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Brief • November 2, 2022
Estate of Lara v. County of Monterey, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2022 DocuSig n Envelope ID: D35184 7B-40C3-464D-B 1GA-19161OB29798 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This is a SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE of all claims ("AGREEMENT") by and between Defendants COUNTY OF MONTEREY, SHERIFF STEPHEN BERNAL, JAMES BASS, JOHNATHAN THORNBURG, RAY …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Unending ‘Crisis’ in San Diego County Jails: Hundreds Dead, Millions in Legal Payouts by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When the men and women incarcerated in San Diego County jails awoke on October 6, 2022, the biggest news was also the grimmest: Nothing had changed. A fellow detainee …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $250,000 After Detainee Suicide in County Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On March 29, 2022, the federal court for the Southern District of California approved a settlement between the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSD) and the widow of a 21-year-old U.S. Marine who …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Experimenting on Prisoners: New California Lawsuits Reveal Old Abuses by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD The City of Philadelphia formally apologized on October 6, 2022, for medical experiments conducted on some 300 men — mostly Black, many of them pretrial detainees — incarcerated at the now-shuttered Holmesburg Prison …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $3.488 Million After Jail Detainee Dies in Cell Extraction by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In October 2022, PLN successfully concluded a months-long effort to obtain a copy of an agreement by San Diego County to pay nearly $3.5 million to settle its part of a …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $8.1 Million After Jail Guard Fatally Shot Fleeing Detainee in the Back by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 22, 2022, San Diego County agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle claims that a deputy outside a county jail chased a fleeing detainee and fatally …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
More Victims Added to Sex Abuse Indictment of Former Federal Prison Warden in California; Former Chaplain Sentenced for Role in ‘Rape Club’ by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott With two former Bureau of Pri­sons (BOP) staffers convicted of sexually abusing prisoners and three more charged and awaiting trial …
Article • October 27, 2022
Federal Court Affords Immigrant Children More Due Process Rights in California Class-Action by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In a class-action suit filed by minor immigrants held in federal detention centers alleging deprivations suffered there, the federal court for the Central District of California granted plaintiffs a preliminary injunction …
Brief • October 11, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Garries v. Miluscnic, CA, Order Re Joint Motion for Settlement, Covid-19, 2022 Case 2:20-cv-04450-CBM-PVC Document 863 Filed 10/11/22 Page 1 of 17 Page ID #:17837 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, WESTERN DIVISION 11 RICHARD GARRIES, et al., …
Brief • October 3, 2022
Filed under: Transfers
Villarreal v. Allison, Secretary of CDCR, CA, Order, Prisoner Transfers, 2022 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO DATE/TIME UDGE September 30, 2022 / 11:00 a.m. James P. Arguelles ISMAEL VILLARREAL, DEPT. NO. CLERK 32 Ward Case No.: 34-2021-80003779 Petitioner, v. KATHLEEN ALLISON, Secretary of the california Department of Corrections …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
$7 Million Paid to California Detainee Left Quadriplegic Due to Jail Guards’ Alleged Negligence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 11, 2022, California’s Santa Clara County paid $7 million to settle its part of a lawsuit brought by a former detainee who suffered a spinal injury in his …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Ninth Circuit Vacates California’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate for Prison Employees by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On March 15, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a lower court’s order that California prison officials implement a mandatory COVID-19 employee vaccination policy. The Court concluded that prison …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Dark, Smoky Cells: As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown With flames bearing down on the remote California town of Susanville in August 2021, residents were getting ready to evacuate. The Dixie Fire, the state’s second-largest blaze ever, …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
After Summary Judgment Denied, California Jail Officials Pay $55,000 for Breaking Detainee’s Arm by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 27, 2021, just 25 days after a federal court in California denied summary judgment to San Mateo County Jail guards on a detainee’s excessive force claims, county officials quickly …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Family Law
California Appeals Court Lets CDCR Define Term Adopted From Legislation by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Is a man your mother marries after you grow up and leave home your stepfather? What if she dies — is he still your stepfather then? The questions sound like parlor games, but …
Brief • September 27, 2022
Rutherford v. Villanueva, CA, Preliminary Injunctions, Jail Conditions, 2022 Case 2:75-cv-04111-DDP Document 351 Filed 09/27/22 Page 1 of 13 Page ID #:6204 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, WESTERN DIVISION 11 12 13 14 DENNIS RUTHERFORD, et al., …
Brief • September 14, 2022
Suarez v. County of San Diego, CA, Settlement, Failure to Treat Mental Illness, 2022 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS For the sole consideration of FOUR MILLION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND and no/100 dollars ($4,350 1000.00), the undersigned TANYA SUAREZ ("Plaintiff') hereby releases and forever discharges the County of San Diego, …
Brief • September 9, 2022
Filed under: Criminal Sexual Abuse
M.R. V. FCI Dublin, CA, Complaint, Sexual Abuse, 2022 Case 5:22-cv-05137-VKD Document 1 Filed 09/09/22 Page 1 of 39 1 JESSICA K. PRIDE (SBN 249212) ~1~~lfr~r8EHl°BN2 62362) d ride(lt) ridelawfirm.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 --HAND ER TERAOKA (SBN 339498) cteraoka({z1vridelawfirm.com THE PRIIJE LAW FIRM 2831 Camino Del Rio …
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