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Mentally Ill Oregon Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Suit Settles for $7.4 Million by Mark Wilson The family of a mentally ill Oregon prisoner who died due to complications from an untreated broken neck received $7.4 million to settle their claims. In 2012, the Lane County Jail (LCJ) in Eugene, Oregon entered …
Crandall v. Godinez, IL, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTIUCT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD DIVISION CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and General Release is made and entered into this _th day of August 2016, by and between Plaintiff, Marc Crandall, Representative …
Article • August 25, 2016
Los Angeles County Settles Minor's Attempted Suicide Claim for $161,000 by On May 14, 2012, the Counsel General of the County of Los Angeles, California recommended settlement of a lawsuit filed by a minor who was seriously injured jumping from the second level of a structure while in county custody. …
Family of Dead Registered Sex Offender Still Receiving Registry Letters by Matthew Clarke When 17-year-old Justin Fawcett admitted to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old student at the same West Bloomfield, Michigan high school he attended he probably never thought that he would die for his crime, but he did. …
Sheriff May Be Liable for Cell-Check Policy that Led to Teenager’s Suicide by In July 2010, a federal district court in Illinois held that a sheriff may be held liable in his official capacity for instituting a cell-check policy under which guards could not personally observe all detainees during overnight …
The Dead Zone: How Privatization, Isolation and Cruelty Are Killing Prisoners in Arizona by By the time Jan Brewer replaced Janet Napolitano as Arizona's governor in 2009, it had been 22 years since the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) built the first prison in the United States designed exclusively for …
Unusually High Rate of Prisoners Suicides at San Antonio, Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke In 2009, all five of the Bexar County Adult Detention Center's (the jail) prisoner deaths were suicides by hanging and a sixth Bexar County prisoner being held in the Crystal City jail due to overcrowding at …
Article • August 23, 2016
Oregon Prisoner Paralyzed by Suicide Attempt Seeks $12 Million by An Oregon prisoner who attempted to commit suicide but ended up a quadriplegic is suing jail officials for $12 million. On May 4, 2012, Westley Wilson, 29, was arrested in Portland, Oregon, for violating a restraining order. He was initially …
Publication • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
National Study of Jail Suicides – Seven Years Later, Hayes and Rowan Jail Suicide Prevention Information Task Force, 1988 NATIONAL STUDY OF JAIL SUICIDES: SEVEN YEARS LATER BY Lindsay M. Hayes National Center on Institutions and Alternatives Joseph R. Rowan Juvenile and criminal Justice International, Inc. Developed by Jail Suicide …
Browder v. City of New York, NY, Complaint Wrongful Death, 2016 ^"'o?3^? TOZSTAm OFN»"»" v^^ S^, as Adml»^-t°- °^ t>.e Es^te o. VERIFIED COMeL&INT Plaintiff, Against ^SJS. OFJEW_YORK- T NEW YORK CITY ^^WNL°LCORRECTIONS/"THE^BRONX'COUNTY ^STRicLA mRNEYts OFFICE. -THE-NfiW"YORK"C^Y Hro^ ?Sm^NT- ,^NEW1T C^^P^^^F O ^^^^^sij^rN EW^°^^?EHNSmTFB Defendants. In<tex N t aiis-of ye …
Article • August 9, 2016
California Cop Destroys Jail Suicide Evidence, Gets Probation by Something snapped in Dean Gochenour's fragile mind before he hanged himself in a jail cell in Fullerton, California, nearly two years ago. Just hours later, the man who arrested him that night snapped, too, smashing the device that recorded one of …
Processing and Treatment of Mentally Ill, Urban Institute, 2015 CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH REPORT The Processing and Treatment of Mentally Ill Persons in the Criminal Justice System A Scan of Practice and Background Analysis KiDeuk Kim March 2015 Miriam Becker-Cohen Maria Serakos ABOUT THE URBAN INSTITUTE The nonprofit Urban Institute …
Article • August 8, 2016
Montana Jury Awards $80,000 in Jail Suicide by A Montana jury found that Fergus County and the Fergus County Sheriff&rsquo;s department was partially negligent in a prisoner&rsquo;s suicide. It awarded the prisoner&rsquo;s estate nearly $80,000. Carl Odell Stacy, 40, was no stranger to officials at the Fergus County Jail (FCJ). …
Negligence not Grounds for Prosecution in Deaths of Wisconsin Prisoners by Gary Hunter It was a Thursday in late July 2009 when Myron Weston, a prisoner at Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), drank cleaning fluid from the supplies given to him to perform his janitorial duties. A short time later …
Rikers Island Guards Treat Mental Illness with Violence by Matthew Clarke With around 4,000 of its 11,000 prisoners classified as mentally ill, Rikers Island jail holds more psychiatric patients than all 24 of the psychiatric hospitals in New York State combined. In 2006, prisoners with mental illness comprised about 20% …
Article • August 4, 2016
Alaskan Prisoner Deaths under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Alaskan state legislature held a hearing in July 2014 after five Alaskan prisoners died between April and June of that year. According to Joe Schmidt, director of the Alaska Department of Corrections, the 2010 national prisoner death rate was .217% and …
California Prison Staff Told to Fake Suicide Checks, Union Says by Joe Watson The new medical facility for prisoners in Stockton, California, run by the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), was supposed to help correct the systemic problems CDCR has in providing adequate medical, dental and mental health …
Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
$7,000 Settlement after Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of New York Prisoner’s Suit by Derek Gilna In 2007, prisoner Aaron Willey filed a pro se federal civil rights lawsuit against guards employed by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, alleging harassment, inadequate nutrition, theft of legal documents, …
White v. Watson, et al., IL, amended complaint, wrongful death, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00560-JPG-DGW Document 26 Filed 07/19/16 Page 1 of 16 Page ID #85 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DWAYNE WHITE, as Administrator of the ESTATE OF BRADLEY C. SCARPI, Plaintiff, v. ST. …
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