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Chicago Jail Social Worker Punched In Face; Suspended For Speaking Out; Awarded $300,000 by Chicago Jail Social Worker Punched In Face; Suspended For Speaking Out; Awarded $300,000 In a dispute over a parking space on September 17, 2001, Cook County Jail guard Donald Keith punched jail social worker Virgean Houskins …
Class Certified in New York Jail Post Riot Retaliation Suit by A New York federal district court held that class certification is proper when common issues of fact and law predominate; a federal forum is proper when federal constitutional and statutory violations are alleged; and the prisoners in this action …
Texas Jail Director's Conviction Upheld by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions of two defendants charged with extortion and conspiracy to extort under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C.§ 2 and 1951. The defendants were Jose Marcelino Rubio, Sr., the father of the District Attorney for Texas' Web …
Raped Georgia Prisoner Awarded $300,000 Against Jailer, City by In this civil rights lawsuit, a Georgia-prisoner who was allegedly raped in her cell by a city jailer was awarded $300,000 plus attorneys fees and court costs. Plaintiff, Mary Isdell, claimed that while she was imprisoned in the Forest Park Jail, …
Jail Liable for Distress Caused by Hostage Training by The defendants created a training exercise intended to prepare jailers for a hostage situation, and did entirely too good a job of it, according to the plaintiff jailers. They enlisted two probationary jailers to play inmates. They were allowed into the …
County and Private Health Company Liable for Retaliatory Firings by The plaintiffs, registered nurses allegedly fired from their jobs at the county jail for criticizing the county's department of mental health, stated a First Amendment claim against various defendants. There is a question of fact whether the private medical provider …
Article • May 15, 2007
9th Circuit Vacates Marshal's District-Wide Shackling Policy by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district-wide California policy of requiring all federal pretrial detainees to wear shackles while making their first appearance before a magistrate judge. In April 2003, the United States Marshals Service for the Central District of …
IL Jail Strip Search Damage Awards Affirmed by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit affirmed jury verdicts and damage awards to arrestees subjected to strip searches in the Chicago, Illinois, jail. Three women were arrested for parking ticket violations and failing to produce a driver's license. They were …
Dismissal Denied in Suit Against Alabama Sheriff and County in Detainee's Death From Lack of Medical by Dismissal Denied in Suit Against Alabama Sheriff and County in Detainee's Death From Lack of Medical Treatment. An Alabama federal district court held that a county can be held liable for failing to …
Fact Issues Preclude Summary Judgment In Prisoner Rape Case by The United States District Court for the District of Maine held that fact issues precluded summary judgment of a sexually assaulted prisoner's § 1983 lawsuit. Plaintiff Linda Faas alleged that while she was in the Washington County Jail (Maine), she …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington District Court Awards $195,000 For False Arrest, Emotional Distress by In April 1998, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington awarded $195,000 for emotional distress to a man who was wrongfully arrested. The plaintiff, 40 and retired at the time of the March 1997 incident, claimed …
Reflections on Katrina’s First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America’s Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams Reflections on Katrina's First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America's Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams As America reflected on Hurricane Katrina's …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Pennsylvania County Pays U.S. INS $16 Million for Detainee Housing Overcharges by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On October 25, 2006, York County, Pennsylvania agreed to pay the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) $16 million to settle a dispute over alleged overcharges for INS detainees who were housed …
Eight Tennessee Guards Convicted in Prisoners’ Beatings, Death by Gary Hunter Eight Tennessee Guards Convicted in Prisoners? Beatings, Death by Gary Hunter Walter "Steve" Kuntz was beaten to death by jailers in Wilson County, Tennessee. His murder led to a federal investigation, the indictment of nine jailers, six guilty pleas …
Brief • March 30, 2007
Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007 ,~.- Case 0:06-cv-61182- KAM Document 49 " Entered on FLSD Docket 03/30/2007 Page UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 06- 61182- Civ- MARRAlJOHNSON JOSEPH SAWCHUCK and RICHARD SPENCER individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated Plaintiffs …
Joe Arpaio: America’s Toughest Sheriff or Most Corrupt? by Alex Friedmann Joe Arpaio: America?s Toughest Sheriff or Most Corrupt? by Alex Friedmann Joe M. Arpaio, the head lawman over Maricopa County, Arizona, bills himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff." While "toughest" may be subject to debate (literally -- in September, 2006 …
Sheriff’s Deputies Charged in Prisoner’s Death; Both Get Prison Time by Gary Hunter Sheriff's Deputies Charged in Prisoner's Death; Both Get Prison Time by Gary Hunter Jail guards Ronald Eugene Parker and Brandon Gray Huie were charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a prisoner in North …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Bernard Kerik Pleads Guilty; Has Name Removed From New York City Jail by Gary Hunter Former New York Police Chief Bernard B. Kerik, proclaimed hero of 9/11, fell to his lowest point yet after pleading guilty to two unclassified misdemeanor charges on June 30, 2006. Kerik, also a former Director …
Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at …
$400,000 Wrongful Death Settlement After San Diego Jailers Hog-Tied Prisoner by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The County of San Diego, California agreed in September 2006 to pay $400,000 to settle an excessive-force wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a prisoner who died on February 2, 2001 in …
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