Illinois Prisoners Sue over Soy-Based Food by Brandon Sample Prisoners at the Danville Correctional Center in Illinois have sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) in federal court over the predominantly soy-based diet they are served. According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, which promotes the consumption of whole, traditional …
Illinois Prison Doctor Liable for Failing to Treat Testicular Cysts by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a civil rights action that claimed a prison doctor’s care was deliberately indifferent to an ex-Illinois prisoner’s serious medical needs. The Court, however, affirmed dismissal as …
Son, Wife of U.S. Congressmen Get Prison Time by Brandon Sample Jeffrey M. Rush, the son of U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.), was sentenced in October 2008 to serve six months behind bars plus three years on probation for having sex with female prisoners at the Fox Valley Adult …
Illinois Prison Officials Fail to Report MRSA Infections by Recognizing that Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is rampant in Illinois’ prison system, and that MRSA poses a threat to guards and visitors as well as prisoners, Illinois legislators enacted a law, effective March 3, 2008, that requires prison officials to …
Cook County Strip, Body Cavity Searches Held Unconstitutional; Other Suits Pending by Brandon Sample On February 23, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew F. Kennelly granted partial summary judgment to the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit challenging certain strip and visual body cavity searches conducted at Illinois’ Cook County …
Illinois Prisoners Bilked Out of Millions Through DOC Commissary Surcharges by Joseph R. Dole Few prisoners would be shocked to learn that they are paying too much for items sold in prison commissaries or canteens. The Illinois Dept. of Corrections (IDOC), however, has taken commissary price-gouging to an extreme level. …
Swine Flu Widespread in Prisons and Jails, but Deaths are Few by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For hundreds of years the cramped, overcrowded and often filthy confines of dungeons, prisons, jails and other places of imprisonment have served as incubators for infectious diseases, which have killed more prisoners …
Mahdi v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2010 Case 3:10-cv-00123-MJR-SCW Document 3-1 Filed 02/12/10 Page 1 of 19 Page ID #9 • , •·• IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE S/CQND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT JEFFERSO N COUNTY, ILLIJ'!plS ,A- MM A- I< 1\1\f'tf-ffi I (l~ CJC(-L ~ G'3 No ............................... .. …
Vodak et al v. City of Chicago et al, IL, Plf Objection to Def Bill of Costs, police protest settlements, 2009 Order Form (01/2005) Case 1:03-cv-02463 Document 608-1 Filed 01/25/10 Page 1 of 4 United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois Name of Assigned Judge or Magistrate Judge Virginia …
BOP Settles FTCA Abuse/Religious Discrimination Suit for $48,000 by Brandon Sample O n August 12, 2009, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to settle a lawsuit by a Muslim former prisoner who alleged that he was tortured and beaten after complaining to investigators about his Quar’an and Kufi being …
Seventh Circuit Upholds $9,063,000 Award to Illinois Ex-Prisoner Exonerated by DNA by Brandon Sample On December 30, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a $9,063,000 jury award to a former prisoner, later exonerated by DNA evidence, whose criminal trial was rendered unfair by a police …
Inhumane Illinois Cell Conditions Defeat Summary Judgment by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that guards are not entitled to qualified immunity for confining a prisoner in inhumane conditions. That ruling came on the heels of a district court’s order granting summary judgment to two guards at Illinois’ …
Judgment for Guards who Allegedly Sodomized and Burned Prisoner Upheld by On January 27, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment for two guards accused of providing deliberately indifferent medical care and a jury verdict in favor of the guards on …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal Of Medical Care Claims by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action claiming deliberately indifferent medical care. Vantice Beshears alleged that while incarcerated at the Champaign County Jail, medical staff prescribed and …
State Did Not Err In Laying Off Guards by The Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, has reversed a decision by the Illinois Labor Relations Board (ILRB) holding that the State of Illinois failed to bargain in good faith before laying off numerous Illinois prison guards. The decision to lay …
Brandon v. Advanced Correctional Healthcare, IL, Deposition of Scott, Wrongful Death, 2009 1:06-cv-01316-JAG # 190-48 Page 1 of 487 E-FILED Thursday, 31 December, 2009 01:34:33 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD 1 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 3 PEORIA DIVISION 4 5 LAZINNIAL BRANDON, ) …
Westefer v. Snyder, IL, Plf Proposed CoL, ad seg condition of confinement, 2009 Case 3:00-cv-00162-GPM Document 526 Filed 12/16/09 Page 1 of 29 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Robert Westefer, et al., Plaintiffs, No. 00-162-GPM v. Donald Snyder, et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFF CLASS’S …
Illinois Expungement-Following-Pardon-For-Innocence Statute Discretionary by On March 19, 2009, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the statute governing expungement of records following a pardon for innocence is discretionary even if the pardon specifically authorizes expungement. Stanley Howard and Dana Holland are former Illinois state prisoners who received gubernatorial pardons based …
Illinois Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss Chicago Jail Strip Search Suit by On September 15, 2008, a federal court in Illinois denied a motion to dismiss by the Sheriff of Cook County and Cook County, Illinois, in a suit involving the strip searching of prisoners returning from court appearances. Charles …
Denial of Allocution During Supervised Release Resentencing Requires Remand by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a federal prisoner’s sentence because an Illinois federal district court denied him the right to allocution upon revocation of his supervised release and imposition of a new sentence. Bernard J. O’Hallaren, III, …
