Plaintiff TWICE arrested on another person’s warrant. First arrest resulted in 6 weeks of incarceration; second arrest resulted in 2 hours in jail. Sheriff’s dept was on notice for years that the warrant was wrongly using Plaintiff’s identifiers, instead of the identifiers for the true defendant, yet Sheriff’s dept kept refusing to update & correct the warrant.
Taser case; plaintiff was Type I diabetic and tased 3x in 26 seconds in dart mode. He was handcuffed and taken to the hospital for drug testing. The total detention less than 2 hours. Less than $300.00 in out of pocket medical.
About 4,000 prisoners were unconstitutionally locked in cells with no toilets and no sinks while they were confined in Building 4 at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay. Plaintiffs said that guards did not always permit them to use the bathroom, so they were forced to urinate and defecate in bags and makeshift containers. As a result, inmates were subjected to the stench of their own bodily wastes and were forced to sleep in close quarters with others resorting to such means. Tyler v. Suffolk County, 253 F.R.D. 8, (D. Mass. 2008)
Plaintiff is confined in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (a “treatment program” which is in reality a prison where almost no one gets released). He was raped by his roommate about ten days after staff was advised of the perpetrator making inappropriate sexual advances towards Plaintiff.
Plaintiff died within 10 days of beginning pretrial confinement in a local jail near Gainesville, FL due to an ectopic pregnancy, but within one day of complaints of abdominal pain. Video evidence showed plaintiff virtually falling out of a wheelchair as she was transported out of GP into segregation. Case settled while pending interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity before Eleventh Circuit after all briefs filed. DMS
On 7/21/03, Kelly Jo Griffen, 24 year old mother of two, was to be held at MCI Framingham for one night before going to court in the morning. Ms. Griffen was experiencing the effects of heroin withdrawal. Medical staff knew that Ms. Griffen was not keeping fluids in her system, but failed to take steps to rehydrate her. Two hours before she became comatose, Ms. Griffen’s vital signs showed that she was in grave danger. Defendant Grodski was unable to obtain a blood pressure reading or a pulse.
Mr. Cosme was a prisoner worker in the Maintenance Department at MCI-Norfolk. He suffered fractures of both wrists and his right elbow when he fell from a roof while laying down tar paper. These injuries are permanent and severe. DOC employees negligently failed to provide plaintiff with any training or proper supervision. No safety equipment was provided to protect the plaintiff from the dangers of working on a rooftop. Settlement was reached after DOC finally agreed to allow Mr. Cosme to see an outside surgeon. The maximum recovery under the state statute is $100,000.
Billy Julian was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted as a result of police fabrication of inculpatory evidence against him (including coercing/threatening witnesses to testify falsely against him) and withholding of exculpatory evidence. Julian was imprisoned for over 3 years after wrongful conviction, then conviction was vacated after post-conviction court found Brady violations. Charges remained pending for an additional 4 years until they were finally dismissed.
Damages were a night in jail and subjected to false accusations and verbal abuses. Case tried in 2010 with three more plaintiffs who had been beaten up by officers. Defense verdict, new trial motion as to father and daughter granted 5 years (no typo) later. Incident took place 6/11/04 in Watts, South Central LA. Def Bright died in the meantime. Young and a lying K-9 officer (Stambaugh) who attempted to demonize the plaintiffs was caught by a video clip that had him in a place he said he wasn’t.
Plaintiffs, two African-American teenaged boys, were stopped by City of Poughkeepsie police because one (Dancy) supposedly matched the description of a suspected robber. When the other, Elting, tried to call his mother on his cell phone, he was taken to ground by defendant McGinley and beaten by McGinley and other officers while restrained. Elting was arrested for OGA and later the police claimed he possessed crack cocaine. Meanwhile, another officer, Williams, slammed Dancy’s head against side of patrol car, resulting in hairline jaw fracture.