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Michigan Guard Who Procured Hit On Prisoner Must Pay $200,000 Damages by by Marvin Mentor A Michigan federal jury returned verdicts of $75,000 in compensatory damages and $125,000 in punitive damages against a Michigan state prison guard who paid one prisoner six cigarettes to viciously pummel another. Michigan prisoner Barton …
California Prison Employee Paid $500,000 To Settle Whistleblower Retaliation Suit by The California Department of Cor¬rections (CDC) settled an employee whistleblower retaliation suit for $500,000 in October, 2004. CDC admitted it had additionally spent $300,000 in legal fees fighting the claim. Richard Krupp, formerly the chief of CDC’s Personnel Automation …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
California Guard Wins $10 Million Default Judgment Against Assaultive Prisoners by A guard at California State Prison Los Angeles (CSP-LA) in Lancaster, who was allegedly injured by two prisoners, was awarded a $10,253,792.57 default judgment against them in Los Angeles Superior Court on March 17, 2005. Guard Demont Blunt, 25, …
$1 Million L.A. County Jail Rape Award Overturned by by Marvin Mentor The California Court of Appeal, in an unpublished opinion, reversed a Los Angeles (L.A.) County jury verdict that had awarded $1 million in damages to a jail detainee who was brutally beaten and raped in his L. A. …
Suit Over Rape of Prisoner By TDCJ Employee Settled for $118,318.56 and Beach Property by By Matthew T. Clarke On November 19, 2004, a Texas prisoner who was raped by a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guard settled his suit against the guard and TDCJ for a total of …
Summary Judgment Reversed in Louisiana Jail Conditions Case by by Robert H. Woodman The Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit, reversed summary judgment granted by the Twenty-Third Judicial District Court of Ascension Parish (Louisiana) to the Ascension Parish sheriff in a case involving conditions of confinement at the Ascension …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
NY Prisoner Awarded $160,000 for Lost Testicle by A New York Court of Claims has awarded a former Collins Correctional Facility prisoner $160,000 in a medical malpractice suit. On November 22, 1998, Robert Hicks experienced pain in the area of his left waist. He said he laid on his bed, …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Ohio Awards $1,402.92 Award For 11 Days False Imprisonment by by Michael Rigby An Ohio prisoner should be awarded $1,402.92 for 11 days of false imprisonment, a magistrate recommended to the Ohio Court of Claims on October 21, 2004. On September 14, 1999, plaintiff Glen Wilson was sentenced to two …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
$195,900 in Damages, Fees/Costs Awarded in Prison Sexual Abuse Case; PLRA Fee Caps Inapplicable to Former Prisoners by A federal court in New York awarded a former prisoner $179,900 in attorney's fees and costs, against the prison guard who sexually assaulted her. The court concluded that the fee cap provisions …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Michigan Prisoner Awarded $376,525 For Back Injury Sustained In Crash by A Michigan prisoner has been awarded $376,525 for back injuries sustained in a prison van crash. Lorenzo Johnson, a 40-year-old state prisoner, was being transferred from one prison to another when the van he was riding in hit a …
Florida Jury Awards $3,000,000 for Medical Negligence Causing Prisoner's Death by After a seven-day trial, a Florida jury awarded $3,006,200 to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence, causing the death of a Florida prisoner. This was brought by the estate of prisoner Clifford E. Jones, Jr., 35, against …
Michigan's Restrictive Placement Of HIV+ Prisoners Enjoined; $2 Million Damages Awarded by by John E. Dannenberg Winning a fifteen year state court battle, Michigan prisoners who tested positive for HIV (AIDS virus), and who were otherwise eligible to serve their time in community residential programs, camps or farms, gained the …
Ohio Appeals Court Upholds $7,820 Award for 70 Days Unlawful Incarceration by By Robert H. Woodman The Tenth District Court of Appeals of Ohio upheld a $7,820 damages award by the Ohio Court of Claims to Alton M. Stroud, a prisoner of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC). …
D.C. Prisoner Receives $19,500 Settlement for Slip-and-Fall by The United States and the District of Columbia agreed on June 4, 2004, to pay Robert M. North $19,500 for injuries he received from falling down a set of stairs while handcuffed. North was arrested on Thanksgiving Day 2000 by Federal Marshals. …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Wisconsin County Pays $6.95 Million To Settle Strip-Search Suit by by Michael Rigby St. Croix County, Wisconsin, and its insurer has paid $6.95 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the county jail's blanket strip-search policy, according to the terms of a February 27, 2004, settlement …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
New Federal Civil Rights Tax Relief Act Ends Double Taxation On Attorney Fee Awards by by John E. Dannenberg On October 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act (CRTRA), enacted as section 703 of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. While the CRTRA …
$40,000 To Settle Excessive Force Claim At Los Angeles County Jail by In September, 2004, the Los Angeles County Claims Board (Board) agreed to pay $40,000 to settle an excessive force claim brought by a prisoner injured at the L.A. County Main Jail. On March 17, 2002, prisoner Joseph Amezola …
Rhode Island Prisoner Awarded $3,900 for False Imprisonment by A Rhode Island jury awarded a prisoner $3,900 for false imprisonment on April 21, 2004. In August 1994, William Ross was incarcerated and held by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) on a minor larceny charge. During his incarceration, the …
Delaware Prisoner's $100,000 Damage Award For Retaliation Upheld by by Michael Rigby A disabled Delaware prisoner's $100,000 damage award for retaliation will stand, a federal district court in Delaware has held. On August 20, 1999, Roger Atkinson, a blind prisoner with a host of medical problems, sued Delaware prison officials …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment Is Not Double Punishment by Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment Is Not Double Punishment by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeals held that a drunk driver convicted of vehicular manslaughter was not constitutionally immune from the second …
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