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Philadelphia Held in Contempt of Jail Conditions Settlement, Ordered to Pay $25 Million by On July 12, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held the City of Philadelphia in contempt of a 2022 settlement in which its Department of Prisons (PDP) agreed to improve …
Fourth Circuit Revives Claims Against Virginia Jailers by Detainee They Allegedly Manhandled While Handcuffed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 8, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Virginia’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Harvey Weinstein Files Notice of Claim Over Rikers Island Detention by In a Notice of Claim filed against New York City and its Department of Correction (DOC) on November 26, 2024, lawyers for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein said that their client has suffered at least $5 million in damages …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 17, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who forced …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 18, 2024, the United States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nearly $12 Million Paid to Mentally Disabled Indiana Prisoner Wrongly Convicted of Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Indiana city of Elkhart agreed to pay former state prisoner Andrew Royer, then 44, nearly $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed over his wrongful murder …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
With HRDC Amicus Brief, Survivor of Dead Washington Prisoner Wins Public Records Case by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford On April 11, 2024, the Supreme Court of Washington held that the one-year statute of limitations (SOL) for bringing a lawsuit under the state Public Records Act (PRA), RCW 42.56.001, et …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit Revives West Virginia Prisoner’s RLUIPA Claim Over Religious Diet with Soy He Can’t Digest by On March 20, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Islamic prisoner’s federal civil rights lawsuit accusing West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) …
New York City Held in Contempt in Long-Running Rikers Island Class-Action by On November 27, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held the city Department of Correction (DOC) in contempt of a consent decree and subsequent remedial orders entered in a long-running class …
Pennsylvania Prisoner Released from Solitary After 15 Years by On March 5, 2024, the federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania agreed to dismiss the complaint of a state prisoner held in solitary confinement for 15 years after the state Department of Corrections (DOC) reportedly agreed to a settlement. …
Suits Filed Over Dehydration Deaths at Two Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 9, 2024, the grandmother of a mentally ill detainee who died of dehydration at Texas’ Denton County Jail (DCJ) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing jail staff of deliberate indifference in allowing …
$400,000 Jury Verdict for Medical Neglect Resulting in Amputation of Alabama Prisoner’s Toes by On May 20, 2024, a federal jury in Alabama returned a verdict against a doctor employed by Wexford Health Sources, Inc., the private medical provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC). It was part …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of state prisoner Anthony Penton, adding $788,744.97 to an …
Muslim New York Prisoner’s Free Exercise of Religion Claim Reinstated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed summary judgment on a New York prisoner’s First Amendment free exercise claim while also affirming a jury’s verdict …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Lawsuits by Michigan Prisoner Yield $57,750 in Settlements, Plus Policy Changes by In a letter received in August 2024, Michigan state prisoner John Patrick Moore II notified PLN about three successful lawsuits he filed against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) which resulted in settlement agreements. In an important case, …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
$1.5 Million Settlement Reached for Oregon Prisoner’s Untreated Traumatic Brain Injury by A report published by Oregon Capital Chronicle on November 11, 2024, noted that former state prisoner Jacqueline Orr, 57, still suffers the effects of a brain injury incurred during her incarceration—walking “gingerly” while “clutching a cane” through a …
Eighth Circuit: Evidentiary Admissibility Is a “Red Herring” At Class Certification of St. Louis Jail Conditions Challenge by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit declined to join most sister circuits, which admit evidentiary challenges to class certification …
Shrewd Federal Prisoner Salvages $5,000 from Suit Against Arkansas Jail Where He Was Held Pre-Trial by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Randall Morris was held in Arkansas’ Miller County Detention Center (MCDC) from January 20, 2020, until he was transferred to Saline County Detention Center (SCDC) on March 24, …
Centurion’s $8 Million Track Record of Abuse and Neglect as New Mexico’s Correctional Medical Provider by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has long outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide prisoners adequate medical care to private, for-profit corporations with little incentive to do so. Before …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
$46 Million Paid to Exonerated Missouri Prisoner Wrongfully Incarcerated for 10 Years by On November 1, 2024, a Missouri jury returned a $37.9 million verdict against Travelers Indemnity Company in favor of an exonerated state prisoner after the insurance giant balked at covering an $11 million settlement of his wrongful …
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