PHILADELPHIA – Litigation connected to the death of an innocent bystander to a high-speed vehicle chase leveled against the City of Philadelphia and two of its police officials has been settled.
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia and Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility officials deny their officers used excessive force on a man incarcerated there two years ago.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has granted a motion in a lawsuit filed by a former inmate of Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility against the institution and its leadership, which will allow depositions to be taken from two fellow inmates who may corroborate his cruel and unusual punishment claims connected to a two-month incarceration.
PHILADELPHIA – Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility and its leading officials say that a former inmate seeking two depositions from fellow prisoners who may corroborate his cruel and unusual punishment claims connected to a two-month incarceration, will not be able to prove his case with their testimony.
PHILADELPHIA – A former Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility inmate is seeking to take two depositions from fellow prisoners who he says can corroborate that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, including being denied clean sheets and showers and not being allowed to leave his cell during a two-month incarceration.