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Estate of Kevin Brown v. Lambert, CA, jury verdict and damages, wrongful death, 2020 Case 3:15-cv-01583-DMS-WVG Document 191 Filed 02/14/20 PageID.5153 Page 1 of 4 1 2 FILED 3 FEB 14 2020 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ESTATE OF KEVIN BROWN …
Brief • February 10, 2020
Walker v. Evans, IL, Settlement, Strip Search and Excessive Force, 2020 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case# Case# 15-3318 15-CV-3318 Institutions: Filed Walker, Tyler #B76378 v. Korte, et al. Defendants: Plaintiffs: Opposing Counsel: Case Name Received 11/12/15 Date Served 1/26/16 Status closed Class Action D On Appeal D Spears …
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
Filed under: Strip Searches, Defenses
New Jersey County Not Entitled to Defense or Indemnification by the State in Suit Alleging Exposure of Jail Detainees by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an unpublished decision, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, held that Salem County is entitled to neither defense nor indemnification by the …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Rikers Prisoner Smuggles DNA Evidence of Rape Out of Jail; $500,000 Settlement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A female Rikers Island prisoner who was raped by a guard had to sneak DNA evidence of the sexual assault out of the jail to get anyone to believe her story. As …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Strip Searches, Settlements
Los Angeles County to Pay $53 Million for Strip Searches of Female Prisoners by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In 2010, a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of female prisoners at the Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) in Los Angeles who were forced to undergo humiliating strip and visual …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
No Fourth Amendment Violation for Abusive Group Strip Search of Female Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 16, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a two-to-one ruling, affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a Fourth Amendment claim prior to a jury trial, at which the …
Conway v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force - Beating & Brutality, 2019 AMENDED SETTLEMENT AGREJJ.:MENTAND·GENERAL RELEASE This ~•\mended ~~ttlement Agreement and General Release ("Agreemenf') is made as of the 29lh ,day of October 2019 by and belwe<,n Scott Michael Conway, Jr. ("Plaintift,') and the County of Simta …
Grottano et al. v. The City of New York, et al., NY, order granting preliminary approval of class action settlement, strip searches of jail visitors, 2019 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 258 Filed 10/30/19 Page 1 of 6 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 258 Filed 10/30/19 Page 2 of 6 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 258 …
Alaska State Supreme Court Rules Due Process Afforded to Prisoners Seeking Laundry Job Reinstatement by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Billy Dean Smith and Jacob Lee Anagick were prisoners at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Alaska when an unannounced shakedown took place. The reason for the search: Prison staff …
Grottano, et al. v. The City of New York, et al., settlement and order, strip searches of jail visitors, 2019 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 251-3 Filed 10/21/19 Page 2 of 41 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK DANA GROTTANO; N.D.; A.R.; and D.M., individually and on behalf of …
Washington v. City of New York, NY, Settlement, Inmate Abuse, 2019 Case 1:18-cv-12306-CM Document 168 Filed 10/21/19 Page 1 of 16 Case 1:18-cv-12306-CM Document 166 Filed 10/18/19 Page 2 of 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- X DA VON WASHING TON, et. al., Plaintiffs, STIPULATION …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Videotaping
Oregon Supreme Court Reverses Course: Secretly Taping Prisoner’s Statements Does Not Violate Right to Counsel by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson In a 4-to-3 ruling, departing from its previous recent decisions, the Oregon Supreme Court held on May 23, 2019 that secretly recording a prisoner&rsquo;s solicitation of another prisoner to …
Brief • September 27, 2019
Liebich v. IDOC, IL, Settlement, Medical Malpractice, 2019 Official Case# Received Case Name Appeal number: Doc Staff: Appellate Court: AG (Appeal): Judge (Appeal) : Status STA TE OF ILLINOlS - DEPART MENT OF CORRECTIONS-LEGAL SERVICES SETTLEMENT CASE CLOSURE FORM L 1-e..~\C ~\h Case Name: 'J. Ou( Case N·umber: ~ \ …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
DNA: To Collect or Not to Collect? by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon While media attention tends to focus on the use of DNA evidence to free wrongly convicted prisoners &ndash; the Innocence Project counts 365 such exonerations since the first in 1989 &ndash; far more DNA samples are collected …
Jefferson v. Gladieux, IN, Settlement, Medical Treatment, 2019 Settlement Agreement and Release of All Claims THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE AGREEMENT is between Dorrion Jefferson, his successors and assigns, and Allen County Sheriff David Gladieux, his agents, employees, officers, successors and assigns (collectively referred to hereinafter as the "Defendant"). In …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Washington: Prisoners’ Complaints Lead to Changes in DOC’s Drug Testing Policy by Chad Marks by Chad Marks After two unidentified prisoners complained that they were being punished based on faulty drug test results, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) made changes to its testing policies. One prisoner was subjected to …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
New Jersey Jail to Pay $1.2 Million for Strip Searching Detainees by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Richard Wright and April Wedding were awarded $10,000 each as representatives in a class-action suit filed against Ocean County, New Jersey for its practice of strip searching everyone booked into the …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Pat Searches
New California Law Bans Male Prison Guards from Pat-Searching Female Prisoners by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On August 20, 2018, then-California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 2550, which prohibits male prison guards from going into areas where female prisoners are often undressed, such as showers, medical …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Visitor Searches, Visiting
Problems with Ion Scanners Used to Detect Drugs on Prison Visitors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Ion scanners were initially installed in prisons in the early 1990s to detect controlled substances on visitors, whose hands and clothes are typically swabbed for testing. But visitors and prison staff who filed …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Strip Searches, Settlements
$30,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Excessive Strip Search Suit by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Lancaster County Prison (LCP) paid $30,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a female pre-trial detainee was strip searched four times over her three-day stay at the facility. Rebecca Brown was arrested on …
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