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Brief • June 6, 2009
Telder v. County of Volusia, FL, Ptf's 1st Interrogatories, Jail Suicide, 2009 Plaintiff’s First Interrogatories to Sheriff McKeithen “Department” refers to Bay County Sheriff’s Department. “Jail” refers to the Bay County Jail. The date of the incident sued upon is March 22, 2009. “Decedent” is Maureen Bearden. 1. State the …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
$75,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by $75,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide Officials at the Salt Lake City Jail settled a lawsuit involving a prisoner’s suicide for $75,000. The settlement came in the hanging death of Arthur Henderson. When he was booked on January 28, 2006, Henderson …
Oregon Jail Suicide Nets $59,422 by On March 14, 2008, Multnomah County, Oregon paid $59,422 to the estate of a mentally ill female detainee to settle a suit stemming from her jail suicide. Berta Ray Lee was a 27-year-old mother of three minor children, ages five, seven and nine. She …
$150,000 Settlement in Wrongful Death Suit Against Kitsap County Jail by Washington State’s Kitsap County Jail paid $150,000 to settle the claim of the estate of David Franklin, who committed suicide at the jail on August 21, 2000. The claim asserts the jail failed to properly treat Franklin or properly …
Washington State DOC Guard Demoted For Mail Tampering And Violating Rules by Washington State Department of Corrections guard Teresa McSheery appealed her 1997 demotion for committing regulatory mail and safety violations. The demotion was affirmed. McSheery worked at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in 1989 and was the mail …
Odumabo v. Lake County, IN, Complaint, Jail Death, 2009 USDC IN/ND case 2:09-cv-00047-APR document 24 filed 04/29/09 page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA, HAMMOND DIVISION TAMARRA SOWELL, as personal representative, administrator for the Estate, and on behalf of the heirs of ADEKUNLE …
Ware v. CCA, TN, Complaint, solitary inmate suicide medical neglect, 2009 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0139 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0140 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0141 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0142 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0143 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0144 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0145 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0146 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0147
Article • April 15, 2009
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Unreported Jail Deaths: There have been two apparent suicides, one of which remains a mystery. by Rick Anderson By Rick Anderson Gas-station robber Ronald Ray Hicks went to sleep in his King County Jail bunk just before 10 p.m. July 25 and never woke up. His cellmate noticed Hicks still …
Design of Prison Telephone Held Not To Infringe Patent by On June 18, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a judgment of non-infringement in a patent dispute over the design of a prison telephone. TIP Systems, LLC patented the design of a telephone for use …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Massachusetts Suicide Prevention Procedures Found Lacking by David Reutter Massachusetts Suicide Prevention Procedures Found Lacking by David M. Reutter An independent study of suicide prevention practices within the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MDOC) has found serious deficiencies in the care of prisoners at risk of suicide. Since 2000, there have …
“Cumulative Failure” Lets Mentally Ill Teen Leap to Death by A “cumulative failure” contributed to the death of an Oregon teenage mental patient, state investigators determined. Eighteen-year-old Heather Williams was a patient at the Blue Mountain Recovery Center, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Pendleton, Oregon. While being transported on December …
GEO Cancels Contract at Pennsylvania Jail, Looks Elsewhere for Business by David Reutter GEO Cancels Contract at Pennsylvania Jail, Looks Elsewhere for Business by David M. Reutter GEO Group, Inc. (formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections), the second-largest private prison company in the nation, has operated the jail in Delaware County, …
$1.8 Million Award After Illinois Federal Prisoner's Suicide; Award Reversed On Appeal by Illinois State resident Karen Johnson brought a federal tort and 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983 action against the United States in 1996 after her husband Robert committed suicide in a federal prison. The court awarded her $1.8 million. …
Article • March 15, 2009
Florida Federal Prisoner Commits Suicide While Being Monitored by A Florida deceased federal prisoner's wife, Lillian Diaz, and on behalf of the decedent's minor son, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996. Her husband, federal prisoner Alejandro Diaz, committed suicide while in the care of Federal …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
$400,000 Award in Failure to Protect Connecticut Suicidal Prisoner by $400,000 Award in Failure to Protect Connecticut Suicidal Prisoner A Connecticut judge has awarded a prisoner’s estate $403,164.30, finding the City of Hartford police were liable for the prisoner’s suicide death. At a bench trial, the Court held the arresting …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Alameda County, CA Settles Jail Suicide Suit for $800,000 by Alameda County, CA Settles Jail Suicide Suit for $800,000 Following a mistrial, California’s Alameda County settled a wrongful death claim resulting from a jail detainee’s suicide for over $800,000. The federal lawsuit was brought by the prisoner’s minor children. The …
Ware v. CCA, TN, Settlement, solitary inmate suicide medical neglect, 2009 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0130 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0131 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0132 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0133 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0134 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0135 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0136 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0137 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0138
$1,100,000 Settlement in Juvenile Prisoner Suicide in Union County, New Jersey by $1,100,000 Settlement in Juvenile Prisoner Suicide in Union County, New Jersey On November 15, 2007, Union County settled a lawsuit over the suicide death of a juvenile prisoner at the 42-year-old Union County Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
$635,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Woman Prisoner’s Suicide by The family of a Wisconsin prisoner who committed suicide has agreed to accept a $635,000 payment from the state to settle a federal lawsuit. The suit claimed that Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) prisoner Angela Enoch was able to strangle herself with torn …
California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a lawsuit brought by the survivors of …
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