By Christopher Zoukis
The Bureau of Prisons lost a tort claim brought by a prisoner who was attacked by another prisoner in 1991.
The plaintiff, Stephen E. Usselman, alleged that he was placed in the special housing unit at Federal Correctional Institution Sheridan, Oregon and was housed with a higher ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The Bureau of Prisons settled multiple civil rights lawsuits brought by prisoner David Y. Merritt in March 2002.
Merritt, an imprisoned government informant, filed several lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons in federal court between 1995 and 2001. He alleged a litany of constitutional violations, including denial ...
by Christopher Zoukis
Robert T. Aranda, an "inmate systems officer" (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He alleged variations of ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The Bureau of Prisons agreed to pay four female prisoners an aggregate total of $330,000.00 in order to settle claims that they were all subjected to sexual abuse at the hands of prison guard Johnsie Donaldson. All four women agreed to settle their claims against the Bureau ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The federal Bureau of Prisons settled a claim that alleged abusive use of "four-point" restraints in United States Penitentiary Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s.
Three prisoners held at USP Atlanta who were subjected to immobilization in four-point restraints filed suit over the practice in federal district ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The Bureau of Prisons settled a claim that prisoner Louis Sheptin's constitutional rights were violated while in custody for $11,000 in August 2002.
Sheptin filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in March 2000. His claim, brought pursuant ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The Bureau of Prisons settled an excessive force civil rights claim brought by prisoner Allan Parmelee. The BOP agreed to pay Parmelee $2,600 in full satisfaction of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims.
According to his complaint, while being held at Metropolitan Correctional Center Chicago, Illinois in ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The Estate of James F. Norton, formerly a prisoner at Federal Correctional Institution Oxford, Wisconsin, was awarded a total of $678,505.67 for the wrongful death of Norton due to negligence by prison medical staff between 1989 and 1991.
Norton had been serving a 10-year sentence for racketeering ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The federal Bureau of Prisons agreed via stipulation to pay the attorney's fees and costs of the plaintiff who sued to stop construction of a private prison in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
The suit, filed in May 1999 by Citizens Advisory Committee on Private Prisons (CACPP), alleged that ...
by Christopher Zoukis
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, along with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, Superintendent of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) Anthony Mendonsa and SBCC prison guards Jonathan W. Thomas, Carlos M. Goden, Jr., Mark A. Verdini and Maria E. Montanez have agreed to pay $70,000 to settle an improper ...
