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 …
No Qualified Immunity for Excessive Force at Ohio Jail by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to Ohio jailers on a detainee’s excessive force, denial of medical care, equal protection and state law claims. On April 3, 2004, Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Helen …
No Qualified Immunity for Denial of Protective Custody to Ohio Prisoner by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity in an Ohio prisoner’s lawsuit raising a failure to protect claim. Ohio prisoner George Hamilton was the target of a “hit” by the Aryan …
DC Circuit Reverses CCA/TransCor Non-Exhaustion Dismissal by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and for conceding summary judgment by failing to respond to the defendants’ summary judgment motion. The …
Ohio Prisoner Awarded $40,000 for Sexual Assault by On August 19, 2009, an Ohio prisoner was awarded $40,000 after being sexually assaulted as a result of deliberate indifference to his safety. John Meyer, a prisoner at the Southeastern Correctional Institution (SCI), approached Sergeant Barbara McNicholas after being “roughed up” and …
Summary Judgment Denied in Ohio Police Excessive Force Case by An Ohio Federal district Court granted in part and denied in part a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit against guards at the Montgomery County Jail, alleging use of excessive force. After being arrested by Dayton Police for criminal …
Ohio County Jail Settles Sex Suit for $30,000 by On September 14, 2006, Medina County, Ohio agreed to settle a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit by a woman who claimed that she was sexually exploited by guards. Tammy DeCosta sued Medina County after Kathy Hastings, a guard at the Medina …
Sex Addicted Ohio Sheriff’s Jail Supervisor Receives $1,000 Following Termination by Ohio’s Warren County Sheriff’s Office has agreed to pay $1,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former jail supervisor who was fired for viewing pornography and masturbating at work. A 2006 investigation of former Lieutenant Shaun Wells resulted …
$862,500 Settlement in Mentally Ill Ohio Jail Prisoner’s Death by A settlement of $862,500 has been reached in the death of a mentally ill prisoner who died at Ohio’s Summit County Jail (SCJ). While acting in a delusional and disoriented manner, Mark D. McCallaugh, 28, was arrested on August 7, …
Ohio Inspector General Finds Wrongful Acts by Prison System’s Assistant Director by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 29, 2009, the State of Ohio’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released an investigative report concerning the relationship between Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) Assistant Director Michael Randle …
