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Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
$80,000 Award in NY Prisoner’s Claim for Injuries Caused by Assault by A New York Court of Claims has awarded $80,000 in damages to a prisoner at the Auburn Correctional Facility in connection with a prisoner-on-prisoner assault. Previously, in an October 1, 2007 order, the court found the State of …
$750,000 Settlement in Alabama Prisoner’s Heat Death by A $750,000 settlement was paid to the mother of an Alabama mentally ill prisoner who died as the result of exposure to extreme heat while on psychotropic medication. Just four days after his admission to Kilby Correctional Facility (KCF), prisoner Farron Barksdale, …
Riggs et al v. Valdez et al, ID, Amended Complaint, ACLU v CCA gladiator school 8th Am, 2010 Case 1:09-cv-00010-BLW Document 16 Filed 03/11/10 Page 1 of 81 STEPHEN L. PEVAR American Civil Liberties Union Foundation 2074 Park Street Hartford, Connecticut 06106 (860) 570-9830 LEA C. COOPER ISB # 3505 …
Brief • March 9, 2010
Barkes, et al. v. First Correctional Medical Inc., et al., DE, Memorandum Opinion, Wrongful Death, 2010 Case 1:06-cv-00104-JJF-MPT Document 146 Filed 03/09/10 Page 1 of 15 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE KAREN BARKES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 06-104-JJF FIRST CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL, …
Ramirez v. Trujillo, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault and Rape, 2010 THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF CIBOLO STATE OF NEW MEXICO VERONICA RAMIREZ, Plaintiff, No. V. ANDREW TRUJILLO, BILL SNODGRASS, ALLEN COOPER, ARLENE HICKSON, GINA MARTINEZ, in their individual capacities, and CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Defendants. SUMMONS TO: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF …
Mattan v. Obama, DC, Reply to Motion for Recusal, Guantanamo Bay, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MOHAMMED ABDULLAH TAHA MATTAN (ABDAL RAZAK ALI) Petitioners, No: 09- 745 (RCL) vs. BARACK OBAMA, et al, Respondents. PETITIONER ABDAL RAZAK ALI’S REPLY TO MOTION FOR RECUSAL Now comes the Petitioner, …
Ineffective Attempts to Protect Texas Prisoner Were Sufficient by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s denial of summary judgment to prison officials who had failed to safeguard a Texas state prisoner, saying their ineffective attempts to protect him were sufficient. Gregory Moore was incarcerated at the …
Arkansas Prisoner Awarded $625 for Refusing to Clean His Cell on the Sabbath by On April 13, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Harry F. Barnes adopted a magistrate’s report and recommendation that found an Arkansas prisoner should be awarded $625 after being punished for refusing to work on the Sabbath. …
Maine Prison System’s Board of Visitors: Secret, Unaccountable and Co-Opted by Lance Tapley The state prison in Warren has been hammered in recent months by a prisoner murder and other violence, a prisoner hunger strike, legislative investigations exposing mismanagement and poor guard morale, and a request by human-rights groups for …
Rikers Guards Charged With Using Juvenile Prisoners to Run Extortion Ring by Gary Hunter On January 22, 2009, Rikers Island, New York guards Michael “Mack” McKie and Khalid “Nel” Nelson were charged with enterprise corruption after it was learned they were using a group of prisoners to enforce discipline and …
Arizona Prisoner, Abandoned in Outdoor Cage, Bakes to Death by Gary Hunter On May 19, 2009, Arizona state prisoner Marcia Powell, 48, collapsed after being left in an unshaded outdoor chain-link cage for four hours under a scorching summer sun. She later died. Temperatures at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville …
Exposure to Freezing Cold More than De Minimis in Texas Retaliation Case by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court had erred when it dismissed a prisoner’s retaliation-based civil rights suit as de minimis when the prisoner’s alleged injury was exposure to freezing cold for four-and-a-half …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Remedial Sanctions Denied in Wisconsin Class-Action Jail Suit by Jimmy Franks In July 2009, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin entered an opinion reversing an appellate court’s decision that instructed a lower court to order remedial damages in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Milwaukee County jail prisoners. The suit …
Settlement in Idaho Jail Condition Class-Action Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 4, 2009, a consent decree was entered in a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of jail prisoners with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over conditions of confinement at the Canyon County …
Settlement Promises Improvements at Baltimore City Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 18, 2009, a settlement was reached in a class-action lawsuit over conditions of confinement at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC). The lawsuit dates back to 1971 and had been on the federal district court’s …
Armstrong v. Schwarzenegger, CA, Findings of Fact, Failure to Accommodate Inmates with Disabilities, 2010 Case4:94-cv-02307-CW Document1700 Filed02/03/10 Page1 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 United States District Court For the Northern District of …
Mattan v. Obama,. DC, Plf Mot for Recusal, Guantanamo Bay prisoner habeus, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MOHAMMED ABDULLAH TAHA MATTAN (ABDAL RAZAK ALI) Petitioners, No: 09- 745 (RCL) vs. BARACK OBAMA, et al, Respondents. PETITIONER ABDAL RAZAK ALI’S MOTION FOR RECUSAL PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. 455(a) …
Brief • January 19, 2010
Schwarzenegger v. Plata, CA, Dismissal for Lack of Jx, Medical Neglect and Overcrowding, 2010 Case 2:90-cv-00520-LKK-JFM Document 3789 Filed 01/26/2010 Page 1 of 1
Prison Health Care, Political Choice and the Accidental Death Penalty in Michigan by Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander1 In Hadix v. Caruso, I represent a class of prisoners in a decades-long case challenging conditions of confinement, including medical care, at various Michigan prison facilities.2 Since August 2006 I have been …
Hadix Litigation Winding Down by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After nearly thirty years, a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions of confinement at the State Prison of Southern Michigan-Center Complex is on the cusp of ending. The end is in sight not because prison officials have fully complied with a …
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