prison liability News

A federal court has dismissed claims that New Hampshire’s Hillsborough County, along with the nurses and outside medical providers for the county’s Valley Street Jail, are liable in the death of an inmate who experienced alcohol withdrawal and later died. …

A woman who said she was left to give birth to her baby alone on the dirty floor of her jail cell in Maryland filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging that jail nurses ignored her screams and pleas for helps …