$6,000 Settlement for Negligent Failure to Treat at CCA Tennessee Prison
by David M. Reutter
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $6,184.71 to settle a lawsuit brought by a prisoner at Metro Davidson County Detention Facility (MCDF). The complaint alleged the faucet overflowed the sink in the cell of prisoner ...
$6,000 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Injured During Transport
by David M. Reutter
Corrections Corporation of America paid $6,000 to settle a claim that a prisoner was injured during a transport from Silverdale Detention Center in Tennessee. The settlement came following a demand letter from attorney Bill Pemerton.
The letter stated ...
$5,000 Settlement for Harmful Treatment at CCA Tennessee Prison
by David M. Reutter
Corrections Corporation of America paid $5,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming it caused harm to Silverdale Detention Center prisoner Angela Mooney.
The July 30, 2009 settlement agreement does not detail the total factual scenario, but states that ...
$3,750 Settlement for CCA Prisoner in Failure to Treat Suit
by David M. Reutter
Corrections Corporation of America paid $3,750 to settle a prisoner’s civil rights action alleging he was denied adequate medical care at the Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF) in Tennessee.
Prior to entering HCCF, prisoner Gary Oelrich ...
$3,000 Settlement for CCA Prisoner in Slip and Fall
by David M. Reutter
Corrections Corporation of America paid $3,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a prisoner slipped and fell in her cell at the Hamilton County Workhouse.
Prisoner Kelia Robinson alleged that the ceiling in her cell had multiple leaks ...
$1,500 Settlement for CCA Prisoner in Slip and Fall Suit
by David M. Reutter
Corrections Corporation of America paid $1,500 to settle a lawsuit involving a slip and fall at the Silverdale Workhouse. While walking down a hallway on the way to church on May 8, 2005, prisoner Shirley Hambrick ...
$999.99 Settlement for Excessive Force against CCA Prisoner
Corrections Corporation of America paid $999.99 to settle a lawsuit by prisoner Timothy Groce, who alleged guards used excessive force upon him at Whiteville Correctional Facility.
Groce refused to remove his arm from his segregation cell “bean flap” on March 18, 2010, ...
$13,000 Jury Award to Tennessee Prisoner Held on Invalid Escape Warrant
A Tennessee federal jury awarded $13,000 to a former prisoner alleging he was unconstitutionally imprisoned and denied medical treatment while held in Tennessee prisons.
Samuel C. Key was serving a Georgia-imposed sentence in April of 1994 when he was ...
$4,000 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Injured During Transport
by David M. Reutter
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $4,000 to settle a negligence claim stemming from a prisoner being injured during a transport from a drug and rehabilitation facility to CCA’s Silverdale Detention Center in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
The settlement ...
On March 15, 2012, suit was brought against Grady Judd, Sheriff of Polk County, Florida and the jail’s health care provider, Corizon Health Inc., for violating the constitutional rights of its juvenile prisoners. Plaintiffs filed for class certification, and temporary and permanent injunctive relief based on Fourteenth Amendment violations of the U.S. Constitution.
Plaintiffs raised five Fourteenth Amendment violations, alleging that the defendants:
- failed to provide the juveniles with “rehabilitative services,”
- failed to protect the plaintiffs from “unlawful force,” and “unreasonable restraints,” used by staff, and generally created “dangerously violent conditions of confinement,”
- demonstrated “deliberate indifference to their mental health needs” by removing juveniles from “suicide watch” and placing them in “punitive isolation without penological justification,”
- failed to provide prisoners with “necessary mental health treatment,” and
- exercised “deliberate indifference” in their disproportionate use of punitive isolation.
However, plaintiffs did not assert any state constitutional claim, federal or state statutory claim, or state law tort claim. Consequently, the court ordered plaintiffs to file a proposed finding of fact and conclusion of law explaining their “understanding of the governing constitutional standard.”
After reviewing a cumbersome 450+ pages submitted by plaintiffs and defendants, the court responded with its own 185-page finding of fact ...
