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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$7.15 Million for Oklahoma Prisoner Exonerated After Nearly 50 Years by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso An Oklahoma prisoner who was exonerated after nearly 50 years in prison has received over $7 million in compensation so far. Glynn Ray Simmons, 71, now holds the dubious distinction of serving more …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
North Carolina Reimburses Prisoner $2,500 for Law Books Destroyed by Guards by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A prisoner, who said that he was inspired by what he read in PLN, fought for over three years to obtain compensation from North Carolina for property lost when prison officials failed …
$2.5 Million Settlement After South Carolina Jail Detainee Lost 2 Lbs.Per Day and Died by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A settlement filed in federal court for the District of South Carolina on September 3, 2024, brought a resolution to a lawsuit filed by the survivors of a Greenville …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Self-Harming Wisconsin Prisoner Settles Failure-to-Protect Suit for $7,000 by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution has been plagued by prisoner deaths and suicides, the most of recent of which are reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, Apr. 2025, p.33.] One of those who survived a suicide …
$42 Million Jury Award for Detainees Tortured by U.S. Military at Abu Ghraib Prison by In November 2024, a federal jury in Virginia awarded $42 million to three former prisoners held and tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. The case, filed in 2008, …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$1.35 Million in Settlements for One-Legged San Francisco Detainee Forced to Hop—Twice by On March 4, 2025, the City and County of San Francisco approved an $825,000 settlement with Vincent Bell, a one-legged city jail detainee who sued over an outrageous 2018 incident in which a guard supervisor forced him …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$1 Million Partial Settlement for Washington Jail Detainee’s Leg Amputation by Reports surfaced in October 2024 that low-level medical professionals in multiple Washington jails were making decisions about detainee healthcare that they were not trained or licensed to make. That was due to an absence of higher-level medical staffers, which …
$250,000 Settlement But No Charges After Alabama Guards Beat Prisoner To Death by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Alabama Department of Finance issued a $250,000 payment on behalf of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) on August 16, 2024, settling a suit filed by the survivors of state …
Southern Health Partners Settles Suit Over Kentucky Jail Meth Death by On June 6, 2024, an undocketed settlement was reached between a Kentucky jail’s private medical contractor and the administrator of the estate of a detainee who died of methamphetamine toxicity in 2019. The agreement followed a disappointing decision for …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Sixth Circuit Upholds $6.4 Million Jury Award Against Corizon Nurses For Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Alcohol Withdrawal by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 16, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the verdict and jury award of $6.4 million in compensatory damages against …
$1.5 Million Settlement For In-Custody Injury by New York Police by Rosie Martinez, then 49, was arrested in January 2015 after police searched her New York City apartment and found heroin that belonged to her boyfriend. While in custody at the 107th Precinct of the City Police Department (NYPD), she …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Class Certification in Suit Over Inadequate Dental Care at Chicago Jail by In 2018, former pretrial detainee Quintin Scott joined a lawsuit alleging unconstitutional dental care at the Cook County Jail in Chicago because it failed to employ an oral surgeon. For over a decade …
U.S. Justice Department Investigating Tennessee CoreCivic Prison After Mother of Murdered Prisoner Reaches Settlement by Pointing to “reports of staffing shortages, physical and sexual assaults, murders and a 188% turnover rate among prison guards just last year,” the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on August 20, 2024, that …
Settlement Bars Family Separations at U.S. Border Until 2031, Pays $6.4 Million in Legal Fees and Costs by On November 5, 2024, the federal court for the Southern District of California approved a settlement under which the United States government agreed to pay $6,411,664.07 in legal fees and costs incurred …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
$25.75 Million for Exonerated North Carolina Prisoner’s 44 Stolen Years by Justice delayed is justice denied. But for Ronnie Long, 68, who served over four decades in North Carolina prisons for a rape and burglary that he didn’t commit, the long wait to be proven innocent and released from prison …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
“Happy Mother’s Day”: $1,353,000 Settlement Approved for Migrant Parents Separated from Minor Kids at Border by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Thomas Clarke On July 2, 2024, the federal court for the District of Arizona approved settlement of a lawsuit brought against the United States by former immigration detainees under the …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
More Unsealed PrimeCare Settlements Total $1.2 Million for Pennsylvania Jail Deaths by Privately owned prison and jail healthcare provider PrimeCare Medical has managed to keep details secret of payouts to settle lawsuits filed over injuries or deaths of prisoners, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, May 2022, p.1.] One of those …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Hawaii Supreme Court Revives Exonerated Prisoner’s Quest for First Payout From Wrongful Conviction Fund by On September 27, 2024, the case of exonerated Hawaii prisoner Alvin Jardine drew the state Supreme Court into a battle for a payout—any payout—from the state’s wrongful conviction fund. The state has avoided liability so …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
$10.5 Million in Settlements for San Diego Jail Detainee’s Severe Brain Injury by On May 21, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California approved a $1 million settlement paid by San Diego County Jail medical provider Coast Correctional Medical Group (CCMG), resolving a suit alleging that …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Over 100,000 Criminal Records Sealed Under Colorado’s “Clean Slate Act” by Colorado lawmakers have amended the state’s “Clean Slate Act” to include arrests without charges and completed diversions. Effective July 1, 2025, arrest records will automatically be sealed when no charges are filed within one year. The provision is retroactive …
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