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California DOC Settles Racially Determinative Housing Suit
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Filed under: Classification, Racial Discrimination, Settlements
)), the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) entered into a settlement agreement with plaintiff prisoner Garrison Johnson wherein CDCR agreed to end using race as the sole determinative ...
Los Angeles County Pays $900,000 to Parents of Murdered Informant in Jail
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Failure to Protect (General), Settlements, Municipal Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Protective Custody, Informants (Failure to Protect)
Los Angeles County Pays $900,000 to Parents of Murdered Informant in Jail by The County of Los Angeles (L.A.) agreed to pay $700,000 to the mother, and $200,000 to the father, of a 20 year old county jail prisoner murdered in his cell by a free-roaming prisoner against whom he …
Michigan Jail's Disproportionate Treatment of Women Results in $855,000 Settlement Agreement
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Filed under: Work Release, Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Prison Labor, Strip Searches, Clothing, Hygiene Supplies, Damages, Settlements
Michigan Jail's Disproportionate Treatment of Women Results in $855,000 Settlement Agreement by A Michigan federal district court has approved a settlement awarding $855,000 in a class ...
New York City Jail Strip Search Suit Settles For $30 Million
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Filed under: Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Attorneys, Attorney Fee Awards, Damages, Settlements, Municipal Liability
, 1999 through July 22, 2002. The settlement, two years in the making under a Magistrate's purview, also provides $1,000 for those searched more than once, $25,000 for the named plaintiffs and $500,000 ...
York County, Maine, Settles Class Action Strip-Search Suit for $3,300,000
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Damages, Settlements
to settle for $3,300,000 and the county's promise to institute and maintain a new privacy policy for pre-arraignment detainees. Under the settlement agreement, each of the approximately 7,000 persons ...
Bynum v. District of Columbia, DA, Order, Settlement, 2006
Brief • January 25, 2006
Filed under: Settlements
of this complaint (hereafter “reversion fund”). The standards and allocations for the reversion fund are addressed further in ¶ 32, infra. 17. The parties agreed that $5 million dollars of the settlement amount ...
New York Employees Families Settle Attica Riot Claims for $12 Million
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Failure to Protect (General), Settlements, State Law Claims, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Guards/Staff, Assaults on Staff
New York Employees Families Settle Attica Riot Claims for $12 Million by The State of New York has reached a $12 million settlement with the Forgotten Victims of Attica, a group of surviving ...
Illinois Jail Conditions Suit Nets $150,000 Attorney Fee Award
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Filed under: Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, PLRA, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Settlements
reached a settlement agreement, which requires Winnebago County to build a new main jail that will house between 900 and 1,200 prisoners. While that jail is being built, WCJ is to implement interim ...
$99,981 In Fees Awarded For Successful Massachusetts Court Access Suit
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Filed under: Attorney Fees (PLRA), Court Access, Damages, Settlements
. The commercial law firm of Palmer & Dodge volunteered and accepted the case pro bono. The firm immediately filed an amended complaint adding a claim to enforce a previous settlement agreement which covered ...
California Prison Employee Paid $500,000 To Settle Whistleblower Retaliation Suit
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Filed under: Government Misconduct, Retaliation, Retaliation against Staff, Whistleblowing, Damages, Settlements
by his supervisors on his plan to cut down on overtime and sick leave cost abuses he observed, took his complaint to the state Bureau of Audits. In January, 2000, the audit bureau reported that CDC’s ...
Washington DOC Settles Contempt Action For $500,000; Money To Fund Patient Advocate
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Costs, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Sanctions
will be used to pay attorneys' fees and costs, while the rest will be used to hire an independent Patient Advocate to help prisoners address complaints about health care services at the prison. In September ...
Suit Over Rape of Prisoner By TDCJ Employee Settled for $118,318.56 and Beach Property
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Damages, Settlements
. One of them told Essary that he had received several complaints from other prisoners regarding Chaney’s sexually predatory behavior. Barrett was summoned. Essary told Barrett of the threats and sexual ...
Colorado Teenagers Raped By Guards Settle For $165,000 Each
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Threats by Staff, DOC/BOP misconduct, Retaliation for Litigating, Whistleblowing, Criminal Prosecution, Conspiracy, Settlements, Supervisory Liability, Failure to Train/Supervise, Hiring Liability, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons
Colorado Teenagers Raped By Guards Settle For $165,000 Each by Michael Rigby In August 2004, two teenage girls raped by guards at a Colorado juvenile prison settled their lawsuits for $165,000 apiece. Both girls had been imprisoned at the Youthful Offender System (YOS), which is operated by the Colorado Department …
$12,003.74 in Fees/Costs Awarded in Excessive Force Use; PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable to Stipulated Set
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Filed under: PLRA, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Injunctions (PLRA), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Costs
in settlement of the appeal, they dismissed the finding of liability that they had won for their client. The result is that their initial achievement is diminished. On a $4 million complaint for relief ...
Michigan's Restrictive Placement Of HIV+ Prisoners Enjoined; $2 Million Damages Awarded
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Damages, Settlements, Injunctions, State Law Claims, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act
this litigation, the prisoner class was finally permitted to file their amended complaint, with causes of action under the ADA and RA, as well as MCL 37.1101; they then moved for partial summary judgment. Senior ...
$40,000 To Settle Excessive Force Claim At Los Angeles County Jail
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Medical, Seizures, Brain Injury, Attorney Fee Awards, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements, State Law Claims, Municipal Liability
attributed to his former jail head injuries. A June 10, 2004 civil rights suit trial date in Superior Court was stayed pending possible settlement. County counsel estimated to the Board an exposure of $225,000 ...
New York Jail Settles Strip-Search Suit For $2.7 Million
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Settlements
situated, against the sheriff and other jail and county officials. Before the case went to trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, the parties reached a settlement ...
Oregon HCV Class Action Settled; Limitations Period for Individual Damages Actions Tolled
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Filed under: Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Hepatitis, Damages, Settlements, Class Certification, Limitations
by entry of a comprehensive settlement. The Action As previously reported, in 2001, Oregon prisoners brought suit in federal court, alleging ODOC had written "and de facto , `as applied' policies ...
Alabama Settles Class Action Medical Suit; Institutes HCV Treatment Protocol
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Filed under: HIV/AIDS, Systemic Medical Neglect, Respiratory, Tuberculosis, Diabetes, Hepatitis, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Expert Witnesses, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
. Dannenberg In a major milestone along the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) march towards gaining humane medical care in Alabama's prisons, a Settlement Agreement was signed in June, 2004 that commits ...
$15 Million Class Settlement In Sacramento Jail Strip-Search Suits
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Attorney Fee Awards, Damages, Settlements, Municipal Liability
$15 Million Class Settlement In Sacramento Jail Strip-Search Suits by The Sacramento California Sheriff's Department agreed to a record $15 million settlement on June 4, 2004 to resolve ...
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