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Raped Texas Prisoner's Federal Claim Overturned, $367,916 Damage Award Reduced by In this case involving a jury award of $367,916.13 to a Texas prisoner who was raped in the Waco City Jail, a Texas appeals court upheld the verdict under the Texas Tort Claims Act (TTCA) but reversed on the …
Jail Liable for Guard's Rape of Female Prisoner by The plaintiff was sexually abused by a jail officer on two occasions. The plaintiff denied this conduct when jail administrators investigated based on another prisoner's report. She filed a grievance upon leaving the jail and the officer was suspended and a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sexual Predation Rampant At FMC-Carswell; Another Employee Convicted by By Michael Rigby A pair of semen-stained sweatpants has led to the conviction of former prison guard Michael Lawrence Miller, making him the seventh employee of the Federal Medical Center for women in Carswell, Texas, to be convicted of sexually abusing …
Article • May 15, 2007
No City Liability for Policeman's Sexual Assault, Strip Search of Minor by The plaintiff, a minor, was a passenger in a car whose driver was in possession of marijuana. The plaintiff was strip searched at the police station and the officer later made sexual advances toward him and restrained him …
Prisons Have Affirmative Duty to Protect Prisoners from Rape by Prisons Have Affirmative Duty to Protect Prisoners From Rape The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit affirmed a Maryland district court's injunction at 449 F. Supp. 473 (D MD 1978) requiring a prison to protect prisoners from sexual predators …
Summary Judgment Against Sexually Assaulted Prisoner Denied in Part by The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio granted in part and denied in part Ohio officials' motion for summary judgment against a prisoner who was sexually assaulted by a guard. While a prisoner at the Ohio Reformatory …
SJ for Guard in Prisoner's Rape Suit Improper by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that summary judgment in favor of four prison officials was proper but summary judgment in favor of a guard was not. Plaintiff, a Washington state prisoner who was in protective custody, …
Classification Ordered in Maryland Prison to Reduce Rape by A Maryland federal district court ordered prison officials at the Maryland State Penitentiary and the Maryland Reception and Classification Center (MRDCC) to devise an efficient classification system to identify prisoners at risk of rape and to implement procedures to prevent prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2007
$260,000 Paid for Washington Parolee's Attempted Rape by On June 27, 1992, Kevin Ingalls assaulted and attempted to rape Deborah Kelly. At the time, Ingalls was on parole. The complaint alleged negligent supervision because Ingalls had violated parole before the incident. On March 25, 2002, the Washington Department of Corrections …
Article • May 15, 2007
$385,000 Paid to Connecticut Prisoner for Guard's Sexual Assault by On April 15, 1991, a jury awarded a 34-year-old former prisoner of Connecticut's Women's Correctional Institution $385,000, which included $250,000 in punitive damages, against a prison guard who sexually assaulted her during incarceration. The guard was ultimately fired and criminally …
Raped Georgia Prisoner Awarded $300,000 Against Jailer, City by In this civil rights lawsuit, a Georgia-prisoner who was allegedly raped in her cell by a city jailer was awarded $300,000 plus attorneys fees and court costs. Plaintiff, Mary Isdell, claimed that while she was imprisoned in the Forest Park Jail, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Michigan Prisoner Civil Suit for Sexual Abuse by In an unpublished ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that a Michigan district court erred in dismissing a prisoner's civil rights suit for sexual assault by two guards and an emergency room doctor. The prisoner had chest …
Rape Suit Dismissal Summarily Affirmed by A male to female transsexual prisoner who was raped at a federal facility filed suit in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin alleging prison officials were deliberately indifferent to her right to be free from attack. The District Court dismissed the suit. The Seventh Circuit …
Florida: Prisoner Raped In County Jail Awarded $65,950 by In this case published by the Florida Jury Verdict Reporter in April 1990, the plaintiff, a prisoner who was raped by another prisoner, was awarded $65,950. On November 23, 1987, while imprisoned in the medium-security section of the Pinellas County (Florida) …
Texas: Sexually Assaulted Boot Camp Prisoners Awarded $2,800,000 Against CSC by On December 12, 2001 three former female prisoners who claimed they were sexually assaulted while imprisoned in a privately operated boot camp in Mansfield, Texas were awarded a total of $2,800,000 against the camp's operator. Plaintiffs, Keri Echols Chattha, …
Preliminary Screening Required Prior to Double Ceiling by A federal district court in Maryland has held that the failure to have in place procedures to identify special problems with and review the compatibility of cellmates is a constitutional violation of prisoners' rights to have reasonable care exercised to protect them …
D.C. Prisoner Death Suit Verdict of $1,030,002 Excessive by The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's order holding a jury's award excessive. The jury entered verdicts against the District of Columbia, for negligence with an award of $1 under the Wrongful Death Suit Act (WDSA) claim, …
Article • May 15, 2007
New Mexico County Settles Sex Assault Claim for $40,000 by During the week of June 26, 2000, San Juan County, New Mexico, agreed to settle for $40,000 a former prisoner's lawsuit that claimed she was sexually assaulted by two jailers at the county jail. Plaintiff Sandra Lucero alleged that during …
Article • May 15, 2007
NJ Prisoner Can Sue County for Rape by Guard; $258,000 Verdict Affirmed by The New Jersey Supreme Court reinstated a claim against the Union County Jail (UCJ) brought by a male prisoner who was raped by a guard. The prisoner was "called out" of his cell and taken to a …
Article • May 15, 2007
$75,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Sexual Assault Suit by In 1993 the Washington State Department of Corrections gave Melanie W. Watters a $75,000 stipulated judgment for being raped by George M. Boggs, Jr., who was a parolee from the Washington State Department Of Corrections. On March 16, 1991, the plaintiff …
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