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Coleman v. Schwarzenegger, CA., Discovery Hearing Order Prison Inspections, Medical Class Action, 2007 Case 3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document 906 Filed 10/30/2007 Page 1 of 7 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 …
Duvall v. Dallas County, TX, Complaint, Failure to Protect; Infection, 2007 Case 3:07-cv-00929-L Document 1 Filed 05/24/07 Page 1 of 10 PageID 1 Case 3:07-cv-00929-L Document 1 Filed 05/24/07 Page 2 of 10 PageID 2 Case 3:07-cv-00929-L Document 1 Filed 05/24/07 Page 3 of 10 PageID 3 Case 3:07-cv-00929-L Document …
Indiana Prison Overcrowded with Inadequate Medical Care by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City was overcrowded, and that the medical care available at the prison was constitutionally inadequate. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed in …
Prisoner Stated Claim Due Process, Conditions Of Confinement Suit by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a Montgomery County, Texas, jail prisoner's pro se §1983 action alleging Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations stemming from his confinement in solitary and the conditions thereof stated a claim. …
Supreme Court Holds Double Celling Not Unconstitutionally Cruel and Unusual by The U.S. Supreme Court held that the policy of "double celling" did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners in an Ohio state maximum security prison brought action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against state officials alleging that policy …
Article • May 15, 2007
Restrictive Policies Violate Rights of Protective Custody Prisoners by The U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois, held that prison officials had violated various constitutional rights of prisoners in protective custody. Illinois prisoners in protective custody brought a § 1983 action against prison officials alleging violations of their rights to free exercise …
Physical, Mental Suffering Resulting from Extra Duty States Claim by In this apparently novel issue in which Louisiana prisoners alleged that extra duty imposed as a punishment for violating prison rules constituted cruel and unusual punishment, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the prisoners stated a claim …
Prisoner's Dismissed § 1983 Assault Claim Against TransCor America Reinstated by Prisoner's Dismissed § 1983 Assault Claim Against TransCor America Reinstated The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, vacating a Tennessee federal district dismissal, reinstated a prisoner's civil rights lawsuit against TransCor America for Eighth Amendment violations. Juan Castillo, a …
Seven-Day Bread Diet States Eighth Amendment Claim; Dismissal Vacated by The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, vacating in part a dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, held that a state prisoner's complaint that his Eighth Amendment rights were violated when he was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Shower Fall May Implicate 8th Amendment by The plaintiff complained that he fell in the shower in the North Infirmary Command Unit 2-B and was injured, after he and other prisoners had filed grievances about the deteriorated conditions. The court applies Eighth Amendment standards to this detainee case (reciting the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Juveniles
Arrestees' Kansas Jail Conditions Suit Dismissed by The five plaintiffs were arrested for planning to shoot up the local school, and spent from 11 to 27 days in jail. Eventually the charges were dismissed after they said they were just kidding. The constitutional standards for pre-trial detention conditions are the …
Administrative Exhaustion in Medical Neglect Claims Discussed by The plaintiff complained of medical neglect during a period in which he was transferred among facilities; he filed two grievances and exhausted them. Defendants argued that he did not sufficiently exhaust all the occurrences at all the prisons. The court addresses a …
Double Celling Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Third circuit affirmed a district court's order, at 719 F. Supp. 126 (WD PA 1989), which held that double celling in Pennsylvania prisons violated the Eighth amendment under a "totality of conditions" analysis. The overall prison conditions consisted of dilapidated, …
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 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Relief Ordered For Overcrowded D.C. Prison by The United State District Court, District of Columbia, in response to a D.C. Occoquon Prison Facility, of the Lorton Correctional Complex, prisoner's claims that overcrowding and systemically deficient conditions at state medium security institutions constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of Eighth …
Article • May 15, 2007
Conditions of Confinement in Virgin Islands Prison Unconstitutional. by The Federal District Court in the Virgin Islands found that widespread unconstitutional conditions existed at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility. In a terse opinion, the court ordered changes to begin within 20 days of its order and recommended that the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Massachusetts: Confinement In Disciplinary Unit Constitutional by The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that conditions of confinement in a disciplinary housing unit did not violate prisoners' Constitutional or statutory rights. Plaintiffs, prisoners housed in or previously housed in the department disciplinary unit (DDU) of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Stabbing Violates Eight Amendment by The Sixth Circuit has held that a prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights were violated when he was stabbed to death while prison guards watched and did not render assistance. Prisoner Jerry Fails was working as a janitor at the Tennessee State Penitentiary when he was …
Pervasive Risk of Harm Violates Eight Amendment by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner stated an Eighth Amendment claim for prison official's deliberate indifference to a pervasive risk of harm. The Pennsylvania prisoner alleged that he had to live day in and day out with …
Violence as a Condition of Confinement Violates Eighth Amendment by Prisoner filed class action suit based on the level of inmate-inmate and staff-inmate violence at the Correctional Institute For Men (CIFM) in New York City. The district court found that violence level at CIFM exceeded levels at other, comparable, institutes; …
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