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Family of BOP Prisoner Awarded $1.1 Million in Wrongful Death Suit by Ronald Young A federal judge in Oklahoma City ruled in May 2001 that the government was negligent in the death of federal prisoner Kenneth Michael Trentadue and ordered the family to be paid $1.1 million for emotional distress. …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Private Prison Contractor Not Entitled to Immunity by A State court of appeals in West Virginia has held that a private contractor of youth incarceration services is not entitled to immunity under the Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act (the Act), W.Va. Code §§ 2912A1 to 18. Tracy Galloway …
Mystery Surrounds Texas Prison Rape/Suicide by A prisoner at the French Robertson Unit near Abilene, TX, hanged himself August 16, 2000, shortly after sexually assaulting a female prison employee, prison authorities say. A few minutes after 4:00 p.m., the female recreational staff (whose name and age were not released) confronted …
Mentally Ill Prisoners in the New Jersey Prison System by Julia Lutsky Two hundred prisoners filed a class action suit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) in 1996. A court order issued as a result of that suit mandated an investigation to "assess the mental health services in …
En Banc Sixth Circuit Addresses Mental Health Care by By Matthew T. Clarke Anthony Wade was a Michigan state prisoner who committed suicide by taking an overdose of anti-depressant Sinequan (Doxepine) pills. During the year Wade was in presentencing incarceration at the Wayne County Jail (WCJ), he suffered from depression …
Medical Claims Against CMS to be Refiled in State Court by By Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Illinois has dismissed the breach of medical care duty suit of a suicide prisoner's estate against Correctional Medical Services of Illinois (CMS), but encouraged the refilling of the suit in …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Flight to Texas Execution 'Not Life Threatening' by Texas prisoner David Martin Long had a date with the nation's busiest executioner (who had already dispatched 31 souls in 1999) on Wednesday, December 8, 1999. But Long decided to go out on his own terms: prison guards found him unconscious from …
$1.5 Million Settlement in CA Jail Suicide Attempt by On June 6, 1996, a California man was arrested on charges of drunk driving after being involved in a traffic accident. He was unable to make bail and was confined in the Los Angeles county jail to await trial. While in …
Article • February 7, 2000
$1.8 Million Award in Illinois Federal Prisoner’s Suicide by An Illinois federal district court awarded $1.8 million to the estate of a pretrial detainee who committed suicide at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). The evidence before The Court showed that Bob Johnson was incarcerated from December 1, 19992, until …
Suicides at Connecticut Prison Raise Concerns about Mental Health Care by Suicides at Connecticut Prison Raise Concerns About Mental Health Care In unrelated incidents, two women prisoners at the York Corr. Institution in East Lyme, Connecticut committed suicide within a ten-day period in March, 1999. Linda Hogan was found hanging …
$90,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Suicide by On May 28, 1999, Salt Lake county, Utah, paid $90,000 to the family of a detainee who committed suicide in the county jail. Henry Delgado was arrested on Jul 16, 1997, on charges of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and carrying a …
Texas Settles with Hanged Prisoner's Family by The state of Texas agreed in June 1999 to pay $215,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of Rodney Hulin, a 17-year-old Texas state prisoner who was found hanging in his cell in 1996. About 30 days after arriving at the …
Wreaking Medical Mayhem in Washington Prisons by Tara Herivel In 1993, prisoner Gertrude Barrow crawled to the clinic at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. Her peptic ulcer ruptured, Barrow's requests for treatment had been dismissed by health care staff who diagnosed her ulcer as a bad case of gas. …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Corcoran Prisoner Left Hanging by During a 3 a.m. bed check, a Corcoran (Calif.) State Prison guard spotted a prisoner dangling from a noose in a darkened corner of his ad-seg cell. But rather than pop open the cell door and determine whether he was dead or alive, prison guards …
Suicides Plague Florida Women's Prison by Alex Friedmann Florence Krell, a 40-year-old mother of two serving an 18-month sentence for grand theft after she failed to return her boyfriend's rental car, hanged herself from her cell door at the Jefferson Corr. Institution on October 11, 1998. She had been at …
Juvenile Crime Still Pays -- But at What Cost? by Alex Friedmann Juvenile Crime Still Pays – But at What Cost? by Alex Friedmann [Last February, PLN published a cover article, "Juvenile Crime Pays," concerning the proliferation of for-profit juvenile justice services. This month we revisit the topic following recent …
Fifth Circuit Expands Qualified Immunity Defense by In a lengthy opinion which may have dire consequences for prisoners seeking to resist qualified immunity defenses, the Fifth Circuit held that city jail guards had a duty, which was clearly established in 1989, to protect prisoners from suicide. However, the court also …
Private Health Care Providers Denied Qualified Immunity by Afederal district court in Alabama held that private party doctors and health care providers are not entitled to qualified immunity when sued by prisoners for Eight Amendment violations. The court further held that the existence of an on-going class action involving similar …
Right to Psychiatric Care Clearly Established by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that prisoners' right to psychiatric care was clearly established and prison psychiatrists who failed to properly treat a suicidal prisoner were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages. Anthony Wade was a mentally …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
California Prison Psychologist Kills Child, Self by Tracy Lynn Johnson, 33, worked as a prison psychologist at the California Medical Facility (CMF, Vacaville) until she went on "stress leave" on September 5, 1997. [CMF, Vacaville is at the center of a long-running class action suit over inadequate mental health care]. …
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