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South Dakota Eliminates Law Libraries

Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Public Defenders, Court Access, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Settlements

them with limited assistance from a legal contractor. Under the terms of the settlement, South Dakota's four main prisons will maintain a collection of about forty books related to law (i.e ...

$100,000 Settlement in South Carolina Jail Death

Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999

Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Cardiovascular, Staffing, Damages, Settlements, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

$100,000 Settlement in South Carolina Jail Death by On May 12, 1999, Spartanburg county in South Carolina announced it would pay $100,000 to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the estate ...

$90,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Suicide

Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999

Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

$90,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Suicide by On May 28, 1999, Salt Lake county, Utah, paid $90,000 to the family of a detainee who committed suicide in the county jail. Henry Delgado ...

Utah Jail Settles ADA Suit

Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999

Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Conditions of Confinement, Showers, Settlements, Americans with Disabilities Act, Premises Liability

Utah Jail Settles ADA Suit by On May 6, 1999, Salt Lake County, Utah, settled a lawsuit by paying $2,000 in damages, $4,000 in attorney fees and agreeing to modify its jail for the handicapped. Robert Earls, a former jail detainee, is missing a leg and must use a prosthesis. …

Texas Settles with Hanged Prisoner's Family

Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Damages, Settlements, Supervisory Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides, Protective Custody

Texas Settles with Hanged Prisoner's Family by The state of Texas agreed in June 1999 to pay $215,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of Rodney Hulin, a 17-year-old Texas state prisoner who was found hanging in his cell in 1996. About 30 days after arriving at the …

Ex-Prisoner Gets $850,000 for Broken Neck

Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999

Filed under: Medical, Pain, Skeletal Injury, Settlements

. The state admitted no wrongdoing, but agreed to pay $850,000 to settle with Dodson, who remains partially paralyzed. Corrections Department director Cal Terhune confirmed the April, 1999, settlement without ...

Missouri Proposes $2.2 Million Settlement

Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Capital Correctional Resources Inc, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Dogs, Damages, Settlements, Seizure of Prisoner Funds

Missouri Proposes $2.2 Million Settlement by On June 25, 1999, the state of Missouri filed a proposed $2.2 million settlement in U.S. District Court that would dispose of 32 lawsuits filed ...

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 ...

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

Brief • November 6, 1998

Filed under: Complaints, PLN Litigation, Censorship

Catalyst, PLN, Piper v. Box Elder Co., et al., UT, Complaint, 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 ...