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Abuse Issues Poor Conditions of Confinement 8 10 Challenges in Accessing Adequate Health Care 10 Lack of Access to Quality Feminine Hygiene Products 10 Inadequate Access to Nutritious Food ...
Case • 1997
] Charles Miller and Bruce Lemmon, Defendants-Appellees. [6] Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. [7] No. 96 C 1630 [8] John Daniel ...
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
. The district court dismissed the claims for money damages, holding that the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity. The court dismissed the remaining claims for equitable relief by holding Lavado's ...
a verdict in favor of the prison official defendants that held that the rape had not, in fact, occurred. The court of appeals for the sixth circuit reversed and remanded by holding that the lower court had ...
, the prisoner was transferred to Clinton, a prison with a sordid history of guard violence and abuse. The prisoner was also demoted from commissary clerk to janitor. In 1994, the prisoner sued the Attica warden ...
"there were genuine issues of material fact relating to prison officials' intent in investigating and ultimately validating him as a [BGF] member." Importantly, the court rejected defendants' qualified ...
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
a lifeline since at least 40% of the national prison population is known to be functionally illiterate. Notwithstanding the accepted need to put controls on telephone abuse by prisoners, the Report noted ...
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
court served the defendant without prepayment of fees, but did not specifically rule on Teixeira's motion. When Teixeira failed to file an expert's report or $5,000.00 bond within 90 days of filing his ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
. But the court's rational basis test was directed solely to the claim of financial pain to the state's defending against such prisoner suits during the years 1995 - 1999 when Michigan -- in a momentary lapse ...
, the court rejected defendants request for sanctions for plaintiffs having referred in their reply brief to the report of a grand jury investigation into abuses at the Cook County Jail. The court found that [i ...
a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging the Defendants violated its rights to act under the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. § 10801 (PAMII Act). Under the PAMII ...
the state must refund the money. The report also noted that the DOC is a defendant in several class-action lawsuits related to prisoner healthcare, of which several have already been settled in the prisoners ...
the fraud had been wrongfully terminated thereafter. A settlement was reached totaling $500,000 for both the fraud and the wrongful termination. RVCP is a 75-bed halfway house providing drug abuse treatment ...
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Steven Bigcraft, were unable to motivate Cook with threats and other verbal abuse, he was taken to a control room and strapped into a restraint chair, the lawsuit said. A spit mask was placed over his face ...
and verbal abuse of ADTC prisoners while on transport vans with other state prisoners. As such, the Court held that prison officials? practice of identifying ADTC prisoners as sex offenders and refusing ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
rights lawsuit filed by former prisoner Jermaine Padilla after prison staff physically abused him while he was having a mental health crisis. On April 25, 2017, the CDCR agreed to a $950,000 settlement ...
Article • August 23, 2016
, Mark Lavelle, who sat in the gallery during the trial, Harris chose to defend himself, cross-examining witnesses, presenting video evidence, and offering an "occasional rant against the prison system ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
at the allegations, though he reported the guard’s inappropriate comments. The nurse claimed she was subjected to retaliation after she filed a complaint; named as defendants in her suit were the guard ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Discrimination
a feature article on how wealthy defendants are treated in our judicial system. After publishing our last cover story several years ago, I was surprised that the PBS radio show “Wait, Wait, Don’t ...
Article • November 30, 2017
prosecution, failure to intervene, conspiracy, abuse of process and emotional distress. “All I can say right now is that we will defend the city,” said Reno City Attorney Karl Hall. In addition ...
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