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Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
CMS Insurer Must Pay Wyoming Suicide Settlement by CMS Insurer Must Pay Wyoming Suicide Settlement The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an insurer is required to indemnify Correctional Medical Services (CMS) for an incident that occurred prior to CMS obtaining the insurance policy. The Court’s ruling came …
Colorado DOC Pays $60,000 Settlement for Suicide of Former Prisoner Who Was Sexually Abused by Guard by John Dannenberg Colorado DOC Pays $60,000 Settlement for Suicide of Former Prisoner Who Was Sexually Abused by Guard by John E. Dannenberg The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) settled a lawsuit brought by …
Could the Fall of Lehman Brothers Signal Trouble for Private Prison Corporations? by Bob Libal Could the Fall of Lehman Brothers Signal Trouble for Private Prison Corporations? by Bob Libal and Nick Hudson While recent business news has been dominated by the bailout of some of the nation’s largest investment …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
California Juvenile Jail Ward, Brain Damaged from Suicide Attempt, Awarded $4.6 Million by California Juvenile Jail Ward, Brain Damaged from Suicide Attempt, Awarded $4.6 Million A teenager incarcerated at a Kings County, California boot camp sustained permanent brain damage after he attempted suicide. His father then sued the county for …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
$80,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by The private medical provider at Utah’s Salt Lake County Jail (SLCJ) has settled a lawsuit in a prisoner’s suicide for $80,000. The lawsuit was originally filed in federal court, but landed in state court prior to the settlement. After Jeremy Ruybal, 27, …
Brief • October 30, 2008
Brandon v. Advanced Correctional Healthcare, IL, Expert Report of Scott, Jail Suicide, 2008 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 190-41 Page 1 of 11 E-FILED Thursday, 31 December, 2009 01:34:32 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD Exhibit 38 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 190-41 Page 2 of 11 Exhibit 38 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 190-41 Page 3 of 11 …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Over 60% of Oregon Prisoner Suicides Linked to Mental Illness, Isolation by Mark Wilson Over 60% of Oregon Prisoner Suicides Linked to Mental Illness, Isolation by Mark Wilson Nathan Bashaw, 21, had a mere 259 days left to serve until his April 1, 2008 release date. He was serving a …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
$200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death by $200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death To settle the claim that a prisoner who committed suicide was not properly treated, Wyoming’s Cambell County Detention Center (CCDC) has paid the prisoner’s estate $200,000. Nick Ashby, 38, was booked into CCDC on July …
Massachusetts’ Mental Health Treatment Policies Prove Deadly for Public, Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As America’s prisons continue their transformation into mental health institutions, little thought is given to mentally ill prisoners who languish within the harsh confines of prison environments with little if any treatment. That …
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
New Jersey Prisoners’ Jail Escape Leads to Firings and Suicide by Gary Hunter About an hour into his shift on December 15, 2007, Union County, New Jersey jail guard Rudolph Zurick discovered that prisoners Jose Espinosa and Otis Blunt were missing. Zurick immediately took steps to have the jail locked …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Settlement Agreement Reached in Overcrowding Claim Against Florida Jail by Settlement Agreement Reached in Overcrowding Claim Against Florida Jail The parties to a class action suit filed by prisoners at Florida’s St. Lucie County Jail (SLCJ) have reached a settlement. The civil rights complaint alleged constitutional violations caused by overcrowding, …
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Washington Jail Prisoner Commits Suicide; Estate Wins $7,700 by In December of 1992, Adelino Chavez was on suicide watch in the Kent, Washington City Jail. Rather than keep an eye on Chavez, the supervising guards went to a “promotional” party for 2 1/2 hours. When they returned Chavez had killed …
Author Jack Abbott’s Snitching Cannot Prevent Transfer by On September 23, 1983, the Eighth Circuit court of appeals held that a prisoner who claimed to be in danger for having snitched on other prisoners cannot prevent his own transfer to a prison where he claimed be would be in danger …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Three Suicide Suits At Sacramento, California Jail Settled For $1,000,000 by For a total of $1,000,000, California officials settled the wrongful death lawsuits stemming from three prisoner suicides in the Sacramento County jail. Sacramento County Sheriff John McGuiness averred that the agreement to settle should not be construed as evidence …
Illinois Jail Detainee's Death Related Medical Documents Ordered Disclosed by Abdelkadir Belbachir brought federal and state action against McHenry County (Illinois) in 2006 after his cousin, Hassiba Belbachir, died in the county jail. He motioned to compel documents declared exempt under the peer review privilege (privilege) of the State Medical …
Jail Guards Get Qualified Immunity for Beating, Pepper Spraying Prisoner Who Commits Suicide by The decedent was arrested for public intoxication; there was a fight when he was booked, resulting in his being sprayed with pepper spray or other chemical restraint. The officers carried him to a cell and sprayed …
Child Abuse Abounds in Wilderness and Boot Camp Programs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 10, 2007, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)--a federal governmental entity that audits, evaluates and investigates for Congress--released a report on residential treatment programs (RTPs) entitled Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain …
Squalor, Corruption Cause Cancellation of GEO Group’s TYC Contract by Gary Hunter When Texas Youth Commission (TYC) ombudsman Will Harrell toured the privately-operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte, Texas on September 24, 2007, he found children sleeping on dirty bed sheets, walls covered with smeared feces, urine-stained walls …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
$150,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County Correctional Facility (LCCF) has agreed to pay the family of a prisoner who committed suicide $150,000. The family contended LCCF was deliberatively indifferent to the risk that prisoner Luke Blumer, 19, posed to himself. Blumer was known to be …
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