Seventh Circuit Holds Jail Guard Not Deliberately Indifferent to Illinois Prisoner’s Withdrawal from Smuggled Pills by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a decision published on June 21, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a guard was not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s symptoms …
Lippert v. Jeffreys, IL, Consent Decree, Inadequate Medical-Dental Care, 2022 Case: 1:10-cv-04603 Document #: 1557 Filed: 06/24/22 Page 1 of 28 PageID #:22927 THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DON LIPPERT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ROB JEFFREYS, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) …
Lippert v. Jeffreys, IL, Motion for a Finding of Contempt, Inadequate Medical-Dental Care, 2022 Case: 1:10-cv-04603 Document #: 1556 Filed: 06/22/22 Page 1 of 29 PageID #:22806 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DON LIPPERT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ROB JEFFREYS, et al., Defendants. ) ) …
Richard v. Pfister, IL,Settlement, Denial of Medical Care, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION WILLIAM RICHARD, Plaintiff, No. 17 C 4677 V. D istrict Judge Thomas M. Durkin RAND Y PFISTER, et al., D efendants. SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE Th.is …
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was indicted on April 22, 2022, for assaulting three prisoners and then filing a false report to cover it up, the Associated Press reported. The guard, Lorenzo Mills, 55, was charged with beating three male prisoners with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional …
$275,000 Settlement Reached After Detainee’s Attempted Suicide at Illinois Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In April 2021, Illinois’ DuPage County Jail (DCJ) and its Psychiatric Services Medical Director agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by detainee Dean Fuerstenberg, who attempted suicide at the jail …
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Suit of Epileptic Illinois Prisoner Who Suffered Seizure and Fell From Top Bunk by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On October 26, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the decision of a federal district court in Illinois to dismiss a suit brought …
Illinois Department of Corrections Cancels Contract with Canteen Provider Keefe by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On December 14, 2021, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) canceled its contract with the Keefe Group as provider of prison commissary items. The next day, the state’s chief procurement officer, Ellen Daley, released …
Illinois Inspector General Finds Prisoner Labor Used to Benefit DOC Employees by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In a report released on October 24, 2021, the Illinois Office of the Executive Inspector General (OIG) found that state prisoners had been improperly used to wash cars, shine shoes, give haircuts …
Coe v. Pearson, IL, Order, Denial of Medical Care, 2022 2:17-cv-02291-EIL # 103 Page 1 of 2 E-FILED Wednesday, 01 June, 2022 03:26:46 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Urbana Division ANDREW D. COE, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 17-2291 ELICIA PEARSON, Defendant. …
Inside Llinois Civil Commitment -Treatment Behind Razor Wire -2022 Inside Illinois Civil Commitment Treatment Behind Razor Wire A report of key findings from a 2019 survey of the residents at Rushville Treatment and Detention Facility, Illinois 2022 Content Warning A Note Before Reading Some of the stories in this report …
Freedom Denied-How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis-Oct. 2022 FREEDOM DENIED iii Table of Contents AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS P.5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY P.15 CONTEXTUALIZING THE CULTURE OF DETENTION P.53 1. Publicly Available Data Provide Little Insight into the Causes and Contours of the Federal Bail Crisis. 2. The …
Preliminary Injunction Granted to Illinois Prisoner to Receive Non-Allergenic Kosher Meals by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court issued a preliminary injunction in favor of a state prisoner on October 12, 2021, requiring prison officials to provide him fresh or frozen kosher meal entrées because …
Federal Court Sanctions Wexford for Discovery Abuse in Illinois Prisoner’s Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2021, a federal court in Illinois granted a state prisoner’s motion for sanctions against Wexford Health Sources for responding to a specific discovery request by providing 272,000 pages of documents …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Premised on Nearly Deaf Guard Not Responding to Prisoner’s Cries for Help by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford On February 5, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of a pretrial detainee’s federal …
Pippion v. Hedden, IL, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death - Beating, 2022 3:19-cv-03010-CRL-EIL # 129 Filed: 03/11/22 Page 1 of 22 E-FILED Friday, 11 March, 2022 10:59:20 AM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS LARRY PIPPION, as Representative of the Estate of …
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Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Suit Over ‘Orange Crush’ Shakedown by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on August 25, 2021, that a district court erred in dismissing a state prisoner’s pro se lawsuit by failing to make a finding …
HRDC Sues for Records Denied by Sheriff and Jail in Will County, Illinois by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the nonprofit that publishes Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News, filed suit in Illinois state court on February 7, 2022, accusing the …
Human Rights Defense Center v. Will County, IL, Complaint, Public Records, 2022 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. WILL COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Andrea Lynn Chasteen Will County …
