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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$4.77 Million Settlement for Three Alaska Prisoners Exonerated of Murder After 18 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 6, 2023, three of the “Fairbanks Four” accepted $5 million from the Alaska city for 18 years they spent wrongfully incarcerated for a teen’s 1997 murder before their …
Public Defender Files Habeas Petitions for Detainees at “Horrific” Baltimore Lockup by On May 17, 2024, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender (OPD) filed 11 habeas petitions for detainees awaiting trial at the state’s Reception Diagnostic and Classification Center in Baltimore after they reported raw sewage overflowing from unflushable …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Pays $4.45 Million to Prisoners Allegedly Raped by Guards by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Since reporting a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation was opened in September 2024 into sexual abuse of prisoners at two California lockups, PLN has obtained documentation of $4 million in settlement payouts …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Milwaukee County Pays $1.05 Million Judgment for Bankrupt Armor Correctional Health to Former Jail Detainee by Miami-­based Armor Correctional Health had virtually no experience in providing medical care to prisoners when Dr. Jose Jesus Armas started the firm in 2004, but over the next few years it amassed millions of …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$1.2 Million Settlement Reached in HRDC Censorship Suit Against North Carolina Prison System by On September 25, 2024, North Carolina’s Department of Adult Correction (DAC) settled a federal civil rights suit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) over censorship of PLN and HRDC’s other monthly publication, Criminal Legal …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
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$500 Jury Verdict for Pennsylvania Prisoner After Federal Court Clarifies DOC Grievance Procedures by On February 29, 2024, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded $500 to a state prisoner for his excessive force claim against a state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard. Along the …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$23,138 Plus Out-Of-State Transfer for Virginia Prisoner Who Accused Guards of Excessive Force and Altering Video by On March 25, 2024, Virginia prisoner Steven Allen Riddick, 50, agreed to accepted $23,138 from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to settle claims made in several civil rights cases filed in federal …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Illinois Pays $3 Million for Subjecting Prisoners to Degrading Mass Strip Search by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso After a dozen years of fighting over a mass strip-search conducted during a training exercise in an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) prison for women, the federal court for the Central …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Third Circuit Finds Relation-Back Rule Misapplied to Philadelphia Prisoner’s “Crappy” Ordeal Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated summary judgment in favor of a Philadelphia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard, who was accused of leaving …
Indiana Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Corruption, County Pays $328,000 to Jail Detainees for “Night of Terror” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In federal court for the Southern District of Indiana on April 11, 2024, Clark County officials agreed to pay $328,000 to settle claims filed by 25 former detainees …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$7.25 Million Paid for Psychotic Detainee’s Suicide After 20 Days in Solitary at Indiana Jail by On May 28, 2024, remaining claims were dismissed in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana by the Estate of Joshua McLemore, a psychotic Jackson County Jail detainee who starved himself to death …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Two Wrongful Tennessee Convictions Result in Payouts Over $1 Million by An undisclosed settlement with Grundy County on May 22, 2024, added to a $1 million payout that former Tennessee prisoner Adam Braseel had already received for 12 years he spent wrongfully imprisoned. That earlier award from the state Department …
Transgender BOP Prisoner in Arizona Wins $10,243 for Guard’s Negligence by On June 21, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to pay $10,000 to transgender prisoner Grace Pinson for her claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) that …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Impoverished Ohio County Gets New Jail Space After Settling Suit for Bloody Detainee Assault by On June 18, 2024, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced $32 million in state funding for a new regional jail to serve Jackson, Lawrence, and Pike Counties. That promises significant savings for Pike County, among …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Colorado Prisoner Forces Correctional Health Partners to Treat His Colon Disease by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After winning a temporary restraining order (TRO) directing the medical contractor for the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) to treat his colon disease, state prisoner Arthur Burnham’s location was unknown on September 10, …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Seventh Circuit Avoids Deciding Whether Wisconsin Statute of Limitations Tolls from Prisoner’s Incident or Grievances by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated dismissal of a Wisconsin prisoner’s civil rights action for failure to exhaust administrative remedies, …
Ohio Pays $725,000 to Survivors of Two Prisoners Beaten to Death by Lying Guards by On July 17, 2024, the Ohio Court of Claims approved a settlement between the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) and the Estate of mentally ill prisoner Dewey C. McVay, Jr., who died after …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$1.8 Million Jury Award for San Diego Jail Overdose Death by Matthew Clarke On April 25, 2024, a federal jury in Southern California awarded $1.8 million to the Estate of a detainee who died of a methamphetamine overdose while incarcerated at the San Diego Central Jail. The verdict was preceded …
Missouri DOC Chief Held in Contempt of Court for Keeping Exonerated Prisoner Locked Up by On August 7, 2024, the head of Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) was held in contempt by a state court judge for refusing to release Howard Roberts, 82, after the prisoner’s conviction was overturned. State …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
DOJ Sues Utah DOC, Alleging Discrimination Against Transgender Prisoner by On April 2, 2024, the U.S. Dept. of Justice sued the Utah Department of Corrections (DOC) for allegedly violating the rights of a transgender prisoner under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. ch. 126 §12101 et seq. The …
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