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Oregon Mental Patient Dead for Hours Feet from Nurse’s Station; Investigations Reveal Deficient Care and Superintendent Forced Out by In 2008, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) threatened to sue Oregon over abysmal conditions and patient care at the Oregon State Hospital (OSH), where the classic “One Flew Over …
Mass Torture in America: Notes from the Supermax Prisons by Lance Tapley “Exterminate all the brutes!” – Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad “They beat the shit out of you,” said Mike James, hunched near the smeared plexiglass separating us. He was talking about the cell “extractions” he’d endured at the …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Massachusetts: Court Lifts Stay of Discovery in Challenge to Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Disability Law Center, Inc. (DLC) has obtained an order lifting a stay of discovery in its suit against the Massachusetts Department of Correction (MDOC). As previously reported in …
United States v. Cook County, IL, Prisoner Release Order, Inhumane Jail Conditions & Overcrowding, 2011 Case: 1:10-cv-02946 Document #: 62 Filed: 01/11/11 Page 1 of 7 PageID #:1094 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION ________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) No. 10 C 2946 …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
$850,000 Verdict in Nebraska Prisoner’s Suicide by A Nebraska federal jury has awarded $850,000 to the estate of a prisoner who hanged himself with a bed sheet in his cell at the Dodge County Correctional Facility (DCC). The estate’s attorney, Maren L. Chaloupka, hailed the verdict as a wake-up call …
The Graying of America’s Prisons by James Ridgeway Frank Soffen, now 70 years old, has lived more than half his life in prison, and will likely die there. Sentenced to life for second-degree murder, Soffen has suffered four heart attacks and is confined to a wheelchair. He has lately been …
$1.8 Million Settlement in New Mexico Woman’s Attempted Jail Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A lawsuit that claimed insufficient suicide prevention procedures and staff training at New Mexico’s Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility (SFCADF) resulted in a woman’s suicide attempt has been settled for $1.8 million. …
Crouse v. Allegheny County, PA, Complaint, Inmate Suicide, 2010 Case 2:09-cv-01221-DSC Document 47 Filed 12/11/10 Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA BEVERLY CROUSE, as Administrator of ) the Estate of Shiva Lal Acharya, deceased, ) on behalf of the estate …
Prisoner Deaths Continue at King County Jail Despite DOJ Intervention by Mark Wilson A rash of detainee deaths at the King County Correctional Facility (KCCF) in Seattle, Washington prompted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into conditions at the jail on October 30, 2006. As the …
Brief • October 28, 2010
Riker v. Gibbons, NV, Order Approving Settlement, Medical Conditions, 2010 Case 3:08-cv-00115-LRH-VPC Document 174 Filed 10/28/10 Page 1 of 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 9 DAVID RIKER, et al., 10 Plaintiffs, 11 vs. 12 JAMES GIBBONS, et al., 13 …
Are Doctors Complicit in Prison Torture? The Maine Medical Community Looks at Solitary Confinement by Lance Tapley In the past few years an outcry has arisen over the involvement of military and CIA medical professionals and psychologists in torture, including psychologically destructive solitary confinement of “war on terror” detainees at …
Brandon v. Smith, IL, Pltff Response to Petition for Attorney Fees (2010) 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 217 Page 1 of 10 E-FILED Monday, 27 September, 2010 04:49:33 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PEORIA DIVISION LAZINNIAL BRANDON, Administrator ) of …
14 Years of Litigation Fails to Remedy Deficient Jail Medical Care; Herrera Saga Continues in Washington State by by Mark Wilson In 1996, Tacoma, Washington officials settled a class-action federal lawsuit over unconstitutional conditions and insufficient health care at the Pierce County Jail (PCJ). Fourteen years later, however, prisoners continue …
Brief • September 2, 2010
Garcia v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Mental Illness Treatment, Failure to Protect, 2010 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX ---------------------------------------------------------------------x CLAUDIO GARCIA, Plaintiff, Index No.: -againstCOMPLAINT THE CITY OF NEW YORK, MARTIN F. HORN, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of …
Everything Revolves Around Overcrowding: The State of California’s Prisons by Donald Specter by Donald Specter, Director, Prison Law Office I. Introduction California has the nation’s largest and the world’s third-largest prison system.1 In two separate class action lawsuits, filed a decade apart, California prisoners sued the governor and corrections officials …
Texas Youth Commission Pays $625,000 to Settle Abuse Suit by Gary Hunter To settle a federal lawsuit, the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) agreed to pay $625,000 in damages to four youths who were grossly abused by the states’ corrupt juvenile justice system. The largest payout of $345,000 went to plaintiff …
DOJ Investigation into New York Jail Finds Unconstitutional Conditions by Justin Miller The findings of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) into conditions at a New York jail describe violations of prisoners’ constitutional rights – violations which, in the words of federal investigators, have resulted in “serious …
Wisconsin: Taycheedah Lawsuit Set for Trial by Michael Brodheim On November 24, 2009, a U.S. District Court judge in Wisconsin substantially denied prison officials’ motion for partial summary judgment and set for trial a class-action suit that alleges medical and mental health care provided to female prisoners at Taycheedah Correctional …
U.S. Supreme Court to Review California Prison Population Reduction Orders by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On June 14, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court (USSC) agreed to review orders entered by a three-judge federal district court panel in California that would relieve overcrowding in that state’s prison system by …
Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million by Prison Health Services (PHS), a private for-profit company that provides medical care to prisoners, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the family of a man who died at a Virginia jail, with the sheriff’s office paying another …
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