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NY: Prisoner's Abuse Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss by Lonnie Burton On December 2, 2014, a federal judge denied New York City's attempt to dismiss a suit filed by a Riker's Island prisoner who claimed he was attacked and beaten by a jail guard without provocation or justification. The excessive …
Publication • October 28, 2016
Know Your Rights - Medical, Mental & Dental Health Care, ACLU, 2012 KNOW YOUR RIGHTS MEDICAL, DENTAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE ACLU National Prison Project Important Note: The law is always evolving. If you have access to a prison law library, it is a good idea to confirm that the …
Mentally Ill Texas Jail Prisoner Celled in Fetid Squalor for Months by Matthew Clarke Almost a year after a surprise inspection of the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) resulted in the discovery of a mentally ill prisoner who had been locked …
Maricopa County Jail's Prisoner Health Care Still Unconstitutional by Matthew Clarke With assistance from American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project (NPP) attorneys, plaintiffs were able to fend off an attempt to terminate a 37-year-old class-action civil-rights lawsuit challenging the provision of medical and mental health services to pretrial detainees …
Jail Officials Compelled to Provide Medical Reports in Wrongful Death Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has ordered the defendant in a lawsuit stemming from the beating death of a prisoner to provide county morbidity and mortality reports to the plaintiff …
Brief • October 25, 2016
Corbin v. Knox County, IL, Complaint, Jail Suicide, 2016 4:16-cv-04232-SLD-JEH # 1 Page 1 of 24 E-FILED Tuesday, 25 October, 2016 07:01:06 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROCK ISLAND DIVISION ESTATE OF JOEY CORBIN, by CHRISTINE CORBIN, …
Article • October 24, 2016
Banished Texas Civilly Committed Sex Offenders Commit Crimes in Other States by Matthew Clarke The Texas Office of Violent Sex Offender Management (OVSOM), which supervises civilly committed Texas sex offenders, has been the subject of multiple controversies in recent months. These included secretly housing civilly committed sex offenders (CCSOs) in …
Petrolino v. City of San Francisco, CA, Order, Wrongful Death, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-02946-RS Document 54 Filed 10/24/16 Page 1 of 9 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 FABIO PETROLINO, et al., 7 Case No. 16-cv-02946-RS Plaintiffs, 8 v. 9 CITY AND COUNTY …
Wright v. Peters, OR, Complaint, Transgender Care, 2016 Case 6:16-cv-01998-KI Document 1 Filed 10/17/16 Page 1 of 33 Edward J. Reeves, OSB No. 833040 ed.reeves@stoel.com Kennon Scott, OSB No. 144280 kennon.scott@stoel.com Samantha K. Sondag, OSB No. 154244 samantha.sondag@stoel.com STOEL RIVES LLP 760 SW Ninth Avenue, Suite 3000 Portland, Oregon 97205 …
Florida Jail Policy Changes, but Housing Naked Suicidal Detainees Together Continues by The rape of a pretrial detainee and a subsequent lawsuit forced Florida’s Duval County Jail (DCJ) to change its policies in housing. Advocates, however, argue the new policy is still “incredibly ill-advised.” Mark Baker, 35, was arrested for …
“Demons” Push Chris Conover to Suicide 12 Years after Release by Release from prison is a great relief, and that is especially so for wrongfully convicted persons. The future, however, is wrought with difficulties, obstacles, and prejudice. For Chris Conover, it was a burden that overwhelmed him, pushing him to …
Brief • October 14, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Suicides
Nealman v. Maben, PA, Second Amended Complaint, Medical Negligence and Wrongful Death from Suicide, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01579-CCC Document 52 Filed 10/14/16 Page 1 of 32 DEVON M. JACOB, ESQUIRE Pa. Sup. Ct. ID: 89182 JACOB LITIGATION P.O. Box 837, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-0837 717.796.7733 | djacob@jacoblitigation.com Counsel for the Plaintiff IN …
Atayde v. Napa State Hospital, CA, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2015 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (SBN 189114) JULIA SHERWIN (SBN 189268) T. KENNEDY HELM (SBN 282319) …
First Unconditional Release from Minnesota’s Sex Offender Program by U.S. District Court Judge Donovan Frank ruled in June 2015 that the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) was unconstitutional for indefinitely confining offenders who had completed their prison terms. In August 2016, a state Supreme Court panel ordered sex offender Eric …
South Carolina Sheriff Fires Whistleblower Instead of Jailer Who Assaulted Prisoner by Matthew Clarke After a guard at a South Carolina jail repeatedly struck a prisoner who was being strapped into a restraint chair, York County Sheriff Bruce Bryant took decisive action. He fired the jailer who told a television …
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Third Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Restraint Chair Case by Mark Wilson The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower court did not follow controlling Supreme Court precedent when granting summary judgment to prison officials on a mentally ill prisoner’s restraint chair-related claim. Since childhood, Pennsylvania prisoner Leonard …
Los Angeles County Settles Jail Suicide Suit for $1.6 Million by Almost two years after a prisoner committed suicide at the Los Angeles County Jail, the county settled a lawsuit brought by his parents for $1.6 million. [See: PLN, March 2016, p.1]. Austin Losorelli hung himself at the jail despite …
Drastic Sentence Reduction for Mentally Ill Former Tamms Prisoner by Matthew Clarke When Anthony Gay, then-19 years old, was sentenced by an Illinois court for a 1993 probation violation and strong arm robbery that netted a hat and a dollar bill, he was sent to prison for 7 years. But …
Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative - Findings and Recommendations for ODOC, Vera, 2016 October 2016 The Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative: Findings and Recommendations for the Oregon Department of Corrections Allison Hastings, Elena Vanko, and Jessi LaChance © 2016 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Additional copies can be …
Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative Final Report, VERA, 2016 December 2016 The Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative: Findings and Recommendations for the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Jessa Wilcox, Léon Digard, PhD, and Elena Vanko © 2016 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Additional copies can be obtained …
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