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District of Columbia Jail Pays $14 Million For Over-Detentions and Strip Searches by Bob Williams While denying a pattern and practice of over-detentions and strip searches, the District of Columbia (the District) has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class-action lawsuit plus an additional $2 million in additional …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Arkansas County Pays $40,000 To Handicapped Man Raped In Jail by Michael Rigby On May 22, 2006, Saline County, Arkansas, agreed to pay $40,000 to a deaf man who was raped by other prisoners in the Saline County Detention Center. Johnny Jones, a deaf man who is unable to speak, …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Michigan Prisoner Wins $20,000 on Failure to Protect Claim by Michael Rigby On March 29, 2006, a federal court in Michigan awarded $20,000 to a state prisoner who was attacked and cut with a razor after prison officials repeatedly ignored his requests for protection. Reggie Williams, a prisoner serving 2 …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Beaten Texas Prisoner Who Was Denied Safekeeping Awarded $87,500 by Michael Rigby On March 20, 2006, a federal jury awarded $87,500 to a Texas prisoner who was beaten by gang members after his request for transfer to protective custody was denied. While imprisoned at the McConnell Unit in southeast Texas …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Maywood, Illinois Jail Settles Failure to Protect Suit For $750,000 by The Village of Maywood, Illinois, paid $750,000 to settle with a former Maywood prisoner who was severely beaten by his cellmate at the village jail, according to a January 19, 2006, settlement agreement. George Caithamer, 22, was arrested by …
Brief • September 28, 2006
Filed under: Exercise, Visiting
McGhee v. Biamont, NM, Order Denying SJ, Denial of Exercise & Spousal Visitation, 2006 Case 6:04-cv-00239-MV-LAM Document 185 Filed 09/28/06 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO WILLIAM MCGHEE, Plaintiff, v. CIV-04-0239 MV/LAM JOE WILLIAMS, et al., Defendants. ORDER THIS MATTER …
For-Profit Transportation Companies: Taking Prisoners, and the Public, for a Ride by Alex Friedmann According to the latest report from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, as of June 2005 approximately 2.2 million people were incarcerated in prisons and jails nationwide not including immigration detention centers and …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal by Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a civil committees failure to protect and …
CSC Alien Abuse Class Action Settled for $2.5 Million by On August 10, 2005, a federal court in New Jersey approved a settlement in Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services Inc., USDC No. 98-1282 (DNJ). Esmor Correctional Services Inc. (Esmor) later known as Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), agreed to pay the …
No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game by Silja JA Talvi No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game by Silja J.A. Talvi It has been an arduous, surreal …
Nevada Summary Judgment for Non-Exhaustion Reversed by The Nevada Supreme Court reversed a lower court's grant of summary judgment on a former prisoner's suit for failing to exhaust administrative remedies. Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) prisoner George Simmons was brutally beaten by another prisoner on April 14, 1997. He sustained …
CCA Fineable in New Contracts With Colorado and Hawaii by Matthew T. Clarke Corrections Corporation of America has signed new contracts with Colorado and Hawaii which, for the first time, include the possibility of the states imposing liquidated damages if CCA fails to provide the contracted services. The provisions resulted …
Kentucky County Jail Settles Lawsuit Alleging Overcrowded Conditions by Michael Rigby On November 30, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky tentatively approved the settlement of a class action lawsuit alleging unconstitutionally overcrowded conditions at the Campbell County Jail in Newport, Kentucky. Built in 1991, the …
Sexually Abused Texas Prisoner Loses Federal Lawsuit, Returns To Prison by Michael Rigby Roderick Keith Johnson, a prisoner who garnered national attention with allegations that Texas prison officials allowed him to be bought and sold as a sex slave, has lost his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Asthmatic South Carolina Prisoner Awarded $3,200 on ETS Claim by A federal court in South Carolina found that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to an asthmatic prisoner's medical condition by exposing him to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), from February 1999 to November, 2001. The court awarded $3,200, or $100 a …
Brief • September 12, 2006
Westefer v. Snyder, IL, Order Granting Class Certification, ad seg placement, 2006 Case 3:00-cv-00162-GPM-DGW Document 156 Filed 09/12/2006 Page 1 of 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROBERT WESTEFER, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. DONALD SNYDER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) …
Lujan v. CCA, CO, August Deposition Exhibits - Prison Riots (2006) ~ ~·· MEEK & & ASSOCIATES Certified Shorthand Reporters Pueblo, CO 81004 317 Argyle Ave. Ave. Pueblo, (719) 542-1010, 1-800-233-6335, FAX (719) 542-3617 DEPOSITION EXHIBITS from LUJAN VS. CCA & 18th, 2006 August 17th & Richard Selman, Chad Kastelic, …
Problems Continue In Maryland Prisons and Jails by Michael Rigby A battle is raging in Maryland over how best to improve prison safety. Some advocate hiring more guards and medical personnel. Others want to expand prisoner rehabilitation services. Neither side seems to be considering the possibility that both are needed. …
$100,000 Settlement For Black Oklahoma Prisoner Beaten By White Prisoners by Creek County, Oklahoma, has paid $100,000 to a black man who was severely beaten by a group of white prisoners in the county jail. Rameses Gibbs, a black man, was arrested on November 22, 2001, on a misdemeanor charge …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
California Prison Guards Overtime Doubles to $277 Million by California Prison Guards Overtime Doubles to $277 Million The total California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) guard overtime pay in 2005 of $277 million was twice that of 2004. CDCR's 30,000 prison guards averaged $72,000 for the year, gaining about …
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