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Judge Declines to Terminate Orders Requiring Air-conditioned Housing for Heat-sensitive Prisoners by Brandon Sample New York U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer, Jr. has declined to terminate a series of orders requiring New York City jail officials to house “heat-sensitive” prisoners in air-conditioned cells when temperatures reach 85 degrees Fahrenheit …
Eleventh Circuit Finds Disabled Prisoner in Imminent Danger for Filing Fee Purposes by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a Georgia federal district court’s injunction that prohibited a prisoner from submitting future filings, and reversed the lower court’s dismissal of the prisoner’s …
Article • May 15, 2011
L.A. County $220,000 settlement In Traffic Collision Involving Sheriff's Deputies by L.A. County $220,000 Settlement In Traffic Collision Involving Sheriff's Deputies On September 23, 2009, the Office of County Council for the County of Los Angeles submitted a County Claims Board recommendation to the county's Board of Supervisors to settle …
Article • May 15, 2011
No Sovereign immunity for City or Police Officer in Vehicle Collision with Pedestrian by Brandon Sample Brandon Sample The Ohio Court of Appeals for the Ninth District has affirmed a lower court’s denial of summary judgment for the City of Cuyahoga Falls and one of its police officers. Timothy Brown …
Article • May 15, 2011
Maricopa County Settles Prisoner's Brain Injury Suit for $4 Million by In August 2005, Maricopa County, Arizona, settled for $4 million a lawsuit brought by the representative of a former Maricopa County Jail prisoner who received permanent debilitating brain injury after being beaten by another prisoner. On September 20, 2001, …
Article • May 15, 2011
Missouri Jail Not Liable for Injuries From Fire by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the grant of summary judgment to jail officials in a civil rights action alleging the defendants failed to ensure a pretrial detainee’s safety after a fire broke out at the Oregon County Jail …
Article • May 15, 2011
U.S. Extradition Services Settles Wrongful Death Suit by By Brandon Sample The family of a prisoner who was killed while being transported by a private prison transport company has agreed to settle its wrongful death suit. The parents of Shawn Talbot sued U.S. Extradition services after their son died while …
New York Prisoner Awarded $750 Following Assault by On November 26, 2007, New York prisoner, George Combes, was awarded $750 for injuries he suffered during an assault by another prisoner. He was in protective custody at the time of the incident, as was his attacker. State officials conceded liability in …
Article • May 15, 2011
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$150 Award to New York Prisoner for Top Bunk Placement by A New York Court of Claims awarded a prisoner $150 for an injury sustained due to improperly being in an upper bunk. The award to Auburn Correctional Facility prisoner Cedric Reid was for a mild sprain that occurred while …
Article • May 15, 2011
$225,000 Settlement in Suit over Failure to Protect D.C. Prisoner by On May 10, 2000, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $225,000 to a man who was brutally assaulted at Lorton Reformatory. On or about May 9, 1998, Larry Lucas was taken by guards to the CB2 visiting trailer …
$800,000 Settlement in Suit Over Diseases Caught at Maricopa County Jail by On December 12, 2005, a former Maricopa County Jail prisoner and his mother settled for $800,000 a suit alleging unsanitary conditions at the jail caused the former prisoner to become seriously ill and suffer permanent injuries. When he …
Article • May 15, 2011
Assault Caused by Overcrowding, Negligent Control of Contraband Settles for $27,000 by On December 30, 1999, the District of Columbia agreed to settle a negligence suit for $27,000. The suit alleged guards at D.C.’s Occoquan Facility failed to protect a prisoner from assault. On February 9, 1996, Mitchell Goings was …
Article • May 15, 2011
Assault Tied to Overcrowding and Negligent Control of Weapons Results in $10,000 Settlement by On July 23, 1999, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $10,000 to a man who was brutally assaulted while in juvenile detention at D.C.’s Youth Center I. The complaint, filed by Roy Harris, alleged that …
Article • May 15, 2011
D.C. Agrees to Pay $1,000 to Settle Negligence Suit Over Conditions at Lorton by On August 3, 2000, the District of Columbia agreed to settle a negligence suit brought on behalf of a prisoner at the now-closed Lorton Reformatory. On September 13, 1996, guards instructed Keith John Lewis to move …
Article • May 15, 2011
D.C. Agrees to Pay $4,000 to Settle Lorton Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Suit by On August 24, 2001, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $4,000 to a man who was assaulted at Lorton Reformatory. Darnell Meeks was assaulted on June 23, 2000, while incarcerated at Central Facility, a portion …
Article • May 15, 2011
TDCJ Pays $80,162.50 to Settle Suit over Truck Collision by In June, 2004, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) agreed to settle a lawsuit over a collision caused by a prisoner-driven tractor trailer for $80,162.50. On July 20, 2000, Texas state prisoner Richard Wayne Howe, Jr. was driving a …
Article • May 15, 2011
$8,000 Settlement in D.C. Assault Case by On October 7, 2003, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $8,000 to a prisoner who was assaulted with a metal pipe and homemade knife. On March 15, 2000, while on his way to the shower at Central Security Facility, John Garner was …
Article • May 15, 2011
D.C. Jail Prisoner Stabbed Multiple Times Receives $11,000 Settlement by On March 1, 2007, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $11,000 to a prisoner who was stabbed multiple times at the D.C. Jail. Melvin Givens was stabbed repeatedly in the back, head and stomach by another prisoner after exiting …
Article • May 15, 2011
$11,126.40 Settlement in Washington DOC Car Accident Claim by The State of Washington paid $11,126.40 to settle the lawsuit of Titus-Will Ford Inc. for vehicle damages due to driver negligence. While waiting for a clear intersection on December 4, 2003, in the left hand turn lane on S. Tacoma way, …
Massachusetts Prisoner Suicides More Than Four Times National Average by Mark Wilson Massachusetts has a relatively low state prison population, with approximately 11,000 prisoners. Yet its annual prisoner suicide rate has topped an alarming 71 suicides per 100,000 prisoners – more than four times the national average of 16 per …
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