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Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Pays $1,500 in Ice Slip and Fall by In 1994, Maureen E. Olin, a free citizen was paid $1,500 by the State of Washington. On a cold day in December of 1993, Olin went to the Special Offender's Center in Monroe to pick up her husband's check. As …
Article • May 15, 2007
Wisconsin Court Access and Conditions Claims Remanded by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court's summary judgment dismissal of a prisoner's conditions of confinement complaint for failure to state a claim, remanded his access to courts claim because genuine issues of material fact had …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Pays $80,000 in Guard Slip and Fall by In 1999, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Joann L. Sprengel and Lew Sprengel (husband and wife) $80,000. On February 14, 1995, Joann Sprengel was leaving to go home from work when she slipped and fell, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Pays $1,750 in Soapy Shower Slip and Fall by In August of 1993, Greg Irby, a prisoner confined at Cedar Creek in Little Rock, Washington, slipped and fell when trying to take a shower. Irby alleges that the floor of the shower was polished concrete that was covered …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington Pays $90,000 in Roof Collapse by On April 29, 1996, Edward A. Swartz, a prisoner confined at Cedar Creek Correctional Center in Little Rock, Washington, fell through a roof while doing construction work. Swartz claims that the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections were negligent in failing …
Washington DOC pays $1,000 to Settle Work Suit by Washington DOC Pays $1,000 to Settle Work Suit In 1994, the State of Washington paid Robert Ryan Schmolke $1,000 to settle a suit. In 1989, Schmolke, a prisoner then confined at Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington, was painting stripes in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Pays $15,000 for Scaffolding Injury by In 1997, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Michael W. Petrycki $15,000. Petrycki, a prisoner confined at Airway Heights Corrections Center in Airway Heights, Washington, suffered a head injury as he followed his supervisor to work. On 1994, …
Court Appoints Monitor to Oversee Michigan Prison Implementation by Court Appoints Monitor To Oversee Michigan Prison Implementation The District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D., on remand from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ordered the Michigan Corrections Commission to appoint a Special Administrator to bring the female prisoner educational programs to …
Article • May 15, 2007
D.C. Prison Conditions Violate Eighth Amendment Rights by The United States District Court, District of Columbia, ordered that (1) prison conditions at the Occoquan Facility, D.C., violated prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights; (2) the housing of "protective custody" prisoners with the punitive segregation prisoners violated the protective custody prisoner's Eighth Amendment …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Of Appeals Overturns Prison Population Cap in DC Case by The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, concluded that the Supreme Court required them to vacate the District Court's order imposing a population limit at Occoquan Facility of the D.C. Lorton Correctional Complex prison generally and …
Wyoming Prison Not Liable in Guard's Death by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit upheld the dismissal of a § 1983 suit filed by the widow of a Wyoming prison guard killed by three escaping prisoners. The court held that the prison had no "special relationship" with the …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Jail Conditions Found Unconstitutional, Remanded for Remedy by New York Jail Conditions Found Unconstitutional, Remanded For Remedy The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the finding that various conditions at the "Tombs," the Manhattan (New York) House of Detention for Men, were unconstitutional, and remanded the case to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Appeal Affirmed in Unconstitutional New York Jail Conditions of Confinement by In a class action brought by New York City prisoners in pretrial confinement for declaratory and injunctive relief regarding alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement, and on appeal by corrections commissioner, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that (1) …
Texas Prison System Declared Unconstitutional; Reforms Ordered by In a class-action suit by Texas prisoners with the U. S. as a plaintiff-intervenor, a Texas federal district court held that Texas prisons: (1) were grossly overcrowded; (2) had wholly inadequate sanitation and recreation facilities; (3) used inadequate disciplinary procedures; (4) allowed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Circuit Upholds Protection for Plaintiffs in Ruiz Suit by After filing suit against the Texas prison system, prisoner plaintiffs were retaliated against both physically and with disciplinary action. The district court entered two protective orders which were violated by defendants. As part of a third protective order, the district …
Ruiz Attorney Fees Approved; State Fees Cap Invalid by Following a successful civil rights suit in which conditions in Texas prisons were declared unconstitutional and extensive remedial relief ordered via consent decree, the plaintiffs moved for attorneys' fees and costs under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The court stayed the award …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Hear Appeal of Attorneys' Fees Order by The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that the defendants in a class-action suit by Texas prisoners could not maintain an interlocutory appeal of the district court's award of attorneys' fees for obtaining and enforcing orders issued by the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sanctions Ordered Against Michigan Prison by For failing to comply with district court orders to implement vocational programs, the District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D., ordered contempt sanctions against Michigan prison officials. See: Glover v. Johnson, 9 F.Supp. 799 (ED MI 1998).
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: PLRA, Injunctions (PLRA)
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Order Court to Rule on Ruiz Termination by The defendants in the class action suit which lead to sweeping reforms in the Texas prison system filed a motion to terminate prospective relief a month before the PLRA was enacted. The district court responded by allowing the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: PLRA, Injunctions (PLRA)
Fifth Circuit Holds PLRA Automatic Stay Provision Constitutional by Texas prison officials filed a motion to terminate prospective relief under the PLRA. The district court ruled the automatic stay provision of the PLRA was unconstitutional and denied a subsequent motion for reconsideration by the U.S. as an intervenor. Prison officials …
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