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Craft v. Robinson, OH, Settlement, Death Row Suicide, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION Lisa Craft, Administratrix of the Estate of Billy Slagle, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:14-CV-01682 Judge Donald C. Nugent v. Norman Robinson, et al., Defendants. Settlement Agreement and Release …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Prisoners Hang Themselves in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Jails at a Rate that Dwarfs Other County Lockups by Michael Lacey by Michael Lacey, Phoenix New Times How many people have died in our sheriff’s jails? On May 4, 2015, I asked a spokesman for Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for a cadaver …
Settlement in California Jail Suit Includes $4.8 Million in Attorney Fees, Costs by Derek Gilna After four prisoners committed suicide in the Salinas branch of the Monterey County, California jail system within a five-year period, a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2013 against both the jail and California Forensic Medical …
Article • March 31, 2016
Prisoner’s Suicide Costs Los Angeles County $450,000 by The County of Los Angeles paid $350,000 to settle a federal civil rights action alleging the indifference of jail staff to the serious medical needs of prisoner Steven Cardenas resulted in his death by suicide. Cardenas was sentenced in May 2007 to …
Brief • March 31, 2016
Nealman v. Laughlin, PA, Memorandum on Motions, Medical Negligence and Wrongful Death from Suicide, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01579-CCC Document 47 Filed 08/31/16 Page 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA TAWNA Z. NEALMAN, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Shelley …
Article • March 7, 2016
Tulare County, California Settles Prisoner Suicide Case for $1 Million by Derek Gilna Mario Lopez, Jr., according to his attorney's federal civil rights complaint filed by his family in 2011 after his suicide in the Tulare County, California jail, "was a mentally ill man who had suffered for many years …
Prisoner's Family Receives $1.6 Million for Negligent, Fatal Medical Care by Derek Gilna Michael Thomas Anderson, a prisoner at both the Napa County, California, and Siskiyou County, California jails, who had a long history of severe medical and psychological problems, took his own life on April 9, 2009. His heirs …
Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Suit Filed by Widow of Workplace-Harassed Prison Guard by Derek Gilna California state prison guard Scott Jones committed suicide in 2011, leaving a note that said, “the job made me do it.” His wife, Janelle Jones, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the California …
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
$250,000 Settlement in Ohio Detainee’s Jail Suicide by David Reutter Officials in Lorain County, Ohio have settled a lawsuit stemming from a pretrial detainee’s suicide death. When police arrived at Cheryl Sweeney’s home on May 26, 2012 because her husband had passed away, they arrested her on an outstanding warrant …
PLN Obtains Confidential CCA Litigation Records in Tennessee by David Reutter There are many arguments against the privatization of prisons, jails and other detention facilities. Over the years, Prison Legal News has published numerous articles detailing the problems with having a for-profit company fulfill the essential governmental function of incarceration …
Texas County Jail, Beset by Prisoner Deaths, has Highest Suicide Rate by Matthew Clarke A wrongful death suit filed by the parents of a 30-year-old Bexar County, Texas jail prisoner who died of a methadone overdose while in solitary confinement at the lock-up settled in February 2015 for $200,000, and …
Suicides, Poor Conditions at D.C. Jail Remain Critical Issues Despite Progress by Derek Gilna The February 8, 2015 suicide of a woman held at the Washington, D.C. Jail and a recent report that blasted the facility for “non-compliance with basic standards established by national corrections authorities” have once again focused …
Publication • February 25, 2016
Special Review into the Death of a Ward at NA Chaderjian YCF (youth suicide), OIG, 2005 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL MATTHEW L. CATE, INSPECTOR GENERAL SPECIAL REVIEW INTO THE DEATH OF A WARD ON AUGUST 31, 2005 AT THE AT THE N.A. CHADERJIAN YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY DECEMBER 2005 STATE …
Siskiyou County pays to settle 2009 wrongful death suit , Kinkade, 2012 Siskiyou County pays to settle 2009 wrongful death suit  By Skye Kinkade Mount Shasta Area Newspapers Posted Jun 06, 2012 @ 09:59 AM Yreka, Calif. — The family of a 29 year old man who committed suicide …
Tulare Co settles jail suicide lawsuit - Mario Lopez family to receive USD 1 million, Visalia Times-Delta, 2012 Format Dynamics :: CleanPrint :: http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20120601/NE... Page 1 of 5 Tulare County settles jail suicide lawsuit; Mario Lopez's family to receive $1m Tulare County has settled for $1 million a lawsuit filed …
Publication • February 12, 2016
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Suicide Prevention - Hayes Cover Letter, MA DOC, 2007 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT ON SUICIDE PREVENTION PRACTICES WITHIN THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION by Lindsay M. Hayes Project Director National Center on Institutions and Alternatives 40 Lantern Lane Mansfield, MA 02048 (508) 337-8806; e-mail: Lhayesta@msn.com January 31, 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Filed under: Prison Reform, Suicides
Letter to BOC, Request for rule-making with respect to suicide prevention, Prisoners' Rights Project, 2015 Prisoners' Rights Project 199 Water Street New York, NY 10038 T (212) 577-3530 F (212) 509-8433 www.legal-aid.org Blaine (Fin) V. Fogg President July 10, 2015 Stanley Brezenoff, Chair Members of the Board of Correction 51 …
Florida’s Department of Corrections: A Culture of Corruption, Abuse and Deaths by David Reutter Florida, with the nation’s third-largest prison system, has a long and sordid history of abusing, neglecting and even killing its prisoners. Because most state prisons are in insular rural areas, the general public, aside from those …
Will Lawsuits and Exposés Lead to Reform of Florida’s Brutal Prisons? by Laura Cepero Florida’s prisons have become notorious for their abuse and neglect of the people in their care. Now, as per an agreement between the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) and Disability Rights Florida, the state will be overhauling …
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