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Article • May 15, 2007
$60.00 Paid in Destroyed WA Prisoner's Property by Washington State Penitentiary prisoner Vincent L. Fields filed a tort suit in the Walla Walla Superior Court alleging negligence for the destruction or theft of unspecified personal property. Fields was placed in segregation and his property was placed in the property room. …
$62,000 Paid in WA DOC Cook's Sexual Harassment Suit by Cheryl J. Danner was employed at the Washington Correction Center as a kitchen employee. For over a year she was subjected to sexually explicit comments, directions, innuendo, and indecent propositions by her supervisor Oliver Coleman. After Danner filed a complaint …
Article • May 15, 2007
$510.00 Awarded In Prisoner Property Loss Suit by In 2000 the New York, Court of Claims awarded $510.00 to a prisoner at the Wyoming Correctional Facility in New York for theft of his property. On 6/24/97 the prisoner's locker was broken into and his property stolen while he was at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Delayed Sweat Lodge Construction Unconstitutional; Qualified Immunity Granted by A federal district court in Iowa has held that prison officials' delay in constructing a Sweat lodge for Native American prisoners incarcerated at Fort Dodge Correctional Facility (FDCF) violates the prisoners' right to free exercise of religion under the First Amendment, …
Denial of Handicapped Shower Implicates ADA/RA & §1983 by A federal court in Oregon held that the state can be sued under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA). The court also held that prison officials could be sued in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Drug Patch Discussed by In a motion to revoke a federal probationer's parole, a federal district court in New York gives a detailed discussion on the Pharmchem drug testing sweat patch. The sweat patch is affixed to human skin and absorbs sweat which is later tested for drugs. The court …
$30,000 Tort Claim Award In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 2000 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a tort claim with Dave P. Rotz a cook at the McNeil Island Correctional Center in Steilacoom for $30,000. In 1996 Rotz was subject to discrimination due to his disability and …
$40,000 Settlement In Washington Employee Wrongful Termination Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Dorothy Holt and Janet Holt, mother and daughter who were nurses at Washington Corrections Center, for $40,000 for wrongful termination. Plaintiff's brought suit after being terminated for complaining …
Article • May 15, 2007
$45,000 Awarded In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 1994 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Sergeant Lonny Earles for $45,000. In 1985 Earles was working at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, he filed a grievance against Lieutenant Grandemontagne for threatening to pull him …
Article • May 15, 2007
$47,000 Settlement In Washington Employee Wrongful Termination Suit by In 1998 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Debra M. Schruder for $47,000. In 1995 Ms.Schruder was terminated from her position as a guard. Ms.Schruder was injured while working for DOC and while she was recovering …
Article • May 15, 2007
$49,500 Settlement In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 1997 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Victor Carter, Kathy Allen, and Pablo Mendoza for $16,500 each for a total of $49,500. All three plaintiffs were employed at the Yakima-Kittitas County Work Release as guards. They …
Article • May 15, 2007
$60,000 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a tort claim with Deborah J. Landberg an employee at DOC headquarters for discrimination because of her medical condition. In 1997 the plaintiff had tried to come back to work after …
Article • May 15, 2007
$75,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Sexual Assault Suit by In 1993 the Washington State Department of Corrections gave Melanie W. Watters a $75,000 stipulated judgment for being raped by George M. Boggs, Jr., who was a parolee from the Washington State Department Of Corrections. On March 16, 1991, the plaintiff …
Article • May 15, 2007
$100,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Rape Of A Child by In 1997 the Washington State Department Of Corrections gave Taaisha Finkley McCoy, and Sabrina Finkley, Taaisha's mother a $100,000 settlement for the rape of Taaisha by a convicted child rapist. In 1993 Ben Querido, a convicted child molester worked as …
Article • May 15, 2007
$231,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Sexual Assault Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections gave a $231,000 settlement to plaintiff, Teresa Vasquez, for the sexual assault of her son Steven Ball. Michael Albert Clum was a registered sex offender, and he was responsible for the sexual assault's …
Article • May 15, 2007
$250,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Suit by In 1996 the Washington State Department of Corrections gave Bruce J. Bauer a $250,000 settlement for the death of his father by a parolee. In 1994 Donald W. Sherman, killed Lester E. Bauer, M.D., in Las Vegas, Nevada. Donald Sherman was …
Article • May 15, 2007
6th Circuit: § 1983 Claims Against County Must Connect Policy, Violation by In this case involving the death of a prisoner in the Washtenaw (Michigan) County Jail, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the decedent's estate had not shown that his death resulted from a county custom …
Article • May 15, 2007
Alabama Appellate Court Upholds Civil Immunity of Witness Testimony at Parole Hearing by Alabama Appellate Court Upholds Civil Immunity of Witness Testimony at Parole Hearing Alabama state prisoner William Sullivan filed a civil lawsuit in state court against William Smith and Karen Smith for slander, perjury and obstruction of government …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Lists Alternatives for Prisoners Seeking In Forma Pauperis by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held the PLRA's three strikes provision for prisoners seeking in forma pauperis status is constitutional, and listed alternatives for prisoners seeking in forma pauperis status. Wisconsin prisoner William C. Lewis filed suit against …
Third Circuit: PHS Subject to Successor Liability, Relation-Back Statute Inapplicable by Third Circuit: PHS Subject to Successor Liability, Relation-Back Statute Inapplicable In this case involving a Title VII discrimination suit against Correctional Physician Services (CPS), the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the company's buyer, Prison Health Services …
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