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Maryland Prisoner’s Death Occurs Under Unusual Circumstances by The death of prisoner Louis S. Leysath III, 35, at Maryland’s Jessup Correctional Institution was the subject of an investigation after he was found dead in a steam-filled cell on February 20, 2015. Leysath, serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to …
Mold-infested Prisons Sicken Guards and Prisoners by by Spencer Woodman, The Intercept During much of her three years awaiting trial in New York’s Rikers Island jail, Candie Hailey was locked in a solitary confinement cell ventilated by a mold-covered air duct. The purpose of the vent was, of course, to …
Corrections Corporation of America, Rocked by Setbacks, Changes its Name by Derek Gilna Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest for-profit prison firm in the United States, and the subject of a recent scathing Mother Jones undercover investigative report that detailed numerous deficiencies at a Louisiana prison operated by the …
Colorado’s “Make My Day” Law No Longer Applies to Prisoners by David Reutter by David Reutter On the heels of the dismissal of murder charges against two Sterling Correctional Facility (SCF) prisoners under the state’s “Make My Day” law, lawmakers quickly rolled back the self-protection statute’s applicability to prisoners. Prosecutors …
The Rape Victims Silenced by Their Prison Cells by A prison chaplain who admitted to sexually assaulting three prisoners may spend less than a year behind bars. Why don’t we seem to care? by Melissa Jeltsen, Huffington Post When Leticia Villarreal, 42, began her prison sentence at McPherson Unit, a …
Tenth Circuit: No Summary Judgment on Official Capacity Claims by Mark Wilson The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s denial of summary judgment on individual capacity claims against an Oklahoma sheriff related to a prisoner’s suicide. The appellate court held it lacked jurisdiction to consider official capacity …
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Allocation of Fault Required in Verdict Regarding Alaska Detainee’s Suicide; Case Settles for $900,000 by In September 2015, the Alaska Supreme Court vacated a $1,078,233 judgment in a lawsuit alleging the City of Hooper Bay was liable in the suicide of a 21-year-old detainee in a police holding cell. The …
ACLU Sues California as Incompetent Defendants Wait in Jail for Mental Health Treatment by Joe Watson The ACLU filed a lawsuit last year on behalf of defendants declared incompetent to stand trial who languish in county jails across California while they await transfers to state mental health facilities. When the …
Alaska Prisons and Jails Filled with Mentally Ill Prisoners by David Reutter Correctional facilities in Alaska are confronted with a record number of prisoners with mental illnesses. In February 2016, KTUU reported that 65% of Alaskan prisoners suffered from some form of mental health problem while 80% had drug or …
Federal Judge Orders Texas Department of Criminal Justice to Provide Safe Water to Prisoners by Derek Gilna On June 21, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to provide prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota with drinking water free of …
Wisconsin Court Orders Dismissal of Jail Negligence Suit by Lonnie Burton On October 16, 2014, District IV of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and granted summary judgment in favor of defendants in a case brought by the estate of a prisoner who overdosed while at the …
Private Prison Company Not Liable for Guard's Death in Riot by Lonnie Burton Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) successfully moved in federal court to dismiss a suit brought by the survivors of a guard who was killed by prisoners during a riot in 2012. On May 20, 2012, prisoners rioted …
Article • November 1, 2016
$5,000 Settlement in Ohio Prisoner's Suit over Improper Assignment to Upper Bunk by On June 8, 2015, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction agreed to a $5,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by a prisoner who was assigned to an upper bunk despite having a medical restriction requiring his …
Brief • November 1, 2016
Ruscher v. Ryan, AZ, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release (the "Agreement'') is made between: (i) Jennie Povilat (fin/a) Jennie Daniels, surviving parent of Joshua Ruscher, Deceased, ("Povilat''); and (ii) Charles Ryan, Berry Larson, the Arizona Department of Corrections ("ADOC") and its …
Summary Judgment Reversed on Washington Guard's MRSA Claims by The Washington Court of Appeals held that factual disputes about whether a guard contracted MRSA on the job precluded summary judgment. In 2008, Cara Stinson worked as a seaman for the Washington state Department of Corrections (WDOC). She served as a …
Article • October 31, 2016
Ohio Prisoner's Dog Bite Suit Settled for $1,500 by The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) settled a prisoner's dog bit lawsuit for $1,500 on August 28, 2014. Craig Meriwether was an Ohio state prisoner incarcerated at the Warren Correctional Institute on October 3, 2013, when, in a foyer …
Jail Officials Compelled to Provide Medical Reports in Wrongful Death Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has ordered the defendant in a lawsuit stemming from the beating death of a prisoner to provide county morbidity and mortality reports to the plaintiff …
Article • October 25, 2016
Colorado Prisoner Sues Over Prison Officials' Failure to Treat Dental Infection by Matthew Clarke A Colorado state prisoner filed a federal civil rights action in September 2014, alleging denial of medical care for a dental infection that nearly killed him and left him with partial paralysis of his tongue and …
Colorado Guards Joke While Prisoner Dies from Easily Preventable Cause by Matthew Clarke The death of 35-year-old Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Christopher Lopez at the San Carols Correctional Facility on March 17, 2013, would have been rejected if submitted as a plot for a novel. It is too …
Brief • October 25, 2016
Jones v. Prentice, IL, Merit Review, Failure to Protect, 2016 1:16-cv-01335-SLD # 14 Page 1 of 4 E-FILED Tuesday, 25 October, 2016 04:14:26 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS KOREY JONFS, ) ) Plaintiff, v. ) ) ) 16-CV-1335 ) S. PRENTICE, …
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