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Sixth Circuit Won’t Hold Michigan County Liable After Mentally Ill Prisoner Impregnates Another by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On May 3, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment favoring for defendant officials with Wayne County, Michigan, in a complaint filed by one mentally …
“I Was Scheduled to Die in Solitary Confinement” – and May Soon Be Again by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Locked in solitary confinement for decades, mentally ill Illinois prisoner Anthony Gay engaged in severe and shocking self-mutilation. Stabbing a razor blade into his eye. Eating his own flesh. Cutting …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Detainees Awaiting Psychiatric Beds Suffer Permanent Harm in Jails by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Defendants nationwide who require competency restoration are suffering irreparable harm awaiting psychiatric beds in solitary confinement. Here’s what happens: An individual with major mental illness, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, comes to …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$1.9 Million Paid by L.A. County for Detainee’s Suicide by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On August 12, 2022, the federal courtfor the Central District of California approved a settlement for the minor children of a jail detainee who committed suicide less than nine hours after he was arrested for …
Santa Clara County Sheriff Accused of Coverup After $10 Million Payout to Mentally Ill Detainee Who Severely Injured Himself During Jail Transport by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart An October 2022 report by the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement (OCLE) in California’s Santa Clara County faults the county Sheriff’s …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
A Lesson in Pleading: Utah Jail Suicide Complaint Fails for Alleging Failure to Train Rather than Failure to Provide Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for defendant jailers in a lawsuit seeking …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Illinois Supreme Court Orders State DOC to Fund Required Treatment and Housing for Sex Offender’s Conditional Release by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 22, 2022, the Supreme Court of Illinois agreed with a former state prisoner that when the state sets conditions for release that he can’t …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Hospitalized California IST Defendants Entitled to Jail Conduct Credits by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On April 29, 2022, the California Court of Appeals held that incompetent to stand trial (IST) defendants who are confined in a state hospital receiving treatment to restore competency must be granted the same opportunity …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
$14,000 Paid by California to Mentally Ill Prisoner Who Alleged Repeated Maulings by Guards by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney How blatant is a violation of rights when a prisoner who is both mentally ill and proceeding pro se wins his case? The answer for California prisoner Benjamin Justin Brownlee …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Suicides
North Dakota Guard Fired After Suicide of Convicted Quadruple Murderer by Justin McFatridge by Justin McFatridge On September 22, 2022, a guard was fired by the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) after he twice failed to check on a state prisoner who then committed suicide. The firing …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Second Circuit Reinstates N.Y. Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim, Finding Grievance Procedure ‘Unavailable’ in Mental Health Unit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 15, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a New York prisoner was excused from exhausting administrative remedies as required …
Brief • February 28, 2023
Filed under: Suicides
Coleman v. Newsom, CA, Order, Suicide, 2023 Case 2:90-cv-00520-KJM-DB Document 7743 Filed 02/28/23 Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 12 Plaintiff, 13 14 15 v. No. 2:90-cv-0520 …
Estate of Jose Pichardo v. County of Imperial, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2023 Case 3:20-cv-01465-LAB-DDL Document 107 Filed 02/28/23 PageID.1672 Page 1 of 38 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DEVIN A. WEISBERG (SBN 230517) WEISBERG LAW GROUP 700 S Flower St., Suite 1000, Los Angeles, …
Estate of Jose Pichardo v. County of Imperial, CA, Third Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2023 Case 3:20-cv-01465-LAB-DDL Document 107 Filed 02/28/23 PageID.1672 Page 1 of 38 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DEVIN A. WEISBERG (SBN 230517) WEISBERG LAW GROUP 700 S Flower St., Suite 1000, …
Families Protest Private Texas “Shadow Prisons” for Released Sex Offenders by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On April 9, 2022, family members and friends of men held at the Civil Commitment Facility (CCF) in Littlefield, Texas, protested the injustices which occur within the razor-wire fences of the former …
Third Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity From Delaware Guards Who Held Mentally Ill Prisoner in Solitary for Seven Months by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a decision filed on November 28, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the grant of qualified immunity (QI) to …
Fifth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Mississippi Sheriffs in Suit Over Mentally Ill Man’s Years-long Unlawful Detention by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to the current and former …
Article • January 4, 2023
Eighth Circuit Revives Suit Over North Dakota Juvenile Detainee’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed dismissal of a lawsuit alleging a private North Dakota juvenile home was liable for the suicide of a 12-year-old …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Georgia Prisoner Sentenced to Death for Killing Two Guards Dies by Apparent Suicide by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Just ten days after being sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two state prison guards, a prisoner was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison …
Article • December 21, 2022
Two Years After Mentally Ill Detainee Strangled to Death by Guards, Florida Jail Still Refuses to Release Video by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss “They [need] to release the tapes,” Secilia Desir said of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), “so I can see how they killed my son.” …
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