by John E. Dannenberg
The County of San Bernardino, California has agreed to settle a federal class action lawsuit filed against its Sheriff’s Department in 2005 for $25.5 million – one of the largest such payouts on record.
On September 26, 2007 the County preliminarily agreed to pay for damages ...
$2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner's 2004 Beating Death Revealed
by Alex Friedmann
PLN has previously reported on the death of Estelle Richardson, a mentally ill prisoner who died at the CCA-operated Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility in Nashville, Tennessee on July 5, 2004.
Richardson was found unresponsive in a ...
On February 22, 2007, a lawsuit against employees of the Monroe County Jail in Wisconsin settled for between $6,100,000 and $13,100,000. The suit alleged deliberate indifference in a suicide attempt that left a prisoner permanently disabled
In 2002, Brenda Mombourquette was on probation for possessing the narcotic painkiller Oxycontin without ...
In 2002, the state of Connecticut paid $1.1 million and in 2003 the state of Virginia paid $350,000 to the family of Connecticut state prisoner Larry Frazier who died a torturous death in a supermax prison.
To ease Connecticut overcrowding, Frazier, serving a 30 to 60-year sentence for rape, was ...
Loaded on
July 15, 2007
published in Verdict1
July, 2007, page 12
The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has settled a class action disability discrimination suit over accessibility inside its state prisons for prisoners with impairments in mobility, hearing, sight and for diabetics. Over $3 million will be spent on accessibility renovations and $252,300 in awards, fees and costs. Individual claims from ...
A U.S. District Court for New Jersey held that a group of New Jersey state
prisoners, who were seeking injunctive relief from the state's Parole Board
for its consistent failure to conduct timely parole hearings, warranted
certification as a class action for the purpose of settlement. Once that
issue was ...
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Arizona federal
district court for refusing to allow a federal prisoner to file an amended
complaint.
Michael Satz, a prisoner in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was
held in a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) prison. He ...
Plaintiffs Awarded Attorney Fees For Criminal Defense In § 1983 Action
The United States District Court for the Central District of California, in
ruling on a novel issue in the Ninth Circuit, held that a plaintiff in a §
1983 action was entitled to attorney fees for his criminal defense. ...
In June 2002, the City of Homewood, Alabama, paid a total of $90,000 to
settle with two unidentified women who claimed they were forced to provide
sexual favors to guards while imprisoned at the city jail.
The plaintiffs, Jane Doe, 32, and Janet Doe, 22, alleged that while
incarcerated at ...
On January 22, 2001, the Correctional Services of Canada agreed to pay an
unidentified female rape victim $215,000 (Canadian) hours before her civil
suit for damages was scheduled to begin. In 1998 the victim was attacked by
James Armbruster, described in media accounts as a career criminal with
more than ...