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$600 Awarded in MO Detainee's Illegal Segregation Claim by A Missouri Federal District Court, in a bench trial, held officials at the Medium Security Institution of the City of St. Louis violated a pre-trial detainee's due process rights by their custom of not distinguishing between pre-trial detainees and convicted prisoners. …
Social Security Application Claims Estop Fired Jailer's ADA Claims by The U .S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, held that a former jail guard's claim, brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that he was terminated because he …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York State Prisoner Awarded $1,000 For Work Related Knife Injury by On June 26, 2002, a state court of claims awarded New York state prisoner Jose Santiago $1,000 for a knife injury he sustained while working in the prison butcher shop. The injury required two stitches. While working in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Court Of Appeals Awards Injured Prisoner $100,000 by On June 4, 1988, the Ohio Court of Appeals, Tenth Appellate District, awarded a state prisoner $100,000 for severe burns to his leg, reversing a Court of Claims judgment awarding the prisoner $20,000. While working to unplug a drain at the …
Article • May 15, 2007
$10,000 Awarded In New York Prisoner Work Injury Suit by In 2000 the New York Court of Claims awarded $10,000 in damages to a prisoner who cut his finger off while using a band saw at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York on February 7, 1996. He worked in the …
Product Liability Suit by Prisoner Welder Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that he was forced to weld with thoriated tungsten electrodes, which contain a radioactive substance, as part of his prison work assignment. He also smoked two packs a day for 45 years. The court performs a Daubert analysis and …
BOP Pays $7,000 in Pork Handling Suit by BOP Pays $7,000 In Pork Handling Suit The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit affirmed a district court's award of 17,000 in damages to a Muslim federal prisoner at Marion who was punished for refusing to handle pork due to his …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Can't be Forced to Work Beyond Physical Means, Handle Items Forbidden by Faith by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed as frivolous an Arkansas prisoner's lawsuit that he was forced to do field work beyond his physical capacity. …
Driver's License Examiner Denied Qualified Immunity in Prisoner's Sexual Assault by The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma denied a former driver's license examiner summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity in a case in which the examiner is charged with sexually assaulting a female work …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington Prisoner Receives $17,500 for Work Detail Needle Stick by On April 26, 2002, in the King County Superior Court, the Washington State Department of Corrections agreed to pay $17,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by a prisoner who was stuck with a dirty hypodermic needle while on a work …
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 …
Careless Removal of Lead-Based Paint from Texas Prison States a Claim by The Texas 14th Court of Appeals at Houston reversed a trial court's dismissal of a prisoner's lawsuit which claimed injuries consequent to the careless removal of lead-based paint from an aging Texas state prison. Early in 2000, Howard …
FL Country Club Settles For $475,000 With Golf Cart Driver by On August 6, 2002, Joseph Gautette was driving a golf cart at the Cobblestone Country Club in Stuart, Florida. He was injured when he collided with a maintenance vehicle being driven by a prisoner in a work release program. …
Pilot Light Burn Nets NY Prisoner $225 by A New York State court of claims judge found the New York Department of Correctional Services (DCS) negligent in training and supervising a prisoner who sustained first-degree burns. The court awarded only $225 for past pain and suffering. On July 15, 1999, …
Article • May 15, 2007
$1,500 Awarded in Negligence Suit for MA Prisoner's Work Injury by $1,500 Awarded in Negligence Suit for MA Prisoners Work Injury While performing his prison job at Massachusetts' MCI Concord, Thomas Collier was instructed to clean vents in the prison's kitchen. He was given de-greaser, which he sprayed on the …
Florida Prisoner's Respiratory Injury Nets $112,000 by A 32-year-old female Florida prisoner sued the Department of Corrections (DOC) after she suffered respiratory dysfunction from inhaling chlorine gas while changing a chlorine cylinder at her prison's water/sewage treatment plant. Because she was not trained or certified to perform the work assigned …
BOP Work Injuries Not Cognizable Under FTCA by A federal prisoner in California who alleged his pre-existing knee injury was exacerbated by prison officials' delay in providing medical treatment could not pursue a Federal Tort Claims Act suit because the re-injury occurred while he was at work and the Prison …
South Carolina Jail Prisoner Awarded $2,000 In Mediation For Work-Related Injury by South Carolina Jail Prisoner Awarded $2,000 In Mediation For Work-Related Injury In December 1997, a Horry County, South Carolina, prisoner was awarded $2,000 in mediation for injuries he sustained while working at a county landfill. The prisoner claimed …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Court Awards $33,000 For Saw-Related Hand Injury by In August 1997, a New York court of claims awarded $33,000 to the estate of a prisoner who lacerated three fingers on his left hand while using a table saw as part of his work assignment at the state prison. …
Arkansas Field Death Suit Dismissed by The decedent died of heat exhaustion on his first day on the hoe squad (on November 6, mid-afternoon temperature 72 degrees). Although overweight, he had been medically cleared for the work detail; there were hourly breaks for rest, water, and smoking; there was no …
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