The mother of a Virginia inmate who died in jail is suing officials, saying her son’s urgent medical needs were ignored and led to his 2017 death. FARMVILLE, Va. (AP) — The mother of a Virginia inmate who died in jail is suing officials, saying her son’s urgent medical needs were ignored and contributed to his 2017 death. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports Victoria Sisson filed a lawsuit …
But in 2011, Taha discovered that his incarceration information, including his photograph, personal details and charges, was available on the Inmate Lookup Tool.
As a result, Taha suffered emotional distress and the invasion of his privacy, he alleged in his lawsuit.
After the suit was filed, the county removed all inmate mugshots and most arrest information from the online tool.
The death of an inmate earlier this week at San Bernardino County’s West Valley Detention Center marked the ninth at the Rancho Cucamonga jail in the past year, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said Tuesday. All of the deaths were related to inmate medical issues, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said. “To date, nine medical related deaths per year is below average for correction facilities of similar size and function,” Miller said. She said there also was one medically …
Don’t offer prison inmate John Demos your Hershey Bar, your Kellogg’s corn flakes or your Bazooka bubble gum. And he doesn’t think your Campbell soup Is mmmm-mmmm good. The Washington state inmate filed a lawsuit in Macon’s federal court this week, arguing that those companies and several others gave him bladder and intestine problems. Also named in the lawsuit are …
New York City has agreed to pay $5.75 million to the family of Bradley Ballard, a mentally ill inmate on Rikers Island who was found dead in solitary confinement after being denied water and medication for six days. The payout represents the largest the city has ever made to settle a lawsuit over the death of an inmate in custody, according to the New York Times. But in addition to the …
Delaware officials say a transgender prison inmate who filed a civil-rights lawsuit has a history of filing unsubstantiated grievances. Lawyers for the state have filed their response to the lawsuit by inmate Kamilla London.
Three more Bay Area counties are facing class action lawsuits for the cost of phone calls to and from jails, an expensive process that critics argue unfairly burdens inmates’ families by making them pay excessive fees to keep in touch with loved ones. A group of attorneys who have already filed several lawsuits on the matter in Southern California filed their fourth lawsuit in …