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Kentucky Jail Settles Strip Search Suit for $11.5 Million

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

Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Damages, Settlements

million to thousands of people who were strip searched after being arrested for minor offenses. The lawsuit and settlement covers everyone arrested and strip searched at tire jail between April 24, 1990 ...

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 ...

CMS Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $75,000

Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999

Filed under: CMS, Cancer, Urinary, Damages, Settlements, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

the patient of CMS doctors." Readers should note this is an unpublished settlement. See: Murphy v. CMS, New Castle County Superior Court, DE. Case No. 95C-07-148SCD. ...

Jury Awards $2.3 Million for Slain San Quentin Prisoner, State Settles for $2.5 Milliion

Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Eighth Amendment, Excessive Force, Shootings, Damages, Settlements, Supervisory Liability, Death Row

to the settlement "to save the taxpayers the cost of an appeal." Had the state appealed interest would have been accruing on the jury verdict and the attorney fee bill for Adams' estate would have increased as well. ...

Utah Jail Censorship Suit Settled for $68,682

Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Damages, Settlements, Mail, Publications/Books, Sexually Explicit Materials, Mail Regulations

. Each plaintiff would receive $1 for each day they spent in the jail while the censorship policy was in effect. If any of the plaintiffs cannot be located within one year of the settlement in order ...

Corcoran Shooting Death Suit Settled for $825,000

Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Shootings, Damages, Settlements

and Videotape."] In settling the suit for $825,000, the CDC defendants did not admit any wrongdoing. The settlement does not affect the criminal proceedings against the eight guards involved in Tate's murder ...

Florida Nicotine Addiction Suit Settled

Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999

Filed under: Smoking, Settlements, Costs, Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab

, 1998, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) settled Waugh's suit after two days of trial. The settlement is significant for several reasons. Among them, the Florida DOC recognized nicotine ...

AHCC Bulk Mail Ban in Miniken Settled

Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999

Filed under: Settlements, Mail, Publications/Books, PLN Litigation

the original $4,339 in attorney fees and costs assessed by the court and an additional $1,339.84 in attorney fees and costs incurred since the initial judgement was issued. The settlement does not preclude ...

Rikers Island Brutality Suit Settled

Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements, Supervisory Liability

settles the class action, Sheppard vs. Phoenix, USDC, case no. 91-civ-4148 (RPP) which was brought by attorneys from the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project in 1993. The settlement was approved ...

Settlement in Washington State Deaf Prisoners' Lawsuit

Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Damages, Settlements, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Interpreters, Telephones, Telephone Access

Settlement in Washington State Deaf Prisoners' Lawsuit by Jeff Crollard Aclass action lawsuit was settled on behalf of deaf and hearing-impaired prisoners in Washington State on September 3 ...

Catalyst, PLN, Piper v. Box Elder Co., et al., UT, Settlement, censorship, 1998

Brief • December 11, 1998

Filed under: Settlements, PLN Litigation, Censorship

Catalyst, PLN, Piper v. Box Elder Co., et al., UT, Settlement, censorship, 1998 ...

Maryland Indigent Court Cost Suit Settled

Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Damages, Settlements, Injunctions, Costs, Seizure of Prisoner Funds

Maryland Indigent Court Cost Suit Settled by On July 1, 1997, U.S. district court judge Marvin Garbis approved the settlement of a class action suit involving the collection of previously ...

Georgia Brutality Suit Settled for $283,500

Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998

Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliation against Staff, Prison/Common Area Searches, Attorney Fee Awards, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements, Injunctions

and their attorneys to receive $283,500. After approving the settlement judge Murphy was quoted as saying, "The settlement is fair, responsible and in the public interest." The settlement ends a lawsuit accusing ...

Utah Porn Ban Rescinded; Suit Settled

Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998

Filed under: Settlements, Mail, Sexually Explicit Materials, Mail Regulations

materials that contained "sexually explicit materials." The policy also prohibited prisoners from receiving or possessing any written or printed materials that contained depictions of nudity or partial nudity ...

Strip Searched Massachusetts Women Settle Suit for $80,000

Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998

Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Searches, Cell Searches, Strip Searches, Prison/Common Area Searches, Drug Testing, Damages, Settlements, Prisoner Property

award of $1,665; the remaining 96 prisoners would receive $555. The settlement leaves the distribution of the damage award to the plaintiffs but specified that no single plaintiff could receive more than ...

Probable Cause Required for Visitor Body Cavity Search

Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998

Filed under: Strip Searches, Visitor Searches, Body Cavity Searches, Attorney Fee Awards, Damages, Settlements, Qualified Immunity, Juveniles

Probable Cause Required for Visitor Body Cavity Search by A federal district court in Utah held that prison officials must have probable cause and a valid search warrant before subjecting a prison visitor to a body cavity search. Stana Laughter is married to a Utah state prisoner. Laughter visited her …

WI Guard Settles Discrimination Suit for $105,000

Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Settlements, Guards/Staff, Employee Litigation

WI Guard Settles Discrimination Suit for $105,000 by Ablack prison guard who filed a discrimination suit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections agreed to a $105,000 settlement ...

Pelican Bay $600,000 Wrongful Death Settlement

Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998

Filed under: Excessive Force, Shootings, Damages, Settlements

Pelican Bay $600,000 Wrongful Death Settlement by California taxpayers coughed up another $600,000 to settle a use-of-force lawsuit at Pelican Bay State Prison. The biggest chunk ...

New York Prisoner Settles Excessive Force Case for $25,000

Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements

New York Prisoner Settles Excessive Force Case for $25,000 by Michael Slater, a New York State prisoner, will receive $18,000 in settlement of an excessive force civil rights claim against ...

Montana Paying for 1991 Prison Uprising

Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Conditions of Confinement, Strip Cells, Restraints, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

. It was the second settlement among 13 state court cases filed against prison officials. In January 1995, the state agreed to pay $150,000 to the mother of another of the five prisoners killed during the disturbance ...