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New Mexico Jail Settles Escapee Murder Suit For $750,000.00 by In 2002, the Taos County Detention Center (TCDC) in New Mexico paid $750,000.00 to settle a law suit filed by George Weiss, the father of Jonathan Weiss. George Weiss claimed that the TCDC officials caused the death of his son, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Jury Verdict in Death Action by In this case involving an escaped teenage prisoner who shot and killed another boy, the Montana Supreme Court upheld a jury's verdict in favor of the state. Originally committed to the Pine Hills youth prison as a serious juvenile offender, …
Daughters Of Woman Killed By Furloughed Indiana Prisoner Settle For $900,000 by Two daughters who witnessed their mother's murder by a furloughed Indiana prisoner settled their claim against the state for $900,000. The woman's attacker, her ex-husband, had been imprisoned by the state for crimes against her and the couple's …
$1,500,000 Verdict in Half-Way Houses' Failure to Warn by After he was released from a Florida prison, Elmer Leon Carroll went to live at The Lighthouse Mission of Orlando. Carroll had a history of rape and had been in prison for nine of the 15 years prior to committing the …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Indemnification to Insurance Company from Killer by After Connecticut prisoner Kevin King received a $2,070,000 award in a civil rights case resulting from a beating he received during a failed prison escape, the insurance company that paid a $1,750,000 settlement for wrongful death relating to King's crime (a murder) …
Wyoming Prison Not Liable in Guard's Death by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit upheld the dismissal of a § 1983 suit filed by the widow of a Wyoming prison guard killed by three escaping prisoners. The court held that the prison had no "special relationship" with the …
Article • May 15, 2007
$32,500 Awarded to Citizens for Louisiana Prisoner's Escape by The Supreme Court of Louisiana held the State is liable for damages incurred by a prisoner in the process of escape. After a bench trial court awarded damages of $17,500 to Alvin Wilson and $15,000 to Ed Hillard, Jr. The Appeals …
Article • December 15, 2003
Two Killed in Failed Florida Prison Escape by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A bungled escape attempt at Florida's Charlotte Correctional Institution (CCI) on June 11, 2003, resulted in the first death of a female guard. Darla Lathram, 38, began working at CCI in June 2002. She was beat …
Age Adjusted Death Rates NHCS 1995 Number 6—Revised March 1995 Revised to clarify computations in tables III and V From the CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION/National Center for Health Statistics Direct Standardization (Age-Adjusted Death Rates) Lester R. Curtin, Ph.D. and Richard J. Klein, M.P.H. Introduction Most population-based mortality objectives …
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