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Texas: Sexually Assaulted Boot Camp Prisoners Awarded $2,800,000 Against CSC by On December 12, 2001 three former female prisoners who claimed they were sexually assaulted while imprisoned in a privately operated boot camp in Mansfield, Texas were awarded a total of $2,800,000 against the camp's operator. Plaintiffs, Keri Echols Chattha, …
Article • May 15, 2007
New Mexico County Settles Sex Assault Claim for $40,000 by During the week of June 26, 2000, San Juan County, New Mexico, agreed to settle for $40,000 a former prisoner's lawsuit that claimed she was sexually assaulted by two jailers at the county jail. Plaintiff Sandra Lucero alleged that during …
Article • May 15, 2007
NJ Prisoner Can Sue County for Rape by Guard; $258,000 Verdict Affirmed by The New Jersey Supreme Court reinstated a claim against the Union County Jail (UCJ) brought by a male prisoner who was raped by a guard. The prisoner was "called out" of his cell and taken to a …
Article • May 15, 2007
$10,000 Settlement for WA Prisoner Raped by Guard by Washington Corrections Center for Women prisoner Patricia Cruz Ortiz was sexually assaulted by guard Dondia Ray Lenoir on December 18, 1995, and January 6, 1996. Ortiz filed suit in Thurston county superior court. She was represented by attorney Jeanette Booth of …
No Jurisdiction for Claim of Rape in Indian Jail by The plaintiff alleged that while she was in a detention center operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs she was sexually assaulted and battered by a guard. The court lacked jurisdiction over her claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress …
Article • May 15, 2007
Indiana Prisoner Raped By Staff Ordered to Amend Complaint by Since Indiana has a tort claims act, plaintiff's allegation that defendants took a watch from him does not state a due process claim. At 972: "Denying an inmate nutritious food may constitute an Eighth Amendment violation, but conditions that would …
West Virginia Prisoner's Claiming Physical or Sexual Abuse Exempt from Administrative Exhaustion Req by West Virginia Prisoner's Claiming Physical or Sexual Abuse Exempt from Administrative Exhaustion Requirement The Supreme court of Appeals of West Virginia has held that a prisoner alleging past, current, or imminent physical or sexual abuse is …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Jail Chaplains Scrutinized for Affairs with Female Prisoners by Two county jail chaplains in different states are being accused by female prisoners of seeking sex from them while in custody. When she was held in Indiana?s Morgan County Jail, Susan L. Robbins, 38, was involved in the jail?s GED program. …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
A Devastating Link: Prisoner Rape and the War on Drugs by by Lovisa Stannow and Kathy Hall-Martinez The enormous financial and moral costs of the ?war on drugs? have been well-documented over the past few years. Less known is the devastating link between U.S. drug policy and the epidemic of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Abuse by Female Guard States Claim by A federal district court held that a Michigan prisoner had stated a claim by alleging a female guard had physically abused him. Not a ruling on the merits. See: Gilson v. Cox, 711 F. Supp. 354 (ED MI 1989).
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Superintendents Not Dismissed from Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Claim by Prison Superintendents Not Dismissed From Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Claim The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss the Superintendent and an Assistant Superintendent from a complaint filed by a …
Driver's License Examiner Denied Qualified Immunity in Prisoner's Sexual Assault by The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma denied a former driver's license examiner summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity in a case in which the examiner is charged with sexually assaulting a female work …
Article • May 15, 2007
E.R. Doctor Not "State Actor"; Prison Guards Liable for Assault by E.R. Doctor Not "State Actor"; Prison Guards Liable for Assault The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, partly reversing a federal district court in Michigan, has held that a state prisoner stated a claim for relief against prison guards for …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Department of Corrections Sued Over Systemic Rape of Women Prisoners by Ava Azizi New York Department of Corrections Sued Over Systemic Rape of Women Prisoners by Ava Azizi Bobbie Kidd was raped on August 9, 2001 while serving time in Albion Correctional Facility. She claims she was raped …
Sixth Circuit Orders Evidentiary Hearing in § 2255 Action; BOP Guard Gets 262 Months for Prisoner Rapes by Sixth Circuit Orders Evidentiary Hearing in § 2255 Action; BOP Guard Gets 262 Months for Prisoner Rapes The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court's denial of a federal prisoner's …
Article • May 15, 2007
Parolees' Claims for Sexual Assault Dismissed as Untimely by The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Colorado District Court's dismissal of claims against officials of the Colorado State Department of Corrections (CSDOC) charged with concealing information about sexual assaults by a halfway house director. Four Colorado parolees claimed …
Dismissal and QI Denied in Cross-Gender Pat Searches by The Federal District Court in Connecticut has found that fact issues remain regarding the constitutionality of cross gender pat searches and whether appropriate steps were taken to protect a female prisoner after she reported sexual assaults by a guard. Qualified immunity …
Fact Issues Preclude Summary Judgment In Prisoner Rape Case by The United States District Court for the District of Maine held that fact issues precluded summary judgment of a sexually assaulted prisoner's § 1983 lawsuit. Plaintiff Linda Faas alleged that while she was in the Washington County Jail (Maine), she …
Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape by Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a Puerto Rico Federal Bureau of Prison guard's conviction …
State Cannot Seize § 1983 Award to Satisfy Incarceration Costs by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held a state may not seek reimbursement of costs for incarceration by seizing monetary damages awarded in a 42 U.S.C. §1983 action. A Missouri state prisoner was awarded $1 nominal damages and $3,000 …
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