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$3,802,000 Settlement, Rikers' Guard Conviction in Prisoner Death by On December 17, 2014, former Rikers Island Guard Captain Terrence Pendergrass, 52, was sentenced to five years in a federal prison for violating the civil rights of deceased prisoner Jason Echevarria, 25. Echevarria’s estate received a $3,802,000 settlement from the City …
Article • January 3, 2018
Seventh Circuit Approves Use of "Correctional Cure-All" and Insensitive Treatment of Sick Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled against a prisoner who claimed that his serious medical needs were treated with deliberate indifference at an Illinois prison. …
Article • December 28, 2017
Filed under: Medical
Bureau of Prisons Selects New Health Care Accrediting Body by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Federal Bureau of Prisons has contracted with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) to provide accreditation services at the 122 BOP institutions that provide medical, dental and mental health services to prisoners. …
$150,000 in Damages Ordered Paid to Injured Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons lost a tort claim brought by a prisoner who was attacked by another prisoner in 1991. The plaintiff, Stephen E. Usselman, alleged that he was placed in the special housing unit at …
$15.000 Settles Multiple Civil Rights Complaints by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled multiple civil rights lawsuits brought by prisoner David Y. Merritt in March 2002. Merritt, an imprisoned government informant, filed several lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons in federal court between 1995 and 2001. …
BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Robert T. Aranda, an "inmate systems officer" (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six …
Article • December 28, 2017
$330,000 Settles Guard-on-Prisoner Sexual Assault Claims by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons agreed to pay four female prisoners an aggregate total of $330,000.00 in order to settle claims that they were all subjected to sexual abuse at the hands of prison guard Johnsie Donaldson. All four …
Article • December 28, 2017
$99,000 to Settle Claim Over Use of Four-Point Restraints by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The federal Bureau of Prisons settled a claim that alleged abusive use of "four-point" restraints in United States Penitentiary Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Three prisoners held at USP Atlanta who were subjected to …
Article • December 28, 2017
$11,000 for Prisoner's Constitutional Rights Violation Claim by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a claim that prisoner Louis Sheptin's constitutional rights were violated while in custody for $11,000 in August 2002. Sheptin filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern …
Article • December 28, 2017
$2,600 Settles Prisoner's Civil Rights Claim by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled an excessive force civil rights claim brought by prisoner Allan Parmelee. The BOP agreed to pay Parmelee $2,600 in full satisfaction of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims. According to his complaint, while …
Article • December 28, 2017
$675,000 in Wrongful Death of Federal Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Estate of James F. Norton, formerly a prisoner at Federal Correctional Institution Oxford, Wisconsin, was awarded a total of $678,505.67 for the wrongful death of Norton due to negligence by prison medical staff between 1989 and …
Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Union's Challenge to Prison Privatization by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 11, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association's (OCSEA) challenge to the statute allowing for the private operation or sale of certain Ohio state prisons. In doing so, …
Political Contributions Drove Juvenile Prison Privatization by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida is moving to privatize all of its state-run juvenile detention centers. The move comes despite allegations of abuse at two of the state’s private juvenile detention centers. “These programs offer unique services and facilities that should …
Article • December 28, 2017
Connecticut Supreme Court: Death Penalty Abolition is Retroactive by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 12, 2015, the Supreme Court of Connecticut ruled that to execute a person following the state legislature's prospective abolition of the death penalty would violate the state constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. …
Florida Legislator Tackles Abuse of Juvenile Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida legislator who was disturbed by publicized accounts of violence being inflicted on the state’s juvenile prison is using his experience as an auditor to get to the bottom of the problem and recommend change.  …
Article • December 27, 2017
BOP Agrees to Pay Attorney's Fees in Failed Attempt to Stop Construction of Private Prison in Pennsylvania by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The federal Bureau of Prisons agreed via stipulation to pay the attorney's fees and costs of the plaintiff who sued to stop construction of a private prison …
Article • December 27, 2017
Nebraska Seeking $26,700 Refund for Illegal Execution Drugs it Never Received by In April 2015, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (UCS) paid a "pharmaceutical company" located in India $26,700 for 1,000 vials, each containing 1 gram of the execution drug sodium thiopental. It never received the vials. On January …
Article • December 27, 2017
Filed under: Strip Searches
$70,000 Settlement to Female Prison Visitor Who Was Strip-Searched by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, along with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, Superintendent of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) Anthony Mendonsa and SBCC prison guards Jonathan W. Thomas, Carlos M. Goden, Jr., Mark A. Verdini and …
Article • December 27, 2017
Kansas Supreme Court: Fees for Habeas Action Filed by Committed Sex Offenders to be Paid by County by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Supreme Court of Kansas has ruled that any filing fees associated with state habeas corpus actions brought by civilly committed sex offenders must be paid by …
Article • December 27, 2017
Reversed by Supreme Court, Eighth Circuit Remands Prisoner Grooming Case Back to District Court by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Arkansas state prisoner Larry Jones desired to grow a beard, as his religion required. Arkansas prison officials, citing an Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) policy disallowing beards, said no. Jones …
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