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$7 Million Settlement for Mentally Ill Detainee’s Death in California’s Santa Rita Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke   In a settlement agreement effective October 23, 2023, California’sAlameda County agreed to pay $7 million to the estate and progeny of a detainee who died while incarcerated at the county’s …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Seventh Circuit: Heck Bars Civil Rights Challenges to Civil Commitment by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   On December 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that an Illinois prisoner’s challenge to civil commitment as a sexually violent person after release cannot be raised …
Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges by On November 14, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) secured a budget recommendation from the state Permanent Building Fund advisory council for a new $25 million facility jointly operated by the state’s Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and its …
Conflicting Reports from New Hampshire Prison Officials Before Guard Charged in Psychiatric Detainee’s Death by Former New Hampshire prison guard Matthew Millar, 39, was arrested on February 8, 2024, and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jason O. Rothe, 50, a detainee in the Secure Psychiatric Unit (SPU) …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts by Families who lost loved ones to suicide in New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) were still waiting in early March 2024 for payouts from settlements reached two years ago or more. The delay is blamed on their …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Lapses in Epstein Death, Pushes Back Against Rumors It Wasn’t Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 27, 2023, the Office of U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz (OIG) released a report corroborating a New York City medical examiner’s conclusion that …
Autistic Detainee’s Death in Pittsburgh Jail Blamed on “Culture” That Left Him “Punished Instead of Treated” by In a suit filed against Pittsburgh’s Alle­gheny County Jail on October 17, 2023, the survivors of a 57-year-old autistic detainee allege his death in custody was the preventable result of a jail “culture” …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
California Law Extends Involuntary Commitment and Detention to Substance Abusers by For years, California has struggled with a growing homeless population, reaching 171,000 in late 2023. Though that’s less than one-half of 1% of state residents, lawmakers responded with reforms to the state’s mental health system in SB 43, which …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit filed over solitary confinement of mentally ill detainees at the …
Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A lawsuit filed in federal court for the Western District of Arkansas on January 13, 2023, makes a stunning claim: That a man was left to starve to death in jail because …
Brief • April 5, 2024
Feliciano v. City of New York, NY, Settlement, Medical and Mental Neglect, 2024 Case 1:20-cv-10033-LAK Document 158-2 Filed 04/05/24 Page 1 of 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - ----------- - - ----- - - ------------- ------------- - ------------··· · X MADELINE FELICIANO, individually and as …
Condemned Texas Prisoner Ruled Too Mentally Ill to Execute by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke. Condemned Texas prisoner Scott Louis Panetti, 65, was taken off the state’s death row on September 27, 2023, when the federal court for the Western District of Texas found him too insane to kill—or as …
Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Delays in improvements mandated in a 2020 consent decree resulted in at least six preventable detainee deaths at Sacramento County jails, according to a grand jury investigative report on June 2, …
$8.5 Million Settlement After Pretrial Detainee Suffocated by Guards and Medical Staff at Virginia Psychiatric Hospital by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 19, 2023, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Henrico and its Sheriff Alisa A. Gregory agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle claims arising …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
At BOP California “Rape Club” Prison: Historic Ruling, FBI Raid, Warden Removed by On March 11, 2024, FBI agents raided the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California, the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lockup plagued by staff sexual assaults on prisoners—so many that it has become known as …
Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria by Douglas Ankney Douglas Ankney On September 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted a transexual prisoner’s motion for summary judgment in a suit accusing the state Department of Correction (DOC) of violating …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$1.75 Million Settlement Reached in Washington Jail Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Washington city of Lynnwood agreed on September 20, 2023, to pay $1.75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging guards at the Lynnwood Municipal Jail were negligent in the suicide death of Tirhas Tesfatsion two …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Oregon Prisoner’s Parole Deferral Based on “Dangerous Offender” Statute Reversed by On August 9, 2023, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a decision by the state Board of Parole and Post-­Prison Supervision (BPPS) deferring parole consideration for Gerald O. Person. Sentenced as a “dangerous offender” for crimes committed in the …
Brief • March 18, 2024
Estate of Melody Morgan v. The State of Nevada, NV, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND FULL AND FINAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS Case Name: Bonnie Lopez, individually as sister and for the Estate of Melody Morgan, deceased; Colleen Lackey, individually and as mother of Melody Morgan, deceased V. The …
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