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Indiana Settles Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim for $4,500

Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023

Filed under: Retaliation for Litigating, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Settlements

Indiana Settles Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim for $4,500 by On September 12, 2022, the state of Indiana reached a $4,500 settlement to resolve a state prisoner’s claim that guards ...

$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 ...

Indiana DOC Settles HRDC Mail Censorship Suit

Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021

Filed under: Settlements, PLN Litigation, Censorship

to pay HRDC a total of $265,000 in damages and attorney’s fees. HRDC’s complaint was filed in November 2020 after what it termed “haphazard” censorship of its publications at INDOC ...

Indiana Prisoner’s Suit Alleging Illegal Solitary Confinement Settled for $425,000

Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020

Filed under: Settlements, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Convention Against Torture

Indiana Prisoner’s Suit Alleging Illegal Solitary Confinement Settled for $425,000 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Taxpayers of the state of Indiana will pay $425,000 to prisoner Jay Vermillion as the result of an agreement reached on October 21, 2019, between him and employees of the Indiana Department of Correction …

Indiana Prisoner Obtains $85,000 Settlement After Being Beaten and Tased

Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Settlements

Indiana Prisoner Obtains $85,000 Settlement After Being Beaten and Tased by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Brandon Garwood was incarcerated at a jail in Cass County, Indiana in October 2015. He ...

Lake County, Indiana Establishes $8.2 Million Bond to Settle Jail Lawsuits

Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Settlements, Wrongful Death, Suicides

settlement reached in 2010 over medical care and conditions of confinement. On November 17, 2017, the Chicago Tribune reported the county had settled the Smith case for $2,750,000; the Odumabo case ...

Indiana County Pays $28,000 to Settle Prisoner’s Excessive Force Suit

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

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Settlements

in the jail’s shower area where there are no cameras. When Kulbacki asked to be seen by medical staff, he was told “the nurse was too busy to see him,” his complaint stated. After he ...

Garwood v. Cass County, IN, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2018

Brief • May 10, 2018

Filed under: Pain, Failure to Treat, Strip Searches, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Settlements, Mental Health, Fourth Amendment, rights, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

Garwood v. Cass County, IN, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2018 ...

Riker v. Lemmon, IN, Settlement Agreement, Marriage Ceremony, 2016

Brief • April 20, 2016

Filed under: Settlements, Marriage

Riker v. Lemmon, IN, Settlement Agreement, Marriage Ceremony, 2016 ...

Benkahla v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, IN, Proposed Amended Complaint, Wrongful CMU Confinement, 2009

Brief • June 18, 2009

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Complaints, Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment

Benkahla v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, IN, Proposed Amended Complaint, Wrongful CMU Confinement, 2009 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA TERRE HAUTE DIVISION ) ) ) Plaintiff ...

IN Jail Settles Victim Suit for $650,000

Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Settlements

IN Jail Settles Victim Suit for $650,000 by On September 10, 1999, the Howard County jail in Indiana settled a lawsuit by crime victims for $650,000. A mother, 44, and her 9 year old daughter were physically and sexually assaulted by a prisoner who escaped from the jail by using …

Attorney Fees Awarded in MCC Suit

Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995

Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Fee Awards, Settlements, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

to this citation. After settlement the prisoners' attorneys moved for attorney fees which the Indiana DOC contested. The Indiana Attorney General's office sought eight extensions of time to respond ...