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Adams v. NaphCare, VA, Complaint, Jail Death, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00229-RBS-LRL Document 1 Filed 05/10/16 Page 1 of 112 PageID# 1 FILED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Norfolk Division ROXANNE ADAMS, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF JAMYCHEAL M. MITCHELL, Deceased, Plaintiff, CLERK. US DISTRICT COURT ^FOI.k, …
Pajas v. County of Monterey, CA, First Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death by Police Brutality, 2016 Case 5:16-cv-00945-LHK Document 63 Filed 08/05/16 Page 1 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 …
Disputed PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Issues Properly Resolved in Bench Trial by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held on June 18, 2015 that disputed issues of fact regarding exhaustion under the PLRA may be resolved in a bench trial. The appellate court also found the plaintiff had failed to exhaust …
California Jail’s Psychotropic Medication Policy Leads to Lawsuit, Settlement by David Reutter Cost cutting is a staple of most prison and jail systems. However, a mid-2007 decision by California’s Fresno County Jail (FCJ) to restrict psychotropic drugs for prisoners turned out to be a short-sighted exercise that resulted in human …
Hawaii Prisons Experience Security Failures, Other Troubling Incidents by David Reutter Operations and management at two Hawaii prisons are under scrutiny following a series of incidents over the past several years that have ranged from prisoner deaths and escapes to sexual harassment by staff members and the beating of a …
Lawsuit Filed Over Death of Pepper-sprayed, Mentally Ill California Prisoner by Gary Hunter The father and mother of a mentally ill California prisoner who died at the Mule Creek State Prison (MCSP) have filed suit against a host of prison and Amador County, California officials, alleging that their son’s death …
Pfeifer v. Thompson et al, KY, Order, wrongful death mental dehydration starvation Embry, 2016 Pfeifer v. Thompson et al Doc. 127 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY PADUCAH DIVISION CIVIL ACTION NO. 5:15-CV-00007-TBR ROBBIE EMERY BURKE, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES KENNETH EMBRY Plaintiff v. LADONNA THOMPSON, …
Tavasci v. Cambron, NM, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2016 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 4/28/2016 1:52:48 PM PHILIP ROMERO AY STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF VALENCIA THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT SOPHIE TAVASCI, as PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WRONGFUL DEATH CLAIM OF DANIEL TAVASCI, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. No. …
Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts v. Hodgsen, MA, Complaint, Public Records Request, 2016 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, SS SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION NO. I ) PRISONERS' LEGAL SERVICES OF ) MASSACHUSETTS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) THOMAS M. HODGSEN, in his official) capacity as Sheriff of Bristol …
Coffey v. Ochiltree County, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00071-J Document 1 Filed 04/15/16 Page 1 of 9 PageID 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AMARILLO DIVISION JOELLA VERLEE COFFEY, in her individual capacity; TERRY MAY, in his individual capacity and with ELIZABETH MAY and JERRY …
Robertson v. Contra Costa County, CA, Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2016 Case 3:15-cv-d._ A9-WHO Document 20 Filed 04/1( _d Page 1 of 59 1 MICHAEL W. BIEN~ 096891 LISA ELLS - 243657 2 VAN SWEARINGEN - 259809 ROSEN BIEN GALV~ & GRUNFELD LLP 3 50 Fremont Street, 19 Floor San Francisco, …
Craft v. Robinson, OH, Settlement, Death Row Suicide, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION Lisa Craft, Administratrix of the Estate of Billy Slagle, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:14-CV-01682 Judge Donald C. Nugent v. Norman Robinson, et al., Defendants. Settlement Agreement and Release …
New Mexico: Sharon Jones’s Strep Death Among Shocking Prison Tragedies in Lawsuits by by Michael Roberts, Westword Westword recently shared video showing the jailhouse death of Michael Lee Marshall. The homeless man, who suffered from symptoms associated with paranoid schizophrenia, choked on his own vomit after being restrained by Denver, …
$2.5 Million Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Dehydration Death by The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a mentally ill prisoner who died after spending 35 days in an isolation cell. Michael Anthony Kerr’s death in 2014 occurred during a …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Delayed Washington Competency Evaluations and Treatment Violate Due Process by Mark Wilson “The state has consistently and over a long period of time violated the constitutional rights of the mentally ill – this must stop,” declared a Washington federal district court. “The in-jail wait time” before transferring incompetent criminal defendants …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas: $400,000 Settlement Award to Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner by On June 2, 2015, the Harris County Commissioners Court awarded $400,000 to Terry Goodwin, a mentally ill prisoner, to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from his extreme neglect while housed at the Harris County Jail in Houston. “I have never …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Ninth Circuit Rules Judge “Abused Discretion” in Imposing Abstinence as Supervised Release Condition by Derek Gilna Raymond Leo Jarlik Bell, convicted of filing false income tax returns to obtain fraudulent refunds, appealed his 97-month federal prison sentence on three grounds, including whether the judge committed Sixth Amendment error by failing …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Prisoners Hang Themselves in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Jails at a Rate that Dwarfs Other County Lockups by Michael Lacey by Michael Lacey, Phoenix New Times How many people have died in our sheriff’s jails? On May 4, 2015, I asked a spokesman for Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for a cadaver …
Settlement in California Jail Suit Includes $4.8 Million in Attorney Fees, Costs by Derek Gilna After four prisoners committed suicide in the Salinas branch of the Monterey County, California jail system within a five-year period, a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2013 against both the jail and California Forensic Medical …
Article • March 31, 2016
Prisoner’s Suicide Costs Los Angeles County $450,000 by The County of Los Angeles paid $350,000 to settle a federal civil rights action alleging the indifference of jail staff to the serious medical needs of prisoner Steven Cardenas resulted in his death by suicide. Cardenas was sentenced in May 2007 to …
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