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Washington: Pierce County Jail Suit Ends After 15 Years by In a report and recommendation to partly deny the defendants’ motion to terminate a consent decree related to conditions of confinement at Washington State’s Pierce County Jail, U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Kelley Arnold cited conditions that contributed to the deaths …
Article • May 15, 2011
Maricopa County Settles Prisoner Suicide Case for $575,000 by On October 12, 2007, Maricopa County, Arizona settled for $575,000 a lawsuit brought by survivors of a prisoner who committed suicide at the Maricopa County Jail. Stephan Cervantes was booked into the Maricopa County's Madison Street Jail on May 4, 2002. …
Massachusetts Prisoner Suicides More Than Four Times National Average by Mark Wilson Massachusetts has a relatively low state prison population, with approximately 11,000 prisoners. Yet its annual prisoner suicide rate has topped an alarming 71 suicides per 100,000 prisoners – more than four times the national average of 16 per …
$20,000 Settlement in Oklahoma Nuisance Claim, Prisoner’s Suicide by Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Sheriff John Whetsel and Oklahoma County paid $20,000 to settle a nuisance claim. The settlement came in a lawsuit filed by David Bard and his two minor children. Bard, in his April 11, 2007 complaint alleged that from …
Article • April 15, 2011
Sovereign Immunity Waived in Suicide Suit Under Vermont Tort Claims Act by The Vermont Tort Claims Act (VTCA) waives the sovereign immunity of the state of Vermont in suits challenging a prison’s failure to prevent suicide, the Supreme Court held on April 18, 1996. The estate of Rose Ann LaPlant …
Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding” by by Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Wisconsin Prisoner Pleads No Contest to Helping Cellmate Commit Suicide by On June 1, 2010, a Wisconsin prisoner entered a no-contest plea to charges that he helped his cellmate hang himself. Adam Peterson, 20, and Joshua Walters, 21, were unlikely acquaintances. Peterson, never in trouble with the law before, was …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
$100,000 Settlement in Nebraska Jail Prisoner Suicide Suit by Sheridan County, Nebraska has agreed to pay $100,000 to the estate of a prisoner who committed suicide while at the Sheridan County Jail. Jay Spotted Elk hung himself with a belt in his cell after being arrested on a misdemeanor charge …
St. Louis Lockups Violate Constitutional Rights, ACLU Asserts by Mark Wilson A troubling investigative report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) has exposed a culture of abuse, corruption and cover-ups at the City Justice Center and the Medium Security Institution in St. Louis (CJC/MSI). The most …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
U.S. Department of Justice Releases Report on Deaths in Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report on mortality in U.S. jails from 2000 through 2007. During the 8-year period covered by the report, 8,110 prisoners …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Maricopa County, Arizona Settles Prisoner Suicide Claim for $125,000 by On March 31, 2010, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 to pay $125,000 to settle a claim against the county made by the family of a jail prisoner who killed himself in 2008. According to the notice of …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
$850,000 Verdict in Nebraska Prisoner’s Suicide by A Nebraska federal jury has awarded $850,000 to the estate of a prisoner who hanged himself with a bed sheet in his cell at the Dodge County Correctional Facility (DCC). The estate’s attorney, Maren L. Chaloupka, hailed the verdict as a wake-up call …
Crouse v. Allegheny County, PA, Complaint, Inmate Suicide, 2010 Case 2:09-cv-01221-DSC Document 47 Filed 12/11/10 Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA BEVERLY CROUSE, as Administrator of ) the Estate of Shiva Lal Acharya, deceased, ) on behalf of the estate …
Prisoner Deaths Continue at King County Jail Despite DOJ Intervention by Mark Wilson A rash of detainee deaths at the King County Correctional Facility (KCCF) in Seattle, Washington prompted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into conditions at the jail on October 30, 2006. As the …
Brandon v. Smith, IL, Pltff Response to Petition for Attorney Fees (2010) 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 217 Page 1 of 10 E-FILED Monday, 27 September, 2010 04:49:33 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PEORIA DIVISION LAZINNIAL BRANDON, Administrator ) of …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$850,000 Award in Delaware Prisoner’s Suicide; State Declines to Renew CMS Contract by A federal district court has awarded $850,000 to the family of a Delaware prisoner who hanged himself, after entering default judgment against First Correctional Medical, Inc. (FCM). In other Delaware news, the state’s prison system did not …
Everything Revolves Around Overcrowding: The State of California’s Prisons by Donald Specter by Donald Specter, Director, Prison Law Office I. Introduction California has the nation’s largest and the world’s third-largest prison system.1 In two separate class action lawsuits, filed a decade apart, California prisoners sued the governor and corrections officials …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
$140,000 Settlement in Washington Jail Detainee’s Suicide by Pierce County, Washington has paid $120,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed its policies were deliberately indifferent to the risk of suicide by pretrial detainees at the Pierce County Detention and Corrections Center (PCDCC). The City of Lakewood paid an additional …
Brief • July 26, 2010
Smith v. Wayne County, MI, Complaint, jail suicide medical neglect, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION GLORIA H. SMITH, individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Jason Lewis Smith, and CAMILLE MITCHELL, as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Jason Lewis Smith Deleted: …
Brief • June 18, 2010
United States v. Erie County, NY, Settlement, Mental Health Conditions, 2010 Case 1:09-cv-00849-WMS-JJM Document 89-2 Filed 06/18/2010 Page 1 of 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ____________________________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v. Plaintiff, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK; CHRIS COLLINS, COUNTY EXECUTIVE; ANTHONY BILLITTIER, IV, MD, COUNTY …
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