Hawks v. Chicago Police Dept, IL, Complaint, False Arrest & Excessive Force, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-08236 Document #: 1 Filed: 08/19/16 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:1 /Y1 RECEI VED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DMSION (Enter above the full name of the plaintiff or plaintiffs in …
Vega v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-04907 Document #: 12 Filed: 08/15/16 Page 1 of 27 PageID #:96 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NOIRTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ALANNVEGA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) V ) ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES INC., ) A Florida Corporation; ) …
Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department, DOJ CRD, 2016 INVESTIGATION OF THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION August 10, 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………………………3 I. Background ............................................................................................................................................................... 12 A. Baltimore, Maryland............................................................................................................................................ 12 B. The Baltimore Police Department ................................................................................................................... 15 C. BPD’s Enforcement …
Chicago Driver Awarded $319,464 for Police Red Light Violation Crash by Mark Wilson An Illinois jury awarded a Chicago man $319,464 for injuries he sustained when a Chicago police officer ran a red light, t-boning his vehicle. On October 26, 2005, Melvin Conway, 43, was driving home from the Chicago, …
Al Matar v. Borchardt, IL, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-08033 Document #: 1 Filed: 08/11/16 Page 1 of 11 PageID #:1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ITEMID AL MATAR, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) P.O. D.R. BORCHARDT #16806, ) P.O. T.P. …
Chicago Men Arrested For Failing to Register As A Sex Offender After Being Turned Away By Chicago Police Department by Christopher Zoukis On at least 601 occasions in the first three months of 2014, men who appeared at the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to register as sex offenders were turned …
Cook County Probation Blamed for Chicago Gun Violence, Death of High School Student by Joe Watson Cook County's Adult Probation Department (CCAPD) is getting considerable blame for the notoriously high prevalence of gun violence in Chicago, including the January 2013 shooting death of a high school band member who performed …
Federal Detention Center in Chicago Agrees to $1 Million Wrongful Death Settlement by Derek Gilna For over ten years defense attorneys and their clients in Chicago have complained about the quality of medical treatment for prisoners at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), Chicago, located in a decaying 28-story high rise …
Guards Outnumber Prisoners, Still Paid Overtime at Illinois Supermax by Prison officials at the Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois, which includes the state's only supermax prison, are having a hard time explaining how staff racked up $884,000 in overtime between November 2011 and November 2012 when the facility’s guard-to-prisoner …
Daring MCC Chicago Escape Directs Unwanted Attention on BOP Operations by Derek Gilna The mission statement on the wall of every Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility makes clear the main priority of BOP staff, and it’s not “rehabilitation.” The BOP sees its main duty to keep prisoners locked up, at …
Illinois - An Assessment of Access to Counsel & Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings, Models for Change, 2007 Illinois An Assessment of Access to Counsel & Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings An initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation www.macfound.org www.modelsforchange.net by the Children …
Cook County Pays $550,000 in Prisoner’s Beating Death by Illinois’ Cook County paid $550,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the widow of a prisoner who was beat to death by three guards at the Bridgeview Courthouse. The prisoner, 40, was arrested in May 2000 for throwing a brick through …
Federal Jury Awards $9 Million to Illinois Man Cleared of Rape He Was Convicted of as Teenager by Alejandro Dominguez, who spent four years in prison for a rape he did not commit, was awarded $9 million by a federal jury after DNA evidence cleared him of the charges. Dominguez, …
Two Illinois Jail Guards Indicted in 2011 'Take Down,' Death of Homeless Man by Joe Watson Two former Illinois jail guards who were employed by the Lake County Sheriff's Office north of Chicago were indicted October 29, 2014, on felony charges related to the death of a homeless man booked …
Sangraal v. Flagg, IL, Merit Review, Retaliation for Lawsuit, 2016 • Case 3:16-cv-00550-MJR-SCW Document 6 Filed 08/05/16 Page 1 of 36 Page ID #82 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS BENJAMIN SANGRAAL, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) JULWS FLAGG, JIMMY D. LEEK, …
Illinois: Assistant Warden Fired for Helping Ex-Prisoner by Lonnie Burton On July 9, 2014, an assistant warden at the Dixon Correctional Center in Illinois was dismissed from his position and escorted off the prison grounds after it was discovered that he tried to give a former prisoner some money. Charles …
HRDC Represents Former Illinois Prisoner in Wrongful Conviction Suit by Derek Gilna Over the years, Prison Legal News and its parent non-profit organization, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), have filed dozens of censorship lawsuits against state prison systems and county jails, as well as numerous public records suits. [See: …
Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
Illinois DOC to Pay Millions in Utility Arrearages by The state of Illinois owes more than $34 million in operational costs for prisons statewide, including $1.2 million owed to the city of Chester for unpaid power, water and sewer bills at the Menard Correctional Center. A short-term budget deal was …
