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Delaware Settles Suit Over Depriving Young Prisoners of Special Education by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under a legal settlement approved on December 2, 2025, prisoners with learning disabilities held by the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) moved several steps closer to receiving the educational instruction necessary to achieve a …
Disabled Prisoner Who Won $1.85 Million After Fall in Chicago Jail Secures Class Certification for Separate ADA Challenge to Jail Conditions by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman  On September 2, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted class certification to a complaint filed by disabled …
Third Circuit Revives Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Claims Against the State and Wellpath by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Jose Montanez was incarcerated in Pennsylvania on August 28, 2021 when he suddenly collapsed in his cell. His body was numb from the chest down and he was unable to move his legs …
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Wheelchair-Bound Washington State Prisoner’s Suit Over Failure to Accommodate Disabilities During Transport by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 19, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a wheelchair-bound Washington State Department of Corrections …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nebraska Pioneers Diversion Program to Help Arrested Veterans Avoid Jail by With a law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) in April 2024, Nebraska became the first state to adopt a model program for diverting military veterans from jail into programs offering treatment for the issues underlying their arrest. When …
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 …
Hear Us Now? Hearing Impaired Tennessee Prisoners Secure Injunction by Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. ch.126 § 12101 et seq., and the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., prisoners who are deaf or hard of hearing are entitled to reasonable accommodations so they can communicate and …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Fourth Circuit: Federal Prisoner in North Carolina Making Rehabilitation Act Claim Must Exhaust Both BOP Grievance Process and Justice Department’s EEO Complaint Process by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit raised the high bar a prisoner must …
Brief • April 14, 2022
Congress v. State of Vermont, VT, Settlement Agreement, Failure to Treat/Reasonable Accommodation, 2022 F C O O R N IN FI D CA EN M TI E AL RA ED C U D O PR EV IE W R F C O O R N IN FI D CA EN …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Federal Judge in Louisiana Issues Sweeping Opinion Finding Numerous Eighth Amendment, ADA and RA Violations at Angola by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Louisiana State Prison (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found “deliberately indifferent” to the Eighth Amendment rights of its nearly 6,400 prisoners to receive competent medical care, according …
Lewis Jr. v. Cain, LA, systemic ADA and RA violations, deaths, Angola, 2021 Case 3:15-cv-00318-SDD-RLB Document 594 03/31/21 Page 1 of 124 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA JOSEPH LEWIS, JR., ET AL. CIVIL DOCKET NO.: 3:15-CV-318 VERSUS JUDGE: SHELLY DICK BURL CAIN, ET AL. MAGISTRATE: RICHARD BOURGEOIS …
Armstrong v. Newsom, CA, order to modify remedial orders and injunctions, class action prisoner ADA and RA rights, 2021 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 3217 Filed 03/11/21 Page 1 of 71 1 2 3 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JOHN ARMSTRONG, …
Armstrong v. Newsom, CA, Order for Remedial Measures at LAC, COR, SATF, CIW and KVSP; 2021 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 3218 Filed 03/11/21 Page 1 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 United States District Court Northern District of California 7 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR …
$50,000 Settlement with Corizon in Failure to Treat Suit in Florida by Corizon Health agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it failed to provide a Florida prisoner with medication for his heart and blood pressure. He also alleged that he was not provided postoperative dental care or …
Bobbit v. Marzan, et al., NY, order, strip search, ADA, 2020 Case 1:16-cv-02042-AT-OTW Document 260 Filed 09/21/20 Page 1 of 34 Case 1:16-cv-02042-AT-OTW Document 260 Filed 09/21/20 Page 2 of 34 et seq., the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., and New York state tort law, …
Brief • September 2, 2020
Congress v. State of Vermont, VT, Complaint, Failure to Treat/Reasonable Accommodation, 2020 STATE OF VERMONT CIVIL DIVISION Docket No.: v. F C O O R N IN FI D CA EN M TI E AL RA STATE OF VERMONT, AGENCY OF HUMAN SERVICES and DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; BENJAMIN WATTS, in …
Richard v. Pfister, et al., IL, opinion and order, prisoner denied medical and other services, 2020 Case: 1:17-cv-04677 Document #: 141 Filed: 09/01/20 Page 1 of 17 PageID #:1931 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION WILLIAM H. RICHARD, Plaintiff, No. 17 C 4677 v. …
Third Circuit: Showers Part of Prison Operations for ADA and RA Purposes by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held on August 8, 2019 that the provision of showers “is a part of the programs, activities, or services” referred to by the Rehabilitation …
Brief • September 25, 2019
Updike v. Multnomah County, OR, Judgment, No ASL Services, 2019 Case 3:13-cv-01619-SI Document 203 Filed 09/25/19 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON DAVID UPDIKE, Plaintiff, Case No. 3:13-cv-1619-SI JUDGMENT v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY, et al., Defendants. Michael H. Simon, District Judge. Based …
Brief • September 25, 2019
Updike v. Multnomah County, OR, Jury Verdict, No ASL Services, 2019 Case 3:13-cv-01619-SI Document 202 Filed 09/25/19 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON DAVID UPDIKE, Case No . 3:13-cv-1619-SI Plaintiff, VERDICT V. MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Defendant. We, the Jury, being first duly …
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