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$1,135,000 Paid to Massachusetts Prison Guard for Rape by A Massachusetts prison guard in her 20's was working at MCI- Shirley when a prisoner defeated his cell's locking mechanism and brutally beat and raped her. She sued the manufacturer and contractor of the precast modular jail cells. There was a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Appendicitis
$2,000 Paid in Washington Prisoner's Medical Negligence Claim by While at the Washington Correction Center for Women, Monica Grimmett had experienced stomach pain. When she went to sick call complaining of severe pain, she was told she was ovulating and given Maalox. Two days later, she requested emergency clinic and …
Prison Liable in Denying Bone Marrow Transplant by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that prison officials can be held liable for promulgating policies that deny treatment to prisoners suffering from fatal illnesses, even when the prison has contracted out its medical care to a third party. …
Article • May 15, 2007
$22,000 Paid in WA Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit by Lisa L. Wikstrom, a guard at the Clallam Bay Correctional Center, was subjected, upon her hiring in 1994, to sexual conversations, comments, improper physical sexual contacts, sexual touching, direct sexual demands and requests, discussions concerning the harassing supervisors sexual lives and …
$15,000 Paid in WA DOC Employees Sexual/Racial Discrimination Suit by Norma Gellineau, an employee at the State Penitentiary at Walla Walla was subjected to comments of an inappropriate nature by Al Breneman. He made references to condoms, touched Gellineau's breast on one occasion, made lewd comments about her not wearing …
Article • May 15, 2007
Partial Vacation And Reversal In Federal Seg Case by The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit partially vacated and partially reversed orders in the case involving expungement of record of, confinement to segregation, and with regard to damages, a remand to resolve the issue of timely service, issues of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal of Double-Celling, ETS Claims Vacated in Part by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals partly vacated a Wisconsin federal district court's dismissal of a prisoner's federal civil rights suit claiming Eighth Amendment violations by state prison officials. Quordalis V. Sanders, a Wisconsin state prisoner currently housed at the …
New York Guard Awarded $120,000 for Hostile Work Environment From Racial Discrimination by New York Guard Awarded $120,000 for Hostile Work Environment From Racial Discrimination A New York federal jury has awarded a guard $120,000 in his claim that fellow guards created a hostile work environment for him because he …
Factual Issues Preclude Summary Judgment on Eighth Amendment, ADA Claims by A U.S. district court dismissed a .prisoner's First Amendment and retaliation claims but held that summary judgment of his Eighth Amendment and ADA claims was precluded by remaining issues of fact. A Michigan state prisoner brought §1983 action against …
Illinois Prisoner's Suit Dismissal Affirmed, Strike Reversed by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, held that state prison rules did not create a liberty interest in minimum-security and work-release placement and Illinois law did not create a reasonable expectation of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pro Se Complaints Held to Less Stringent Standards by The Supreme Court held that pro se complaints are to be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers. Francis Haines, an Illinois state prisoner, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against Illinois prison officials, seeking damages …
Habeas Granted for Failing to Present Witness Testimony at Disciplinary Hearing by Habeas Granted for Failing to Present Witness Testimony at Disciplinary Hearing The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is entitled to have live testimony presented at a prison disciplinary hearing, and prison officials' refusal …
Article • May 15, 2007
$12,000 Paid in D.C. Prisoner's Beating by Guard by Jeffrey Jones was arrested for disorderly conduct in the District of Columbia. A prison guard beat him and hung him on the wall by his shorts for no reason. Jones sustained a broken jaw and broken ribs, and when he was …
Article • May 15, 2007
$16,000 Paid in Excessive Force Use on Missouri Prisoner by While a prisoner at Missouri's Jackson County Prison, guards manacled 24-year-old Neil Houston to a bed for several days while he was stripped naked. His complaint for cruel and unusual punishment also alleged guards used excessive force when they entered …
Article • May 15, 2007
$28,500 Paid in Florida Jail Prisoner's Medical Negligence Claim by On October 13, 1986, Neal D. Braude cut open his little finger on his right hand at the Florida Dade County Jail. Jail personnel failed to treat the injury. The hand eventually became infected and required three surgical procedures that …
Article • May 15, 2007
$35,000 Paid to Florida Jail Nurse for Assault by On November 12, 1988, while employed as a nurse at Florida's Palm Beach County Jail, Ella Donald was assaulted by a prisoner on suicide watch after a guard opened the prisoner's cell. The prisoner charged through the door, striking Donald. She …
Article • May 15, 2007
$37,500 Paid in Washington for Guard's Sexual Harassment by In May 1998, Stacey Green was allowed to enter the 120-day Work Ethic Camp at Washington's McNeil Island Correctional Center. Upon completion of the camp she was to be released from her two-year sentence. While at the camp, guard Eric Zoot …
Article • May 15, 2007
US Supreme Court Holds That There Is No Interlocutory Appeals on Municipal Liability by US Supreme Court Holds That There Is No Interlocutory Appeals on Municipal Liability The US Supreme Court held that Municipalities are not qualifiedly immune from suit, and that the appellate courts do not have authority to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Supreme Court Issues Test for Prison Rules by In response to a class action suit filed by prisoners, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Missouri prison's mail regulations were constitutionally valid, but its policy of not allowing prisoner marriages without the warden's approval was not. The Court also established, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Stun Belt Allowed in Criminal Trial by A federal district court in the District of Columbia overruled a murder defendant's objection over being forced to wear a stun belt during his trial. The court set forth a series of factors to be weighed in deciding whether the defendant should be …
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