In May 1997, hotel operator Mr, Shangraw was 47 and a prisoner when a police officer struck him in the groin during a pat-down search. He was denied medical treatment and suffered impotence. With the assistance of Potsdam, New York, attorney Jerry Leek, he filed suit in state court in ...
Plaintiffs Hickman, Barber, Newman and Lane were wheelchair-bound prisoners at the Western Missouri Correctional Center where they were denied proper medical treatment and accommodations for their disabilities. In July 1994, they filed suit in federal court against the prison and Department of Corrections pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act. ...
In November 1996, the New York Court of Claims awarded a prisoner who had fallen from the roof of a prison while on a work detail and injured his knee $20,000. It awarded his wife $500 for loss of consortium.
Plaintiff Tucker was a prisoner on a work detail in ...
A Montana state court awarded former jail prisoner Campbell $1 in damages after he sued the Sheriff of Flathead County, Montana, for depriving him of exercise while he was jailed. Campbell claimed emotion distress. The court found in his favor, but awarded only nominal damages.
See: Campbell v. Flathead Co. ...
On August 5, 1999, a California federal jury awarded $52,200 to the family of a prisoner who died while suffering from untreated drug withdrawal in the Santa Barbara County jail.
When Drew Allen Walsh, 32, was booked into the jail, he was already suffering from drug withdrawal. The detectives who ...
by Matt Clarke
On April 12, 2016, Gary Mohr, the director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), announced that the state would phase out farming at 10 prisons. Since then, farm animals and equipment have been sold at auction. But critics say that taxpayers did not get ...
In 1999, defendants settled for $145,000 in a lawsuit brought by the estate and family of a Texas prisoner who was brutally beaten by guards and restrained in a position that caused fatal asphyxiation. Gary Lee Crensaw was serving a 45-year sentence at TDCJ*s Robertson Unit on January 25, 1997, ...
by Matthew Clarke
In November 2016, the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault and the Prison Justice League (PJL) published a report on sexual assaults in Texas prisons. The report concluded that Texas has failed to stem sexual violence within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) with sexual assault rates ...
by Matt Clarke
On February 23, 2016, a Texas court of appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against a parole board member and two parole commissioners.
John Henry Boykin, a Texas state prisoner, filed a state lawsuit against parole board member Cynthia Tauss and parole commissioners Lynn Ruzika ...
by Matt Clarke
On March 9, 2016, a Texas court of appeals dismissed a prisoner's writ of injunction because the prisoner had no other proceeding in that court.
Tracey W. Murphy, a Texas state prisoner, filed an original proceeding seeking a temporary injunction, and ultimately a permanent injunction, against prison ...
