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Inmate whose hearing aid batteries weren t promptly replaced allowed to sue
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Pedestrians walk past the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The court said an inmate whose hearing aide batteries weren’t replaced for month had adequately alleged “deliberate indifference” to his rights.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle
A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit Monday by a hard-of-hearing prisoner who said that when the batteries on his hearing aid died, officers waited as long as 74 days to replace them.
When the batteries first went out in September 2017, Raymond Whitall said, nursing and mental health staff at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad told him they would be replaced immediately but they weren’t. He was taken to a hospital, returned to his cell nine days later, and said he learned that the batteries had been available right away but were not provided to him.
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Inmates at the St. Louis Justice Center gather around the third-floor window on April 4. Attorneys for three current and former inmates at the St. Louis City Justice Center claim in a lawsuit that corrections officers regularly abused inmates at the center.
Attorneys claim in a lawsuit that corrections officers regularly abused three current and former inmates at the St. Louis City Justice Center.
The federal lawsuit filed Monday says City Justice Center staff violated the constitutional rights of inmates by using tear gas on them and depriving them of water. The lawsuit names St. Louis Corrections Commissioner Dale Glass, City Justice Superintendent Adrian Barnes, Lt. Javan Fowlkes, six correctional officers and the City of St. Louis as defendants.
He Spent Six Days in a Cell Covered in Feces. The Supreme Court Says He Can Sue His Jailers. It’s the first time in years the highest court allowed such a suit to proceed. The ruling suggests it is reconsidering protections for officers who cause harm. Trent Taylor was released from the John B. Connally Unit prison in Kenedy, Texas on Friday, April 9, 2021. He fought for the right to sue his guards for placing him in two filthy cells. Photos by Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman
Trent Taylor was naked in front of a Texas prison cell, hands shackled behind his back, when the stench hit him.
I just want them to be held liable : Texas case opens door to sue over police misconduct Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project, and Tony Plohetski
Trent Taylor was naked in front of a Texas prison cell, hands shackled behind his back, when the stench hit him.
“The officer that was standing next to me, he just kind of cringed,” Taylor recalls. It wasn’t until Taylor was inside the cell, the solid door locked behind him, that he got a good look.
There were human feces everywhere, he said: smeared on the window, the ceiling, packed inside the water faucet. A smiley face and a swastika were painted in feces on the wall. A layer caked on the floor made a “dry crunch” under his feet.