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Article • March 7, 2016
$5,000 Award for Failure to Treat Spider Bite by David Reutter An Arkansas federal jury awarded $5,000 to a prisoner in an Eighth Amendment failure to treat claim. While in the Jackson County Jail on a warrant for failure to pay child support, Hubert Wren was bitten by a brown …
Article • March 7, 2016
$145,000 Jury Award in Arizona Prisoner’s Excessive Force Suit by Matthew Clarke On October 2, 2014, an Arizona federal jury awarded a state prisoner $145,000 in a civil rights lawsuit over a guard’s excessive use of force. Ron Zachary Pettit, 36, was a prisoner at the Arizona State Prison Complex …
Article • March 7, 2016
Tulare County, California Settles Prisoner Suicide Case for $1 Million by Derek Gilna Mario Lopez, Jr., according to his attorney's federal civil rights complaint filed by his family in 2011 after his suicide in the Tulare County, California jail, "was a mentally ill man who had suffered for many years …
Prisoner's Family Receives $1.6 Million for Negligent, Fatal Medical Care by Derek Gilna Michael Thomas Anderson, a prisoner at both the Napa County, California, and Siskiyou County, California jails, who had a long history of severe medical and psychological problems, took his own life on April 9, 2009. His heirs …
Indiana Court of Appeals: Standard of Medical Care Same In and Out of Prison by Matthew T. Clarke In an opinion dated November 10, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Indiana overturned a trial court's holding that a lower standard of medical care applied to prisoners and reversed that court's …
Article • March 7, 2016
$17 Million Settlement for Three Wrongfully Convicted New York Brothers by Matthew Clarke On January 12, 2015, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced the $17 million settlement of wrongful conviction claims brought by three half-brothers who were convicted of murder and spent a combined total of 60 years …
Article • March 7, 2016
Tortfeasor May Not Shift Punitive Damages Claim to Insurer under Illinois Law by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held an insurer did not breach its duty to protect a group of detectives from punitive damages in a civil rights action. The court further questioned whether Illinois law would allow …
Article • March 7, 2016
Medication Discontinuation by Private Medical Vendor Affects Administration of Justice by David Reutter A private medical vendor’s discontinuation of a pre-trial detainee’s psychotropic medication in the middle of a double-homicide trial was being called government misconduct that merited dismissal of the charges. Michael John Pierce, 39, suffers from schizophrenia. He …
Article • March 7, 2016
Minimal Number of Assaults Attributed to Prison-Issued Lock Cannot Support Claim by The First Circuit Court of Appeals held two Maine prisoners failed to raise a triable issue of substantial risk of assault by a prison-issued padlock. Maine State prison (MSP) prisoners David Lakin and Gerard Landry suffered serious injury …
Illinois: Prisoner Wins Settlement from Cook County Sheriff on Battery Claim by Derek Gilna Illinois’ Cook County Jail is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous correctional facilities in the nation. An antiquated jail lacking many of the updated security features found in other jails, it is riddled …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Voting
Nigerian High Court Rules All Prisoners Have a Right to Vote by Derek Gilna Advocates of American "Exceptionalism" generally have little explanation for why the United States, with 5% of the world's population, has 20% of its prisoners, or why it lags behind many other countries in properly preparing its …
Article • March 7, 2016
$1.25 Million Malpractice Award Against Immigration Attorney Upheld by Derek Gilna New York immigration attorney Alfred Placeres committed legal malpractice, the New York Court of Appeals, First Department, said in a December 23, 2014 decision, for failure to meet a filing deadline, causing his client Jose Borges to spend additional …
Article • March 7, 2016
First Circuit Reverses District Court's Order to MA DOC Mandating Treatment of Prisoner's Sex Change Request by Derek Gilna In yet another iteration of a complex litigation spanning over twenty years pitting advocates of prisoner rights in the area of medical treatment of sexual identity disorder (SID) issues, the 1st …
California Prisoners Unite in Hunger Strike to Protest SHU by David Reutter Official with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) devised a plan in 2006 that aimed to chop the head off of prison gangs. What CDCR did not consider was that the gang leaders it indefinitely isolated …
Article • March 7, 2016
Deputy’s Lawsuit Claims Racial Gangs Control Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office Jails by David Reutter The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has white racist gangs operating at its highest levels, threatening the lives of deputies who exposed it, and labeling them as “race traitors” and “snitches.” Those claims are included …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Good Time
Colorado Prison Policy of Withholding Good Time Challenged by David Reutter The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has “a policy of routinely refusing to subtract previously credited good time as well as some previously credited earned time from inmates’ sentences despite the fact that the inmate has earned those credits,” …
California Overmedicates Prisoners with Psychotropic Drugs by David Reutter California prison mental health care workers are practicing “defensive medicine” and overmedicating their patients with psychotropic medications. Fear of triggering a lawsuit or federal court order drives the practice, admits a former top prison official. An Associated Press report found spending …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Aramark, Food, Jail Specific
Aramark to Provide Heart-Healthy Meals at San Francisco Jail by David Reutter The City of San Francisco negotiated a new contract with its food vendor, Aramark Correction Services, to provide a “heart-healthy menu” for prisoners at the San Francisco County Jail (SFCJ). The new fare, hopefully, will diminish the need …
Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center has Highest Prison Rape Rate by Oklahoma state prison officials refused to testify at a federal hearing held on January 8, 2014. Among the items on the agenda at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hearing was an inquiry as to why Oklahoma’s Mabel Basset …
Article • March 7, 2016
New Report Details California Counties’ “AB 109” Correctional Priorities by Derek Gilna A new report issued by Stanford University explores how California Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109), also known as the “realignment bill,” has shifted control of local correction activities to county agencies from the state.  Funded by state block …
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