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Booker v. Denver, CO, Complaint, Excessive Force Jail, 2011 Case 1:11-cv-00645-RBJ-KMT Document 36 Filed 10/04/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 54 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 11-cv-00645-WYD-KMT ESTATE OF MARVIN L. BOOKER, REVEREND B.R. BOOKER, SR., and ROXEY A. WALTON, as …
Article • September 15, 2011
Ohio DOC Guard Liable For Prisoner's Slip and Fall Exiting Transport Van by On March 19, 2007, Court of Claims of Ohio magistrate recommended that a state prison guard be found liable for allowing a mobility-impaired prisoner to receive injuries by slipping and falling while exiting a transport van. Edward …
Article • July 15, 2011
Ohio Negligent Shackling Claim Remanded by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample On April 8, 2010, the Court of Appeals of Ohio remanded a prisoner’s negligence claim against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRD). Jack Nott sued the ODRC after his left leg was amputated from the knee down. …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
A Cage by Any Other Name is Still a Cage: Mentally Ill California Prisoners Caged by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim A rose by any other name, Shakespeare wrote, would still smell as sweet. In California the question is, does referring to a cage as a “therapeutic module” make it …
Tenth Circuit Vacates Class Certification in Jail Conditions Suit; Case Settles Following Remand by Mark Wilson On February 4, 2009, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a Colorado sheriff’s interlocutory appeal challenging a class certification order and remanded the case for further proceedings, where it eventually settled in April …
Brief • June 16, 2011
Zaborowski v. Cook County, IL, Plt. Motion for Summary Judgment, Shackles During Child Birth2011 Case: 1:08-cv-06946 Document #: 229 Filed: 06/16/11 Page 1 of 20 PageID #:4596 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Catherine Zaborowski and Simone Jackson, individually and on behalf …
Quiros v. City of Albuquerque, NM, Complaint, False Arrest, 2011 THIS SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF BERNALILLO STATE OF NEW MEXICO RODIMIRO PENA QUIROS, Plaintiff, N°'!V 2011 Q 6 Q 2 8 vs. THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE, OFFICER MEGAN A. GLYNN, in her individual and official capacity as an …
Quiros v. City of Albuquerque, NM, Complaint, False Arrest, 2011 (1) THIS SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF BERNALILLO STATE OF NEW MEXICO RODIMIRO PENA QUIROS, Plaintiff, N°'!V 2011 Q 6 Q 2 8 vs. THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE, OFFICER MEGAN A. GLYNN, in her individual and official capacity as …
Article • May 15, 2011
Summary Judgment in Handcuffing Case Reversed by On October 19, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated a grant of summary judgment for police in an excessive force case. Robert Fisher accidentally shot himself in the stomach in a failed suicide attempt. Officers from the Las …
Article • May 15, 2011
Fifth Circuit Affirms Judgment for Deputies in Excessive Force Suit by On October 28, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment for sheriff’s deputies accused of excessive force in the death of a prisoner. Debbie Loggins died while being transported to …
Brief • May 12, 2011
Greer v. County of Beaufort, SC, Depo of Leach, Chair Restraint Asphyxiation, 2011 Page 1 I IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA BEAUFORT DIVISION Rita Faye Greer, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jesse Len Greer, Plaintiff, vs. CASE NO.: 9:09-CV-03057 County of …
California: $2,005,000 Verdict for Wrongful Death Caused by Police Officers’ Excessive Force by After four days of trial and five hours of deliberations, on April 11, 2011, a federal jury found that defendant police officers had used excessive force against a mentally ill man, which caused his death. The jury …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
State Inspections Compel Changes at Abusive Michigan Juvenile Facility by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Inspection reports by Michigan’s Department of Human Services (DHS) concerning conditions at the Muskegon County Juvenile Detention Center (MCJDC) found an abusive environment caused by understaffing. On the verge of losing the state license …
Article • March 15, 2011
$12,500 Settlement in D.C. Prisoner’s Assault by Guards Lawsuit by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $12,500 to settle the cruel and unusual punishment lawsuit of prisoner John Lee, Jr. While incarcerated the D.C. Jail segregation until on February 2, 2001 Lee was handcuffed and escorted to the infirmary by …
Article • March 15, 2011
Taser and Asphyxiation Death By New Mexico Cops Leads to $1,000,000 Settlement by The City of Raton, New Mexico has agreed to pay $1,000,000 to the estate of a man who died after police Tasered him 23 times and essentially asphyxiated him. On November 18, 2007, in the wee hours …
Article • March 15, 2011
Motion to Dismiss in Eighth Amendment Suit Denied in Part by U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner has granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss filed by four Bureau of Prisons (BOP) defendants accused of Eighth Amendment violations. David Lee Womack sued D. Scott Dodrill, Harley Lappin, …
Mass Torture in America: Notes from the Supermax Prisons by Lance Tapley “Exterminate all the brutes!” – Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad “They beat the shit out of you,” said Mike James, hunched near the smeared plexiglass separating us. He was talking about the cell “extractions” he’d endured at the …
Study: CIA Doctors ‘Gave Green Light to Torture’ by Muriel Kane A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized. As …
Blind Texas Prisoner Dies after Confrontation with Guards by Thord “Catfish “ Dockray, 42, a blind Texas state prisoner with a history of mental illness, died on May 13, 2010 following a violent altercation with prison guards. Dockray was housed alone in a cell in the medical wing of the …
Ninth Circuit Holds Private Prison Companies Can Be Sued Under Bivens for Violating Federal Prisoner’s Rights by Derek Gilna On June 7, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that Richard Lee Pollard, a prisoner in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at …
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