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California’s Attorney General Is Suing Los Angeles County Jails Over “Inhumane Conditions”
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Totality of Conditions, Food, Overcrowding, Exposure to Cold, Plumbing, Sewage, Sanitation, Hygiene Supplies, Vermin, Exposure to Heat, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Complaints, Consent Decrees, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
California’s Attorney General Is Suing Los Angeles County Jails Over “Inhumane Conditions” by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In a remarkable 78-page complaint stemming from a four ...
GTL, Co-Defendant Agree to $21.3 Million Settlement with HRDC in Price-Fixing Lawsuit
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Settlements, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, HRDC Litigation, Global Tel*Link Corp
settlements during separate fairness hearings in October 2024, when it also granted class certification, finding the complaint met the requirements of Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(a), (b) and (e)(2). The class consists ...
HRDC v. Baxter County, AR, Censorship, Appeal, 2025
Brief • February 24, 2025
Filed under: Settlements, Appeals, Censorship, HRDC Litigation
States Constitution. The district court awarded partial summary judgment to HRDC on the due process claim related to some mailings, finding a technical violation of HRDC’s right to notice of the reason its ...
Historic $7 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Beating
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
Historic $7 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 20, 2024, the Wayne County Commission in Detroit approved a $5 ...
Philadelphia Agrees to $9.1 Million Settlement for Wrongful Murder Conviction
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Murder/Felony Murder
on death row. The settlement ends the saga for Ogrod, but the underlying murder remains unsolved. The naked, wet body of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn was found on July 12, 1988, partially covered ...
USDC (D. Oregon), Case No. 6:22-cv-00451
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Prison Gangs, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
USDC (D. Oregon), Case No. 6:22-cv-00451 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 5, 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a notice of settlement in court indicating ...
$220,000 Settlement After Woman Dies in Ohio Jail From Drug Withdrawal
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
$220,000 Settlement After Woman Dies in Ohio Jail From Drug Withdrawal by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso With signing of a settlement agreement on September 11, 2024, Ohio’s ...
New Mexico Corrections Department Continues Pattern of Abuse With Contract Medical Provider Wexford Health Sources
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect, Malpractice, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
employees are identified by name in the complaint, and the settlement agreement did not resolve Johnson’s claims against NMCD, Geo Group or Sgt.Thomas. Johnson was represented by Albuquerque attorney ...
$9.9 Million Paid to Washington Prisoner Whose Misdiagnosed Cancer Is Now Terminal
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Malpractice, Settlements
and her family $9.9 million for failing to diagnose and treat her uterine cancer, leaving the disease to spread and become terminal. Unfortunately, while the settlement amount is unique, the agency’s ...
Oregon Pays $50,000 to Settle Retaliation Suit by PLN Contributor, Who Wins Release
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Retaliation for Litigating, Retaliation for Media Contact, Settlements
matters involving prisons and prisoners, and assist[ed] other [prisoners] with their cases,” according to the retaliation complaint that he filed. “Since February 2012, Wilson ha[d] worked ...
Philadelphia Held in Contempt of Jail Conditions Settlement, Ordered to Pay $25 Million
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Settlements, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Policy Considerations, Fines
Philadelphia Held in Contempt of Jail Conditions Settlement, Ordered to Pay $25 Million by On July 12, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held ...
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Private Contractors, Settlements, Suicides
States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a civil rights suit brought by the survivors of Carlos Chavez, whose suicide ...
“Third Time Is Not the Charm” For Texas Jailers Barred by PLRA from Enforcing Prior Settlement Agreement Against Prisoner in New Suit
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Jail Specific, PLRA, Settlements, Attorney Calls, Civil Settlement - Effect of, Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), Wiretaps/Wiretap Evidence
“Third Time Is Not the Charm” For Texas Jailers Barred by PLRA from Enforcing Prior Settlement Agreement Against Prisoner in New Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 12, 2024 ...
Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Attorney Misconduct, Settlements, Suicides
Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts by Families who lost loved ones to suicide in New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) were still ...
$20,000 Paid to Florida Prisoner After Eleventh Circuit Finds PLRA Inapplicable to Claims DOC Removed to Federal Court
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA)
;s order granting summary judgment to two other guards, with instructions to allow the prisoner to amend his complaint. That got the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to the settlement table, where ...
$100,000 Settlement Reached With Corizon Health for Failure to Provide Arizona Prisoner Eye Care
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Eyeglasses, Settlements
$100,000 Settlement Reached With Corizon Health for Failure to Provide Arizona Prisoner Eye Care by On July 25, 2022, a settlement was reached between Corizon Health, Inc. and an Arizona ...
Indiana Settles Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim for $4,500
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Retaliation for Litigating, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Settlements
Indiana Settles Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim for $4,500 by On September 12, 2022, the state of Indiana reached a $4,500 settlement to resolve a state prisoner’s claim that guards ...
$40,000 Paid to Ohio Detainee Kicked in the Face While Restrained
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Settlements
Cincinnati jail detainee after she accepted a $40,000 settlement from the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners for an assault by jail guards four year earlier. The day after Courtney Walters ...
Almost $2.4 Million in Settlements For Seven Suicides at New Jersey Jail
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
care for transient populations held in jails. For prison profiteers, lawsuits are just part of the business model, as they calculate settlements or verdicts are more cost effective than providing ...
North Carolina Prisoner Recovers $500 for Injuries in Shower Slip and Fall
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
North Carolina Prisoner Recovers $500 for Injuries in Shower Slip and Fall by On December 7, 2022, North Carolina prisoner Vinson Shane Hill prevailed in a negligence tort claim he filed with the state Industrial Commission (NCIC) over an injury he suffered while incarcerated at Scotland Correctional Institution in July …
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