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$350,000 Settlement for Estate of Prisoner Murdered at Georgia Prison by The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a civil rights action filed by the estate of a prisoner murdered at Hays State Prison (Hays). As previously reported in PLN, in late 2012 and early …
Minnesota Civil Detainee Raped by Cellmate Receives $203,000 Settlement by David Reutter The state of Minnesota agreed to a $203,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by a civil detainee at the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) that alleged a policy or custom of disregarding patient safety, resulting in the detainee …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
$725,000 Award for Eye Loss Caused by Guard’s Assault by David Reutter A New York Court of Claims awarded $725,000 to a prisoner who lost an eye after being attacked by a jail guard. Prisoner Warren Davis, 31, suffers from keratoconus, a congenital eye condition in which the cornea changes …
$250,000 Settlement for Estate of PA Prisoner Killed by Mentally Ill Cellmate by David Reutter The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) paid $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the estate of an elderly, handicapped prisoner who was killed by his psychotic cellmate at State Correctional Institution Forest. Elwood Brasswell, …
California’s Jail-building Boom: What Comes After Mass Incarceration? Local Incarceration. by Anat Rubin by Anat Rubin, Marshall Project In the desert city of Indio, California halfway between Los Angeles and the Arizona border, a small monument to the state’s prison downsizing experiment is materializing in a shopping center storefront, where …
Ross v. Gossett, IL, Order Denying Def. MTD, Operation Orange Crush - Guard Misconduct, 2016 Case 3:15-cv-00309-SMY-SCW Document 76 Filed 01/28/16 Page 1 of 9 Page ID #1807 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DEMETRIUS ROSS, on behalf of himself and all others similarly …
R.W. v. Kiser Jr., FL, Complaint, Inmate Assault, 2016 Case 5:16-cv-00045-WTH-PRL Document 1 Filed 01/27/16 Page 1 of 17 PageID 38 FILED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2016 JAN27 AMIf: 53 MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CLERK. USDISTRICT COURT OCALA DIVISION HIDOLE DISTRICT OFFL OCALAFLUi~!OA R.W., Plaintiff, V. BRUCE A. KISER JR., …
Ninth Circuit Keeps the Heat on California Prisons for Continuing ADA and RA Violations by Derek Gilna One could almost excuse the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials if they felt that the federal courts have them under special scrutiny, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has …
Article • January 13, 2016
City of Jasper Settles Jail Beating Suit for $75,000 by Matthew Clarke In November 2013, the City of Jasper, Texas, settled a lawsuit brought by a young black woman who was allegedly beaten by police at the Jasper City Jail without justification. She received $75,000. Keyarika Diggles, a 25-year-old single …
West Virginia Supreme Court Undermines Prisoners’ Right to Sue for Rape by West Virginia Supreme Court Undermines Prisoners’ Right to Sue for Rape In a March 27, 2014 decision, the Supreme Court for the state of West Virginia held that a female prisoner who claimed she had been raped multiple …
Garcia v. GEO Group, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2015 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASE IN FULL AND COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE FOR THE SOLE AND ONLY CONSIDERATION OF Three Hundred Fifty Thousand and No/100 dollars ($350,000.00), the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, DENNIS GILBERT GARCIA, DOB SSN (hereinafter "Releasor"), …
Brief • November 9, 2015
Galvez v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2015 Case 2:15-cv-08747-CAS-AS Document 1 Filed 11/09/15 Page 1 of 15 Page ID#: ' I 2 3 4 ' THE SEHAT LAW FIRM PLC Cameron Sehat, Esq. (SBN: 256535) 18881 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 850 Irvine CA 92612 Telephone: …
LeClair v. Hoffmann, VT, Complaint, personal injury negligence, 2005 I I 7-... , ._..7 "Oe STATE OF NERMONT WASHINGTON .COUNTY I. SS. . WALTER LECLAIRE V Ig 100 41 i I: •• ; . ) DOCRET'NO. ROB HOFMANNf: COMMISSIONER.r VT ) DEPT. 'OF CORRECTIONS (AND) ') 'CORRECTIONS CORPORATIONHOF — ) …
Violence in Texas Prisons Tied to Mental Illness by Violence in Texas Prisons Tied to Mental Illness Conclusions of a longitudinal study found that the most violent Texas prisons also house the highest percentage of mentally ill prisoners. The study conducted by the Texas Tribune from 2006 to 2012 collected …
Mississippi Private Prisons Have High Prisoner Assault Rates by Matthew Clarke Mississippi Private Prisons Have High Prisoner Assault Rates by Matt Clarke A report on the number of prisoners assaulted in Mississippi prisons shows that the assault rates in private prisons average two to three times the rate of assaults …
Article • October 27, 2015
$77,000 Awarded to Prisoner by Washington DOC in Settlement Over Prisoner Stabbing by $77,000 Awarded to Prisoner by Washington DOC in Settlement Over Prisoner Stabbing The Washington State Department of Corrections settled in June 2003 a personal injury claim filed as a result of a multiple stabbing incident at Walla …
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Failure to Protect New York Prisoner Nets $12,500 Award by David Reutter Failure to Protect New York Prisoner Nets $12,500 Award by David Reutter A New York Court of Claims awarded $12,500 to a prisoner based on his complaint that guards were negligent in failing to ensure his safety. However, …
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner’s Bivens Suit against BOP Officials by Derek Gilna Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner’s Bivens Suit against BOP Officials by Derek Gilna The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s suit raising a failure to protect claim, …
Article • October 15, 2015
No Eighth Amendment Violation in Cellmate Attack by No Eighth Amendment Violation in Cellmate Attack The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed a lawsuit filed by an inmate who suffered injuries after claiming that prison staff failed to heed his warnings that his cellmate was about …
Rasho et al v. Walker et al, IL, Def Response to Plf Motion to Compel, expert review of medical and segregation units, 2015 E-FILED Thursday, 15 October, 2015 03:46:50 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ASHOOR RASHO, #B-38970, …
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