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$250,000 Paid to Woman Forced to Give Birth in California Jail Cell by Guards and CFMG Nurses
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, OB/GYN, Settlements, Fourteenth Amendment, rights
a diagnosed urinary tract infection that could cause pre-term labor if left untreated. Two days later, her delivery contractions began. However, her complaints were waved away as exaggerations by nurses ...
$7,000 Default Judgment Awarded in Failure to Protect Suit Against Former Arkansas Jail Guard
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Staffing, Settlements
$4,038.75 in medical bills relating to his emergency room visit. “On November 17, 2020, the United States Marshal…served Ms. Hawkins with a summons and a copy of the complaint,” the Court ...
$45,000 Paid by Idaho Jail to Settle Censorship Suit Filed by HRDC
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Censorship, HRDC Litigation
Amendments. According to the complaint, CCJ had censored at least 21 items of mail sent by HRDC to prisoners and detainees since November 2021, including nine issues each of PLN and CLN, plus three ...
$6,500 Settlement After Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Florida Jail Officials Who Repeatedly Opened Detainee’s Legal Mail
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Legal Mail, Immunity - Absolute and Qualified
$6,500 Settlement After Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Florida Jail Officials Who Repeatedly Opened Detainee’s Legal Mail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter ...
$100,000 Paid by Pennsylvania DOC to Family of Pro Se Prisoner Litigant Who Committed Suicide
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides
was turned over to DOC, Snider suffered abuse and neglect at Clinton County Correctional Facility, for which he sued and accepted a $30,000 settlement in November 2018. [See: PLN, Aug. 2019, p.38.] After he ...
$325,000 to Detainee Assaulted at East Texas Jail, 90 Days to Former Deputy Who Beat Him While Restrained in Wheelchair
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Settlements
sheriff’s deputy in Harrison County, Texas, was sentenced for savagely beating a restrained detainee at the county jail, an assault which had already cost the County a $325,000 settlement the year ...
$1.65 Million Settlement Reached in Connecticut Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Lupus
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
$1.65 Million Settlement Reached in Connecticut Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Lupus by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 7, 2021, the Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC ...
$170,000 in Attorney’s Fees, Solitary Confinement Reforms Achieved in Settlement of Maine Prisoner’s Lawsuits
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Settlements, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
$170,000 in Attorney’s Fees, Solitary Confinement Reforms Achieved in Settlement of Maine Prisoner’s Lawsuits by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2021, the Maine Department ...
$199,000 Awarded to California Detainee Assaulted by Santa Clara County Jail Guard
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
. See: Steward v. Cty. of Santa Clara, USDC (S.D.Ca.), Case No. 3:17-cv-01154. Finally, on January 10, 2022, the Court partially granted Steward’s motion for attorney’s fees, since he did ...
$781 Settlement Paid to Oregon Prisoner Over Censorship of ‘Sexually Explicit’ Text Message
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Sexually Explicit Materials, Censorship
$781 Settlement Paid to Oregon Prisoner Over Censorship of ‘Sexually Explicit’ Text Message by On July 21, 2021, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a suit filed by a state ...
$170,000 Damages and Fees As New Jersey Prisons Settle Transgender Lawsuit With New Policy
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Failure to Protect (Transgender)
” how they treat complaints, allegedly beating her before charging her with assaulting them, leading to a disciplinary sentence of 271 days solitary confinement. Doe filed suit in Superior Court ...
$325,000 Paid by Colorado County to Jail Detainee Brutalized by Guards Equipped with Controversial Training
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
suit against Weld County after agreeing to accept a $325,000 settlement for injuries allegedly inflicted on him by guards at the county jail, where he was held as a pre-trial detainee. The settlement ...
$500,000 Default Judgment for Tennessee Woman Sexually Assaulted by Probation Officer
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Default Judgments, Assaults on Staff, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release
by asking personal questions and seeking pictures, including sexually explicit pictures. In the complaint she filed, McPeters alleged that Thomas demanded a visit at her home and that he arrived wearing his ...
Settlement Reached to Protect Hawaii Prisoners from COVID-19
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19, Settlements, Injunctions/Injunctive Relief
Settlement Reached to Protect Hawaii Prisoners from COVID-19 by David Reutter Just in Time for the ‘Omicron Winter’ by David M. Reutter On November 10, 2021, one day before first ...
Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Alleging Inadequate COVID-19 Response at Maryland Jail
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat, COVID-19, Settlements
Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Alleging Inadequate COVID-19 Response at Maryland Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Under a settlement agreement reached on August 23, 2021, officials ...
$21,525 Awarded by Federal Court to Indiana Prisoner Subjected to Battery by Guard
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
on May 30, 2021, after granting partial summary judgment in a civil rights action he filed alleging battery by a guard at the state’s Pendleton Correctional Facility. The lawsuit was filed pro se ...
$1 Million Paid by Santa Clara County to Estate of Alzheimer’s Patient Killed When He Wandered onto Interstate Highway after Release from County Jail
Article • February 19, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Accidents, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
million settlement was signed on April 14, 2018, by attorneys for Santa Clara County, California, to settle a wrongful death claim made by the surviving heir of an Alzheimer’s patient who was killed ...
$1,250,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Family of Man Who Died after Being Denied Oxygen at County Jail
Article • February 19, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
$1,250,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Family of Man Who Died after Being Denied Oxygen at County Jail by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman   On April 20, 2018, a settlement was entered ...
$11,333.33 Paid by Santa Clara County to Teenage Girl Allegedly Beaten by Guards at County Juvenile Hall
Article • February 19, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders
. District Court for the Northern District of California, after which the county and plaintiff subsequently reached their settlement agreement. That agreement does not affect Owens’ claims against ...
$12,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Disabled Prisoner Who Suffered Seizure and Fell from Top Bunk, Permanently Injuring His Wrist
Article • February 19, 2022
Filed under: Seizures, Systemic Medical Neglect, Settlements
$12,000 Paid by Santa Clara County to Disabled Prisoner Who Suffered Seizure and Fell from Top Bunk, Permanently Injuring His Wrist by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman A settlement was fully ...
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