On March 1, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Ohio granted dismissal of a suit brought by a former Cincinnati jail detainee after she accepted a $40,000 settlement from the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners for an assault by jail guards four year earlier.
The day ...
On July 25, 2022, a settlement was reached between Corizon Health, Inc. and an Arizona prisoner to whom it allegedly denied eye care, resulting in partial vision loss. Under the agreement, the firm owes $100,000 to Kevin Campbell, inclusive of legal costs and fees.
One of the nation’s largest for-profit ...
On December 7, 2022, North Carolina prisoner Vinson Shane Hill prevailed in a negligence tort claim he filed with the state Industrial Commission (NCIC) over an injury he suffered while incarcerated at Scotland Correctional Institution in July 2019.
Hill, who has difficulty walking due to a prior auto accident, was ...
by Douglas Ankney
On April 19, 2023, the Supreme Court of Ohio awarded prisoner Franklin Woods $700 in statutory damages against the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) for failure to comply with a public-records request.
On August 1, 2022, while Woods was incarcerated at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, he sent ...
On August 25, 2022, a California prisoner told the federal court for the Eastern District of California that he had reached an agreement with the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to settle a suit he filed over denial of back surgery that he claimed left him in “excruciating ...
by David M. Reutter
The families of two women and five men who committed suicide while held in pretrial detention between July 2014 and November 2018 at New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) have received a total of $2,372,500 to settle their claims against the County and its profiteering medical ...
by Benjamin Tschirhart
When you’re arrested in St. Louis, it doesn’t much matter whether you end up in the city’s jail or the lockup in adjacent St. Louis County; both are mired in controversy. But in a letter defending city Jail Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones (D) took ...
December 31, 2023, will be the last day to file for reparations under California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program (FISCP). State lawmakers created it in 2021 to offer compensation to thousands of victims who were sterilized without their consent in the Golden State starting at the beginning of the ...
by David M. Reutter
On September 8, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved a settlement under which St. Louis County agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve claims that a state prisoner detained in the county jail died due to denied medical care.
From his ...
by David M. Reutter
On November 21, 2021, a federal lawsuit filed by an Illinois prisoner against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) was dismissed, after the state agreed to pay $3,500 to settle his claims that staff’s persistent refusal to provide proper medical care for an arm ...