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An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners

Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007

Filed under: Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Complaints, Class Certification, Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment

An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners by A federal district court for the District of Columbia has, once again, certified a class action in a complaint that District of Columbia is over-detaining persons ordered released and strip searching them without individualized suspicion. The Court …

Class of Over Detained, Strip Searched DC Prisoners Certified

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Class Certification, Wrongful Imprisonment

Class of Over Detained, Strip Searched DC Prisoners Certified by The plaintiffs alleged that they were kept past their release dates by the D.C. Department of Correction; a subclass alleged that they were subjected to strip searches upon return to jail after judicial determinations that there was no basis for …

D.C. Venue Improper in BOP Fine Punishment Suit

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Venue, Wrongful Imprisonment

D.C. Venue Improper in BOP Fine Punishment Suit by The plaintiff allegedly was kept for three years beyond his sentence expiration because he refused to sign an installment schedule agreement for his unpaid fines. The wardens of prisons in Virginia and West Virginia were not subject to personal jurisdiction in …

District of Columbia Jail Pays $14 Million For Over-Detentions and Strip Searches

Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Databases, Overcrowding, Damages, Settlements, Wrongful Imprisonment

District of Columbia Jail Pays $14 Million For Over-Detentions and Strip Searches by Bob Williams While denying a pattern and practice of over-detentions and strip searches, the District of Columbia (the District) has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class-action lawsuit plus an additional $2 million in additional …

Wrongfully Imprisoned D.C. Disabled Man Settles Suit For $1.74 Million

Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

Wrongfully Imprisoned D.C. Disabled Man Settles Suit For $1.74 Million by by Michael Rigby The District of Columbia and a private medical provider have agreed to pay $1.74 million to Joseph Heard, a deaf, mute, and mentally disabled man who was wrongfully imprisoned in the D.C. jail for nearly two …