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$150,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Beating by Sullivan County, Tennessee has paid $150,000 to settle the claim of a former prisoner who was beaten at the county’s jail. The suit alleged the sheriff’s department failed to properly train and supervise jail guards, deliberately placed the prisoner in a dangerous situation, …
Article • December 15, 2009
$15,000 Settlement for Amputated Finger by On February 2, 2007, Anthony Jose Gonzales accepted a $15,000 settlement from Sacramento County, California for the loss of his right-middle finger, which was amputated due to infection while he was being held in the County's Main Jail for drug possession. The settlement was …
$58,333 Settlement for Transgendered Woman’s Sacramento Jail Assault and Sexual Harassment by California’s County of Sacramento has paid $58,333.33 to settle the lawsuit of Richardo Medina-Tejada, who claimed that as a post-operative transgender male-to-female pretrial detainee at the Sacramento County Jail, she was placed in housing with male prisoners who …
$125,000 Paid For Illegal Colonoscopy to Search for Drugs by On July 18, 2009, a New York State parolee, Tunde Clement, agreed to a $125,000 settlement in a lawsuit he filed in 2007 against Albany County, New York and Albany Medical Center Hospital. Clement's attorney, John F. Queenan, claimed his …
Arizona Jail’s Medical Failures Due to Inadequate Record Keeping, Understaffing by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Medical care for approximately 10,000 prisoners in the Maricopa County jail system is an abject failure. That may explain why the Arizona county, which is the fourth largest in the nation, has had to …
$2.7 Million Settlement for Oklahoma Double Leg Amputee Jail Prisoner by On April 9, 2009, a federal district judge in Oklahoma signed a consent decree memorializing a $2.7 million settlement between an Oklahoma county and a former jail prisoner who suffered amputation of both legs while incarcerated at the jail. …
$750,000 Settlement in Chicago Jail Mass Beating Suit by On June 4, 2009, the finance litigation subcommittee of the County Board of Cook County, Illinois moved to settle a lawsuit over an alleged mass beating at the Cook County Jail. In August 2006, Dwond Donahue, Jerome Fountain, Bernard Garcia, Darryl …
Prison, Jail and Law Enforcement Corruption Continues in Georgia by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As the number of people in prison and jail in Georgia has increased, so too has the number of corruption cases involving detention and police officials. One of every 13 Georgians are under the …
Federal Prison Employees Convicted of Stealing Prisoners’ Meds by Gary Hunter On January 6, 2009, three former employees at the Buffalo Federal Detention Center in Batavia, New York pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of theft of government property. Richard Lawson, a captain and pharmacist; Lisa Schwab, a pharmacist technician; and …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
AMA Study Finds Link Between Confinement and Hypertension by An American Medical Association (AMA) study found that incarceration is associated with future hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) among young adults. Untreated, this can lead to increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Researchers conducted “a longitudinal investigation of CVD risk factors …
New York City Jail Conditions Still Unconstitutional a Quarter Century Later by After 25 years of litigation, officials overseeing New York City jails are still unable to provide environmental conditions that do not violate the constitutional rights of the pretrial detainees they hold. As such, a federal district court refused …
Article • December 15, 2009
One Day Delay in X-Ray of Broken Jaw Not Deliberate Indifference by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a jail nurse’s one-day delay in having a prisoner’s broken jaw x-rayed was not deliberate indifference of a serious medical need. The ruling came in the appeal of Philander Jenkins, …
Statute of Limitations Bars Damages Claim for Voluntary Participation in Human Experiments; Ninth Circuit Reverses and Remands; Case Settles for $1.5 Million by An Oregon federal district court granted summary judgment against a former prisoner who brought suit on his behalf and that of a class of Oregon Department of …
Brief • December 7, 2009
Schwarzenegger v. Plata, CA, Joint MTD, Prison Overcrowding and Medical Neglect, 2009 No. 09-416 IN THE GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, et. al., Appellants, v. MARCIANO PLATA AND RALPH COLEMAN, et. al., Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Courts For the Eastern District of California and The Northern District of California …
Brief • November 16, 2009
Filed under: Tuberculosis
McCaster v. Ramsey County, MN, Complaint, Failure to Treat TB, 2009 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 1 of 23 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 2 of 23 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 3 of 23 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 4 of …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
$395,000 Settlement in Los Angeles Jail Prisoner’s Lung Infection Death by The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office paid $395,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming it provided inadequate medical treatment to a prisoner, causing his death. The claim was brought by the estate of Michael Buford. When Buford, 32, was arrested …
Pennsylvania County Prisons Mired in Conditions Litigation by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Whether or not a large number of lawsuits is indicative of management or operational problems at a prison or jail is a matter of debate that depends on one’s perspective – that is, which side of …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
CRIPA Investigation Finds “Woefully Inadequate” Conditions in Erie County, NY Jails; Lawsuits Filed by Jimmy Franks An investigation conducted by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice uncovered significant civil rights violations at two New York detention facilities – the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) and the …
Privatized Prison Medical Care in Mississippi Still Problematic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anyone looking for evidence that privatized prison health care is a complete failure need look no further than Mississippi. In 2001, the per capita death rate for Mississippi prisoners was around the national average. By …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Medical Care Mismanaged at Orange County, California Jail by Michael Brodheim A $36 million program designed to provide medical care to jail prisoners in Orange County, California is severely mismanaged, according to an internal performance audit. The audit found that the county Health Care Agency (HCA), which administers the jail’s …
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