Green v. Lane County and Corizon
Deliberately indifferent failure to diagnose and treat inmate’s spinal injury, causing quadriplegia and death; 28 year old male inmate survived by parents; all but $500,000 paid by Corizon.
Jail Death
Wallace v. Community Education Centers
35 y.o mentally ill woman allowed to commit suicide in jail after 50 days in solitary confinement without treatment; defendant was private jail company; survived by parents.
Ryan v . Armor Correctional Health Services
Jail medical company failed to provide adequate care to drug-addicted Iraq War veteran with PTSD, who hanged himself in the Nassau County Jail. Survived by mother and brother. Jury assessed $890,000 compensatory damages and $7M punitives against medical provider; civil rights attorneys fees not included in verdict and awarded after trial.
Haun v. State of Washington
57 y.o. man in diabetic crisis in prison denied medical care and instead restrained for fourteen minutes with deputies on his back until unresponsive and dead; survived by daughter.
Williams v. Tulsa County
37 y.o man who mysteriously broke neck in jail, not treated for 51 hours, while he largely laid on the floor until he died.
Barbaro v. Monroe County
Jail suicide of pizza shop owner; private jail medical provider was deliberately indifferent to his risk of suicide; jury assessed $8M in punis against the medical corp., PrimeCare.
Huff v. Garfield Co., OK
Jail death of 58 y.o. chronic alcoholic man, deprived of proper alcohol detoxification and confined in a restraint chair for 55 hours.
Estate of Swans v. City of Lansing
Jail death of homeless, mentally ill, 40 y.o. man; survived by mother.