by Kevin Bliss
At a June 23, 2020, forum with the three candidates for sheriff in Garfield County, Oklahoma, questions arose about a $12.5 million 2019 settlement of a wrongful death suit filed by the family of former detainee Anthony Huff, who died at the county jail in Enid in ...
by David M. Reutter
On January 29, 2020, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) agreed to pay $80 million to resolve a class action lawsuit filed by juveniles who were housed in adult facilities where they were allegedly subjected to sexual assault and other harms.
The action consolidated in state ...
by David M. Reutter
A $550,000 settlement was reached in a civil rights lawsuit alleging 19-year-old Jimmy Lucero laid in a catatonic state at Augusta State Medical Prison (ASMP) as he starved to death with little to no medical care in 2015.
Lucero entered the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) ...
by Mark Wilson
On November 8, 2019, three New York detectives agreed to pay $50,000 to settle false arrest claims brought by an informant they charged with conspiring to kill an Assistant District Attorney (ADA), the settlement agreement and court records show.
In March 2014, Russell D. Towner was a ...
by David M. Reutter
New York’s Suffolk County Legislature agreed on September 26, 2019 to pay $2.8 million to settle a lawsuit concerning the events surrounding the suicide six years earlier of pretrial detainee Jack Franqui.
The morning of January 23, 2013, started innocently for Franqui. He called friend Simon ...
by Douglas Ankney
On December 10, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Eastern Division, modified and approved a $1.25 million settlement of a lawsuit against Madison County, Tennessee that alleged Sheriff John Mehr violated the Federal Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et ...
by Derek Gilna
Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, D.C. and the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), parent organization of Prison Legal News (PLN), have won a federal civil rights judgment against the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in the United States District Court in Abingdon, Virginia.
PLN ...
by David M. Reutter
On January 16, 2020, a New York federal magistrate judge awarded $273,246.88 to a Sing Sing Correctional Facility prisoner who alleged a guard brutally beat him and lied about the incident.
The civil rights action was brought on May 3, 2017, by prisoner Morgan Greenburger. His ...
by Matt Clarke
On October 10, 2019, a former Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) prison guard, who is Hispanic and openly gay, settled a lawsuit over her discriminatory treatment at a DOC prison for $135,000.
Twelve months after starting work at the DOC in January 2016, Ashley Menchaca transferred to ...
by Anthony W. Accurso
New York City agreed to pay victims $12.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit on October 18, 2019, brought by visitors to New York City jails at the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Riker’s Island facilities. The case was heard by the United States District Court for the ...