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Washington DOC Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $245,000 by Washington DOC Settles Wrongful Death Suit For $245,000 In February 2001, Washington prison officials agreed to settle a $2.9 million wrongful death suit for $245,000 in costs, damages, and attorneys' fees. The lawsuit was brought in state court by a prisoner's …
$225,000 Paid in Mentally Ill Prisoner's Death by $225,000 paid in mentally ill prisoner's death In 1991, John E. Rickert was placed in the DOC's custody to serve a sentence upon conviction of a crime. Mr. Rickert was suffering from an unspecified mental illness at the time of his incarceration, …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons Falls Short by Among the 1,558 public and private state prisons and community corrections facilities, approximately 191,000 prisoners are mentally ill. Of these prisoners, about one in five does not receive necessary mental health treatment. These numbers come from a report by Allen J. …
$3.54 Million Paid For Falsely Imprisoning Unconvicted Mentally-Incapacitated California Man For Two Years In New York by John E Dannenberg A mentally incapacitated misdemeanant detainee at the Los Angeles County, California, jail was unlawfully extradited to New York, where he was imprisoned for two years in the Green Haven Correctional …
PLRA Constitutional, Most of Ruiz Relief Terminated in Texas Suit by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the constitutionality of the termination provisions of the PLRA, 18 U.S.C. § 3626. On remand, the district court terminated most of the relief previously ordered in the Ruiz case. This involves …
Eighth Circuit Applies Turner Test to Control Unit Conditions Case by In the first case to apply the "Reasonable Relationship" Test of Turner v. Safley , 482 U.S. 78, 107 S.Ct. 2254 (1987), to a conditions of confinement case, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a district court's decision …
Colorado Restraint Board Death Case Settled by Bill Trine by Bill Trine, esq. A§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit and medical/healthcare negligence lawsuit was brought by the mother of 54 year old Michael Lewis, who died on May 7, 1998, after being placed on a "restrainer board" while incarcerated as a …
Washington DOC Suffers Yet Another Multi-Million Dollar Negligent Supervision Settlement by Lonnie Burton On May 16, 2001, the State of Washington and King County agreed to pay $5.5 million to the family of a man stabbed to death by a mentally ill man who was mistakenly released from the King …
Released NYC Prisoners Win Mental Health Benefits by Prisoners in New York City jails who received treatment for mental illness won class certification and a preliminary injunction requiring defendants to provide written discharge plans for prisoners who, during their confinement, received treatment for mental illness. Plaintiffs sought certification of the …
Ohio ACLU Challenges Supermax by The ACLU has filed a class-action suit in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the conditions of confinement at Ohio's supermax prison in Youngstown. The lawsuit alleges that conditions at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) constitute cruel and unusual punishment, violating …
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Consent Decree, Inmate Funds Misappropriation, 2001 Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 45 Filed 09/25/01 Page 1 of 18 F·- 11'··~ L::. ·-.. r·) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 01SEP25 PM 3: 32 NORTHEASTERN DMSION U.S. DiS: r.;~: N.O. OF AL …
Women Behind Bars by Silja JA Talvi It's the kind of statistic that deserves repeated mention: America's prisons and jails now hold just under two million persons, or 1 in every 142 U.S. residents. To put America's incarceration rates into perspective, it's worth bearing in mind from 1990 to 2000, …
Brief • May 29, 2001
Brad H. v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Mental Health Care, 2001 OS/29/2001 17:27 FAX 212 909 6836 DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON I4i 002 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNlY OF NEW YORK, PART -----------------------------------------------------------------------_. x BRAD H.• ROBERT K, MICHAEL R.• CARL A, SUSAN T.. KEVINW. …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) was hit with separate jury verdicts for $22.4 and $15 million and settled two additional cases …
Closing Washington's Window of Parole Liability by Paul Wright In addition to almost $50 million in settlements and verdicts assessed against the Washington DOC in recent months, the Washington DOC has paid an additional $20.6 million to settle 25 parole liability cases and pay one jury verdict since 1994. Apparently, …
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Complaint, Inmate Funds Misappropriation, 2001 Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 1 Filed 04/05/01 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA C. / "~i - 3 i.. ; ~·: NORTHERN DMSION JOHNNY MAYNOR, Anthony Murphree, Christopher Nichols, Yvette Barbee, …
Bag'm, Tag'm and Bury'm; Wisconsin Prisoners Dying for Health Care by Dan Pens [The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (www.jsonline.com) published an investigative series titled: "Wisconsin's Death Penalty," by Mary Zahn and Jessica McBride, October 22-24, 2000. Wisconsin doesn't have capital punishment, but the Journal Sentinel revealed the routine "execution" of state …
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 …
Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons by The state of Louisiana agreed to a settlement in federal court September 7, 2000 designed to radically alter the way it operates its juvenile prisons. The agreement was intended to settle several lawsuits against the state, including one by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, …
Iowa Segregation Suit Settled by James Quigley A federal district court in Iowa held that after nearly a decade of unconstitutional conditions, state prison officials have finally submitted an acceptable plan to remedy substantive due process violations relating to extraordinarily longterm lockup, and various Eighth Amendment violations in a segregation …
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