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Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Suicides, Police, False Arrest
$2.4 Million Awarded In District of Columbia Jail Suicide by In 1982, a 32 year old District of Colombia (DC) man drove his car into a utility pole after which he was arrested and incarcerated in a DC jail for driving under the influence of alcohol. The man committed suicide …
Article • May 15, 2007
$26,000 Awarded In Washington Jail Suicide Suit by In May 1997, the Superior Court of Washington awarded $26,000 to the estate of a prisoner who committed suicide in the Kent city jail. The estate asserted that despite being on suicide watch, the prisoner, a 37-year-old male, was left unattended for …
CA Prisoner's Mental Health Records Exempt From Disclosure by In July of 2002, Ramon Gavira Camarillo, a Los Angeles County (County), California prisoner, was found hanging in his cell in the County jail. His widow, Mrs. Gavira, sued the County in state court claiming that the jail staff failed to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Police Not Liable for Suicide of Released Arrestee by The decedent committed suicide after being released by the police, who had initially arrested him but concluded there was no basis for charges. (He then rented a motel room, went to K-Mart and bought a gun, put the Do Not Disturb …
Article • May 15, 2007
MI Jail Not Liable for Heroin Addict's Suicide by The decedent, a heroin addict, was arrested and killed himself four days later. At 792: "Heroin withdrawal is a serious medical condition." The failure to notify authorities at the jail where the decedent hanged himself of the plaintiff's condition did not …
California DOC Ordered to Comply with Overdue Suicide Prevention Measures by Marvin Mentor On February 13, 2006, The U.S. District Court (E.D. Cal.) entered a remedial Stipulation and Order to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to force CDCR to implement the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) policy that the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vermont DOC Agrees To Stop Punishing Self-Harming Prisoners by Michael Rigby On May 18, 2006, the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to stop punishing prisoners who harm themselves. The VDOC further agreed to implement training, retain consultants, and document the mental health assessments of …
Wisconsin Prison Psychiatrists License Suspended After Prisoners Death by Gary Hunter Wisconsin Prison Psychiatrists License Suspended After Prisoners Death by Gary Hunter Yoges Pareek, had his medical license suspended by the Wisconsin Examining Board in October 2005. Pareek is a former psychiatrist at the Waupun Correctional Institution (WCT). He was …
Alabama Guards Liable in Killing a Prisoner by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Alabama federal district courts grant of summary judgment to guards in a civil rights suit stemming from the killing of a prisoner by guards during a struggle. Following a successful escape attempt at …
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc. (ASG), continues to face lawsuits and lose contracts for its deplorable record of prisoner health care gaffes in a …
Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David Reutter Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David M. Reutter When first created in 1999, Florida's Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) was hyped as a place to house sexually violent predators for protection of the public while providing …
Illinois Cook County Jail Embroiled in Shootings, Scandals and Escapes by by Gary Hunter Shootings, stabbings, suicides, a death and multiple escapes have turned the Cook County Jail in Chicago on its proverbial ear over the past year, in addition to misconduct by guards, a change in the jails leadership …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
New York Jail Employee Charged With Sexual Abuse Commits Suicide by On March 27, 2006, a health care worker charged with multiple counts of sexually abusing female prisoners at the Suffolk County Jail apparently committed suicide by stepping into the path of an oncoming Long Island Railroad Train. He was …
Board of Commissioners Clears PHS In Three Leon County (Florida) Jail Deaths by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg After three jail deaths between May 2003 and October 2004, the Leon County Board of Commissioners met to consider the Sheriff's reports on the three deaths and any implications regarding the …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Report on Status of Guantanamo Prisoners Released; Controversy Continues by Matthew T. Clarke In February 2006, a report on the status of 517 prisoners being held in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba compiled by Seaton Hall law professor Mark Denbeaux, seven of his law students and attorney Joshua …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Texas Jail Suicide Suit Settles For $300,000 by In December 2005 Nueces County, Texas, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle with a woman whose husband committed suicide in the county's jail. In 1995, while imprisoned in the Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jose Orlando Sanchez-Ortiz committed suicide. His …
L.A. County Pays $300,000 for Wrongful Death of Psychiatric Jail Prisoner by Los Angeles County settled with the estate of a deceased prisoner who died in the County Jail from inadequate care for his known psychiatric needs. Darran Craig, 31, was arrested on January 13, 2004. On January 14, intake …
Problems Continue In Maryland Prisons and Jails by Michael Rigby A battle is raging in Maryland over how best to improve prison safety. Some advocate hiring more guards and medical personnel. Others want to expand prisoner rehabilitation services. Neither side seems to be considering the possibility that both are needed. …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
$475,000 Settlement In California Suicide Suit by On December 20, 2005, the county of San Mateo, California, agreed to pay $475,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit involving a mentally ill woman who committed suicide in the county jail. Angela Ramirez, 23, was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center after …
Survivors of Texas Jail Suicidee Win $516,000 Against Phone Provider by Matthew T. Clarke The mother and son of a prisoner who committed suicide by hanging himself from a telephone in his jail cell won a lawsuit against the phone provider. On appeal, the award was upheld, but some of …
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