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California Jail’s Psychotropic Medication Policy Leads to Lawsuit, Settlement by David Reutter Cost cutting is a staple of most prison and jail systems. However, a mid-2007 decision by California’s Fresno County Jail (FCJ) to restrict psychotropic drugs for prisoners turned out to be a short-sighted exercise that resulted in human …
Lawsuit Filed Over Death of Pepper-sprayed, Mentally Ill California Prisoner by Gary Hunter The father and mother of a mentally ill California prisoner who died at the Mule Creek State Prison (MCSP) have filed suit against a host of prison and Amador County, California officials, alleging that their son’s death …
Pfeifer v. Thompson et al, KY, Order, wrongful death mental dehydration starvation Embry, 2016 Pfeifer v. Thompson et al Doc. 127 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY PADUCAH DIVISION CIVIL ACTION NO. 5:15-CV-00007-TBR ROBBIE EMERY BURKE, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES KENNETH EMBRY Plaintiff v. LADONNA THOMPSON, …
Coffey v. Ochiltree County, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00071-J Document 1 Filed 04/15/16 Page 1 of 9 PageID 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AMARILLO DIVISION JOELLA VERLEE COFFEY, in her individual capacity; TERRY MAY, in his individual capacity and with ELIZABETH MAY and JERRY …
Robertson v. Contra Costa County, CA, Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2016 Case 3:15-cv-d._ A9-WHO Document 20 Filed 04/1( _d Page 1 of 59 1 MICHAEL W. BIEN~ 096891 LISA ELLS - 243657 2 VAN SWEARINGEN - 259809 ROSEN BIEN GALV~ & GRUNFELD LLP 3 50 Fremont Street, 19 Floor San Francisco, …
New Mexico: Sharon Jones’s Strep Death Among Shocking Prison Tragedies in Lawsuits by by Michael Roberts, Westword Westword recently shared video showing the jailhouse death of Michael Lee Marshall. The homeless man, who suffered from symptoms associated with paranoid schizophrenia, choked on his own vomit after being restrained by Denver, …
$2.5 Million Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Dehydration Death by The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a mentally ill prisoner who died after spending 35 days in an isolation cell. Michael Anthony Kerr’s death in 2014 occurred during a …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Delayed Washington Competency Evaluations and Treatment Violate Due Process by Mark Wilson “The state has consistently and over a long period of time violated the constitutional rights of the mentally ill – this must stop,” declared a Washington federal district court. “The in-jail wait time” before transferring incompetent criminal defendants …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas: $400,000 Settlement Award to Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner by On June 2, 2015, the Harris County Commissioners Court awarded $400,000 to Terry Goodwin, a mentally ill prisoner, to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from his extreme neglect while housed at the Harris County Jail in Houston. “I have never …
$350,000 Settlement in Suit over Texas Jail Prisoner's Murder by Matthew Clarke On August 21, 2014, Tarrant County, Texas settled for $350,000 a lawsuit brought under the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by the sister and administrator of the estate of deceased Tarrant County Jail prisoner …
Coleman v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement Agreement, wrongful death taser mental, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Percy Coleman, Administrator for the Estate of Philip Coleman, Plaintiff, Case No.: 12 cv 10061 v. NDGE KENNELLY The City of Chicago, Chicago Police Lieutenants …
Dunn et al v. Dunn et al, AL, Settlement Agreement, ADOC disabled prisoners mental, 2016 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 376-1 Filed 03/15/16 Page 2 of 34 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 376-1 Filed 03/15/16 Page 3 of 34 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 376-1 Filed 03/15/16 Page 4 of 34 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 376-1 Filed …
Final Investigation - Inmate Death at Somerset County Jail 05-28, ME DOC, 2014 Department of Corrections State of Maine Department of Corrections State House Station 111 Tyson Building Augusta, ME 04333-0111 Operations Division Phone: (207) 287-2711 FAX: (207) 287-4370 Email: Bob.Lancaster@maine.gov Memorandum To: Ralph Nichols, Director of Operations, MDOC From: …
Article • March 7, 2016
Tulare County, California Settles Prisoner Suicide Case for $1 Million by Derek Gilna Mario Lopez, Jr., according to his attorney's federal civil rights complaint filed by his family in 2011 after his suicide in the Tulare County, California jail, "was a mentally ill man who had suffered for many years …
Prisoner's Family Receives $1.6 Million for Negligent, Fatal Medical Care by Derek Gilna Michael Thomas Anderson, a prisoner at both the Napa County, California, and Siskiyou County, California jails, who had a long history of severe medical and psychological problems, took his own life on April 9, 2009. His heirs …
Review of Solitary Confinement in Texas Lacks Funding to Proceed by Joe Watson A legislatively-mandated, detailed review of the use of solitary confinement in Texas prisons—where the average stay in administrative segregation, or "ad seg," is more than three years—had not been initiated four months after Gov. Rick Perry signed …
Texas State Jails: Private Drug Counselors Ordered to Downplay Mental Illness by Matthew Clarke Former employees of Houston-based Turning Point, Inc., a private, for-profit company which contracted with Texas to provide substance abuse treatment in its state jail system, are revealing how supervisors pressured them to falsify Addiction Severity Index …
Jones v. County of Salem, NJ, Release, ADA diabetes mental illness guard brutality medical neglect, 2016 RELEASE This Release, dated March 4, 2016, is given by the Releasor, Harold Jones, referred to as I, to the County of Salem, Charles Miller, Raymond Skradzinski, and Elbert Johnson, referred to as You. …
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Former California Jail Psychiatrist Placed on Probation by Derek Gilna The former chief psychiatrist at the jail in Fresno County, California was placed on probation for five years and ordered to take additional training courses in the wake of numerous complaints that he provided substandard mental health care to prisoners, …
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