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Article • February 15, 2009
District Of Columbia Moultrie Courthouse Deemed Seriously Substandard by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), prepared a report revealing substandard conditions as well as safety and security inadequacies at the District of Columbia's (DC) H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse. In 1975, construction began on …
Article • February 15, 2009
$10,000 Settlement For Ex Federal Prisoner After Slipping In Water by Ex Federal prisoner and Michigan resident William Bonhart brought a federal tort action in 2000 against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after slipping in water in 1998 at the Federal Correctional …
Article • February 15, 2009
$20,000 Settlement After Citizen Falls At Federal Medical Center by Missouri resident Wealtha Liggins brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996 after she fell at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Kentucky. The $500,000 suit settled for $20,000. Liggins was a guest at the FMC in …
$50,000 Settlement In Memphis Policeman's Training Injury by Memphis (Tennessee) policeman Michael Cockerell and his wife Linda brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1999 after he fell during an obstacle course training exercise at a federal facility. The $1,500,000 suit settled for $50,000. Cockerell was training …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
$7,025 Award in Slip and Fall From Ohio Prison Bunk by $7,025 Award in Slip and Fall From Ohio Prison Bunk The Ohio Court of Claims has awarded a former Ohio prisoner $7,025 for injuries related to a slip and fall from a prison bunk. Stacy Rose slipped and fell …
$12,000,000 Awarded To family of Victim Allegedly Murdered by Convicted Felon by A California jury has awarded $12,000,000 to the family of a woman allegedly murdered by an apartment complex maintenance man who was a convicted felon. The plaintiff’s 30-year-old daughter was reported missing on August 17, 2004. Several weeks …
Article • January 15, 2009
$200,000 Verdict Awarded to Citizen Who Tripped and Fell on Jail Property by A New York state court jury awarded a woman $200,000 in total damages for injuries incurred after she tripped and fell on the side walk in front of a New York City Jail. The 62-year-old woman, who …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
$290,000 Award for New York Prisoner’s Slip and Fall on Ice by On December 4, 2007, a New York Court of Claims awarded a former prisoner $290,000 for injuries he received when he slipped and fell on ice at a New York state prison. In January 2001, Gene Sullivan was …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
$25,000 Award To South Carolina Prisoner Injured Performing Community Service by $25,000 Award To South Carolina Prisoner Injured Performing Community Service A South Carolina court entered an award of $25,000 to a prisoner who was working community service on a trash truck when his foot was run over by a …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
$145,000 Awarded to New York Prisoner Who Falls While Cutting Wet Grass by $145,000 Awarded to New York Prisoner Who Falls While Cutting Wet Grass A New York Court of Claims has awarded $145,000 in damages to a prisoner who slipped and fell on wet grass while mowing a hilly …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Hawaii Prisoner Awarded $20,000 in Slip and Fall Lawsuit by A Hawaii State Court has awarded a prisoner$20,000 for injuries incurred in a negligence claim stemming from a slip and fall, incident. While imprisoned at the Halawa High Security Facility on January 26, 2006, Joseph Sampiao was walking down the …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
$7,025 Award in Slip and Fall From Ohio Prison Bunk by The Ohio Court of Claims has awarded a former Ohio prisoner $7,025 for injuries related to a slip and fall from a prison bunk. Stacy Rose slipped and fell while climbing down from his bunk at the Chillicothe Correctional …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
$449,000 Settlement in BIA Prisoner’s Fall from Top Bunk in Detox Cell by $449,000 Settlement in BIA Prisoner’s Fall from Top Bunk in Detox Cell The United States has settled a lawsuit alleging negligent supervision and observation of a prisoner who fell from a top bunk. While the settlement was …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
New York Prisoner Awarded $21,500 for Finger Injury by On September 13, 2007, a court of claims in Syracuse, New York, awarded $12,500 to a state prisoner for pain and suffering related to a broken finger. While imprisoned at the Oneida Correctional Facility on October 24, 2001, state prisoner Patrick …
Article • August 15, 2008
Drilling Teeth Without Anesthesia and Denial of Lower Bunk Upheld by The plaintiff alleged that the defendant forced him to take an upper bunk despite his visual impairment and made him stay there after he got a medical direction to take a bottom bunk; a month and a half later …
PHS Not Liable in Kansas Wheelchair Collapse by The defendants were not deliberately indifferent in providing the plaintiff a wheelchair that collapsed under him. The court notes that they always recognized his medical needs by providing him a wheelchair, he signed two forms reflecting that the wheelchair issued to him …
Alabama Prisoner’s Estate Loses Product Liability Suit by Louis Horn, an Alabama state prisoner, was killed by three other prisoners who picked his cell door lock and beat him to death. His estate filed a product liability case in state court against Southern Steel Co., the firm that made the …
Mississippi Jail Prisoner Wins $3,000,000 in Failure to Protect Suit by The Hinds County Board of Supervisors (Board) agreed to settle a three-million-dollar federal lawsuit filed by a former prisoner in the Hinds County Jail after he was left paralyzed by a beating at the hands of other prisoners in …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Mentally Ill Woman Sues Over Seg-Cell Sex; County Settles for $40,000 by Twenty-nine-year-old Misha Cooper has a long history of mental illness and criminal offenses. In May 2006, she was confined in the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) in Portland, Oregon. Due to her mental health issues she was placed …
Article • August 15, 2008
Fall From Top Bunk During Seizure Nets $1,350,000 by A Nebraska prisoner who was injured when he fell from a top bunk during a seizure was awarded $1,350,000. Mr. Wright, a Nebraska prisoner, was assigned to an upper bunk when he had a seizure and fell out of bed. He …
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