South Carolina is paying $1.2 million to the family of an inmate with mental retardation who died after being kept 11 days in solitary confinement. Documents from the state Insurance Reserve Fund obtained by The Greenville News show the estate …
A federal jury has awarded almost $3 million to the family of a Berkeley County, S.C., inmate who died three years ago after spending a month at the jail. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports an autopsy showed that …
The family of a man who bled to death in the Sacramento County jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming jailers didn’t help the inmate even though he was vomiting blood for 12 hours before he died. The Sacramento …
A prison nurse isn’t immune from being sued over an inmate’s 2009 death following a violent seizure from alcohol withdrawals, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday. Nurse Jennifer McCune had sought immunity as a government employee in the death …
The brother of a man who was strangled by another inmate in an Arkansas jail is suing the county over the death. Joe Wolf sued on behalf of the estate of 64-year-old Gary Van Wolf. The suit names former Sheriff …