$6,500 Paid to Illinois Prisoner After Denied Records Request by On June 20, 2023, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) signed an agreement paying state prisoner Jared M. Staake $6,500 to settle his claims over denied public records requested under the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 ILCS 140/1, …
Seventh Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Illinois Jail Guards Who Relied on Nurse’s Opinion that Detainee Was “Faking” Symptoms Before He Died by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 15, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Illinois …
Harris v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2024 Case: 1:24-cv-03215 Document #: 1 Filed: 04/22/24 Page 1 of 39 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION DARIEN HARRIS, Plaintiff, v. Case No. __________ CITY OF CHICAGO, Illinois, DEVINN JONES, …
$19.3 Million Awarded to Former Illinois Prisoner Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted by Prison Counselor by by Matt Clarke On September 22, 2023, a jury in federal court for the Central District of Illinois awarded a total of $19.3 million to a former state prisoner who was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a …
Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee by David Reutter David M. Reutter On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of a suit filed by a pretrial detainee challenging the contraband policy at the …
Taylor v. Wexford Health Sources Inc, IL, Verdict, Failure to Provide Medical Care, 2024 ---!------------------ - - --- - ------------- -------- --4-------- - -------- ----- ----- .. Case: 1:16-cv-03464 Document#: 545 Filed: 04/01/24 Page 1 of 1 PagelD #:21108 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE Northern District of Illinois -CM/ECF-NextGen …
Farris v. Kohlrus, IL, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD DIVISION JACQUELINE FARRIS, ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff. V. ERIC KOHLRUS, CHRISTINE BRANNON, CLARA CHARRON. NORINE ASHLEY. LISA JOHNSON, PATRICK KEANE. MIKE FUNK. FELIPE ZAVALA. ALAN PASLEY, ALEX …
Illinois Failing to Grant Dying Prisoners Medical Releases by of dying and medically enfeebled state prisoners were expected to be released when Illinois lawmakers passed the Joe Coleman Medical Release (JCMR) Act. But an investigative report released on August 30, 2023, found that two-thirds of prisoner requests had been denied …
Seventh Circuit Says Lack of Expert Testimony Dooms Illinois Prisoner’s Medical Neglect Claim by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit offered an Illinois state prisoner a hard lesson on July 27, 2023, affirming dismissal of his medical neglect claim against prison contractor …
Illinois Eases Restrictions on Prisoners Released Under Supervision by On July 28, 2023, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a new law that eases restrictions on released prisoners still under state supervision. SB 423, which took effect in January 2024, modifies requirements to complete the final stages of a sentence, …
First Prisoners Released Two Years After Illinois Passed Law to Revisit Excessive Sentences by When Charles Patton, 54, rolled out of Dixon Correctional Center in his wheelchair on July 19, 2023, he was the first Illinois prisoner freed under SB 2129, a re-sentencing measure passed two years earlier. The second …
Seventh Circuit Finds Jail Guard May Be Liable for Delayed Response to Illinois Detainee’s Fatal Heart Attack by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a suit alleging delayed medical care caused the …
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Claim of Illinois Prisoner Held 18 Months After Release for Refusing to Sign Incomplete Form by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke “Justice delayed is justice denied,” as former British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said. On August 7, 2023, a former Illinois prisoner finally got a measure …
BOP Slammed for Prisoner Abuse in Now-Shuttered Segregation Unit at USP-Thomson in Illinois by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A report on July 6, 2023, from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs (WLCCR&UA) exposed abuses suffered by prisoners at the hands of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
$3 Million Settlement for Illinois Pretrial Detainee’s Opioid Withdrawal Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $3 million settlement in the 2020 withdrawal death of Illinois pretrial detainee Elissa A. Lindhorst at the Madison County Jail was fully executed on May 10, 2023. Lindhorst, 28, was another casualty …
Cash Bail Eliminated in Illinois, Reduced in Los Angeles County by In separate decisions on the same day, the Supreme Court of Illinois and the Superior Court of Los Angeles County reformed their jurisdictions’ cash bail systems on July 18, 2023. Illinois became the first state in the nation to …
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Claim Against Kitchen Supervisor for Scalding From Spilled Hot Water by by Matt Clarke On July 14, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstated a claim brought by an Illinois prisoner who was severely burned when he tripped on a damaged …
Seventh Circuit Slams Illinois Civil Commitment Program but Reverses Injunction by “Very weighty interests are at stake when a state institutes a program of civil commitment for sex offenders who, though never tried for or convicted of a crime, are found too dangerous for release.” So began a ruling by …
Phillips v. Hulett, IL, Order on Final Approval and Final Judgment, Strip Search, 2023 3:12-cv-03087-JEH # 323 Filed: 12/08/23 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PATRICIA PHILLIPS, et al., Plaintiffs, -vsMELODY HULETT, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) …
News in Brief by Alabama: Within 48-hours of booking into the Morgan County Jail on August 29, 2023, Miles Rea Batson, 39, had two second-degree assault charges added to his public intoxication charge as well as another for disarming a law enforcement agent. WHNT in Huntsville reported that during booking …
