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Brief • December 19, 2013
Ball v. LeBlanc, LA, Judgment, 8th Amendment Heat Exposure, 2013 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ELZIE BALL, ET AL. CIVIL ACTION VERSUS JAMES M. LEBLANC, ET AL. NO.: 13-00368-BAJ-SCR RULING AND ORDER I. INTRODUCTION On August 5, 2013, this matter came before the Court for a non-jury …
McCollum v. Livingston, TX, Brief in Support of Mot, Wrongful Death Heat, 2013 Case 4:14-cv-03253 Document 103-1 Filed in TXSD on 12/04/13 Page 1 of 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION STEPHEN McCOLLUM, STEPHANIE KINGREY, and SANDRA McCOLLUM, individually and as heirs at law to …
Brief • November 20, 2013
McCollum v. Livingston, TX, Deposition of Owen Murray, Heat Stroke Death, 2013 · · · · · ··IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT · · · · · ··FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS · · · · · · · · · · ··DALLAS DIVISION · ·......................................................... · · …
Benjamin v. Schriro, NY, Memorandum in Support of Plaintiff's Motion, Conditions of Confinement, 2013 Case 1:75-cv-03073-HB Document 579 Filed 06/25/13 Page 1 of 10 Case 1:75-cv-03073-HB Document 579 Filed 06/25/13 Page 2 of 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Authorities.............................................................................................................ii STATEMENT OF THE CASE............................................................................................1 ARGUMENT THE COURT HAS POWER TO …
TransCor May Face Punitive Damages for Prisoner's Death by Christopher Zoukis TransCor America, LLC, a for-profit prisoner transportation company and subsidiary of Corrections Corporation of America, may be held liable for punitive damages if it is found responsible for the death of a prisoner who died while being transported in …
California: CDCR Pays $475,000 to Settle Wrongful Death Suit by In November 2009, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) entered into a Settlement Agreement with the parents and siblings of Joseph Sullivan who, in June 2006, took his own life while incarcerated at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (CVSP). …
Mom’s E-mail Forces Hawaiian Lawmakers to Tour “Hellhole” Prison by Joe Watson It took one mother of a complaint to get lawmakers in September 2011 to visit a dilapidated prison in Hawaii. Prison officials, however, put on a good show for their guests. The grumblings about Hawaii’s prison conditions are …
Report Cites Rising Violence, Other Problems at Illinois Maximum-Security Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report by the John Howard Association of Illinois (JHA) found that overcrowding and understaffing at the Menard Correctional Center (Menard) has resulted in an “alarming” increase in staff and prisoner assaults. Opened …
Curtis v. Transcor America, LLC, IL, Deposition of Seiter, Transportation Heatstroke Death, 2012
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Virginia ACLU Requests DOJ Investigation into Jail Deaths by Mark Wilson The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia has asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate conditions at the Richmond City Jail following the June 2010 deaths of two prisoners, one of which was heat-related while the …
Judge Declines to Terminate Orders Requiring Air-conditioned Housing for Heat-sensitive Prisoners by Brandon Sample New York U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer, Jr. has declined to terminate a series of orders requiring New York City jail officials to house “heat-sensitive” prisoners in air-conditioned cells when temperatures reach 85 degrees Fahrenheit …
Article • March 15, 2011
$2,000 Settlement in DC Prisoner’s Burn from Exposed Hot Pipe by The District of Columbia (DC) paid $2,000 to settle a negligence suit filed by prisoner Neal Bowman for injuries sustained from burning his leg on an exposed hot pipe. While working out in the gymnasium of DC’s Occoquan Facility …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Mississippi Supreme Court Holds Substance, Not Label, of Prisoner Petitions Governs by Mississippi courts must construe prisoner filings based on their substance, and not how they are labeled, the Supreme Court of Mississippi decided. Dennis Dobbs, a Mississippi state prisoner, filed a “Petition for an Order to Show Cause” with …
Deplorable Conditions at Los Angeles ICE Facility Result in Settlement by Brandon Sample Being locked up is bad enough. But imagine being held in a basement without basic essentials like drinking water, clean clothes, the ability to shower, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and medical care. Thousands of immigration detainees in …
Canyon County Jail in Idaho Settles Conditions Suit With Consent Decree and $190,000 in Attorney’s Fees by Brandon Sample On November 12, 2009, Canyon County, Idaho agreed to settle a federal class-action suit against the Canyon County Jail (CCJ) that raised a myriad of claims related to unconstitutional conditions. Filed …
Doherty v. Marshall, MA, Plaintiff's Appellate Brief, Inhumane Prison Conditions, 2010 Issue Presented Did the superior court abuse its discretion by awarding attorney fees to Plaintiff-Appellee Doherty after the jury found that the DefendantAppellants had caused him and ten other prisoners to live under conditions of extreme squalor and filth …
New Jersey: Class-Action Status Granted in Suit Challenging Conditions of Confinement at Passaic County Jail by Michael Brodheim On May 28, 2009, a U.S. District Court granted class-action status to prisoners seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the Passaic County Jail (PCJ) in Paterson, New …
New Orleans Jail Conditions Found Unconstitutional by Jimmy Franks In June, August and November 2008, the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) in New Orleans, Louisiana was the target of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation conducted by the agency’s Civil Rights Division. Under the auspices of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized …
$750,000 Settlement in Alabama Prisoner’s Heat Death by A $750,000 settlement was paid to the mother of an Alabama mentally ill prisoner who died as the result of exposure to extreme heat while on psychotropic medication. Just four days after his admission to Kilby Correctional Facility (KCF), prisoner Farron Barksdale, …
Arizona Prisoner, Abandoned in Outdoor Cage, Bakes to Death by Gary Hunter On May 19, 2009, Arizona state prisoner Marcia Powell, 48, collapsed after being left in an unshaded outdoor chain-link cage for four hours under a scorching summer sun. She later died. Temperatures at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville …
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