Loaded on
Aug. 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
August, 2000, page 6
by Matthew T. Clarke
A federal district court in California has approved a sweeping settlement of hearing impaired prisoners' claims in a civil rights, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Rehabilitation Act (RA) class-action suit against the Santa Clara County (California) Department of Corrections (DOC). In doing so, the court ...
Loaded on
Aug. 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
August, 2000, page 7
In February, 1999, the federal Bu reau of Prisons settled a medical neglect suit for $700,000. David Deen, a BOP prisoner, was 30 years old and confined at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for five months. He was prescribed nitroglycerin for chest pains and anti depressants by BOP medical ...
Loaded on
Aug. 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
August, 2000, page 15
In the May, 1999, issue of PLN we reported the widespread racism among white prison employees in the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the resulting hostile work environment it created for minority employees as well as prisoners.
In July, 1998, black Clallam Bay Corrections Center guards Doris Washington, Charles ...
Loaded on
Aug. 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
August, 2000, page 16
On October 16, 1999, an unidentified former woman prisoner settled a lawsuit for $115,000. The woman claimed that in 1995 while she was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center in Broad River, South Carolina, prison guard Anthony Green raped her and South Carolina prison officials then denied her rape crisis ...
Loaded on
Aug. 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
August, 2000, page 17
On March 29, 2000, the Klamath County Jail in Medford, Oregon, paid $1.75 million to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a former jail detainee. In 1997 Dana Lecomte was in the Klamath county jail on charges of driving with a suspended license. Jail guards claim Leconte was "out ...
Loaded on
Aug. 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
August, 2000, page 20
In August, 1999, the Maricopa County board of supervisors, approved an $800,000 settlement for a pretrial detainee subjected to excessive force in the Maricopa County (Phoenix) Jail in Arizona. Richard Post, a wheelchair bound paraplegic was arrested and taken to the county jail.
Post claimed he was denied a catheter ...
Loaded on
July 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
July, 2000, page 3
A federal district court in New York issued pre- and post-verdict opinions in a negligence action brought by a prisoner and his wife against jail officials. In the pre-verdict ruling, the court held that the plaintiffs were entitled to amend their pleadings during trial and that jail officials have a ...
Loaded on
July 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
July, 2000, page 24
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 a maintenance key to access a utility shaft. ...
Loaded on
July 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
July, 2000, page 27
In May, 1999, the Northampton County Prison (NCP) paid Maria Merced $47,500 to settle a "hogtying" lawsuit she had filed. In August, 1996, while awaiting trial in the NCP, Merced argued with a guard and eventually spat on him. A number of guards then rushed into her cell, handcuffed her ...
Loaded on
June 15, 2000
published in Verdict1
June, 2000, page 12
On February 15, 2000, a federal judge approved a settlement in which New York State is to pay $8 million to the prisoners who were beaten and tortured after the 1971 Attica riot, closing one of the longest, ugliest chapters in criminal justice history. The settlement provides an additional $4 ...