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Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Ohio Prisoner Wins $2,000 Settlement for Guard Abuse Claims, Loses Appeal to Uncover Identity of Prison Officials Who Negotiated It by Matthew Clarke Matt Clarke On July 13, 2023, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that a state prisoner who previously settled his excessive force claim against the state Department …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
$20,000 Paid to Florida Prisoner After Eleventh Circuit Finds PLRA Inapplicable to Claims DOC Removed to Federal Court by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 e, …
Tennessee Extends CoreCivic Contract Despite Deaths, Almost $18 Million in Fines by In a three-minute meeting on May 31, 2023, the State Building Commission of Tennessee approved a request from the Department of Correction (DOC) for budget revision, funding, and amendment to the existing CoreCivic contract to operate South Central …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Settlements
After SCOTUS Resolves Circuit Split, Maryland Guard Loses Appeal to Prisoner’s $700,000 Verdict by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 25, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held that a post-trial motion is required only to preserve findings of fact for appellate review—not a purely …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
$100,000 Settlement Reached With Corizon Health for Failure to Provide Arizona Prisoner Eye Care by On July 25, 2022, a settlement was reached between Corizon Health, Inc. and an Arizona prisoner to whom it allegedly denied eye care, resulting in partial vision loss. Under the agreement, the firm owes $100,000 …
Indiana Settles Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim for $4,500 by On September 12, 2022, the state of Indiana reached a $4,500 settlement to resolve a state prisoner’s claim that guards confiscated his property without following prison procedure and then threatened retaliation when he filed grievances. Victor Karp was held at Correctional Industrial …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
$40,000 Paid to Ohio Detainee Kicked in the Face While Restrained by On March 1, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Ohio granted dismissal of a suit brought by a former Cincinnati jail detainee after she accepted a $40,000 settlement from the Hamilton County Board of County …
$26,500 in Settlements in Former California Prisoner’s Retaliation Lawsuits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As of March 2023, a long-term California prisoner now paroled had received settlements totaling $26,500 in two lawsuits that alleged his First Amendment rights were violated when prison officials took retaliatory actions because of …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
Almost $2.4 Million in Settlements For Seven Suicides at New Jersey Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The families of two women and five men who committed suicide while held in pretrial detention between July 2014 and November 2018 at New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) have received …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
North Carolina Prisoner Recovers $500 for Injuries in Shower Slip and Fall by On December 7, 2022, North Carolina prisoner Vinson Shane Hill prevailed in a negligence tort claim he filed with the state Industrial Commission (NCIC) over an injury he suffered while incarcerated at Scotland Correctional Institution in July …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
$12,000 Paid to California Prisoner Denied Back Surgery Despite Doctor’s Recommendation by On August 25, 2022, a California prisoner told the federal court for the Eastern District of California that he had reached an agreement with the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to settle a suit he filed …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Public Records
Ohio Supreme Court Awards Prisoner $700 From Sheriff Who Failed to Comply with Public Records Request by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 19, 2023, the Supreme Court of Ohio awarded prisoner Franklin Woods $700 in statutory damages against the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) for failure to comply …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Deadline Looms for Payouts Under California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program by December 31, 2023, will be the last day to file for reparations under California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program (FISCP). State lawmakers created it in 2021 to offer compensation to thousands of victims who were sterilized …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements
St. Louis City Jails Director Under Fire, County Jail Director Leaves After Nearly $2.7 Million in Legal Payouts by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart When you’re arrested in St. Louis, it doesn’t much matter whether you end up in the city’s jail or the lockup in adjacent St. Louis County; …
CoreCivic Fails to Defeat California’s Anti-SLAPP Law at Ninth Circuit, Must Pay $45,630 in Attorney Fees by In November 2022 the federal court for the Northern District of California shot down a suit by private prison giant CoreCivic which sought to weaponize anti-defamation law against one of the company’s more …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$110,000 Paid By Tennessee Jail to Women Allegedly Forced to Stage “Sex Shows” for Guard by On October 26, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Tennessee granted dismissal to a complaint filed by two former detainees at the Grainger County Jail, after they accepted $110,000 to settle …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$1 Million Settlement for California Prisoners Used to Bait Guard Charged with Sexual Misconduct by PLN previously reported a remarkably poor decision by prison officials at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino in 2017, who used two prisoners as “honey trap” bait to snare a male guard accused …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
$30,000 Paid by Pennsylvania to Prisoner Who Alleged Guards Beat and Tortured Him by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2022, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania agreed to pay state prisoner Warren Easley $30,000 to settle claims that guards and medical staff at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Despite Prior Settlement Agreement, Sick Michigan Prisoners Still Forced to Wait for Medication in Cold and Rain by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Owing in part to the diligent efforts of Michigan prisoner Mark White and a suit he filed in March 2023, it appears that employees of the state …
$3.25 Million Settlement Reached With Defendants Jailed in Missouri “Debtor’s Prison” for Unpaid Fines, Fees by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On April 5, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri gave final approval to a $3.25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging the City of …
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