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$248,000 Jury Award for Inhumane D.C. Jail Conditions by Five prisoners in the D.C. Jail were awarded a total of $248,000 in damages On February 1, 2006, following a two day jury trial in federal district court over inhumane and unconstitutional conditions at the jail. Shannon J. Battle, Bernard Brown, …
Federal Prisoner's Retaliation Claims Survive Summary Judgment by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoner who had testified for the government and against co-defendants, prison guards and other prisoners, found himself in the line of fire of numerous retaliatory actions by prison staff. His Bivens …
Retaliatory Discipline Claims Dismissed, Conditions Claims Remain by The plaintiff's damage claim alleging that officers planted a key which led to a disciplinary proceeding in which he lost good time is barred by Heck v. Humphrey, as is his claim that the hearing itself was defective. In any case, federal …
Double Celling Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Third circuit affirmed a district court's order, at 719 F. Supp. 126 (WD PA 1989), which held that double celling in Pennsylvania prisons violated the Eighth amendment under a "totality of conditions" analysis. The overall prison conditions consisted of dilapidated, …
Los Angeles County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional by A California federal district court held the conditions at the Los Angeles County Jail were unconstitutional. This class action suit resulted in a non-jury trial that alleged violations of the pre-trial detainees' constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. The court found the detainees …
Alabama Prison Conditions Unconstitutional by A district court in Alabama declared the conditions of confinement in Alabama state prisons unconstitutionally cruel and unusual in a class- action suit. The court ordered that: (1) prison populations be reduced to design capacity; (2) isolation prisoners be single-celled with not less than 40 …
Environmental, Sanitary Problems Violate Due Process by The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that certain jail conditions violated pretrial detainee's due process rights. Pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), the New York City Department of Corrections petitioned for immediate termination of consent …
Article • May 15, 2007
Segregation Conditions at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Not Unconstitutional by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's order holding the conditions of confinement in the segregation building at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary were not unconstitutional. This action was brought by two prisoners at the Penitentiary and certified as …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Claim for Guard Ordering Prisoner to Touch his Penis by The plaintiff alleged that on two occasions an officer unzipped his clothing and instructed the plaintiff to grab his penis. He further alleged that the same officer turned off his water and power for five hours in connection with …
El Paso County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed a district court's order that found conditions at Texas' El Paso County Jail were unconstitutional and ordered injunctive relief to correct the violations. The district court ordered that exercise and recreational areas be installed; prisoner diets …
Buford-Lewis v. Marion County, IN, Complaint, jail conditions, 2007 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 1 of 9 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 2 of 9 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 3 of 9 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 4 of 9 Case …
Kentucky County Jail Settles Lawsuit Alleging Overcrowded Conditions by Michael Rigby On November 30, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky tentatively approved the settlement of a class action lawsuit alleging unconstitutionally overcrowded conditions at the Campbell County Jail in Newport, Kentucky. Built in 1991, the …
No Qualified Immunity on Toothpaste, Inhaler & Ventilation Claims by The Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals upheld a district courts denial of qualified immunity to jail officials on claims of denial of toothpaste, withholding asthma inhaler and inadequate ventilation. In 1984, two Indiana men disappeared. Neither the men nor their …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
Court Holds Temperatures on Florida's Death Row Constitutional; Class Action Exhaustion Explained by David Reutter By David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Florida District Court's order denying that prisoners' cell temperatures on Florida's death row constitute cruel and unusual punishment. This civil rights action was …
Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional; Sweeping Reforms Ordered by Bob Williams Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional; Sweeping Reforms Ordered by Bob Williams Hailed as the broadest ruling ever is-sued by a federal judge in a death row conditions of confinement case, and a precedent setting breakthrough in prisoners' rights, conditions …
Alabama's Women Prisoners Moved to Louisiana to Ease Overcrowding by Alabama's Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women at Wetumpka was built in 1942 to house 364 prisoners. In 2002, Tutwiler's population rose beyond 1,000 with overcrowding so severe that a group of women prisoners sought relief by filing a lawsuit in …
Alabama Jail Enjoined for "Uncivilized and Hazardous Conditions" by Chief Judge Clemon of the Federal District Court, Northern District of Alabama, has preliminarily enjoined the Morgan County Jail, its sheriff, administrator, and commissioners, and the commissioner and transfer director of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) because of conditions described …
Puerto Rico Prison Officials Fined $10 Million by A federal court in Puerto Rico held prison officials in contempt for failing to comply with court orders governing prison conditions and imposed a contempt sanction of $10 million. More than 20 years ago the court first dealt with prison overcrowding in …
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Consent Decree, Inmate Funds Misappropriation, 2001 Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 45 Filed 09/25/01 Page 1 of 18 F·- 11'··~ L::. ·-.. r·) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 01SEP25 PM 3: 32 NORTHEASTERN DMSION U.S. DiS: r.;~: N.O. OF AL …
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