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Ohio Jail Detainee Receives $500,000 Settlement for Assault by Guard

Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements

Ohio Jail Detainee Receives $500,000 Settlement for Assault by Guard by A prisoner who was slammed headfirst into a wall by a guard at Ohio’s Hamilton County Jail reached a $500,000 ...

Ohio Settles Suit Over Sexual Assault of Prisoner for $525,000

Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Settlements

to the complaint, Smith brought Reynolds cigarettes and eventually demanded, then forced, sexual contact in exchange for the smokes. Smith’s actions reportedly came to light when guards discovered a letter ...

Ohio: Federal Lawsuit Over Jail Beating Settles for $70,000

Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Settlements

into the Euclid City Jail by Corporal Madeline Chappell, a verbal exchange turned into a full-on assault. According to the complaint, which cited an after-action report by a county detective, Chappell ran around ...

Ohio: $275,000 Settlement in Jail Detainee’s Suicide

Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Settlements, Suicides

Ohio: $275,000 Settlement in Jail Detainee’s Suicide by A $275,000 settlement was reached in a lawsuit over the March 5, 2015 suicide of a pretrial detainee at Ohio’s Fairfield County ...

Ohio: $75,000 Settlement Reached after 60-Year-Old Woman Body Slammed by Jail Guard

Article • May 9, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements

Ohio: $75,000 Settlement Reached after 60-Year-Old Woman Body Slammed by Jail Guard by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A federal lawsuit filed by an elderly woman who suffered ...

Sweeney v. Lorain County, OH, Settlement, 2014

Brief • August 25, 2014

Filed under: Settlements, Defenses, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

Sweeney v. Lorain County, OH, Settlement, 2014 ...

$4 Million Settlement in R&B Singer’s Death from Drug Withdrawal in Ohio Jail for Failure to Pay Child Support

Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010

Filed under: Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

] withdrawal” according to the coroner’s verdict. The settlement in the lawsuit was reached on June 16, 2010. The plaintiff was represented by attorney Alphonse Gerhardstein. “My hope is that Cuyahoga County ...

Ohio County Jail Settles Sex Suit for $30,000

Article • May 15, 2010

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Civil Procedure, Settlements

to DeCosta’s complaint, Hastings would constantly harass and flirt with her. Hastings would bring DeCosta snacks, leave her love notes, conduct inappropriate “pat downs,” watch DeCosta shower and “kiss, touch ...

Ohio Pays $552,500 For 13 Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment

Article • February 15, 2009

Filed under: Damages, Settlements, Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction

for a structured settlement in order to pay Green $1,000 per month for a minimum of 25 years, paying installments to his estate if he died prior, and alternatively continuing the payments to him for the rest of his ...

Ohio DOC Stipulates To Vastly Improved Medical Care

Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006

Filed under: Transfers, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Dental Care, Medical Expenses, Hepatitis, Food, Staffing, Settlements, Standing, Consent Decrees

that the proactive reforms would pay for themselves in the long run because much of the emphasis will be placed on preventive measures. In a class action complaint, prisoners Rodney Fussell (S. Ohio Correctional ...

Youngstown Case Reveals New Legal Issues for Prisoner Advocates, State Correctional Agencies and Private Prison Companies

Article • March 15, 2000 • from PLN March, 2000

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, HIV/AIDS, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Records, Escapes, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Attorney Fee Awards, Injunctions (PLRA), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Civil Procedure, Damages, Settlements, Defenses, State Law Claims, Standing, Parties, Qualified Immunity, Contractor Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

a definitive ruling on these issues. A summary of the class action settlement and the related state legislation appears near the end of this article. These legal doctrines or issues are being pressed in a number ...

CCA Settles Youngstown Suit for $2.48 Million

Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Systemic Medical Neglect, Strip Searches, Body Cavity Searches, Failure to Protect (General), Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Damages, Settlements, Prisoner Property, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice

a oneyear period, and CCA was court-ordered to transfer hundreds of maximum- and closesecurity prisoners to other facilities.. As part of the settlement the company agreed to improve security ...

Lucasville Uprising: $4.1 Million Settlement

Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), Attorney Fee Awards, Damages, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Protect (Staff)

Lucasville Uprising: $4.1 Million Settlement by In January, 1997, a settlement was filed in federal court in the three-year-old class action based on injuries stemming from the 1993 Easter ...