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No Constitutional Violation For Wyoming Hermaphrodite's Ad Seg Placement by Bob Williams By Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit has found no liberty interest arising from the placement of a hermaphrodite in administrative segregation (ad seg) for no other reason than sexual characteristics. The …
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 …
Ingram v. Turner et al, TN, Amended Complaint, riot snitching assault ad seg retaliation 8th Am, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0186 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0187 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0188 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0189 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0190 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0191 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0192 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0193 CCA-AF …
Ware v. CCA, TN, Complaint, protective custody paranoid inmate suicide medical neglect, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0170 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0171 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0172 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0173 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0174 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0175 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0176 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0177
Erroneous Jury Instruction Nets Raped Missouri Prisoner New Civil Trial by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a jury verdict against a prisoner-plaintiff, finding that the lower court erred in responding to a jury question during deliberations. Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) prisoner Ronnie Conley was raped repeatedly by …
Three Failures To Segregate Vulnerable Jail Prisoner Costs Los Angeles County $44,000 by On November 21, 2006, Los Angeles County paid a thrice-injured jail prisoner $44,000 to settle a tort claim for the injuries he sustained on three occasions when he was placed in general population housing and beaten by …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Los Angeles County Pays Informant $80,000 For Failed Witness Protection by The County of Los Angeles (L.A.), California paid $80,000 in January 2007 to a prisoner for the injuries he suffered when attacked in a supposedly witness-protected section of the L.A. County Jail. Shane Wilson was housed in the K-10 …
County Officials Not Liable in Prisoner' Beating by Fellow Prisoner by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, held that Ohio County, Kentucky, jail officials were not liable for a prisoner's vicious beating by a fellow prisoner. Sherman Taylor and Charles …
Snitch's Assault Claim Dismissed by The plaintiff was assaulted after he was named as an inmate informant in a disciplinary report. The court refuses to reconsider summary judgment for the hearing officer, since plaintiff shows no facts indicating that the hearing officer was aware of a significant risk before including …
$7,500 for Failing to Protect Snitch by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit affirmed a district court awarding an informant $7,500 in damages after he was assaulted by other prisoners. The prison failed to screen snitch's files. His files were not checked before being placed in Protective Custody, …
City Liable when Informant Killed by City Liable When informant Killed A prisoner's wife sued the Muskogee, Oklahoma city/federal jail under § 1983 for failing to protect her husband, an informant killed by jail prisoners. Plaintiff's husband was convicted but not yet sentenced. Case went to trial and jury awarded …
Failure to Protect Federal Informant's Wife Not Actionable by A Massachusetts's federal district Court held the U.S Government cannot be held liable for a decision of whether to protect or how to protect an individual. This action was brought by the wife of a federal informant who was serving the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Witness Protection Program Prisoners Double Celled by Witness protection Program Prisoners Double Celled The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that BOP prisoners in Minnesota who are in the witness protection program had no right not to be double celled. No breach of contract claim existed. The lower …
New Jersey Sex Offenders Must Be Protected and Segregated During Transports by A New Jersey federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction requiring prison officials at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, New Jersey (ADTC) to protect and segregate ADTC prisoners when transporting them to medical appointments …
Los Angeles Jail Pays $375,000 To Assaulted Keep Away Prisoner by Los Angeles Jail Pays $375,000 To Assaulted Keep Away Prisoner Los Angeles County, California, should pay $375,000 to a former prisoner who was severely beaten after being improperly celled with his assailant, the County Claims Board recommended on December …
Dittimus-Bey v. Taylor, NJ, Amended Complaint, Jail Conditions, 2006 Case 1:05-cv-00063-JBS-JS Document 60 Filed 03/31/06 Page 1 of 21 PageID: 248 TRUJILLO RODRIGUEZ & RICHARDS, LLC Lisa J. Rodriguez Nicole M. Acchione 8 Kings Highway West Haddonfield, NJ 08033 (856) 795-9002 Counsel for Plaintiffs UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF …
Los Angeles County Pays $900,000 to Parents of Murdered Informant in Jail by The County of Los Angeles (L.A.) agreed to pay $700,000 to the mother, and $200,000 to the father, of a 20 year old county jail prisoner murdered in his cell by a free-roaming prisoner against whom he …
USP Beaumont, Texas: Murder and Mayhem in the Thunder Dome by Leah Caldwell Located in East Texas, the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) at Beaumont is made up of a trio of federal prisons that are home to 5,667 prisoners. These prisons are run by the Bureau of Prisons, which is …
Absolute Immunity For Acting On Court Order Denied In Failure To Protect Claim by Bob Williams Absolute Immunity For Acting On Court Order Denied In Failure To Protect Claim by Bob Williams The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the denial of absolute immunity against prison guards who claimed …
Verdict for Other Defendants Cannot Negate Jury Question of Warden's Liability in Transsexual's Assault by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held a warden may be found to be deliberately indifferent to a male-to-female transsexual prisoner's safety where the prisoner was housed in the Protective Custody Unit (PCU) with a …
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