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Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Settlements
$54,000 Award of Attorney Fees to Enforce Settlement Agreement on Behalf of Deaf Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s order granting attorney’s fees after it found the Illinois Department of Correction (IDOC) was in “substantial noncompliance” with a …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
$200,000 Settlement for Kentucky Woman in Jail Childbirth Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 17, 2021, a Kentucky federal court dismissed a lawsuit brought by a woman who was abandoned by jailers while a pretrial detainee and forced to give birth alone in a cell. The lawsuit …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Settlements, Class Actions
Class Action Lawsuit Over COVID at Chesapeake, MD Jail Reaches Settlement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement agreement was reached in a class action lawsuit alleging there was an “uncontrolled outbreak of COVID at the Chesapeake Detention Facility (CDF)” in Maryland. The complaint was filed in federal …
Filing • April 29, 2021
HRDC v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al., KS, Censorship, Settlement, 2021 IN THE MATTER OF: Human Rights Defense Center v. Johnson County, KS, et al. Case No. 2:20-cv-02447 U.S. DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF KANSAS ___________________________________________ SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) is made and entered …
Brief • April 29, 2021
HRDC v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al., KS, Censorship, Settlement, 2021 IN THE MATTER OF: Human Rights Defense Center v. Johnson County, KS, et al. Case No. 2:20-cv-02447 U.S. DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF KANSAS ___________________________________________ SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) is made and entered …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Virginia Settles Two Lawsuits Over Misuse of Solitary Confinement by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Virginia recently settled two outstanding lawsuits alleging the abuse of solitary confinement. Taken together, the payouts cost the state’s taxpayers over $250,000. At a time when Virginia’s General Assembly made progress on other …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
$105,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Wisconsin Department of Corrections paid $105,000 to settle a prisoner’s excessive use of force lawsuit. The December 2, 2020, settlements resolves the suit brought by prisoner Kuan Barnett. Barnett’s civil rights action stemmed from …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Minnesota Counties Pay Out More Than $10 Million For Prison and Jail Settlements by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss "In the last 10 years, Minnesota counties have paid out more than $10 million in settlements and legal fees following lawsuits accusing jails of providing inadequate to non-existent health care to …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
$300,000 Award for Illinois Prisoner in Sexual Assault Claim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court awarded $300,000 to a prisoner who alleged a female food supervisor coerced him into sexual activity. The court’s September 29, 2020, order was issued following a damages bench trial. …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania County Over Prisoner’s Death in Restraint Chair Settled for $3 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 14, 2020, a federal judge approved a $3 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the family of a Pennsylvania jail prisoner who died after being held in …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Mentally Ill Oregon Prisoner’s “Needless & Preventable” Death From Flu Complications Nets Record $3 Million Settlement by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "Michael Barton died a brutal death because he was ignored and then written off as faking symptoms and refusing medication,” said attorney Bryan Dawson, upon securing a $3 …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
After $625,000 Settlement, Oregon Deputy Charged in Assault of Prisoner by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On June 30, 2020, an Oregon county agreed to pay Albert Molina $625,000 to settle his claim that a jail guard fractured his skull in an unprovoked 2018 attack. Two days later, county prosecutors …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Troubled Ohio Jail Faces Two More Lawsuits by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In late 2020, the Board of Commissioners in Gallia County, Ohio, locked in $12.8 million in tax-exempt bonds to fund construction of a new jail. The move comes after two federal lawsuits were filed the previous summer …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
$4.65 Million Settlement for Florida Female Prisoner Left Quadriplegic After Brutal Beating by Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) on August 6, 2020 agreed to pay $4.65 million to prisoner Cheryl Weimar, who was beaten “to within an inch of her life” …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
$1.1 Million Settlement in Kentucky Jail Sex Abuse Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 7, 2020, Kentucky’s Larue County Detention Center agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging former guard Jerome Perry sexually abused nine prisoners. The women’s lawsuit alleged that between February …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
New Mexico Corrections Pays $1.4 Million to Settle Whistleblower Complaint Alleging Retaliation for Exposing Deficiencies in Corizon Medical Care by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney An October 15, 2020 report from the Santa Fe New Mexican revealed that in March 2020, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) paid $1.4 million …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Salt Lake County, Utah, Settles Federal Civil Rights Wrongful Death Claim for $950,000 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Salt Lake County, Utah settled in March of 2020 a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from the in-custody death in 2016 of Lisa Marie Ostler, who died when jail officials ignored her symptoms …
CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 31, 2020, a motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri revealing that CoreCivic and Securus Technologies (Defendants) had …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
$2 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over N.Y. Prisoner Denied Emergency Eye Surgery Until She Went Blind by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 10, 2020, the U.S. signed off on a settlement of $2 million, including up to 25% in attorney fees, in a lawsuit brought by a federal …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
$6 Million Payout in Montana Wrongful Conviction Case by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Three Montana counties agreed on November 26, 2019, to pay $6 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit that accused their county sheriffs and employees of egregious civil rights violations that led to an innocent …
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