Disability Rights Vermont Report Faults Staff for Disabled Prisoner’s Death by In June 2010, the advocacy group Disability Rights Vermont (DRV) released a report faulting the staff of the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility (CRCF) in South Burlington, Vermont in connection with the death of a disabled prisoner. Michael Crosby, 49, …

Washington DOC Agrees to Pay $38,000 in Too-Much-Medicine Suit by On November 19, 2008, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $38,000 to a woman who was improperly administered her seizure medication. The settlement resulted after Cindi J. Heihn, a prisoner at the Washington Corrections Center for Women …

MI Prisoner’s Estate’s Wrongful Death Suit Dismissed Because He Caused His Own Death by Swallowing Illegal Drugs by On an undisclosed date, Michigan resident Terance Graham was arrested for marijuana possession. Just before his arrest he swallowed an ounce of cocaine. Later, at the Washtenaw County Jail, he complained that …

$100,000 Settlement in Missouri Jail Prisoner’s Methamphetamine Overdose Death by $100,000 Settlement in Missouri Jail Prisoner's Methamphetamine Overdose Death When arrested during a traffic stop on June 4, 2005, 20-year-old Sheena Crawford ingested methamphetamine. Upon being booked into Missouri's Pettis County Jail, Crawford advised guards Jennifer Meyer and Clarence McGuldrick …

Jail Not Liable for Arrestee's Cocaine Overdose Death by The decedent died in jail of a cocaine overdose after denying that he had ingested cocaine (though there was an empty plastic bag with drug residue around it at the scene of his arrest) and refusing medical treatment. At 686-87: ". …

6th Circuit: § 1983 Claims Against County Must Connect Policy, Violation by In this case involving the death of a prisoner in the Washtenaw (Michigan) County Jail, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the decedent's estate had not shown that his death resulted from a county custom …

Private Medical Transport Company Not Liable for Police Actions by At police direction, a private corporation transported the plaintiff to a police station, where he collapsed from a medication overdose. He had taken 114 pills after arrest while the officers stood around talking. When asked about the empty bottle, he …