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Centurion’s $8 Million Track Record of Abuse and Neglect as New Mexico’s Correctional Medical Provider
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Centurion’s $8 Million Track Record of Abuse and Neglect as New Mexico’s Correctional Medical Provider by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has long outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide prisoners adequate medical care to private, for-profit corporations with little incentive to do so. Before …
Washington State Patrol Accused of Confusing Driver’s Brain Bleed for DUI
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice, DUI, False Exculpatory Statements
Washington State Patrol Accused of Confusing Driver’s Brain Bleed for DUI by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 17, 2024, the Washington State Patrol (WSP) was accused of negligently arresting and jailing a woman for suspected DUI when in fact she was suffering a life-threatening brain bleed. Beyond the …
Last Charges Dropped in Suffocation Death of Virginia Jail Detainee
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Settlements, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
Last Charges Dropped in Suffocation Death of Virginia Jail Detainee by On November 4, 2024, Commonwealth’s Attorney Amanda Mann in Virginia’s Dinwiddie County dropped charges against the last two of eight defendants charged in the death of Henrico County Jail detainee Irvo Otieno. That means no one will face trial …
Trends Show Mortality Risks Increase with Higher Jail Turnover Rates
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: Medical, Wrongful Death, Mental Health
Trends Show Mortality Risks Increase with Higher Jail Turnover Rates by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Thousands of people die in local jails annually. The causes of death vary, leading researchers to seek identifiable trends. A report published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on December 19, 2023, …
Estate of Daniel James Murray v. Wellpath, LLC, CO, Settlement, Unconsitutional Medical Care, 2024
Brief • November 20, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Estate of Daniel James Murray v. Wellpath, LLC, CO, Settlement, Unconsitutional Medical Care, 2024 Steve Schleiker El Paso Countv1 CO 11/20/2024 10:24:35 AM Doc $0.00 20 Illllll lllll lllll lllll lllll lllll lllll1111111111 11111111 Rec $0.00 Pages 224092550 RESOLUTION NO. 24-455 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE …
$28.75 Million Settlement Paid by New York City in Suit Alleging Rikers Guards Stood by and Watched Detainee Hang Himself
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides
$28.75 Million Settlement Paid by New York City in Suit Alleging Rikers Guards Stood by and Watched Detainee Hang Himself by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 5, 2024, the City of New York agreed to pay $28.75 million to settle a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint filed by Madeline …
San Bernardino Jail Partially Released from Court Monitoring After Paying Another $150,000 in Settlements for Detainee Deaths
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Electronic Monitoring, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)
San Bernardino Jail Partially Released from Court Monitoring After Paying Another $150,000 in Settlements for Detainee Deaths by On July 15, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California removed medical care from continued monitoring of conditions at San Bernardino County jails under a 2018 consent decree. The …
Wellpath Sanctioned for Destroying Evidence in Two Oregon Jail Death Suits
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Private Contractors, Sanctions, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Evidence - Destruction/Fabrication/Manipulation of
Wellpath Sanctioned for Destroying Evidence in Two Oregon Jail Death Suits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 30, 2024, the federal court for the District of Oregon sanctioned private prison and jail medical contractor Wellpath, LLC for destroying evidence in a suit filed over a detainee death …
After $750,000 Settlement, Georgia Guard Sued Second Time For Letting One Prisoner Murder Another
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Failure to Protect (General), Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Murder/Felony Murder
After $750,000 Settlement, Georgia Guard Sued Second Time For Letting One Prisoner Murder Another by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 26, 2024, the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) was sued by the surviving parents of murdered state prisoner Joseph Walter Brown, 36, who was killed in July 2022 …
$1.5 Million Settlement Approved in Chicago Jail Suicide Case
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides
$1.5 Million Settlement Approved in Chicago Jail Suicide Case by On July 12, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a $1.5 million settlement in a case involving the suicide of detainee Areon Marion in Chicago’s Cook County Jail. The order directed how the funds …
Two More West Virginia Jailers Plead Guilty in Detainee’s Homicide
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
Two More West Virginia Jailers Plead Guilty in Detainee’s Homicide by Guilty pleas from two former guards at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail were filed on August 8, 2024, for their roles in the fatal beating of detainee Quantez Burks, 27, in May 2022. As PLN reported, two other former …
Estate of Lucas Bellamy v. Omweri, Proposed Order for Distribution of Wrongful Death Proceeds, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024
Brief • November 11, 2024
Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Estate of Lucas Bellamy v. Omweri, Proposed Order for Distribution of Wrongful Death Proceeds, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024 CASE 0:24-cv-00170-DWF-TNL Doc. 49 Filed 11/11/24 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Louis Bellamy, as Trustee for the next of kin of Lucas John Bellamy, Deceased, Plaintiff, …
Estate of Kevin Wiley v. City of Issaquah, WA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024
Brief • October 29, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Estate of Kevin Wiley v. City of Issaquah, WA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE THIS IS A COMPLETE RELEASE READ IT BEFORE SIGNING IN CONSIDERATION for the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000.00), I, Richelle Marie Dickey, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Kevin Wiley …
Former California Jail Guards Plead Guilty to Fatal Beating of Mentally Ill Detainee
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
Former California Jail Guards Plead Guilty to Fatal Beating of Mentally Ill Detainee by Three former Santa Clara County Jail guards pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter on August 13, 2024, for fatally beating a mentally ill detainee nearly nine years earlier. In their plea deal, Jereh Lubrin, 37, Matt Farris, …
Crucial Surveillance Video Missing in Nevada Prisoner’s Homicide Caused by Guards
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Electronic Surveillance
Crucial Surveillance Video Missing in Nevada Prisoner’s Homicide Caused by Guards by In August 2024, a nine-month investigation by the office of Melanie Rouse, Coroner of Nevada’s Clark County, concluded that the death of state prisoner Patrick Odale, 39, was a homicide. Odale was killed when guards pepper-sprayed him and …
Watchdog Calls for Hawaii Prisons, Jails to Stop Using Restraint Chairs
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Restraints, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health
Watchdog Calls for Hawaii Prisons, Jails to Stop Using Restraint Chairs by On April 18, 2024, Hawaii’s Correctional System Oversight Commission (CSOC) called on lockups in the state to stop using restraint chairs over concerns they are dangerous. CSOC said it wasn’t aware that any of the devices were still …
Ohio Pays $725,000 to Survivors of Two Prisoners Beaten to Death by Lying Guards
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), False Statements/Perjury
Ohio Pays $725,000 to Survivors of Two Prisoners Beaten to Death by Lying Guards by On July 17, 2024, the Ohio Court of Claims approved a settlement between the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) and the Estate of mentally ill prisoner Dewey C. McVay, Jr., who died after …
Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail by Private jail medical providers usually win contracts with promises to save a county money. But after two federal lawsuits filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio in 2023 against Ohio’s Richland County and its privately …
$1.8 Million Jury Award for San Diego Jail Overdose Death
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Drug Overdose, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
$1.8 Million Jury Award for San Diego Jail Overdose Death by Matthew Clarke On April 25, 2024, a federal jury in Southern California awarded $1.8 million to the Estate of a detainee who died of a methamphetamine overdose while incarcerated at the San Diego Central Jail. The verdict was preceded …
More Alabama Prisoners Murdered in Overcrowded Lockups
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Overcrowding, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
More Alabama Prisoners Murdered in Overcrowded Lockups by After a string of killings at Alabama prisons blamed on overcrowding, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest on July 7, 2024, in a long-running lawsuit over conditions at one state prison. With too few guards to adequately …
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