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Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
$9.9 Million Paid to Washington Prisoner Whose Misdiagnosed Cancer Is Now Terminal by On January 31, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay a former prisoner and her family $9.9 million for failing to diagnose and treat her uterine cancer, leaving the disease to spread and become …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Oregon Pays $50,000 to Settle Retaliation Suit by PLN Contributor, Who Wins Release by In March 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by PLN contributing writer Mark Wilson, paying him $50,000 and vacating a prior prison disciplinary finding. Less than a year …
Philadelphia Held in Contempt of Jail Conditions Settlement, Ordered to Pay $25 Million by On July 12, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held the City of Philadelphia in contempt of a 2022 settlement in which its Department of Prisons (PDP) agreed to improve …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 18, 2024, the United States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nearly $12 Million Paid to Mentally Disabled Indiana Prisoner Wrongly Convicted of Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Indiana city of Elkhart agreed to pay former state prisoner Andrew Royer, then 44, nearly $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed over his wrongful murder …
Pennsylvania Prisoner Released from Solitary After 15 Years by On March 5, 2024, the federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania agreed to dismiss the complaint of a state prisoner held in solitary confinement for 15 years after the state Department of Corrections (DOC) reportedly agreed to a settlement. …
Suits Filed Over Dehydration Deaths at Two Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 9, 2024, the grandmother of a mentally ill detainee who died of dehydration at Texas’ Denton County Jail (DCJ) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing jail staff of deliberate indifference in allowing …
$400,000 Jury Verdict for Medical Neglect Resulting in Amputation of Alabama Prisoner’s Toes by On May 20, 2024, a federal jury in Alabama returned a verdict against a doctor employed by Wexford Health Sources, Inc., the private medical provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC). It was part …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of state prisoner Anthony Penton, adding $788,744.97 to an …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Lawsuits by Michigan Prisoner Yield $57,750 in Settlements, Plus Policy Changes by In a letter received in August 2024, Michigan state prisoner John Patrick Moore II notified PLN about three successful lawsuits he filed against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) which resulted in settlement agreements. In an important case, …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
$1.5 Million Settlement Reached for Oregon Prisoner’s Untreated Traumatic Brain Injury by A report published by Oregon Capital Chronicle on November 11, 2024, noted that former state prisoner Jacqueline Orr, 57, still suffers the effects of a brain injury incurred during her incarceration—walking “gingerly” while “clutching a cane” through a …
Shrewd Federal Prisoner Salvages $5,000 from Suit Against Arkansas Jail Where He Was Held Pre-Trial by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Randall Morris was held in Arkansas’ Miller County Detention Center (MCDC) from January 20, 2020, until he was transferred to Saline County Detention Center (SCDC) on March 24, …
Centurion’s $8 Million Track Record of Abuse and Neglect as New Mexico’s Correctional Medical Provider by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has long outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide prisoners adequate medical care to private, for-profit corporations with little incentive to do so. Before …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
$46 Million Paid to Exonerated Missouri Prisoner Wrongfully Incarcerated for 10 Years by On November 1, 2024, a Missouri jury returned a $37.9 million verdict against Travelers Indemnity Company in favor of an exonerated state prisoner after the insurance giant balked at covering an $11 million settlement of his wrongful …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: Sanitation, Settlements
$22,000 Jury Award for Unsanitary Conditions at Virginia Jail by A federal jury in Virginia returned a verdict on March 22, 2024, in favor of Antoinette Weathers, 63, in her civil rights challenge to conditions at Peninsula Regional Jail when detained there after a June 2022 conviction of misdemeanor assault. …
BOP Settles Muslim Prisoner’s Religious Discrimination and Medical Denial Claims at Colorado Supermax by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 26, 2024, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) entered into the last of multiple settlement agreements with a Muslim prisoner who accused the prison agency of failing to …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Jury Awards $352,300 to Prisoners Tortured at Notorious Utah Jail by After an investigation into rampant abuse by guards, Utah’s Daggett County Jail closed its doors in 2017. A group of four state prisoners held at the jail under contract with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) then filed suit …
$38 Million Jury Award for Physical, Sexual Abuse at New Hampshire Juvenile Lockup by In 1995, when David Meehan was 14 years old, he was committed to New Hampshire’s Youth Development Center (YDC), later renamed Sununu Youth Services Center, a secure juvenile detention center in Manchester. There he was raped …
Last Charges Dropped in Suffocation Death of Virginia Jail Detainee by On November 4, 2024, Commonwealth’s Attorney Amanda Mann in Virginia’s Dinwiddie County dropped charges against the last two of eight defendants charged in the death of Henrico County Jail detainee Irvo Otieno. That means no one will face trial …
HRDC Wins Massive New Mexico Records Trove from Centurion by This month’s PLN cover story covers documents pried loose from Centurion Correctional Healthcare of N.M., LLC, which held the contract to provide medical care for the state Corrections Department (NMCD) in 2020, when a request was filed under the state …
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