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Jailhouse Medicine - A Private Contractor Flourishes Despite Controversy Over Prisoner Deaths by Jailhouse Medicine - A Private Contractor Flourishes Despite Controversy Over Prisoner Deaths by Brian Joseph, FairWarning In July 2011, a jailhouse nurse in Imperial County, California found prisoner Marsha Dau lying naked and dazed on the concrete …
Excited Delirium Syndrome: Medical Condition or Cover-Up? by David Reutter Debate is quietly raging within the medical and law enforcement communities about a diagnosis first identified more than 160 years ago which more recently has become associated with the deaths of people in police custody, many of whom were involved …
New Mexico: Sharon Jones’s Strep Death Among Shocking Prison Tragedies in Lawsuits by by Michael Roberts, Westword Westword recently shared video showing the jailhouse death of Michael Lee Marshall. The homeless man, who suffered from symptoms associated with paranoid schizophrenia, choked on his own vomit after being restrained by Denver, …
Federal Lawsuit Claims Negligence Caused Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Heroin Overdose Death by Christopher Zoukis A federal lawsuit alleges that officials at the Schuylkill County Prison in Pennsylvania were negligent in the 2013 death of a prisoner from an accidental drug overdose. The suit, filed on March 24, 2015, came almost a …
$2.5 Million Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Dehydration Death by The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a mentally ill prisoner who died after spending 35 days in an isolation cell. Michael Anthony Kerr’s death in 2014 occurred during a …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
$3.5 Million for South Carolina Prisoner’s Death Due to Deliberate Indifference by The estate of a prisoner who died as a result of complications from medical ailments that went untreated at South Carolina’s Hill-Finklea Detention Center (HFDC) received $3.5 million from a settlement and jury verdict. David Allan Woods, 50, …
“Fatal Neglect” Report Faults ICE Health Care for Deaths of Detained Immigrants by Derek Gilna The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Detention Watch Network (DWN) and National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) issued a joint report, “Fatal Neglect: How ICE Ignores Deaths in Detention,” that describes case studies of deficient medical …
Assessing Inmate Cause of Death, DOJ, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics TECHNICAL REPORT April 2016, NCJ 249568 Assessing Inmate Cause of Death: Deaths in Custody Reporting Program and National Death Index Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., Margaret Noonan, and E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS …
Defense Verdict in Kentucky Prisoner’s Death; Appellate Court Reverses by David Reutter A Kentucky state jury found for the defendants in a lawsuit alleging a jail guard and nurse failed to monitor and treat a pretrial detainee’s serious medical condition, resulting in her death. Recently, however, the Court of Appeals …
Settlement in California Jail Suit Includes $4.8 Million in Attorney Fees, Costs by Derek Gilna After four prisoners committed suicide in the Salinas branch of the Monterey County, California jail system within a five-year period, a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2013 against both the jail and California Forensic Medical …
Article • March 31, 2016
Prisoner’s Suicide Costs Los Angeles County $450,000 by The County of Los Angeles paid $350,000 to settle a federal civil rights action alleging the indifference of jail staff to the serious medical needs of prisoner Steven Cardenas resulted in his death by suicide. Cardenas was sentenced in May 2007 to …
Williams v. Snohomish County, WA, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death TASER, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00455-RSL Document 4-17 Filed 03/31/16 Page 1 of 13 1 Honorable Judge Hollis Hill 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING 8 9 …
Brief • March 31, 2016
Nealman v. Laughlin, PA, Memorandum on Motions, Medical Negligence and Wrongful Death from Suicide, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01579-CCC Document 47 Filed 08/31/16 Page 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA TAWNA Z. NEALMAN, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Shelley …
Article • March 30, 2016
$565,500 Jury Verdict in Montana Jail Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Suit by Matthew Clarke On October 24, 2014, a Montana state jury found Missoula County liable in the wrongful death of a jail prisoner and assessed an award of $565,500 against the county. The county agreed not to appeal and to …
$350,000 Settlement in Suit over Texas Jail Prisoner's Murder by Matthew Clarke On August 21, 2014, Tarrant County, Texas settled for $350,000 a lawsuit brought under the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by the sister and administrator of the estate of deceased Tarrant County Jail prisoner …
Sharbaugh v. Beaudry, FL, Complaint, Wrongful Death Failure to Protect, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00126-MCR-EMT Document 1 Filed 03/24/16 Page 1 of 33 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA (Pensacola) RUSSELL K. SHARBAUGH, as the Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF RICKY DEAN MARTIN, Plaintiff, v. …
Green v. State of Alaska, AK, Complaint, Jail Death, 2016 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE ST ATE OF ALASKA THIRD .JUDICIAL DISTIUCT AT ANCHORAGE ESTATE OF KELLSIE GREEN Plaintiff, vs. STATE OF ALASKA, DEPARTMENT or CORRECTIONS, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) --- CI Case …
Coleman v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement Agreement, wrongful death taser mental, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Percy Coleman, Administrator for the Estate of Philip Coleman, Plaintiff, Case No.: 12 cv 10061 v. NDGE KENNELLY The City of Chicago, Chicago Police Lieutenants …
Brief • March 14, 2016
Sutherland v. City of Manteca, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2016
Final Investigation - Inmate Death at Somerset County Jail 05-28, ME DOC, 2014 Department of Corrections State of Maine Department of Corrections State House Station 111 Tyson Building Augusta, ME 04333-0111 Operations Division Phone: (207) 287-2711 FAX: (207) 287-4370 Email: Bob.Lancaster@maine.gov Memorandum To: Ralph Nichols, Director of Operations, MDOC From: …
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