[Plaintiff] v. Smith, OH, Complaint, Sexual Assault Women's Prison, 2011 Case: 2:11-cv-00277-ALM-MRA Doc #: 1 Filed: 03/31/11 Page: 1 of 22 PAGEID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO plaintiff's name redacted c/o David B. Malik 8437 Mayfield Road, Suite 101 Chesterland, Ohio 44026 Plaintiff, …
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds $625,000 Judgment for Female Prisoner Molested by Ohio Prison Guard by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On January 24, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court (USSC), ruling on a relatively minor procedural issue regarding the timing of a defense motion for summary judgment, upheld a $625,000 …
Ohio Governor Spares Death Row Prisoner, Cites Problems with Evidence by Derek Gilna Kevin Keith, 46, on Ohio’s death row for murdering two women and a 4-year-old child, and scheduled for execution on September 15, 2010, was spared by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland. In commuting the death penalty portion of …
Sixth Circuit Certifies to Ohio Supreme Court for Interpretation of State Law by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sua sponte certified questions to the Ohio Supreme Court as to the proper interpretation of the scope of an Ohio statutory scheme restricting internet communications. In 2002, the Ohio Legislature enacted …
Sixth Circuit: Lethal Injection Challenge Time-Barred; Agrees Cooey II Wrongly Decided, Urges En Banc Review by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a condemned prisoner’s challenge to Ohio’s lethal-injection protocol as time-barred under Cooey v. Strickland, 479 F.3d 412 (6th Cir. 2007) (Cooey II). The court …
Onerous Ohio Sex Offender Restrictions Drive Some Underground by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Public officials in Cleveland, Ohio have noticed that some registered sex offenders are dropping out of sight. When the officials attempted to confirm the offenders’ registered addresses, they found they didn’t live there. The reason for …
Head of Ohio Juvenile Facility Fired Following Complaints of Sexual Harassment by The Ohio Department of Youth Services (ODYS) said in a May 2010 report that it had found substantial evidence to validate numerous harassment charges against Thomas Teague, an 11-year ODYS employee, which justified his immediate firing. According to …
Harmon v. Hamilton County, OH, Complaint, 2011 Case: 1:10-cv-00911-SJD Doc #: 3 Filed: 02/04/11 Page: 1 of 14 PAGEID #: 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION CINCINNATI JOHN HARMON 2250 Endovalley Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45244 : Case No.: 1:10-cv-911 : Judge Herman J. …
Former Ohio Prison Guard Dies Shackled to Hospital Bed by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke For five years, Jeff Maier, 53, was an Ohio prison guard. Then for 13 months he was an Ohio state prisoner. The change from one side of the bars to the other occurred after Maier …
Nall v. City of Painesville, OH, Complaint, Excessive Force with Taser, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-02883 Doc #: 1 Filed: 12/21/10 1 of 12. PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION DAVID LEE NALL, by and through his guardian and next friend, Elizabeth Goodwin, c/o David …
Sixth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment for Dentist Who Failed to Provide Temporary Filling by Genuine issues of material fact precluded granting summary judgment to a prison dentist accused of providing deliberately indifferent dental treatment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found. Gregory T. McCarthy, while incarcerated at …
$4 Million Settlement in R&B Singer’s Death from Drug Withdrawal in Ohio Jail for Failure to Pay Child Support by $4 Million Settlement in R&B Singer’s Death from Drug Withdrawal in Ohio Jail for Failure to Pay Child Support A $4 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that …
Ohio: Former Corrections Director Prohibited from Consulting on Jail Issues for 12 Months After Retirement by Responding to a request for an advisory opinion from Terry J. Collins, who retired as Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) effective January 31, 2010, the Ohio Ethics Commission concluded …
Cockrell v City of Cincinnati, OH, Plf Resp to Def MTD, excessive force taser, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-00270-SJD Doc #: 8 Filed: 09/27/10 Page: 1 of 29 PAGEID #: 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION KEITH COCKRELL, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, et al., Defendants. …
$2 Million in Settlements for Wrongful Arrest, Conviction in Ohio by Two former Ohio prisoners have accepted settlements totaling $2 million after being wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. One of the men, Derris Lewis, spent 18 months in jail pending trial on murder charges. The other, Robert …
Ohio Cuts Prison Industry Jobs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2010, Ohio Penal Industries (OPI) announced it planned to close several prison industry programs and reduce its prisoner work force from 1,554 to 1,269 due to budget cuts. Previously, OPI stated in December 2009 that it was …
Pay-to-Stay Jails Unsuccessful in Ohio by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Part of the legacy of the punitive criminal justice philosophy of the 1990s is pay-to-stay incarceration, which involves jails charging prisoners booking fees and per-diem fees. [See: PLN, July 2010, p.10]. The rhetoric behind pay-to-stay programs is that …
Physician Assisted in Botched Execution Attempt in Ohio by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 5, 2009, guards at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville prepared for an onerous task – executing state prisoner Romell Broom. They tried for two hours to find a usable vein in which …
Only Three States in Compliance with Unfunded Federal Sex Offender Mandates by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2006 Congress enacted the Adam Walsh Act, which requires states to institute stricter monitoring of sex offenders or face losing 10% of their federal crime-prevention grants. Although all states were supposed to …
