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$3.6 Million Settlement in Michigan Prisoner’s Segregation Cell Death by The family of Timothy Souders has agreed to accept $3.25 to settle a wrongful death claim relating to Timothy’s death. Timothy, 21, was the subject of a May 2007 PLN cover article, and a February 11, 2007, report on 60 …
Article • February 15, 2009
$10,000 Settlement For Ex Federal Prisoner After Slipping In Water by Ex Federal prisoner and Michigan resident William Bonhart brought a federal tort action in 2000 against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after slipping in water in 1998 at the Federal Correctional …
More Damages, Costs & Attorney Fees Awarded in NH False Disciplinary Case by More Damages, Costs & Attorney Fees Awarded in NH False Disciplinary Case Three prisoners involved in two federal civil rights lawsuits against officials of the Hillsborough County House of Corrections in New Hampshire (the jail) were awarded …
$170,000 Jury Verdict in Sacramento Jail Beating by $170,000 Jury Verdict in Sacramento Jail Beating In April 2008, a federal jury in Sacramento, California returned verdicts against five Sacramento County Jail deputies for beating a prisoner and denying him food and water for eight hours. Although the facts were contested, …
$2.75 Million Verdict in Dehydrated Michigan Prisoner’s Death by A Michigan federal jury awarded $2.75 million to a prisoner’s estate in a case claiming deliberate indifference to serious medical needs. The prisoner, Jeffrey Clark, was having mental health problems and died due to the effects of dehydration and inhumanely hot …
Buford-Lewis v. Marion County, IN, Settlement, jail conditions, 2008 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 58 Filed 12/01/2008 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION ANTHONY BUFORD-LEWIS, III, et al., Plaintiffs, v. MARION COUNTY, INDIANA, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Arkansas Woman Left in Cell for Four Days Without Food or Water by Arkansas Woman Left in Cell for Four Days Without Food or Water In March 2008, a woman was locked in a small courthouse holding cell without food or water for four days after an Arkansas bailiff forgot …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Florida Prison Still Beset by Contaminated Water by David Reutter Despite spending millions of dollars on new wells and water treatment systems, the Martin Correctional Institution (MCI) in Indiantown, Florida is still unable to provide uncontaminated water to its 1,400 prisoners. The problem has the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) …
Relief for Unconstitutional Mississippi Death Row Conditions Affirmed on Appeal by Bob Williams By Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed most of the sweeping reforms to be implemented at the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), Unit 32-C, Death Row. After several death row …
The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Prison by Alan Prendergast Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick prisoners and trouble. by Alan Prendergast History Lesson #1 In 1829, William Bent headed west to join his older brother in the fur business. William …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
Oklahoma Jail Dodges $700,000 in Fines by Gary Hunter On November 28, 2006, the Bryan County Jail in Oklahoma was fined $15,000 by a local judge for health inspection violations. Both the district attorney and jail officials were elated with the ruling. The reason they were happy was because the …
Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby On February 20, 2007, the Dallas County, Texas, Jail agreed to pay $950,000 for its negligent mistreatment of three mentally ill individuals, one of whom died, while imprisoned at the jail awaiting competency hearings. In 2004, James …
Warrantless Arrest Warrants Prompt Probable Cause Hearing, Abused Innocent Detainee Prevails by Mistakenly accused Chicago resident Joseph Lopez was arrested with probable cause after a witness identified him in a shooting that killed a 12 year old boy. After the actual murderer confessed, Lopez filed suit for constitutional violations. The …
State Law Claims in Federal Suits Must Be Exhausted by Use of force is a prison condition for purposes of PLRA; the unavailability of damages does not excuse exhaustion (citing prior circuit authority for both propositions) This court uses the 18 U.S.C. § 3626(g)(2) definition of "conditions of confinement" as …
Prison Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental Safety Nationwide by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Aging infrastructure concerns are not limited to America's highways, bridges and dams. Today, crumbling, overcrowded prisons and jails nationwide are bursting at the seams -- literally -- leaking environmentally dangerous effluents not just …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Filed under: Sewage, Water, Media, PLN Litigation
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story is on what goes in and comes out of prisons in the way of water and sewage. While a lot of attention is paid to the more dramatic effects of prison overcrowding, such as violence, inadequate medical care, prisoners sleeping …
Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court has held that the use of in-cell restraints for punitive reasons constitutes torture. In reaching that conclusion, the Court reopened its previous judgment concerning mental health claims and issued a preliminary …
Prisoner's Failure to Appear Not Grounds for Civil Suit Dismissal by California jail prisoner Mike Hernandez filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit in federal district court claiming that jail staff at the San. Luis Obispo County Jail physically assaulted him and deprived him of clothing and water. A pre-trial conference …
Summary Judgment of Eighth Amendment Claims Reversed by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed and remanded the summary judgment of a prisoner's Eighth Amendment claim. Robert DeSpain, a Wyoming state prisoner, brought a civil rights action against prison officials alleging cruel and unusual punishment in violation …
Article • May 15, 2007
Qualified Immunity Reversed on Massachusetts Chemical Toilet Claim by The Massachusetts Court of Appeals has reversed a grant of qualified immunity to a prison warden concerning his failure to provide flush toilets to prisoners. As PLN has reported extensively, for years prisoners at the Southeastern Correctional Center (SECC) in Massachusetts …
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