical neglect lawsuit for $15,000. After Brian Shebelske had been incarcerated at the Marathon County Jail for twenty months, he had to be transported to the hospital emergency room …
Article • December 26, 2017
Superintendent with Shady History of Supervision Hired by Another Jail by In the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into whether South Carolina’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) was violating detainees’ civil rights and breaking disability laws by depriving them of medical and mental health care, HRRJ’s …
Article • December 22, 2017
$420 to Assaulted Former Oklahoma Jail Prisoner for Injuries by Matthew Clarke Mr. Dowler was 31-years old when he in custody for DUI in the city of Bixby in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. While he was in custody, he was assaulted and suffered cuts on his head and two fractured teeth. …
Article • December 22, 2017
$9,000 to Florida Jail Inmate for Burned Foot by Matthew Clarke In September 1995, a Florida jail prisoner who had suffered third-degree burns on his foot after a steam kettle in the jail's kitchen spilled boiling water on to him settled the suit he had brought for $9,000. Mr. Lay was …
Article • December 22, 2017
$42,200 Federal Jury Award in Suit Over California Jail Prisoner's Death by Matthew Clarke On August 5, 1999, a California federal jury awarded $52,200 to the family of a prisoner who died while suffering from untreated drug withdrawal in the Santa Barbara County jail. When Drew Allen Walsh, 32, was …
Brief • December 22, 2017
Graves v. Penzone, AZ, Ptf. Motion to Re-open Discovery, Jail Conditions and Care, 2017 Case 2:77-cv-00479-NVW Document 2435 Filed 12/22/17 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gabriel B. Eber (admitted pro hac vice) Eric Balaban (admitted pro hac vice) ACLU National Prison Project 915 15th Street, …
Virginia Mentally-Ill Man’s Death by Deterioration in Jail Cell Exhibits Policy Failures by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The death of a mentally-ill Virginia man jailed on a misdemeanor and confined in isolation while awaiting transfer to a psychiatric hospital exhibits the folly of current policies in dealing with …
Nixon v. Forsyth County, et al., N.C., jail neglect, wrongful death settlement, 2017 FORSYTH COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING DATE: SUBJECT: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: DECEMBER 14, 2017 15 RESOLUTION APPROVING SETTLEMENT OF THE CASE OF DIANE EMMERT NIXON, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF DINO VANN NIXON VS. …
Article • December 13, 2017
Prisoner Settles Conditions of Confinement, Excessive Force Lawsuit with Nevada County Jail by In October 2015, Washoe County officials and a former jail prisoner settled a lawsuit which had alleged numerous constitutional violations, including unlawful conditions of confinement, use of excessive force, medical indifference, and due process violations. The amount …
Article • December 13, 2017
WA: Jail Phone Conversations Not Private, May Be Used By Prosecutors by On July 25, 2016, the Washington State Court of Appeals,  Division One, held that neither a prisoner or the person on the other end of the phone have an expectation of privacy in a jail phone call and …
Brief • December 11, 2017
Parker v. City of New York, NY, Memo and Order, Solitary Confinement, 2017 Case 1:15-cv-06733-CLP Document 58 Filed 12/11/17 Page 1 of 26 PageID #: 295 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------X ROY PARKER et al. on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, …
Article • December 7, 2017
Sexual Assault Claim Against Suffolk County, New York Jail Moves Forward by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis District Judge Ann M. Donnelly recently granted the Plaintiffs' motion to amend their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint against the Suffolk County, New York jail, as well as the county sheriff and several …
Brief • December 7, 2017
Partridge v. Pelle, CO, Complaint, 2017 Case 1:17-cv-02941 Document 1 Filed 12/07/17 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 43 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. _________ RYAN PARTRIDGE, Plaintiff, v. JOE PELLE, in his official capacity as Boulder County Sheriff; BRUCE HAAS, in …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
$10.25 Million Jury Award in Suit over Oklahoma Jail Prisoner’s Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 20, 2017, an Oklahoma federal jury awarded $10.25 million to the estate of a prisoner who died at the Tulsa County Jail. According to court documents, Elliot Earl Williams, 37, a …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Prisoners’ Suit over Repeated Overnight Deprivation of Clothing by Reversing the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by pretrial detainees at a Missouri jail, the Eighth Circuit held in a January 17, 2017 decision that depriving them of clothing up to three nights a week was …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Missouri Town Pays $1.2 Million to Settle Lawsuit over Jail Suicide by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On March 13, 2017, the city of Pagedale, Missouri agreed to pay $1.2 million to the family of a woman who hung herself at the city jail two-and-a-half years earlier. The resolution of …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
$1.275 Million Settlement for Los Angeles County Jail Whistleblower by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In May 2017, a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who worked at the L.A. County jail and helped send colleagues to prison for obstructing an FBI investigation was set to receive $1.275 million after …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
New York Jail Agrees to End Solitary Confinement of Juveniles by Matthew Clarke, Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna and Matt Clarke Jail officials in Syracuse, New York have agreed to end solitary confinement for 16- and 17-year-old juvenile offenders held at the Onondaga County Justice Center under the terms of …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Jail Specific, Suicides
Tennessee Judge Denies Summary Judgment Motion in Jail Suicide Suit; Case Settles by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On June 13, 2016, U.S. District CourtJudge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. denied a motion submitted by Robertson County, Tennessee officials seeking to dismiss a §1983 civil rights case brought by the mother …
Ninth Circuit Denies Immunity to Police Officers, Jailers for Prisoner’s Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 30, 2016, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity to two Phoenix police officers and two Maricopa County jail guards in a civil rights case alleging …
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