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Brief • May 28, 2025
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners
Wilson v. Dixon, FL, Order Denying Motion to Dismiss, Denial of Disability Accomodations, 2025 Case 1:24-cv-24253-KMW Document 48 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/28/2025 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 24-24253-CV-WILLIAMS DWAYNE WILSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. RICKY DIXON, et al., Defendants. ___________________________________/ …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Agrees to Improve Services for Hearing-Impaired Prisoners by On September 25, 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) entered into a pre-litigation settlement agreement with the federal Department of Justice (DOJ), promising to improve services provided to deaf and hard of hearing prisoners, in compliance with Title II …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$1.35 Million in Settlements for One-Legged San Francisco Detainee Forced to Hop—Twice by On March 4, 2025, the City and County of San Francisco approved an $825,000 settlement with Vincent Bell, a one-legged city jail detainee who sued over an outrageous 2018 incident in which a guard supervisor forced him …
DOJ Settles Complaints About Conditions for Disabled Detroit Jail Detainees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved an agreement with Michigan’s Wayne County that promised to improve conditions at its jail in Detroit for prisoners with physical and mental disabilities. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nearly $12 Million Paid to Mentally Disabled Indiana Prisoner Wrongly Convicted of Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Indiana city of Elkhart agreed to pay former state prisoner Andrew Royer, then 44, nearly $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed over his wrongful murder …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
Pennsylvania Prisoner Released from Solitary After 15 Years by On March 5, 2024, the federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania agreed to dismiss the complaint of a state prisoner held in solitary confinement for 15 years after the state Department of Corrections (DOC) reportedly agreed to a settlement. …
Brief • January 6, 2025
Trivette v. Tennessee Dept of Corrections, TN, Settlement, Discrimination-ADA Violation, 2025 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE (“Settlement Agreement” or “Agreement”) sets forth the terms of the settlement by and between Alex Gordon Stinnett, Thomas White, Lakeevious Owens, (collectively the “Individual Plaintiffs”), and Disability Rights Tennessee (“DRT”) …
Brief • October 31, 2024
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners
Wilson v. Dixon, FL, Complaint, Denial of Disability Accomodations, 2024 Case 1:24-cv-24253-KMW Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 10/31/2024 Page 1 of 63 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO. 1:24-cv-24253 DWAYNE WILSON, TYRONE HARRIS, and GARY WHEELER, individually and on behalf of those similarly …
Former Warden Added to Suit Over Brutal Killing of Disabled Virginia Prisoner by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an amended complaint filed in federal court for the Western District of Virginia on January 19, 2024, the former warden of Marion Correctional Treatment Center (MCTC) was added to the list …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Intellectually Disabled Georgia Prisoner Executed After SCOTUS Denies Appeal by Georgia executed Willie Pye, 59, on March 20, 2024, despite last-­minute appeals questioning his mental competency and the adequacy of his legal representation. The execution sharpened debate over capital punishment in the treatment of intellectually disabled prisoners. Pye was convicted …
$175,000 Awarded to Former California Detainee Whose Suit Prompted DOJ Investigation and Settlement Requiring Structural Changes at Jail by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In June 2021, former San Luis Obispo County Jail detainee Steven J. York was awarded $175,000 to settle a lawsuit that also prompted an investigation of …
Third Circuit Revives Disabled New Jersey Prisoner’s Claim for Deprivation of Walking Cane by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed dismissal of prisoner Tremayne Durham’s suit blaming employees of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) for …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Subclass Certified and Settlement Proposed to Address ADA Violations at Long-Plagued San Diego County Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 21, 2023, Judge Anthony J. Battaglia of the federal court for the Southern District of California signed an order in a suit alleging violations at San Diego …
Brief • November 29, 2023
USA v. Big Sandy Regional Jail Authority, KY, Settlement, Discrimination, 2023 ADA SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED ST ATES OF AMERICA AND BIG SANDY REGIONAL JAIL AUTHORITY DJ No. 204-30-103 BACKGROUND 1. This Settlement Agreement (the Agreement) is entered into by: Big Sandy Regional Jail Authority (hereafter, Big Sandy Authority); …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Ninth Circuit Affirms Expanded Relief for Disabled California Prisoners in Long-Running Class Action by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 2, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed, in large part, an order that found ongoing violations of the rights of disabled prisoners at …
Brief • May 26, 2023
Trivette v. Tennessee Dept of Corrections, TN, Complaint, Discrimination-ADA Violation, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ERNEST KEVIN TRIVETTE, JASON ANDREW COLLINS, ALEX GORDON STINNETT, THOMAS WHITE, LAKEEVIOUS OWENS, JOHN GILES, PAMELA BINGHAM, and DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE, Civil No. 3:20-cv-00276 Judge …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Seventh Circuit Overturns Class Decertification in Cook County Jail Disability Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on November 14, 2022, reversed the decertification of a class in a lawsuit alleging that Division 10 of the Cook County Jail does …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Toilets
Seventh Circuit Revives Claim of Wheelchair-Bound Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Access to Handicapped Toilet by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 25, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of a civil rights complaint filed by a former Wisconsin prisoner, who alleged that …
Brief • March 14, 2023
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