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Three Years Later, CMS Still Fails to Meet Medical Standards in Delaware by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Despite federal oversight of its prison medical care, Delaware “continues to have a great deal more to achieve before it comes into substantial compliance with all provisions of the MOA” (Memorandum …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
$325,000 Settlement in Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Ruptured Appendix Lawsuit by Michigan’s Lenawee County Jail (LCJ) paid $325,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former prisoner who was denied medical care before and after his appendix ruptured. This is the second such settlement within a month. (See accompanying article.) As …
Mahdi v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2010 Case 3:10-cv-00123-MJR-SCW Document 3-1 Filed 02/12/10 Page 1 of 19 Page ID #9 • , •·• IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE S/CQND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT JEFFERSO N COUNTY, ILLIJ'!plS ,A- MM A- I< 1\1\f'tf-ffi I (l~ CJC(-L ~ G'3 No ............................... .. …
Prison Health Care, Political Choice and the Accidental Death Penalty in Michigan by Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander1 In Hadix v. Caruso, I represent a class of prisoners in a decades-long case challenging conditions of confinement, including medical care, at various Michigan prison facilities.2 Since August 2006 I have been …
$950,000 Settlement for California Prisoner Rendered Quadriplegic by In February 2008, the California Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a lawsuit by a prisoner who had been allegedly rendered quadriplegic by medical mistreatment after he was knocked unconscious in a fight. According to the complaint, Kenneth Holcomb, a DOC prisoner, was …
Hadix Litigation Winding Down by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After nearly thirty years, a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions of confinement at the State Prison of Southern Michigan-Center Complex is on the cusp of ending. The end is in sight not because prison officials have fully complied with a …
$75,000 Settlement in Heart Attack Death of Missouri Jail Prisoner by On June 3, 2009, Greene County, Missouri agreed to pay half of a $75,000 settlement in a wrongful death action brought by the family of a prisoner who died while at the Greene County Jail. In July 2005, Winston …
Colorado Detainee Tasered During Seizure, Paid $116,731.73 and $83,268.27 in Fees by A Colorado detainee settled his medical neglect and excessive force suit within four months of filing for $116,731.73 in damages and $83,268.27 in attorney’s fees. On July 26, 2006, Michael R. Martin was booked into Colorado’s Adams County …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of 8th Amendment and FTCA Medical Claims; Case Settles on Remand for $20,000 by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed, for the second time, a grant of summary judgment to two Bureau of Prisons (BOP) medical employees and the United States …
Reversal of Summary Judgment to BOP Doctor Accused of Deliberate Indifference by Brandon Sample The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed a grant of summary judgment to a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) doctor accused of denying a death row prisoner needed eye surgery. Arboleda Ortiz, a …
Los Angeles County Jail Agrees To Pay $900,000 to Settle Lawsuit over Inadequate Medical Care by Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $900,000 to a prisoner who lost his foot after staff at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in California delayed processing a culture test that later …
Article • January 15, 2010
Judgment for Guards who Allegedly Sodomized and Burned Prisoner Upheld by On January 27, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment for two guards accused of providing deliberately indifferent medical care and a jury verdict in favor of the guards on …
Article • January 15, 2010
Sacramento County Settles Jail Medical Neglect Claim for $1,000 by On December 13, 2005, the County of Sacramento, California settled a claim against it for the medical neglect a prisoner in the Sacramento County Jail suffered in 2004. Jose Del Toro, filed a claim against the Sacramento County alleging that, …
Article • January 15, 2010
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal Of Medical Care Claims by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action claiming deliberately indifferent medical care. Vantice Beshears alleged that while incarcerated at the Champaign County Jail, medical staff prescribed and …
$26,000 Settlement for Public Records Violations by Washington Jail by Washington state’s Kitsap County Jail paid $26,000 to settle an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claim that resulted in “catastrophic injuries” to a prisoner. The claim also asserted violations of Washington’s public records law. The claim was filed on behalf …
Federal Court Holds Enemy Combatant Detainee May Sue Government Officials by On June 12, 2009, a federal district court in California ruled that a U.S. citizen detained in the U.S. as an enemy combatant could sue a high-ranking federal official who promulgated legal opinions on policies that led to the …
$150,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Beating by Sullivan County, Tennessee has paid $150,000 to settle the claim of a former prisoner who was beaten at the county’s jail. The suit alleged the sheriff’s department failed to properly train and supervise jail guards, deliberately placed the prisoner in a dangerous situation, …
Article • December 15, 2009
$15,000 Settlement for Amputated Finger by On February 2, 2007, Anthony Jose Gonzales accepted a $15,000 settlement from Sacramento County, California for the loss of his right-middle finger, which was amputated due to infection while he was being held in the County's Main Jail for drug possession. The settlement was …
$58,333 Settlement for Transgendered Woman’s Sacramento Jail Assault and Sexual Harassment by California’s County of Sacramento has paid $58,333.33 to settle the lawsuit of Richardo Medina-Tejada, who claimed that as a post-operative transgender male-to-female pretrial detainee at the Sacramento County Jail, she was placed in housing with male prisoners who …
$2.7 Million Settlement for Oklahoma Double Leg Amputee Jail Prisoner by On April 9, 2009, a federal district judge in Oklahoma signed a consent decree memorializing a $2.7 million settlement between an Oklahoma county and a former jail prisoner who suffered amputation of both legs while incarcerated at the jail. …
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