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Federal Three-Judge Panel Issues Tentative Ruling To Reduce California’s Prison Population By Up To 57,000 In Three Years by John Dannenberg Federal Three-Judge Panel Issues Tentative Ruling To Reduce California’s Prison Population By Up To 57,000 In Three Years by John E. Dannenberg In a tentative ruling issued February 9, …
$3.6 Million Settlement in Michigan Prisoner’s Segregation Cell Death by The family of Timothy Souders has agreed to accept $3.25 to settle a wrongful death claim relating to Timothy’s death. Timothy, 21, was the subject of a May 2007 PLN cover article, and a February 11, 2007, report on 60 …
Dead Bodies at “Bodies” Exhibit May Be Executed Chinese Prisoners by Gary Hunter Dead Bodies at “Bodies” Exhibit May Be Executed Chinese Prisoners by Gary Hunter In 1977, German anatomist Gunther von Hagens developed a technique called plastination. The process involves slicing open human cadavers, exposing or extracting the internal …
Prisoners Can Sue Virginia DOC’s Contract Medical Provider for Breach of Contract by Prisoners Can Sue Virginia DOC’s Contract Medical Provider for Breach of Contract Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) prisoners who receive inadequate medical care may sue the VDOC’s contract medical provider for breach of contract, the Supreme Court …
California Jail Restraint and Tasering Death Settles for $3 Million by California Jail Restraint and Tasering Death Settles for $3 Million The surviving family of a deceased detainee at the Santa Cruz, California jail settled their wrongful death suit against Santa Cruz County and its sheriff’s personnel for $3 million …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Washington Jury Awards $202,500 to Ex-Prisoner for Injuries from Top Bunk Fall by Washington Jury Awards $202,500 to Ex-Prisoner for Injuries from Top Bunk Fall A Washington state jury awarded a former prisoner and his wife $202,500 for injuries incurred after he fell from a top bunk at the Washington …
$678,505.67 Settlement After Federal Prisoner Dies From Misdiagnosed Cancer by Illinois State resident and executor of her deceased husband's estate, Mary Norton, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996. She claimed that her husband James Norton, died due to negligence and medical malpractice. The court awarded …
$1.8 Million Award After Illinois Federal Prisoner's Suicide; Award Reversed On Appeal by Illinois State resident Karen Johnson brought a federal tort and 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983 action against the United States in 1996 after her husband Robert committed suicide in a federal prison. The court awarded her $1.8 million. …
$45,000 Settlement For Refusal To Reset Federal Prisoner's Broken Wrist by Kansas federal prisoner Arthur Mitchell brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2001 after prison physicians refused to correct the misalignment of his broken wrist. The suit settled for $45,000. Mitchell was incarcerated at the Federal …
$250,000 Settlement After Federal Prisoner Dies From Undiagnosed Heart Attack by Georgia State resident Janie Federick, administrator of deceased federal prisoner Ronnie Ruff's estate, and Ruff's family, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2002. Federick alleged that a lack of standard medical care proximately resulted in …
Beating Of Ex Federal Prisoner And Snitch Settles For $300,000 by Ex federal prisoner Mark Lang petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in 1993 and filed subsequent tort action in 1995 for redress after prison officials put him in a cell with a psychiatric patient who severely beat him. …
Article • March 15, 2009
BOP Sued For Federal Prisoner's Negligent Blinding by Ex Florida federal prisoner Luis Monroy Vargas brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1999 after becoming blind in one eye. Federal Bureau of Prisons personnel at three facilities failed to treat him properly after an object fell into …
Federal Prisoner's Negligent Tumor Diagnosis Results In Partial Colon Loss by Former Alabama federal prisoner John Trevor brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2002 after personnel at the Federal Corrections Center (FCC) at Talladega failed to diagnose and treat a cancerous tumor. The $1 million suit …
Florida Federal Prisoner's Negligently Treated Seizures Result in Paralysis by Florida federal prisoner Harold Wood brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2001 after Bureau of Prisons medical personnel failed to follow medical advice resulting in permanent disabling injuries. The $30 million suit settled for an undisclosed …
Article • March 15, 2009
Negligent Federal Prisoner's Medical Care Leads To Permanent Hearing Loss by Florida federal prisoner Walter Hernandez, Jr., brought a federal tort action against the Bureau of Prisons in 1998 after medical personnel were negligent in diagnosing and treating his ear infections. Permanent hearing loss resulted. The $5 million suit settled …
$10,000 Settlement After Colorado Federal Prisoner Beaten At Florence Facility by Kinson Celestin, a federal prisoner housed in Texas, brought a combined Bivens and federal tort action against the United States in 1998 after allegedly being beaten by federal prison guards at a Colorado facility and subsequently being denied medical …
Article • March 15, 2009
$500 Settlement After Illinois Federal Prisoner Food Poisoned by Wisconsin federal prisoner Charles Anderson brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1998 for being food poisoned at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Marion, Illinois, in 1997. The $2,500 suit settled for less than $500 in 1999 …
$500,000 Settlement After BOP Failed To Diagnose Employee's Tumor by Minnesota Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee Ruth Sonnek brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2000 after BOP medical examiners failed to diagnose and treat her for a tumor. Their pre employment x ray clearly showed that …
Child's Fingertip Amputated After Guard's Negligence by Wisconsin resident Evonie Bean, guardian of injured minor Tianna Fudge, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2001 after Fudge's fingertip was caught in a prison door and severed while at a prison visit. Details of the 2003 settlement agreement …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Pennsylvania Prisoner Appointed Counsel on Retaliation / MRSA Infection Claims by Pennsylvania Prisoner Appointed Counsel on Retaliation / MRSA Infection Claims A Pennsylvania federal district court appointed counsel to a prisoner in a lawsuit claiming he contracted a serious infection and faced retaliation after filing grievances about his medical condition. …
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