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Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Receives 25 to Life for Throwing Urine/Feces on Guard by The Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court has affirmed a prisoner's conviction and sentence of 25 years to life for throwing a cup of human waste on a guard. While housed in the special housing unit …
State Not Liable for Death of Guards by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that the state of Illinois was not liable for the death of three guards and the injury of three guards during a prison riot. The court held the guards had no constitutional right …
New York Guard Awarded $120,000 for Hostile Work Environment From Racial Discrimination by New York Guard Awarded $120,000 for Hostile Work Environment From Racial Discrimination A New York federal jury has awarded a guard $120,000 in his claim that fellow guards created a hostile work environment for him because he …
Article • May 15, 2007
$35,000 Paid to Florida Jail Nurse for Assault by On November 12, 1988, while employed as a nurse at Florida's Palm Beach County Jail, Ella Donald was assaulted by a prisoner on suicide watch after a guard opened the prisoner's cell. The prisoner charged through the door, striking Donald. She …
Prison Warden Granted Qualified Immunity in Employee's Death by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan was correct in denying a prison warden's motion to dismiss a 42 U.S.C. §1983 complaint for failure to state a claim, but …
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Of Prison Teacher Taken Hostage Settled for $1.3 Million by Wrongful Death Lawsuit Of Prison Teacher Taken Hostage Settled for $1.3 Million Kevin Taylor, husband and Administrator of his deceased wife Beverly's estate, a former teacher at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, settled a State Court civil …
Altercation Suit Brought By Prisoner Backfires; $250,000 Awarded to Guard by Virginia state prisoner Lament Douglas brought a § 1983 suit against prison guard J. McCarty for an altercation which left both parties injured. The Court granted remittur and awarded $250,000 to McCarty on his counterclaim. Douglas' motion for a …
Article • May 15, 2007
$183,000 Awarded To California Deputy District Attorney Attacked During Parole Hearing by $183,000 Awarded To California Deputy District Attorney Attacked During Parole Hearing In 1980, a California Deputy District Attorney (Savitt) was attacked and stabbed multiple times by a maximum security prisoner during a parole hearing. The prisoner had a …
$2,000,000 Jury Verdict in Negligence Suit in Hospital for Failure to Protect by When a New York City police officer took an arrestee to St. Vincent's Hospital for treatment of superficial hear wounds, emergency room personnel instructed the officer to remove the arrestee's handcuffs because he would be considered a …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA Prisoners Who Assault Guards Knowing That They're Guards are Guilty of Custodial Assault by WA Prisoners Who Assault Guards Knowing That They're Guards are Guilty of Custodial Assault While incarcerated in the Spokane County Jail, Perry Ashelman splashed urine under his cell door onto Shaun Campbell's shoes and pants. …
Article • May 15, 2007
GA Prisoner Gets 5 Years Fed Time for Mailing Threatening Letter to Judge by In March of 2005, Tracey Dudley, a Georgia State prisoner, mailed a threatening letter from the prison to Judge Louisa Abbot. In it was talcum powder which he claimed was anthrax. Half of the courthouse was …
Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby "Lock them up and throw away the key." Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosophy in Maryland has led to a criminal justice system that is defunct at every level. The state's adult prisons are "in crisis." …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
New York Prison Worker Not Kidnapped/Raped Long Enough For Compensation by Gary Hunter On December 28, 2004, a 52-year old female employee at New York?s Camp Cass juvenile facility was accosted by 16-year old Michael Elston who choked her, banged her head against a wall and raped her at knife-point. …
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Damage Award in Psychiatrist’s Strangling Death by Eleventh Circuit Affirms Damage Award in Psychiatrist's Strangling Death The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a jury's verdict awarding a psychiatrist's widow $1.3 million judgment against Florida's Collier County Sheriff. PLN previously reported this verdict, which was predicated …
California Guard Murdered By Prisoner; Investigative Reports Blame Gross Staff Incompetence by Marvin Mentor A prison guard at the California Institution for Men (CIM) at Chino was stabbed to death in the Sycamore Hall housing unit on January 10, 2005 by an East Coast Crips gang-affiliated prisoner who had just …
Jail Prisoner Strangles Psychiatrist; Jury Awards $2.6 Million by A Florida jury awarded $2,650,260 in the strangling death of a psychiatrist doing an evaluation on a prisoner at the Collier County Jail. David J. Hoyer was doing a court ordered competency evaluation on January 3, 2001, when he was attacked …
New York Employees Families Settle Attica Riot Claims for $12 Million by The State of New York has reached a $12 million settlement with the Forgotten Victims of Attica, a group of surviving state employees and relatives of 11 guards killed during the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility. …
Problems Mount In Maryland Prisons by by Michael Rigby Even as the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) reels amid mounting criticism over pervasive violence, inadequate medical care, overcrowding, understaffing, and other systemic deficiencies, new tremors continue to rattle the division. Eight guards accused of beating a …
No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prison Warden in Guard's Murder by The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, held that Tripett, the warden of the Thumb Correctional Facility in Michigan (TCF), was not entitled to qualified immunity, in a suit brought by the estate of a …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
California Guard Wins $10 Million Default Judgment Against Assaultive Prisoners by A guard at California State Prison Los Angeles (CSP-LA) in Lancaster, who was allegedly injured by two prisoners, was awarded a $10,253,792.57 default judgment against them in Los Angeles Superior Court on March 17, 2005. Guard Demont Blunt, 25, …
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