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Last Charges Dropped in Suffocation Death of Virginia Jail Detainee by On November 4, 2024, Commonwealth’s Attorney Amanda Mann in Virginia’s Dinwiddie County dropped charges against the last two of eight defendants charged in the death of Henrico County Jail detainee Irvo Otieno. That means no one will face trial …
HRDC Wins Massive New Mexico Records Trove from Centurion by This month’s PLN cover story covers documents pried loose from Centurion Correctional Healthcare of N.M., LLC, which held the contract to provide medical care for the state Corrections Department (NMCD) in 2020, when a request was filed under the state …
Filing • November 23, 2024
Filed under: Public Records
HRDC v. Centurion of VT LLC, VT, Settlement, Public Records, 2024 Settlement Agreement and Release NOW COMES the Human Rights Defense Center ("HRDC") and enters this Settlement Agreement and Release ("Agreement") with Centurion of Vermont, LLC ("Centurion") (collectively "Parties") as set forth below: WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit in the …
Brief • November 23, 2024
Filed under: Public Records
HRDC v. Centurion of Vermont LLC, VT, Settlement, Public Records, 2024 Settlement Agreement and Release NOW COMES the Human Rights Defense Center ("HRDC") and enters this Settlement Agreement and Release ("Agreement") with Centurion of Vermont, LLC ("Centurion") (collectively "Parties") as set forth below: WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit in the …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Alabama Jail Accused of Granting Detainee’s Medical Bond Just Before Death to Avoid Costly Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Alabama’s Dallas County Jail (DCJ) has a “scheme” of releasing very ill detainees to avoid the cost of their medical care. That explosive allegation lay at the …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
San Bernardino Jail Partially Released from Court Monitoring After Paying Another $150,000 in Settlements for Detainee Deaths by On July 15, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California removed medical care from continued monitoring of conditions at San Bernardino County jails under a 2018 consent decree. The …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Armor Health Liquidates Assets—to Firm’s Founder by On August 2, 2024, Florida-­based Armor Health Management LLC petitioned the Miami-­Dade County Circuit Court to liquidate its assets to Enhanced Management Services (EMS), as part of a global settlement with creditors. That will free EMS and its owner, Dr. Jose Jesus Armas, …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Corizon, Settlements, Bankruptcy
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Settlement Grows, But Only by $21 Million by Under the terms of a settlement announced in the bankruptcy of former prison medical contractor Corizon Health on July 17, 2024, the firm’s creditors will receive almost 39% more than the amount they originally negotiated. However, that brings the …
Wellpath Sanctioned for Destroying Evidence in Two Oregon Jail Death Suits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 30, 2024, the federal court for the District of Oregon sanctioned private prison and jail medical contractor Wellpath, LLC for destroying evidence in a suit filed over a detainee death …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Two Former Georgia Sheriffs Sentenced for Misconduct, Related $5 Million Settlement Approved by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Sheriff Chad K. Nichols (R) of Georgia’s Rabun County was sentenced on September 13, 2024, to five years of probation and fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to violation of oath by …
After $750,000 Settlement, Georgia Guard Sued Second Time For Letting One Prisoner Murder Another by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 26, 2024, the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) was sued by the surviving parents of murdered state prisoner Joseph Walter Brown, 36, who was killed in July 2022 …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Another Payout Brings Arizona Prisoner’s Total to $92,850 by On June 6, 2024, Arizona prisoner Edmund Powers settled a claim against three state Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) guards for $850. Though relatively small, it was Powers’ third such settlement since 2020, bringing his total payout to $92,850. …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Maryland and Wexford Health Pay $200,000 to Prisoner Denied Care and Partially Blinded by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As PLN readers know, medical care in America’s prisons and jails is horrific even by the low standard courts have set to determine what is constitutionally sufficient. In yet another case, …
$1.5 Million Settlement Approved in Chicago Jail Suicide Case by On July 12, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a $1.5 million settlement in a case involving the suicide of detainee Areon Marion in Chicago’s Cook County Jail. The order directed how the funds …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$4.77 Million Settlement for Three Alaska Prisoners Exonerated of Murder After 18 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 6, 2023, three of the “Fairbanks Four” accepted $5 million from the Alaska city for 18 years they spent wrongfully incarcerated for a teen’s 1997 murder before their …
Public Defender Files Habeas Petitions for Detainees at “Horrific” Baltimore Lockup by On May 17, 2024, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender (OPD) filed 11 habeas petitions for detainees awaiting trial at the state’s Reception Diagnostic and Classification Center in Baltimore after they reported raw sewage overflowing from unflushable …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Pays $4.45 Million to Prisoners Allegedly Raped by Guards by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Since reporting a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation was opened in September 2024 into sexual abuse of prisoners at two California lockups, PLN has obtained documentation of $4 million in settlement payouts …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Milwaukee County Pays $1.05 Million Judgment for Bankrupt Armor Correctional Health to Former Jail Detainee by Miami-­based Armor Correctional Health had virtually no experience in providing medical care to prisoners when Dr. Jose Jesus Armas started the firm in 2004, but over the next few years it amassed millions of …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$1.2 Million Settlement Reached in HRDC Censorship Suit Against North Carolina Prison System by On September 25, 2024, North Carolina’s Department of Adult Correction (DAC) settled a federal civil rights suit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) over censorship of PLN and HRDC’s other monthly publication, Criminal Legal …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Settlements, Grievances
$500 Jury Verdict for Pennsylvania Prisoner After Federal Court Clarifies DOC Grievance Procedures by On February 29, 2024, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded $500 to a state prisoner for his excessive force claim against a state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard. Along the …
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