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Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Washington Pays $3.25 Million for Negligent Medical Care Causing Preventable Prisoner Death by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 6, 2021, a Washington state court disbursed $3.25 million paid by state officials to settle a lawsuit filed by the estate of a prisoner who died of a treatable condition …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$17.5 Million Paid to Ohio Prisoner Left Quadriplegic After Brutal Attack by Guards by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead In November 2021, Ohio state prisoner Seth Fletcher received a $17,500,000 settlement to conclude the civil rights complaint filed on his behalf against guards at Chillicothe Correctional Institution (CCI), after the …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$12.5 Million Settlement Over Invasive Strip and Body Cavity Searches of NYC Jail Visitors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 29, 2021, the federal court for the Southern District of New York approved the final settlement of a class-action civil rights lawsuit over suspicionless and invasive “strip/body cavity” …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Uncovers Almost 1,000 Privileged Calls Recorded in Four County Jails, Sues York County for Denying Public Records Request by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  On January 26, 2022, the Maine Monitor published a list of nearly 1,000 privileged calls illegally recorded between detainees and …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$500,001 Settlement Against Guard Who Groped Delaware Prisoner With Long History of Lost Cases by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On December 16, 2021, a federal jury awarded Delaware prisoner DeShawn Drumgo $500,001 in damages after concluding a prison guard had inappropriately fondled him. This was the same prisoner who …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Hepatitis, Settlements
Settlement Finally Reached in Prisoners’ Hep-C Class-Action Against Connecticut DOC by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Nearly four years after a group of Connecticut prisoners sued the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for denying treatment for their infection with the Hepatitis-C virus (HCV)—and a year after the parties reached a …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$275,000 Settlement Reached After Detainee’s Attempted Suicide at Illinois Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In April 2021, Illinois’ DuPage County Jail (DCJ) and its Psychiatric Services Medical Director agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by detainee Dean Fuerstenberg, who attempted suicide at the jail …
Washington Pays $3 Million to Murdered Prisoner’s Family After Overriding Single-Cell Recommendation for Violent Cellmate by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On November 19, 2021, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $3 million to a murdered prisoner’s family for overriding recommendations to house his violent cellmate in …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$250,000 Paid to Woman Forced to Give Birth in California Jail Cell by Guards and CFMG Nurses by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye A woman who gave birth in a cell in 2017 at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, has been awarded $250,000 to settle a lawsuit she …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$7,000 Default Judgment Awarded in Failure to Protect Suit Against Former Arkansas Jail Guard by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On November 23, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas awarded $7,000 in compensatory damages to a state prisoner who, while held in a Pine Bluff …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$45,000 Paid by Idaho Jail to Settle Censorship Suit Filed by HRDC by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett In an agreement executed on February 7, 2022, Canyon County, Idaho, agreed to pay $45,000 to settle censorship claims made by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the nonprofit publisher of PLN …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$6,500 Settlement After Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Florida Jail Officials Who Repeatedly Opened Detainee’s Legal Mail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2021, a settlement was reached under which four officials at the Duval County Jail (DCJ) in Jacksonville agreed to pay …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Costs
Debt Free Justice California-Civil Assessments-The Hidden Court Fee That Penalizes Poverty, March 2022 March 2022 [FL: Debt Free Justice California IDDE FEES ■ c:::::=::::===:::::::i ■ c:::::==:::::::i CIVIL ASSESSMENTS: The Hidden Court Fee that Penalizes Poverty Acknowledgements Contributors Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area Legal Director, …
Publication • 2022
US Court of Appeals -Section 1983 Outline-2022 United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Office of Staff Attorneys Section 1983 Outline Updated 2022 Office of Staff Attorneys United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit This outline is intended for use as a starting point for research. …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$5.5 Million Settlement to California Prisoner Left Incapacitated After Suicide Attempt at Santa Cruz County Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 16, 2021, a federal court in California approved a $5.5 million settlement between Santa Cruz County and the estate of a former prisoner at the county …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$11 Million Settlement Reached in Tennessee Suit Alleging False Arrest and False Imprisonment of Minors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 20, 2021, a settlementwas approved by a federal court in a lawsuit alleging the illegal arrest and detention of some 1,500 children at the Rutherford County Juvenile …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
DOJ Reaches Settlement Over Disability Access With Vermont Prison System by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) to remedy conditions in state prisons that fail to comply with the Americans with …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$725,000 Settlement Reached in North Carolina Prisoner’s Suicide at Troubled Jail by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 18, 2019, Melissa Middleton Rice committed suicide while in custody at the Jackson County Detention Center (JCDC) in Sylva, North Carolina. As she sat in the jail’s booking room, Rice hanged …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$316,673 Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Stabbing at GEO-Operated Private Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 1, 2021, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) and the private operator of one of its prisons, the GEO Group, agreed to pay $316,673.53 to settle a lawsuit brought …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Ninth Circuit Says Nevada DOC Not Micromanaged by Requirement to Treat Prisoner’s Severe Mental Illness; Upholds Preliminary Injunction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 30, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit took the Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) to task over a four-year delay …
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