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Brief • December 5, 2016
Kedra v. Schroeter, PA, Opinion, Police Misconduct, 2016 PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ______ No. 16-1417 ______ JOAN KEDRA, in her own right and as personal representative of the estate of David Kedra, Appellant v. RICHARD SCHROETER ______ On Appeal from the United States District …
Brief • November 16, 2016
Matysik v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2016 Case 5:16-cv-06223-LHK Document 15 Filed 11/16/16 Page 1 of 14 2 3 4 5 Walter A. Haynes IV SBN 244776 Albert G. Stoll, Jr. SBN 164649 ALBERT G. STOLL, JR. | A LAW CORPORATION 55 Francisco …
Guards Liable in Maryland Prisoner’s Murder on Transport Bus by The Maryland Court of Appeals held a trial court erred in striking a jury’s finding that a guard was liable for gross negligence in the murder of a prisoner on a transport.  The court further held gross negligence disentitles a …
Prisoner Deaths Continue To Rise by Christopher Zoukis For the third year in row, the number of prisoners who died in America's prisons and jails rose. Some 4,446 prisoners died in 2013, a two percent increase over 2012, continuing an upward trend, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office …
Guards Claim No Leads in Gruesome California Prison Murder by Christopher Zoukis Prison officials at the medium security California State Prison, Solano have offered little explanation for their apparently lackadaisical investigation into the gruesome murder and disembowelment of a 24 year old man whose body was not found stuffed in …
Brief • November 12, 2016
Mays v. Deschutes County, OR, Amended Complaint, Meth Overdose, 2016 Case 6:15-cv-00898-AA Document 58 Filed 11/21/16 Page 1 of 30 JENNIFER L. COUGHLIN OSB 065781 Brothers Hawn & Coughlin, LLP 974 NW Riverside Blvd. Bend, OR 97703 Telephone: 541-382-5885 Facsimile: 541-382-3328 jlc@brotherslaw.com MICHELLE R. BURROWS OSB 896160 420 SW Washington …
Maryland Prisoner’s Death Occurs Under Unusual Circumstances by The death of prisoner Louis S. Leysath III, 35, at Maryland’s Jessup Correctional Institution was the subject of an investigation after he was found dead in a steam-filled cell on February 20, 2015. Leysath, serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to …
Nevada Attorney General Investigates Shooting of Two Handcuffed Prisoners by Derek Gilna Two handcuffed Nevada state prisoners held in administrative segregation at the high-security High Desert State Prison were shot by guards on November 12, 2014 after they began fighting, allegedly after those same guards deliberately encouraged them to fight. …
Southern Health Partners to Face Liability in Kentucky Pre-trial Detainee’s MRSA Death by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP) in a civil rights action alleging the company failed to train and supervise its nurses at Kentucky’s Hopkins County …
Akers v. Prummell, et al., FL, settlement, suicide, 2015
Wisconsin Court Orders Dismissal of Jail Negligence Suit by Lonnie Burton On October 16, 2014, District IV of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and granted summary judgment in favor of defendants in a case brought by the estate of a prisoner who overdosed while at the …
Texas County has High Number of In-Custody Deaths by Between 2005 and October 2014, 91 prisoners from Lubbock County, Texas, died in custody. This included 61 who died while imprisoned in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), 16 in Lubbock Police Department custody, 12 in the custody of the …
Private Prison Company Not Liable for Guard's Death in Riot by Lonnie Burton Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) successfully moved in federal court to dismiss a suit brought by the survivors of a guard who was killed by prisoners during a riot in 2012. On May 20, 2012, prisoners rioted …
Brief • November 1, 2016
Ruscher v. Ryan, AZ, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release (the "Agreement'') is made between: (i) Jennie Povilat (fin/a) Jennie Daniels, surviving parent of Joshua Ruscher, Deceased, ("Povilat''); and (ii) Charles Ryan, Berry Larson, the Arizona Department of Corrections ("ADOC") and its …
Publication • November 1, 2016
Jails in Indian Country 2015, Department of Justice, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics November 2016, NCJ 250117 Todd D. Minton, BJS Statistician A n estimated 2,510 inmates were confined in 76 Indian country jails at midyear 2015, a 5.5% increase from the …
Tennessee Jail Seizure Death Claims Survive Dismissal; Physician Claims Dismissed for No Deliberate Indifference Allegations by Mark Wilson A Tennessee federal court dismissed deliberate indifference claims against a jail doctor for a prisoner's seizure death, absent allegations of his personal involvement or awareness. The court refused to dismiss claims brought …
Coats v. Harris County, TX, 7th Amended Petition, Wrongful Death Cocaine, 2016 10/28/2016 7:20:43 PM Chris Daniel - District Clerk Harris County Envelope No. 13515582 By: TERESA KIRBY Filed: 10/28/2016 7:20:43 PM CAUSE NO. 2012-55551 BARBARA COATS, Individually, as Personal Representative of the Estate of JAMAIL AMRON, Deceased, and as …
Kansas Supreme Court Holds State Immune from Suit Over Murder by Escapee by Matthew Clarke On April 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that the son of a woman murdered by an escaped state prisoner could not sue the state for her personal injuries and wrongful death. The …
Jail Officials Compelled to Provide Medical Reports in Wrongful Death Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has ordered the defendant in a lawsuit stemming from the beating death of a prisoner to provide county morbidity and mortality reports to the plaintiff …
Article • October 27, 2016
Fifth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Suit over In-Custody Death by On February 10, 2016, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals upheld the dismissal of a suit brought over the in-custody death due to PCP toxicity. Marcus Dewayne Slade was arrested after Marshall, Texas police encountered him naked, agitated and having …
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