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Washington Prison Staff Properly Fired For Sexually Assaulting Prisoner by Division 2 of the Washington State Court of Appeals (Div. 2) has affirmed the summary dismissal of a prison guards law-suit for wrongful discharge for sexual misconduct. James Shinn was captain of a ferry serving the McNeil Island Correction Center …
Wisconsin Prison Employee Raped By Prisoner Awarded $366,000 by On April 8, 2005, a federal jury awarded $366,000 to a Wisconsin prison employee who was raped by a prisoner. The 51-year-old female plaintiff, a non-security employee of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections was raped by a knife-wielding prisoner on December …
Private Prison Firms Stumble; Hire Former California Officials to Lobby for For-Profit Facilities by Private prison companies, which presently house only 2,550 of California's 165,000 prisoners, have hired a former county lawmaker, former CDC employees and the former state Finance Director in an attempt to expand into the $7 billion …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
85 Year-Old California Prison Doctor Wins $20 Million For Age Discrimination by The chief physician and surgeon at California State Prison, Lancaster, still practicing medicine at age 85, successfully sued the California Department of Corrections (CDC) for age discrimination when CDC forced him to retire. On July 18, 2005, a …
Jail Prisoner Strangles Psychiatrist; Jury Awards $2.6 Million by A Florida jury awarded $2,650,260 in the strangling death of a psychiatrist doing an evaluation on a prisoner at the Collier County Jail. David J. Hoyer was doing a court ordered competency evaluation on January 3, 2001, when he was attacked …
U.S. Corrections Corporation Stock Suit by U.S. Corrections Corporation Stock Suit Settled for $13.2 Million The former owners of U.S. Correctional Corporation (USCC) have agreed to settle a lawsuit over misuse of the employee stock-ownership plan for $13.2 million. Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of …
Fired, Tattooed, Nude-Posing Guard Settles with Maryland DOC for $10,000 by by Matthew T. Clarke Maryland has agreed to pay an ex-guard who appeared nude on a website and in a tattoo magazine $10,000 to get her to drop her wrongful discharge claim after an administrative law judge sided with …
California County Jail Quietly Settles by Substandard Healthcare Suit For $1.75 Million Santa Clara County, California has quietly paid a settlement of $1.75 million to settle a federal claim by county jail healthcare workers about being retaliated against and demoted for having complained about substandard healthcare practices they observed in …
Article • October 15, 2005
$26,000 Paid in WA DOC Guard's Discrimination/Retaliation Claim by Robert D. Taylor, a guard at Airway Heights Corrections Center, was injured by another guard during an unauthorized drill. Taylor filed a complaint over the drill, as he had sustained a neck injury that required a titanium rod and plate in …
Article • October 15, 2005
North Carolina Didn't Waive Sovereign Immunity by Removing State Action to Federal Court by North Carolina Didn't Waive Sovereign Immunity by Removing State Action to Federal Court Charles Stewart, chief of security for the North Carolina Department of Correction (NCDOC), was implicated in a double-billing scheme, which a newspaper reported. …
Ban On Male Guards In Michigan Women's Prisons Upheld by Michael Rigby The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a Michigan Department of Corrections policy prohibiting male guards from holding certain positions in the state's female prisons did not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
California Guard Wins $10 Million Default Judgment Against Assaultive Prisoners by A guard at California State Prison Los Angeles (CSP-LA) in Lancaster, who was allegedly injured by two prisoners, was awarded a $10,253,792.57 default judgment against them in Los Angeles Superior Court on March 17, 2005. Guard Demont Blunt, 25, …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Former Wackenhut Guard Awarded $600,000 For Wrongful Termination by A federal jury in Fresno, California, has awarded $600,000 to a former guard at the Taft Correctional.Institution (TCI) for wrongful termination. TCI is a private prison operated by the Geo Group, formerly Wackenhut Corrections Corporation [see PLN, June 2004, p.16]. TCI …
Alabama Workers' Comp Act No Bar to Psychological Torts by The Alabama Court of Appeals held that Alabama's Workers' Compensation Act is not an exclusive remedy for tort claims of employees alleging purely psychological injuries. Three female employees of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS) brought suit against CMS employees of …
Besmirched California Prison Doctors Sue To Block Higher Qualification Standards by By John E. Dannenberg California Department of Corrections (CDC) doctors, who have been much maligned in recent scathing federal court reports depicting “horrible” medical care conditions in California’s prisons, made a defensive move on April 29, 2005 by having …
Veteran California Prison Official Promoted Despite Checkered Past; Folsom Lieutenant Fired After Be by Veteran California Prison Official Promoted Despite Checkered Past; Folsom Lieutenant Fired After Being Convicted Of Lying In June, 2004, Jonathan L. Cobbs was promoted to the $97,000/yr. Chief Deputy Warden position at the California Correctional Institution …
Jury Awards $500,000 to Massachusetts Jail Guard Harassed for Breaking Code of Silence by by Matthew T. Clarke A Boston federal jury has awarded $500,000 to a guard who was harassed at work by other jail employees after he reported misconduct by another guard. Bruce S. Baron, a former guard …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Kentucky Prison Guard Awarded $34,000 in Sexual Harassment Suit by Kentucky Prison Guard Awarded $34,000 in Sexual Harassment Suit On May 27, 2003, a state circuit court in Oldham, Kentucky, awarded prison guard Karen Lemarr a total of $34,000 for the lost wages, embarrassment, and emotional distress she suffered as …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
New Jersey Jail Guard Settles Elevator Fall Suit for $750,000 by On December 15, 2003, Global Elevator Technologies (GET), a company under contract with the Union County (New Jersey) Jail to provide elevator maintenance services, agreed to pay $750,000 to a guard who suffered back and knee injuries in a …
Texas "Gang Expert" Indicted for Sex Assaults by On June 17, 2004, top Texas prison administrator Salvador "Sammy" Buentello was indicted on felony charges that he sexually assaulted three female employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). A week earlier Buentello had been indicted on four misdemeanor charges …
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