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Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far by Douglas Ankney, Casey Bastian by Douglas Ankney and Casey J. Bastian A spate of jail deaths in California’s San Bernardino County dating back to 2017 has led to at least four legal settlements …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
$3 Million Settlement for Illinois Pretrial Detainee’s Opioid Withdrawal Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $3 million settlement in the 2020 withdrawal death of Illinois pretrial detainee Elissa A. Lindhorst at the Madison County Jail was fully executed on May 10, 2023. Lindhorst, 28, was another casualty …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
After $300,000 Settlement for Detainee’s Death, Texas County Looks to Replace Jail by Using detainees’ money to push forward with plans to replace Texas’ Nueces County Jail, Sheriff J.C. Hooper tapped a commissary fund in April 2023 to spend up to $220,770 for an outside consultant to prepare a study …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
$1.325 Million Settlement after Virginia Detainee’s Opiate Withdrawal Ignored in Jail by David Reutter by David Reutter On January 31, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia approved a $1.325 million settlement in a suit brought by the estate of Darryl Terrell Becton against the Arlington …
Louisiana Sheriff Coughs Up $2.75 Million After Falsely Claiming Detainee Died From Accidental Fall by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 18, 2022, officials in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a federal suit filed over the 2017 death of a detainee in the parish …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On December 5, 2022, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Michigan awarded $6.4 million to the estate of Wade Jones, 40, …
Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2023 Case 5:23-cv-00540 Document 1 Filed 03/27/23 Page 1 of 36 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Danielle R. Pena, Esq., SBN 286002 dpena@PHGLawGroup.com PHG Law Group 501 West Broadway, …
Tenth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Utah Jailers After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 7, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials at Utah’s Unitah County Jail in a lawsuit …
$2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart On March 31, 2022, an agreement was entered by Michigan’s Macomb County paying $1.15 million to the estate of David Stojcevski, 32, a detainee who died from drug withdrawal …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
$825,000 Paid to Estate of New Mexico Jail Detainee Who Died from Heroin Withdrawal by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a settlement reached on March 1, 2022, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, agreed to pay $825,000 to resolve claims filed over the heroin withdrawal death of a detainee at …
Medical Staff Shakeup But No Charges After Teen Dies in Ohio Juvenile Facility by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The deaths of young Black men at the hands of police have drawn increasing scrutiny in the media and among the political chattering class, but less attention has been given to …
Article • June 27, 2022
Seventh Circuit Holds Jail Guard Not Deliberately Indifferent to Illinois Prisoner’s Withdrawal from Smuggled Pills by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a decision published on June 21, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a guard was not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s symptoms …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Ninth Circuit: Error to Instruct Jury to Defer to Medical Staff’s Asserted Security Justification for Terminating California Prisoner’s Morphine Prescription Without Tapering by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 15, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a federal district court in California erred …
P.G. V. Jefferson County, NY, Order, Failure to Treat, 2021 Case 5:21-cv-00388-DNH-ML Document 47 Filed 09/07/21 Page 1 of 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------P.G., Plaintiff, -v- 5:21-CV-388 JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK, COLLEEN M. O’NEILL, As the Sheriff of Jefferson County, New York, BRIAN R. …
Locklear v. Marlboro County, SC, Settlement, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2021 COUNTY OF MARLBORO ) ) ) Gary Locklear, individually and as ) Personal Representative of the Estate ) of Roy Locklear, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) Marlboro County, Marlboro County ) Sheriff’s Office, Marlboro County …
Glass v. Franklin County, KY, Deposition of Jason Junkins, Wrongful Death, 2021 ·1· · · · · · · · ·UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ·2· · · · · · · · ·EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY ·3· · · · · · · · ·CENTRAL DIVISION AT FRANKFORT ·4· · …
Cheek v. Hill County, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Suicide, 2021 Case 6:21-cv-00396-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 04/22/21 Page 1 of 74 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION GWYNNE CHEEK, individually and as independent administrator of, and on behalf of, the ESTATE OF DAVID BRIAN …
Lynas v. Stang, MN, Settlement, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2021 RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS I For and in consideration of the total sum of One Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars and 00/100 ($1,300,000.00), the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, I, David W. Lynas, as trustee for the next-of-kin …
6th Circuit: Prisoner’s Seizure Condition Not Attributable to Drug Withdrawal; SHP Nurses Not Deliberately Indifferent by  The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that nurses working for Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP) were not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s detox condition that led to seizures. The court’s September 21, 2020, …
Miller et al. v. County of Sutter et al., CA, order, wrongful death, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-00577-KJM-DMC Document 67 Filed 11/02/20 Page 1 of 36 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Estate of LINDA MILLER, et al., Plaintiffs, No. 2:20-cv-00577-KJM-DMC ORDER v. COUNTY OF SUTTER, et al., …
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