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Federal Detention Center in Chicago Agrees to $1 Million Wrongful Death Settlement by Derek Gilna For over ten years defense attorneys and their clients in Chicago have complained about the quality of medical treatment for prisoners at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), Chicago, located in a decaying 28-story high rise …
60% of Louisiana Prison Doctors Disciplined by Medical Board by Matthew Clarke Of the fifteen physicians employed by the Louisiana prison system, nine have received medical board disciplinary sanctions. Of those nine, two have served time in federal prison, five are on probation, two have their practice limited to "institutional …
Oklahoma County Settles Suit over Excessive Use of Restraint Chair for $200,000 by On May 20, 2014, Bryan County, Oklahoma agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former Bryan County Jail prisoner over maltreatment, including placing him in a restraint chair multiple times for days at a time and …
Article • August 5, 2016
Failure to Provide Hearing Aid Batteries is Deliberate Indifference to Serious Medical Need by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a prisoner who suffers from substantial hearing loss that may be remediated by a hearing aid may state claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need if prison …
Brief • August 5, 2016
Sandoval v. San Diego, CA, Order Denying MTD - Sufficient Notice, Failure to Prove Deliberate Indifference, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-01004-BEN-RBB Document 10 Filed 08/05/16 Page 1 of 10 1 FILED 2 2IlUUG-5 PH 2~29 3 ii,Il!!\llol1M pl.TRIGT ef 0 ...11'11' 'tl.iE1I1( us OI$TRtCT .cau~ 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT …
Woman Dies during 1,000 Mile Private Prisoner Transport Trip by David Reutter The death of a woman on a private transport van raised a much needed spotlight on the private prisoner transport industry. The 54-year-old woman was found slumped over in the back of the Prisoner Transportation Services of America …
Report Finds Fiscal Crisis of Increasing Low-Risk, High-Cost Older Prisoners by Matthew Clarke A report released by the Osborne Association found American prisons facing a crisis of aging in which an increasing percentage of older prisoners who are at low risk for recidivism are driving up the cost of running …
Suit Charges Florida Detainee Died of Neglect by David Reutter The estate of a pretrial detainee who was “neglected to death” sued Florida’s Broward County Jail (BCJ) and its medical contractor, Armor Correctional Health Services (Armor). In other BCJ news, a guard was acquitted of assaulting a pretrial detainee. Upon …
Publication • August 3, 2016
A Thin Line - The Texas Prison Healthcare Crisis and the Secret Death Penalty, Texas Civil Rights Project, 2011 A TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2011 “A THIN LINE” The Texas Prison Healthcare Crisis and The Secret Death Penalty “Right now the [health care] system is constitutional… but …
Number of State Prisoners Age 55 and Over Increased 400% in 20 Years by Derek Gilna Although much of the attention concerning the huge increase in America’s prison population has focused on the federal prison system, a new U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) report found that the number of prisoners …
A Deadly Dust is Plaguing Hawaii Prisoners in Arizona by Valley fever is widespread in the Southwest, yet Hawaii’s prison officials haven’t paid much attention to it, despite the recent deaths of at least two Hawaii prisoners who had the disease. by Rui Kaneya, Civil Beat In the spring of …
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Bivens Claim, Discusses Inmate Accident Compensation Act by Derek Gilna On May 11, 2016, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s dismissal of a former prisoner’s civil rights action. Stephen Ted Koprowski, who was incarcerated at USP Ft. McCreary in …
Report: How Private Prison Companies Cut Corners to Generate Profit by Derek Gilna Private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group earn hundreds of millions of dollars each year, averaging between $2,771 and $3,366 in profit per prisoner based on 2014 data. According to In …
Hawaii Prisoner Awarded $7.2 Million after Losing His Fingers and Feet by Christopher Zoukis In October 2011, 30-year-old Aaron David Persin was accosted by police officers for having an open container of alcohol. When they determined that he had warrants for missing traffic court they arrested Persin, who was homeless. …
Denver Settles Suit over Sanctioned Assaults of Prisoner for $3.5 Million by On July 24, 2014, the City and County of Denver, Colorado signed off on a $3.5 million settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a prisoner who was allegedly beaten and scalded with steaming water by …
Article • August 1, 2016
Filed under: Failure to Treat
BOP Prisoner Receives $5,000 Settlement for Medical Care Claim by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $5,000 to settle a prisoner’s civil rights action claiming deliberate indifference to his medical needs. Prisoner Herman Resnick claimed that while at U.S. Penitentiary Lompoc in California in 1998 he was denied two pairs …
Article • August 1, 2016
Filed under: Failure to Treat, Food
BOP Paid $1,000 to Prisoner Who Caught Salmonella from Chow Hall by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $1,000 to a prisoner who caught salmonella from eating food from the prison kitchen. Angela Elder, a prisoner at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, ate dinner on September 14, …
Article • July 29, 2016
$600,000 Settlement in New Orleans Detainee’s Death by A $600,000 settlement was reached in the death of a pre-trial detainee at Orleans Parish Prison (OPP).  At least five other lawsuits are pending in the deaths of other detainees. Cayne Miceli is one of at least 44 people to die at …
Article • July 29, 2016
$100,000 Settlement in Federal Prisoner’s Death by A $100,000 settlement was reached in a lawsuit concerning the death of a federal prisoner.  The complaint alleged negligence and wrongful death. Prisoner Robert Bassil had a long history of serious heart disease upon reception at FCI Manchester in Kentucky.  That history showed …
$700,000 Settlement in BOP Prisoner’s Delayed Treatment Claim by The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to a $700,000 settlement in a lawsuit alleging prison doctors failed to properly treat a prisoner who suffered a head injury form an assault. Prisoner Nathaniel Askew was incarcerated at FCI-Safford in Arizona on …
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