Many needless deaths happen in jail to people in custody for relatively minor crimes. Due to jail neglect and indifference, people die from untreated medical conditions, suicide, violence from other inmates, and violence from jail staff. All of these situations can result in a civil rights lawsuit for damages and reforms. All of these situations have resulted in cases won by the Oakland-based jail death attorneys at Haddad & Sherwin LLP.
Jail Death Lawyers in Oakland, CA
Fighting for Justice and Reform in Jail Medical Neglect and Death Cases
Once a person is incarcerated, the state takes away his power to care for himself. An inmate, and his or her family, are powerless to provide needed medical and psychiatric care, or even basic protection from harm and violence in jail. Our jails, disgracefully, often fail to provide for the basic needs of these members of our community. Yet our jails are filled with people with serious medical and psychiatric needs.
Those in command of our jails and prisons have a constitutional duty to provide for the serious medical needs of inmates, and to provide safe jail conditions. Courts have explained many times that this duty is mandatory. Lack of funds is no excuse. Often, the private companies hired to provide medical care to inmates are even worse than the county medical providers they replaced. Despite our work over many cases against the predominant private jail medical providers in California, it is still common to find jails providing only licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) – unqualified and prohibited by state regulations to do medical assessments – for inmates’ serious medical needs.
When predictable tragedy and death results from jailers’ deliberate indifference to inmates’ serious medical needs, the jail death attorneys at Haddad & Sherwin LLP are experienced and ready to secure justice for families. We also insist on reforms so that jails, and their for-profit medical providers, must comply with their constitutional duties, so that other families do not have to endure such loss.
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Jail Death Attorneys Resources
Haddad & Sherwin to Move Forward with COVID-19 Related Jail Death Cases
Today, Haddad & Sherwin LLP announced through a press release that they have been granted the green light by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…
$12.75 Million for Distraught Inmate’s Slow-Motion Suicide
In the largest settlement ever against Wellpath, a national for-profit correctional care company, Haddad & Sherwin LLP won a $12.75 million settlement for Katherine Johnson,…
Federal Suit Filed for Man Left to Die in Jail
In February of 2022, Anthony Galley had been left in a Sacramento County crowded holding cell for over two days. Displaying clear signs of severe…
Contact a Jail Death Attorney in Oakland, CA
If you may have a case involving wrongful death or catastrophic physical injuries, contact us today by filling out the form below to get a free consultation with an experienced, Oakland-based jail death attorney. We handle cases arising from county jails throughout Northern and Central California, from the Bay Area to Monterey to Fresno to Sacramento to Lake Tahoe to Redding to Yreka to Crescent City to Eureka to Santa Rosa, San Francisco, San Jose, Alameda County, and more. View all areas served.
In order to maximize our time and resources for our current wrongful death and catastrophic injury clients, unfortunately, we cannot respond to inquiries about matters we do not handle. We handle only wrongful death and catastrophic permanent injury cases arising from law enforcement or jail misconduct. Thank you for your interest in our work.
