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Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$14,950 Awarded in NY Window Frame Suit by On September 17, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded the estate of Carmine Tarantino $14,950 for injuries Tarantino suffered at the Attica Correctional Facility when a window frame came loose and struck him on the head. Tarantino died of unrelated …
$12,000 Awarded in NY Work Injury Suit by On June 28, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded Leon Bienkowski $12,000 for past general damages for injuries he suffered on a prison work detail. Bienkowski was a prisoner at the Elmira Correctional Facility in New York in 1996 when …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$800,000 Settlement in AZ Jail Restraint Suit by In August, 1999, the Maricopa County board of supervisors, approved an $800,000 settlement for a pretrial detainee subjected to excessive force in the Maricopa County (Phoenix) Jail in Arizona. Richard Post, a wheelchair bound paraplegic was arrested and taken to the county …
One-Year NY SHU Atypical and Significant Hardship by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal court in New York has held that one year in SHU is an atypical and significant hardship pursuant to Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995). The court also held that a prisoner must exhaust state …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$8,000 Awarded in NY Chair Collapse by On November 24, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded $8,000 in damages to New York prisoner Troy Benjamin. In 1995 while Benjamin was a prisoner at the Collins Correctional Facility, the back of the chair he was sitting in fell off, …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Ohio Prisons Change Birthing Policy by In January, 2000, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and corrections (DORC), announced it would change its policies for pregnant prisoners at the Franklin Pre-Release Center in Columbus, Ohio, which houses the state's pregnant prisoners. The policy change is a result of a lawsuit filed …
Brown v. ID DOC, ID, Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial, ADA Medical Care Denial, 2000 "" 7"" I)F 1.n-ii COMPREHENSIVE ADVOCACY. INC. 845 West Center, CI07 Pocatello, ID 83204 Telephone. (208) 232..Q922 Facsimile (208) 232..Q938 Amy Cunningham, Attorney for Plaintiff, Douglas Brown UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE OISTRICTOF …
Brown v. ID DOC, ID, Complaint, Paraplegic Disabled Prisoner Neglect, 2000
Brief • July 17, 2000
Filed under: Injury -- Misc., Burning
Bowman v. District of Columbia, DC, Release, Inmate Burn Injury, 2000 , Memorandum • Government of the District of Columbia RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, NEAL BOWMAN, Va. # 266-327. residing at Sussex" State Prison, 24427 Musslelwhit Drive, Waverly, Vrginia 23891-2, for consideration of the sum …
$100,000 Awarded Under ICCPR in GA Jail Suit by On February 24, 2000, a federal jury In Augusta, Georgia awarded 1100,000 in damages to a Danish citizen who was denied medical care and phone calls to his family in Denmark while he was awaiting trial in the Lincoln county jail …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Individual Analysis Required for Diabetic Class Action Damage Award by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the lower court erred in holding that all members of the plaintiff class past, present, and future of insulin-dependent diabetic prisoners alleged violation of their …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
$97,500 Awarded in NY Prison Work Accident by On July 19, 1999, a Binghamton county court in New York awarded $97,500 in damages to Fred Thomas for an eye injury he suffered. while imprisoned in a New York state prison in 1993. Thomas, then a 33-year-old prisoner at the Elmira …
Arizona Jury Acquits CCA Escapees by Two Alaska state prisoners on trial for a 1996 escape from a private prison were acquitted by an Arizona jury. The prosecution was undoubtedly stunned by the verdict in what was considered to be an open and shut case. However, the prosecutor in the …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
$1.5 Million Awarded in Arizona Jail Medical Neglect Suit by On April 15, 1999, a Maricopa County Superior Court jury awarded $1.5 million in damages to former Maricopa County (Phoenix, Arizona) jail detainee Timothy Griffin. Griffin was imprisoned for driving on a suspended license. Griffin has a history of ulcers. …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Federal Judge Hits BOP Mule with Two-by-Four by Federal Judge Hits BOP Mule With Two-by-Four A ticked-off federal judge in Miami interrupted the fraud and money-laundering trial of jewel dealer Jack Hasson February 2, 2000, for an "extraordinary display of judicial pique and power," the Palm Beach Post reported. U.S. …
Prison Working Conditions Protected by Eighth Amendment by A federal district court in New York held that fact issues existed as to whether a prison official was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's health, and whether she was aware of unsafe working conditions. Since both situations fall within the purview of …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
$200,000 Awarded in Michigan Jail Wrongful Medication Suit by On June 22, 1999, a Macomb county jury in Michigan awarded $200,000 in damages to David Dempsey after he was wrongly medicated in the Macomb county jail. Dempsey suffers from bipolar disorder. While imprisoned on the psychiatric floor of the Macomb …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Texas Prison Dentist Settles Dentures Suit for $3,150 by Jon Michael Withrow In April, 2003, a state prison dentist settled for $3,150 a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit brought by a prisoner in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the dentist refused to provide …
DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care at Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care At Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby Allegations of improper medical treat-ment, lack of medical treatment, and several suspicious deaths at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, a state women's prison in Vandalia, …
2003 Washington Legislative Round-up by Lonnie Burton In its 2003 session the Washington leg-islature enacted numerous laws affecting prisoners. Highlights of the most relevant laws are as follows: Regional Jails Substitute House Bill 1609 instructs the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to present a plan by Dec. 31, 2003, for creating "pilot …
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