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Retaliation for Litigation, Grievances States Claim by A New York federal district court held the prisoner in this civil rights action stated a claim for retaliation and failure to provide adequate medical care. This action was filed by a New York prisoner transferred from the Elmira Correctional Facility to the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners Receive Damages for Beatings by Two prisoners, John Furtado and Gerald Sousa brought a civil rights suit under § 1983 against prison officials, at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution. Both Furtado and Sousa were beaten by guards. Furtado's injuries required hospitalization. Both men sought redress. When prison officials retaliated against …
$130,000 Settlement In Prison Employee Harassment Suit by In 1999, Thomas G. Bailor, filed a law suit against the Delaware Correctional Center MC, after he was forced to quit his job as an internal affairs investigator, for filing a report accusing prison guards of misconduct. Bailor, was investigating charges that …
Article • May 15, 2007
Alabama Prisoners Assault and Battery Fails After Guard Given Immunity by An Alabama Civil Appeals Court has held that a prisoner submitted sufficient evidence to survive summary judgment on one claim of assault and battery by a guard, but affirmed dismissal of the remaining assault and property deprivation claims. The …
New York Guard Awarded $120,000 for Hostile Work Environment From Racial Discrimination by New York Guard Awarded $120,000 for Hostile Work Environment From Racial Discrimination A New York federal jury has awarded a guard $120,000 in his claim that fellow guards created a hostile work environment for him because he …
Article • May 15, 2007
$12,000 Paid in D.C. Prisoner's Beating by Guard by Jeffrey Jones was arrested for disorderly conduct in the District of Columbia. A prison guard beat him and hung him on the wall by his shorts for no reason. Jones sustained a broken jaw and broken ribs, and when he was …
Article • May 15, 2007
$16,000 Paid in Excessive Force Use on Missouri Prisoner by While a prisoner at Missouri's Jackson County Prison, guards manacled 24-year-old Neil Houston to a bed for several days while he was stripped naked. His complaint for cruel and unusual punishment also alleged guards used excessive force when they entered …
Article • May 15, 2007
County Jail Not Liable for Failure to Treat Knee Injury by The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, held that a county jail was not liable for failure to schedule an operation on a jail prisoner's knee injured by a jail guard. Steven …
$36,150 Award of Attorney Fees in Puerto Rico Prisoner's Death by A Puerto Rico federal District Court awarded $36,150.10 in attorney fees to a law firm that secured a jury award on constitutional violations of $250,000 in compensatory damages, $250,000 in punitive damages and $500,000 on a tort cause of …
Article • May 15, 2007
5th Circuit Remands for Reassessment of Attorney Fees by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a prisoner's state assault and battery claim was not merged with his § 1983 claim, the district court erred in limiting attorney fees, and the county was liable for attorney …
BOP Guards Conviction for Beating Prisoner Affirmed by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and sentence against a guard at the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Escort teams were moving prisoners from their cells to a conference room in order to conduct individual interviews about …
Deputy Not Sheriff, Liable for Assault, Attorney Fees by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas awarded a jail prisoner $500 in compensatory damages, no punitive damages, and $2,500 in attorney fees plus costs in a case involving a deputy sheriff's assault on the prisoner. Donald Williams, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Award of Nominal Damages Only Affirmed in Excessive Force Suit by The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's denial of a plaintiff's motion for new trial following a jury's award of only nominal damages against prison guards charged with use of excessive force on the prisoner-plaintiff. …
Article • May 15, 2007
$1,500 Paid in Beating By WA Guards by George "Fast Eddy" Miller was removed on October 24, 1988, from the visiting area at the State Reformatory at Monroe for suspicion of consuming alcoholic beverages. While in the strip-search room, he advised a guard that handcuffs were not necessary. Miller was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Cook County, Illinois, Settles Wrongful Death Claim for $550,000 by On September 5, 2003, Cook County, Illinois, agreed to pay $550,000 to the estate of a man who was apparently beaten to death by three jailers at theCook County Jail. Louis Schmude, 40, was arrested in May 2000 for violating a …
CO Warden Improperly Denied Summary Judgment Because She Had No Control Over Civil Rights Violators by CO Warden Improperly Denied Summary Judgment Because She Had No Control Over Civil Rights Violators Floyd Serna was a prisoner at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility when Warden Juanita Novak initiated a prison wide …
Article • May 15, 2007
Alabama Prisoner Assaulted By Guard Awarded $100 by On June 11, 2003, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama awarded $100 to a state prisoner who claimed a previous rib injury was aggravated when he was assaulted by two guards. Harold Ivory, a state prisoner at the …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $300 by On December 31, 2003, a court of claims in Albany, New York, awarded $300 to a state prisoner who claimed his knee was injured when a guard at the Franklin Correctional Center (FCC) assaulted him during a pat-search. While imprisoned in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Civil Rights Claim For Harassment, Retaliation, Feces in Food And Excessive Force Denied by Prisoner Civil Rights Claim For Harassment, Retaliation, Feces in Food And Excessive Force Denied Texas state prisoner David Trevino filed a Federal civil rights petition against numerous Texas prison officials for allegedly engaging in harassment, …
Article • May 15, 2007
California Guard Charged with Excessive Force in County Prisoner Death by Greg Fuher, a guard at the California San Joaquin County jail, was charged with assaulting prisoner Mondez Denmon while attempting to subdue him when he allegedly became threatening and assaultive while in custody. A grand jury indicted Fuher and …
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