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Brief • February 28, 2023
Coleman v. Newsom, CA, Order, Contempt, 2023 Case 2:90-cv-00520-KJM-DB Document 7741 Filed 02/28/23 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 12 Plaintiff, 13 14 v. No. 2:90-cv-0520 KJM …
Article • February 22, 2023
Jury Awards $2 Million to Nurse in Sexual Harassment Case against Missouri Prison Officials by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 27, 2022, in Missouri’s 19th Circuit Court, Judge Jon Beetem ordered the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to pay $2 million in punitive damages to a …
Article • February 2, 2023
Fired Pittsburgh Jail Guard Wins Over $850,000 in Retaliation Case by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barret In October 2022, a jury in the federal Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages to former Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) guard Jeffery Kengerski in his federal employment rights …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$959,000 Paid by Pennsylvania County in Deaths of Two Detainees, Plus at Least $750,000 from PrimeCare by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye For the 2018 deaths of two detainees at Pennsylvania’s Bucks County Correctional Facility (BCCF), the county has agreed to pay a total of $959,000. Its privately contracted …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Seventh Circuit: Indiana Prisoner Who Failed to Formalize Grievance Also Failed to Exhaust Remedies by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 17, 2022, an Indiana prisoner learned a painful lesson from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. As PLN has repeatedly warned, courts are empowered …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$20,000 Paid by Centurion and MHM Health Professionals to Arizona Prisoner for Alleged Deliberate Indifference and Medical Negligence by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On June 24, 2022, a prisoner in the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) accepted $20,000 to settle his claims of deliberate indifference and medical negligence against …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Award Slashed for Delaware Prisoner Sexually Groped by Guard by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On August 24, 2022, the federal court for the District of Delaware granted a state prison guard’s request and nearly eliminated the damages against him awarded to a prisoner that a jury found had …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Former Judges in Pennsylvania ‘Kids for Cash’ Scandal Must Pay $206 Million in Damages by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On August 18, 2022, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ordered two former state judges to pay $206 million in damages for taking $2.8 million in kickbacks to shut down …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$60,000 Paid by Pennsylvania County to Jail Detainee Savagely Beaten by Cellmate While Guards Allegedly Ignored Cries for Help by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On July 15, 2022, Pennsylvania’s Bedford County agreed to pay $60,000 to a former detainee in the county jail, settling claims that guards purposefully failed …
After Federal Judge Censors Lawyer’s Tweets About CoreCivic, Company Settles Suit Over Tennessee Prisoner’s Murder by Cellmate by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On July 15, 2022, in a case accusing private prison giant CoreCivic of a Tennessee prisoner’s wrongful death, a federal magistrate judge issued a gag order restricting …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Former Texas Prisoner Wins 12-Year Fight for Justice by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In May 2006, Daryl Davis was serving a 37-year sentence for beating his girlfriend with a beer bottle, when he was assaulted — twice — at Texas’ Polunsky Unit by members of a Black prison …
Nevada Federal Court Says Prisoner’s § 1983 Suit Should’ve Been a Habeas Petition, But Returns Filing Fee by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Giving a break to the prisoner who filed a civil rights suit she dismissed on July 8, 2022, Judge Anne R. Traum of the federal court …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: Medical, Settlements
Seventh Circuit Trims What Indiana Prisoner Owes Jail Doctor in Lost Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 21, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit modified a judgment against a prisoner in a civil rights lawsuit he filed and lost against a doctor …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$480,000 Paid by California County to Detainee Whose Newborn Died After Guards Stopped at Starbucks en Route to Hospital by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On August 23, 2022, the Board of Supervisors of California’s Orange County approved a settlement providing $480,000 to a former detainee in the county …
$98,000 Paid by BOP to Immigrant Detainees Racially Profiled as Terrorists in New York City Lockup by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An out-of-court settlement between the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and a group of former immigrant detainees was made public on July 5, 2022. The plaintiffs, all …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$300,000 Paid by Colorado to Prisoner Sexually Harassed by Guard with Foot Fetish by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On July 25, 2022, Colorado agreed to pay former state prisoner Susan Ullery $300,000 to settle her claims that she was sexually harassed by a former guard — who also sexually …
Filing • January 26, 2023
Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Order on Remand, PLN Censorship, 2023 Case 2:15-cv-02245-ROS Document 362 Filed 01/26/23 Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Prison Legal News, Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 …
Brief • January 9, 2023
Filed under: Injunctions
Jensen v. Shinn, AZ, Order, Injuction-Jail Conditions, 2023 Case 2:12-cv-00601-ROS Document 4380 Filed 01/09/23 Page 1 of 64 1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 Shawn Jensen, 9 Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 David Shinn1, 13 No. …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Damages, Public Records
Ohio Supreme Court Grants Records but No Damages for Prisoner Making Request by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) improperly withheld records requested by a former state prisoner. But the prisoner’s failure …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Dogs, Settlements
Ohio Pays $185,000 to State Prisoner Bitten in Genitals by K-9 by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On November 17, 2021, the Ohio Court of Claims awarded a state prisoner $185,000 for injuries sustained when he was bitten by a dog on a K-9 unit visiting from a local jail. …
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