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Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
$250,000 Award for Paraplegic Dallas County Jail Prisoner by $250,000 Award For Paraplegic Dallas County Jail Prisoner by Matthew T. Clarke A paraplegic Texas prisoner has been awarded a quarter million dollars for pain and suffering caused by conditions in the Dallas County Jail (the jail). Brent Lawson, a Texas …
Los Angeles Sheriff's Over-Detention Policy Renders County Liable Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 by John E Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that Los Angeles County Jail prisoners who were kept beyond their release dates for the purpose of awaiting the completion of records searches for any …
Washington DOC Suffers Yet Another Multi-Million Dollar Negligent Supervision Settlement by Lonnie Burton On May 16, 2001, the State of Washington and King County agreed to pay $5.5 million to the family of a man stabbed to death by a mentally ill man who was mistakenly released from the King …
Summary Judgment Denied in Oklahoma Jail Beating by A federal district court in Oklahoma has denied summary judgment against a pretrial detainee's failure to protect and deliberate indifference to medical needs claims. On September 5, 1995, John Winton was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on shooting charges that were …
$350,000 Verdict in Dirty Dancing Suit; Punitive Damages Vacated by John E Dannenberg AU.S. district court jury in Washington, D.C., awarded female D.C. Jail prisoner Sunday Daskalea $350,000 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages against the District and the Department of Corrections Director, Margaret Moore, for Daskalea's …
Failure to Protect Confidential Informant Not Deliberate Indifference by The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the conduct of a county, when housing a prisoner with another prisoner against whom he had acted as a confidential informant, did not rise to the level of an Eighth Amendment …
DC Prisoner Wins $175,000 in Conditions Case by David C Fathi by David C. Fathi On January 25, 2001, a federal jury in Washington, D.C. awarded nearly $175,000 to D.C. prisoner Lawrence Caldwell in his challenge to conditions at the District of Columbia's Maximum Security Facility (MSF) in Lorton, Virginia. …
$1.1 Million Awarded in Texas Restraint Chair Settlement by Ronald Young Nueces County, Texas, settled a $1.1 million lawsuit filed by the father of Andrew Sokolinski, a prisoner who died while strapped into a restraint chair at the Nueces County Jail. The county settled the lawsuit midway through an August …
$3 Million Award Not Excessive in Prisoner Beating Death by The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a $778,000 verdict and $2.2 million punitive damage award against Shelby County, Tenn. deputy sheriff Rhett Shearin and life prisoner Jerry Ellis in a county jail beating death where Shearin …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Suspicionless Maine Jail Strip Searches Set for Trial; Settles for $455,000 by The court of appeals for the First circuit held that disputed fact issues required a trial to determine if a Maine jail's practice of strip-searching all arrestees was unconstitutional. Carmen Miller was arrested on a restricted warrant and …
$9.6 Million Awarded for Child Death in Illinois Jail by On October 19, 2000 a Cook County jury in Chicago, Illinois awarded $9.6 million to the estate of Joyce Hughes, who died from injuries she sustained after she was born in a cell in the Cook County Jail near Chicago …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) was hit with separate jury verdicts for $22.4 and $15 million and settled two additional cases …
Kentucky Phone Rate Ruling by A federal district court in Kentucky held that the filed rate doctrine barred any claims for money damages against Phone Company and county jail defendants. However, injunctive relief was still available. The court questioned the legality of an exclusive service provider contract. In the August, …
New York Strip Search Punitive Damage Award Vacated by The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the award of $5 million in punitive damage award against the City of New York for an unlawful strip and body cavity search of a misdemeanant arrestee. The court held that punitive …
New York Jury Awards $900,000 for Jail's Failure to Protect by A federal jury awarded judgment of $900,000 against the County of Nassau and the Sheriff of Nassau for failing to protect prisoner Steven W. Arnold from being assaulted and severely beaten while detained in the Nassau County Jail. PLN …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
PLRA Attorney Fee Cap Doesn't Apply After Release; Texas County Liable in Attack by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that a Texas county was liable for failing to protect an arrestee from assault in its jail. The court also held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act …
Gay New York Guard Wins $1.5 Million Harassment Award by On July 18, 2000, a gay Nassau County, NY jail guard won $1.55 million in damages after a federal jury agreed that his supervisors failed to intervene when his coworkers repeatedly tormented and harassed him due to his sexual orientation. …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
County Must Pay Prisoner's Medical Expenses by AKansas Court of Appeals found that a governmental agency is not entitled to seek reimbursement from a prisoner for the cost of medical treatment received by the prisoner while in the agency's custody. While incarcerated in the Haskell County {Kansas) jail, David Sullivan …
Frozen Toes State a Claim for Deliberate Indifference by A U.S. District Court in Minnesota handed down a mixed ruling on defendants' motion for summary judgment on a federal prisoner's claim of deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. On January 25, 1996, after walking for 23 hours in freezing …
$40,000 Awarded in Tennessee Jail Failure to Protect Suit by A U.S. District Court in Tennessee ordered Shelby County to pay $40,000 to Jacob Miller for injuries suffered in an attack by fellow prisoners at Shelby County Correctional Center (SCCC). Miller arrived at SCCC in December 1995 to serve a …
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