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Horton v. CCA, TN, Deposition - Perry, whistleblower mentally ill segregation negligence,2008 BRASWELL,HORTONV. CCA / DEPOOF PATRICKPERRY IN FOR - .-. I U PAGE 3 PAGE 1 SHEET 1 J IVHKI a of FRANK D. indiwidually, THE THE COURT DISTRTCT STATES DlSTRICT OF TENNESSEE UNITED MIDD]-E APPEARANCE 2 For the …
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Sanabria v. Hillsborough County, NH, Deposition, employee sex bias jail prisoner abuse, 2007 COpy ~_ •. r THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE * * * * * * * * * * * * DORIS SANABRIA, * * Plaintiff, * v. * HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY …
Whistle-blowing California Sheriff’s Deputy Settles Retaliation Suit For $150,000 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Butte County, California officials settled a decade-old $1.2 million lawsuit brought by a former county jail deputy who blew the whistle on a jailhouse beating of a child molester ordered by three other deputies, …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
“Defense of Another” Not Applicable to Prison Disciplinary Defense by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that it is no defense to a prison disciplinary charge for battery that the blows were struck to prevent the further stabbing of a third person. Aaron B. Scruggs, an Indiana state prisoner, …
Spokane Jail Prisoner Murdered in Cell, County Settles Lawsuit for $180,000 by The Spokane County, Washington, Commissioner has agreed to settle a civil rights action prosecuted by the family of a prisoner who was murdered by his cellmates at the Geiger Correction Center (Geiger) in Spokane County for $180,000. In …
New York Does DOCs Double Celling Suit Dismissed by The New York State prison system's practice of double-celling at Woodbourne Correctional Facility does not violate the Eighth Amendment. There was no evidence of denial of adequate food, medical care, or clothing. Protection from Inmate Assault (627, 629): There was little …
Protective Custody Injunction Available Remedy Absent Injury by The plaintiff alleged that he was in danger from a gang he had left and that, although he is currently in protective custody, he had been repeatedly placed in general population. He sought damages and an injunction against transfer to general population. …
Author Jack Abbott’s Snitching Cannot Prevent Transfer by On September 23, 1983, the Eighth Circuit court of appeals held that a prisoner who claimed to be in danger for having snitched on other prisoners cannot prevent his own transfer to a prison where he claimed be would be in danger …
Youth Services International Not Liable for Child’s Rape by Cellmate by The plaintiff alleged that he was sexually assaulted by his roommate in a privately operated juvenile facility. The corporation is entitled to summary judgment in the absence of evidence of a corporate policy supporting liability. Its policy was to …
$3 in Damages, $1,920 in Costs Awarded to Stabbed, Disabled Prisoner by The plaintiff, a paraplegic, alleged that he was assaulted and stabbed by another prisoner with staff complicity. The jury found that a defendant had conspired to violate the Eighth Amendment and awarded $1.00 nominal, $1.00 compensatory and $1.00 …
Evidence in Arizona Fatal Prisoner Abuse Suit Tailored in In Limine Ruling by The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ruled in limine on pre trial evidence following the denial of qualified immunity for Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio in a § 1983 suit involving the death of …
Stay Pending Qualified Immunity Interlocutory Appeal Rejected in Arizona Prisoner Death Suit by Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joseph Arpaio filed a motion to stay litigation pending an interlocutory appeal on the denial of qualified immunity in a lawsuit filed by the parents of Tent City prisoner Phillip Wilson, who was …
Article • August 15, 2008
Black Prisoner Jailed With Violent White Supremacist: $40,000 Settlement by Reginald Swisher was a prisoner in the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas. He was allegedly celled with another prisoner whom jail officials knew was a white supremacist who had assaulted, injured and maimed several other black prisoners and was …
Alabama Prisoner’s Estate Loses Product Liability Suit by Louis Horn, an Alabama state prisoner, was killed by three other prisoners who picked his cell door lock and beat him to death. His estate filed a product liability case in state court against Southern Steel Co., the firm that made the …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Los Angeles County Pays $40,000 Damages to Assaulted Prisoner Informant Witness by The County of Los Angeles, California paid $40,000 to a prisoner who was badly beaten in the county jail upon returning from court, by friends of the defendant he had just testified against in a murder trial. In …
Mississippi Jail Prisoner Wins $3,000,000 in Failure to Protect Suit by The Hinds County Board of Supervisors (Board) agreed to settle a three-million-dollar federal lawsuit filed by a former prisoner in the Hinds County Jail after he was left paralyzed by a beating at the hands of other prisoners in …
More Prisoners Murdered in Texas Federal Prisons by Gary Hunter Until February 13, 2008, Ronald Joseph, 29, was serving time at a federal penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas for firearm and drug-related convictions. On that date he was found dead in his cell; a preliminary autopsy report indicated he had been …
Jury Must Determine Whether Prisoner’s Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies was Based on Threats / Retaliation by by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that when there are material facts in dispute about whether prison officials threatened or intimidated a prisoner into not exhausting administrative …
PLRA Applies to Immigration Detainee’s Conditions Suit by The plaintiff is an INS detainee. The court says that his failure to exhaust administrative remedies pursuant to the PLRA is sufficient reason to dismiss, contrary to other courts that have held immigration detainees not to be prisoners under the PLRA. The …
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