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Federal Court Awards $1.47 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs against Sheriff Arpaio by Last May, PLN reported that a U.S. District Court in Arizona had found that jails in Maricopa County, managed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, continued to violate the civil rights of pretrial detainees. That ruling came in …
New York City Jail Conditions Still Unconstitutional a Quarter Century Later by After 25 years of litigation, officials overseeing New York City jails are still unable to provide environmental conditions that do not violate the constitutional rights of the pretrial detainees they hold. As such, a federal district court refused …
Devoe v. Broaddus, CO, Second Amended Complaint, Medical Negligence, 2009 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 09-cv-00711-PAB-BNB DEBRA KAY DEVOE, Plaintiff, vs. MARK BROADDUS in his Individual Capacity as Warden, SUSAN ROBERTS in her Individual Capacity as CNM, NP, JENNIFER COUNTRYMAN-TRUJILLO, in …
Brief • August 4, 2009
Coleman v. Schwarzenegger, CA, Opinion and Order, Prison Conditions, 2009 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS 2 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 AND THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT COMPOSED OF THREE JUDGES 5 PURSUANT TO SECTION 2284, TITLE 28 UNITED STATES CODE …
Connecticut Settles Overcrowding Suit by The State of Connecticut in the early 1980s agreed to settle a suit over the overcrowding at the Somers Correctional Facility. Joseph Letezeio individually and on behalf of all those similarly situated at Somers sued the State of Connecticut alleging that the overcrowding and other …
Article • July 15, 2009
New York DOC Agrees to Settle Asbestos Case by On April 4, 1997, the New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) agreed to settle a suit brought by a group of New York prisoners over their exposure to asbestos. The prisoners alleged that the defendants violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment …
Article • July 15, 2009
ETS Exposure Suit Allowed to Proceed Despite Facility No Smoking Policy by U.S. District Judge Joseph A. Greenway, Jr. has denied a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim in an action alleging cruel and unusual punishment in relation to a prisoner’s exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). …
Duvall v. Dallas, County, TX, Judgment, Failure to Protect, Infection, Judgment, 2009 Case 3:07-cv-00929-L Document 85 Filed 04/21/09 Page 1 of 2 PageID 759 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION MARK DUVALL, Plaintiff, v. DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, Defendant. § § § § § § …
Ingram v. Turner et al, TN, Deposition - Turner, CCA warden prisoner abuse, 2009 1 1 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISION _________________________________________________________ 3 4 JAMES INGRAM, 5 PLAINTIFF, 6 vs. NO: 2:07-CV-02798-JDB-STA 7 GLEN TURNER, ET AL., 8 DEFENDANTS. _________________________________________________________ …
Article • April 15, 2009
$23,000 in Costs Assessed Against Ex-Prisoner for Scam Lawsuit by A Georgia federal district court has taxed costs of $23,000 against an ex-prisoner after a jury entered a verdict for prison officials. The jury’s verdict rejected the prisoner’s claim of cruel and unusual punishment and accepted the prison officials’ claim …
O'Neil v. Martin, OR, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, Interstate Corr. Compact, 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON 9 FOR THE COUNTY OF MARlON 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 …
Article • January 15, 2009
Pennsylvania Prisoners Remain On Death Row After Death Sentences Vacated by Bob Williams By: Bob Williams Pennsylvania State death row prisoners appealed the dismissal of their 2005 § 1983 and mandamus complaint regarding restrictive confinement and the medical conditions it caused. Their death sentences were either vacated or overturned but …
Article • January 15, 2009
Florida Lethal Injection Methods Revised by Florida State death row prisoner Ian Lightbourne challenged the State's lethal injection procedures after the improper implementation of an execution. Revisions were made to the methods used and the petition was dismissed. The duration of the "botched" execution of Angel Diaz in 2006 was …
Article • January 15, 2009
Florida Lethal Injection Methods Revised by Florida State death row prisoner Ian Lightbourne challenged the State's lethal injection procedures after the improper implementation of an execution. Revisions were made to the methods used and the petition was dismissed. The duration of the "botched" execution of Angel Diaz in 2006 was …
Thomas v. McNeil, FL, Order, Chemical Agents on Prisoners, 2009 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE DIVISION JEREMIAH THOMAS, KELVIN FRAZIER, REGINALD WILLIAMS, PAUL ECHOLS, MICHAEL McKINNEY, CHARLES MORGAN1 and ANTONIO WARD, Plaintiffs, vs. Case No. 3:04-cv-917-J-32JRK WALTER McNEIL and RANDALL BRYANT, in their official capacities, Defendants. …
Buford-Lewis v. Marion County, IN, Settlement, jail conditions, 2008 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 58 Filed 12/01/2008 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION ANTHONY BUFORD-LEWIS, III, et al., Plaintiffs, v. MARION COUNTY, INDIANA, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. …
Martinez v. Garcia, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2008 Case: 1:08-cv-02601 Document #: 47 Filed: 11/07/08 Page 1 of 19 PageID #:336 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JOHN MARTINEZ, Case No.: 08CV2601 Plaintiff, Judge Shadur Magistrate Judge Cole V. TAMMY GARCIA, DR. PARTHASARATHI GHOSH, DR. LATANYA …
Brief • October 17, 2008
Manning v. State of Washington, WA, Judgment, poor medical care infection, 2008
Article • August 15, 2008
Lack of Funding No Defense for Bad Prison Conditions by The defendants were held in contempt in an earlier opinion for massive violations of a consent judgment. The defendants have taken sufficient measures, mainly alleviation of crowding (which the court terms the "bad seed" of many constitutional violations) to the …
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