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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 …
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. …
Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Tort Claim Act Notice Requirement by Matthew Clarke by Matthew. T. Clarke The Supreme Court of Texas has held that an accident investigation by a governmental under certain circumstances, suffice for the notice required by the Texas Tort Claims Act, § 101.101, Texas Civil Practice and …
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 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Burned Foot Nets $9,000 for Florida Jail Prisoner by While incarcerated at Florida's Volusia County Jail in March 1993, the prisoner plaintiff in this case was working in the jail's kitchen, which was operated by Szabo Correctional Services. Boiling water from the steam kettle spilled onto the prisoner's right foot, …
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 …
“To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get”: Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman "To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get": Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman In recent months, UNICOR Recycling has …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Georgia County Pays $5.1 Million for Community Service Turned Deadly by Michael Rigby On August 21, 2006, a Georgia state court awarded $5.1 Million to the family of a college student who was killed when he fell from a DeKalb County garbage truck while performing community service. Vince Currid, 22, …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Court May Infer Deliberate Indifference from Obviousness of Risk by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's grant of summary judgment to prison officials in a prisoner's claim that officials were deliberately indifferent to his safety when they had him strip insulation from a live 480-volt wire …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
New York Prisoner Awarded $5,250 for Prison Welding Shop Injury by On July 27, 2004, the Court of Claims in Rochester, New York, awarded Noel Atkinson, a New York state prisoner, $5,250 for past pain and suffering due to an injury he received while working in a welding shop at …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Alabama Prisoner Awarded $90,000 For Work-Related Eye Injury by by Michael Rigby On February 5, 2004, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed to pay $90,000 to a prisoner who was refused safety glasses and later suffered an eye injury while working at a prison recycling center. Plaintiff Brian Dodd, …
Brief • July 12, 2005
Pettit v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., Decision, inmate work injury, 2005 [Cite as Pettit v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., 2005-Ohio-3958.] IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS OF OHIO www.cco.state.oh.us DAVID PETTIT, et al. : Plaintiffs : v. : CASE NO. 2003-11798 Judge Fred J. Shoemaker DECISION DEPARTMENT …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
New York Prisoner Awarded $105,000 for Shoulder Injury by New York Prisoner Awarded $105,000 For Shoulder Injury On December 15, 2003, a court of claims in Syracuse, New York, awarded $105,000 plus interest to a state prisoner who suffered a torn rotator cuff as the result of a construction accident. …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
HIV Is Occupational Disease for Connecticut Prison Guards by HIV is Occupational Disease for Connecticut Prison Guards The Connecticut Supreme Court held that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an occupational disease for prison guards who are members of prison emergency response units. The court also held that the estate …
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