Child support is an enormous issue in the United States. In August 2015, Mark Greenberg, the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, wrote that 1 in 4 children nationwide had an active child support case. ...
On October 22, 2015, a federal jury awarded $1 million to the survivors and estate of a prisoner who died in a Texas jail, finding jail employees were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs.
Terry Lynn Borum, 53, was booked into the Swisher County jail on January 28, 2013. He ...
In an article published by the American Heart Association, a study of eight cases of people who lost consciousness immediately after being shocked by a TASER X26--the most common electronic control device (ECD) used by police, prisons and the military--concluded that ECD shocks can induce fatal cardiac arrest by capturing ...
On March 6, 2012, the Phoenix-based Arizona Center for Disability Law (ACDL) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Arizona (Arizona ACLU) with the assistance of the Berkeley, California-based Prison Law Office, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class-action civil-rights lawsuit in federal court alleging inadequate medical, dental and ...
On June 26, 2012, representatives of the County of El Paso, Texas signed a settlement in a suit brought by a deaf former jail prisoner over the lack of accommodations for disabled prisoners at the El Paso County Jail.
Jose Luis Rodriguez is a deaf man with limited written English ...
In June 2012, the Village of Woodridge, Illinois, and several of its police officers settled a case brought by a man who bad been wrongfully convicted of rape due to the suppression and fabrication of evidence twenty years earlier. The settlement amount was $5,000,000.
In 1987, Marcus Lyons was a ...
On February 23, 2012, the American Civil liberties Union (ACLU) and Seton Ha].] University School of Law's Center for Social Justice (CSJ) announced the preliminary settlement of a federal class-action civil-rights lawsuit over conditions of confinement at the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey. Under the terms of the settlement, ...
On March 19, 2012, a federal court in Idaho unsealed a report by court-appointed special master and expert on prison health care, Dr. Marc Stern which the state had attempted to suppress. In the February 2, 2012, report, Stern described much of the medical care provided prisoners at the Idaho ...
On April 12, 2012, a Massachusetts federal court entered an order approving a private settlement agreement between the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) and the Boston-based Disability Law Center (DLC) which prohibits lengthy segregation of DOC prisoners with serious mental illness (SMI) and provides for an overhaul in how the ...
When the Wisconsin Legislature first passed the Sexually Violent Persons Law allowing for civil commitment of certain sex offenders who had served all of their prison sentences, the additional expense was expected to be minimal. Today's reality proves that such a prediction was overly optimistic. Currently, there are over 360 ...
