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Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Census Bureau Report Finds Risk of Death Nearly Triples for Prisoners After Release by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau published what may be the first multi-state report on the mortality of released prisoners. After their incarceration, “former prisoners have higher mortality rates than …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
$3.75 Million Settlement for Estate of Washington Prisoner Who Died From Untreated Breast Cancer by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 17, 2022, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) stipulated to a $3.75 million judgment in state court to settle all claims — including costs and attorney’s fees …
$2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart On March 31, 2022, an agreement was entered by Michigan’s Macomb County paying $1.15 million to the estate of David Stojcevski, 32, a detainee who died from drug withdrawal …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Third Illinois Guard Found Guilty In Fatal Beating of Handcuffed State Prisoner, but Attorney General Refuses To Settle With Family by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 23, 2022, a jury convicted the last of three ex-prison guards indicted in the fatal beating of a prisoner at Western Illinois …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Alabama Prisoners Continue to Die at Alarming Rate, More Than One Every Week in 2022 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott With 39 prisoners dead by September 1, 2022 — despite a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation ongoing since 2016 and two federal court orders — the …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Death and Inhumane Living Conditions Persist in Nation’s Worst Jail by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Crisis conditions continue at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, where 13 deaths have been recorded through the first eight months of 2022. Given a population of some 5,700 prisoners and detainees …
Brief • September 30, 2022
Estate of Kubiak v. CFG Health Systems, LLC, NJ, Settlement, Suicide-Medical Neglect, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS The SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS ("Agreement") is being entered into among and between ESTATE OF GREGORY KUBIAK BY AND THROUGH ITS ADMINISTRATOR AD PROSEQUENDUM DEANNA TESTA, ("ESTATE …
Article • September 29, 2022
Mom Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth to Doomed Baby in “Georgia’s Toughest Para-Military Jail” by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman On September 2, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia accepted an amended complaint from a former detainee in the Clayton County Jail who …
Brief • September 22, 2022
Estate of Thomas Giles v. Ga Dept of Corrections, GA,Complaint, Wrongful Death-Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-00084-JRH-BKE Document 18 Filed 09/22/22 Page 1 of 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA AUGUSTA DIVISION VANESSA LOYAL, Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, ROBERT ROBERSON, individually, MARCUS PHILLIPS, individually, REGGIE …
Article • September 21, 2022
Oops! Accidental Dismissal of Case Over Alabama Jail Detainee’s Death Not Forgiven by Eleventh Circuit by Jenifer Lockwood by Jenifer Lockwood Sticking with the adage that ignorance of the law is no excuse, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on August 20, 2021, that it could …
Article • September 21, 2022
Filed under: Drug Overdose, Accidents
Sixth Circuit Says Detroit Jail Guard Suspended for Failing To Check on Detainee Not Liable for His Death From Drugs Hidden in His Rectum by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 8, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held a guard at the Detroit …
Tenth Circuit Refuses to Hold Colorado Guards Liable for Detainee’s Suicide Despite Her Previous Attempts at Same Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Under the doctrine of qualified immunity (QI), prison and jail guards may be sued only when they disregard a known risk to a detainee under …
Brief • September 20, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Stewart v. Tarrant County, TX, Settlement, Wrongful Death-Suicide, 2022
Brief • September 16, 2022
Estate of Carmela DeVargas v. BOCC for Santa Fe County, NM, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2022 CONFIDENTIAL RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Release in Full and Settlement Agreement ( "Release") is entered into by and between ANTONIO DEVARGAS, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carmela De Vargas, deceased, …
Brief • September 8, 2022
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Article • September 7, 2022
Four Prisoners Murdered at Three California Prisons Within Eight Days by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Within eight days spanning the end of April and beginning of May 2022, four prisoners were murdered in separate incidents at three California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisons. At least eight prisoners …
Article • September 7, 2022
Meth “Kiss of Death” Kills Tennessee Prisoner; Girlfriend Charged with Murder by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 13, 2022, special agents of the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) and deputies from the Dickson County Sheriff’s Department arrested Rachel Dollard, 33, on charges of second-degree murder and …
Article • September 2, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
“Unconscionable and Unacceptable” Conditions in Georgia DOC With 57 Prisoners Murdered in Two Years by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian In August 2022, during their federal civil rights trial for running down and fatally shooting an unarmed jogger, Ahmaud Arbury, in Brunswick in February 2020, attorneys for father and son …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Tenth Circuit Revives Suit Against Oklahoma Jail for Medical Neglect Leading To Detainee’s Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a lawsuit alleging officials at Oklahoma’s Carter County Jail (CCJ) failed to provide any medical attention in the days leading up to a pretrial detainee’s death, the U.S. …
Article • August 30, 2022
Fourth Circuit Dooms Suit Filed After North Carolina Guard Murdered by State Prisoner by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On November 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a substantive due process claim based on the state-created danger doctrine did not apply to Sgt. …
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