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Brief • April 4, 2016
Woods et al v. Fagan et al, CA, Deposition - Fonzi, 14th Am civil rights violation, 2016 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 N.W., a minor by and through …
Brief • April 4, 2016
Griffin v. Zaruba, IL, Amended Complaint, Excessive Force, 2016 Case: 1:15-cv-03474 Document #: 30 Filed: 04/04/16 Page 1 of 5 PageID #:99 FIL0E16D 4/4/2 . BRUTON T THOMAS G TRICT COUR IS D . CLERK, U.S UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS MICHAEL GRIFFIN (Enter above the full …
D.S. V. GEO Group, NM, Settlement (D.S.), Sexual Assault, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is entered into by :C S ("Plaintiff' or "Releasor"), Timothy B. Hatch, Sherry Phillips, the GEO Group, Inc. (hereinafter "GEO") and Corizon, LLC fka Corizon, Inc. (hereinafter known as …
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 …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Massachusetts: Lawsuit Filed to Stop Dog Searches of Prison Visitors by Joe Watson The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Boston-based Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts (PLSM) and attorney Leonard Singer filed suit against the Massachusetts Department of Correction in January 2014 to prevent prison officials from using drug-sniffing dogs to …
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, …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
South Carolina Sheriff Resigns, Pleads Guilty to DUI by In 2012, a historic $599,000 settlement was reached between Prison Legal News and then-Berkeley County, South Carolina Sheriff Wayne DeWitt after the Berkeley County jail rejected PLN’s monthly publication and books mailed to prisoners at the facility. At the time, the …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Parole Conditions
Medical Marijuana Use by Arizona Probationer Cannot Support Violation by The Arizona Supreme Court held on April 7, 2015 that “any probation term that threatens to revoke probation for medical marijuana use that complies with the terms of AMMA [the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act] is unenforceable and illegal under AMMA.” …
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 …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Irish High Court Bars Extradition of Terror Suspect to U.S., Citing Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement by Derek Gilna The High Court of Ireland has declined to extradite a terrorism suspect to the United States to face justice, quashing an extradition request filed by American officials. Ali Charaf Damache, born in …
$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
Court’s Gag Order in Michigan Jail Corruption Case Reversed by In March 2015, the Michigan Supreme Court concluded that a gag order entered in criminal proceedings against Wayne County officials charged with corruption in a jail building project must be reviewed. Following an audit into the jail project that cost …
Failure to Timely Assert Affirmative Defense in Responsive Pleading Constitutes Waiver by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held on April 8, 2015 that an Ohio federal district court did not abuse its discretion by finding prison officials had waived their qualified immunity defense in a prisoner’s civil rights action. …
Report Finds Shortcomings at Santa Clara County, California Jail by Derek Gilna A report prepared by a San Francisco law firm following interviews with 944 prisoners and 33 staff members at the Santa Clara County Jail found numerous complaints of both physical and verbal abuse, uneven enforcement of rules, harassment …
Tennessee Prisoner Awarded $60,000 for Guards’ Use of Excessive Force by A Tennessee federal jury awarded $60,000 to a prisoner after finding three guards at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) in Nashville had used excessive force. The verdict found that prison guards Joshua McCall, Gaelen Doss and Sean Stewart …
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, …
Deaf Prisoners Win Important Settlements in Kentucky and Maryland by Derek Gilna Deaf and hard of hearing prisoners have been doubly punished in many prisons and jails, their disability often not only limiting their access to programs, services and communication with the outside world, but also putting them at risk …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Architects’ Ethics Panel to Consider Boycott of Execution Chambers and Prison Design by David Reutter by David Reutter An advocacy group composed of architects, building designers and planners is hailing a decision by the National Ethics Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to reconsider a proposal to prohibit …
Pepper-spraying Sleeping Prisoner Unconstitutional, but Case Loses at Trial by David Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that “using a chemical agent in an attempt to wake a sleeping prisoner, without apparent necessity and in the absence of mitigating circumstances, violates clearly established law.” The ruling came in …
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