Illinois federal prisoner Michael Knowles petitioned for a writ of mandamus against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in 1997 to enjoin their noncompliance with statutory parole provisions mandating his parole eligibility. Knowles agreed to dismiss the petition in exchange for being awarded $346.18.
Knowles was incarcerated at the Federal Prison ...
Colorado federal prisoner and Buddhist, Yu Kikumura, brought a Bivens and federal tort action against officials at the United States Penitentiary (USP) at Florence after being denied visits by non Buddhist ministers. The action was settled for $10,370 and the visits were allowed.
Kikumura was incarcerated at USP Florence in ...
Ohio ex prisoner Anthony Green settled his wrongful imprisonment action against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction for $552,500. He had been imprisoned for 13 years.
Green was found guilty by a Cuyahoga County jury for rape and aggravated robbery in 1988 but maintained his innocence. He was sentenced ...
Wisconsin federal prisoner Joseph Davis brought a combined 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 and federal tort action in 1997 after guards lost his property and legal documents, and assaulted him during a transfer to another prison. He claimed that he needed the legal documents for the time sensitive filing of a ...
Illinois federal prisoner Kerry Dixon brought a combined Bivens and federal tort action against the United States in 1994 after guards beat him without just cause at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas (USP Leavenworth) in 1993. The suit settled for $5,000 in 1997.
Dixon and his cell mate ...
Illinois federal prisoner Louis Sheptin brought a combined federal tort and Bivens action
against the United States in 2000 for the failure to treat and disclose to him that he was infected with Hepatitis "C." The $10 million suit settled for $11,000 in 2002.
Sheptin, housed at the Metropolitan Correctional ...
Tennessee resident Beverly Oliver brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996 after being rear ended by a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) truck driven by a prisoner. The $75,000 suit settled for $12,773.46.
Oliver was a passenger in a vehicle stopped at a Memphis intersection in 1995. ...
Missouri resident Wealtha Liggins brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996 after she fell at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Kentucky. The $500,000 suit settled for $20,000.
Liggins was a guest at the FMC in Lexington, Kentucky. She fell under undisclosed circumstances. After an administrative ...
West Virginia resident Lillian Poindexter brought a federal tort action in 1997 against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and federal agent Mari Higgins after being struck by Higgins' vehicle. The $139,000 suit settled for $40,000.
Poindexter was involved in an automobile accident in ...
Memphis (Tennessee) policeman Michael Cockerell and his wife Linda brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1999 after he fell during an obstacle course training exercise at a federal facility. The $1,500,000 suit settled for $50,000.
Cockerell was training at the Federal Correctional Center in Shelby County ...