Skip navigation
Prison Legal News
× You have 2 more free articles available this month. Subscribe today.

Health Problems in WY

Loaded on July 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News July, 1995, page 19
Filed under: Private Prisons, Wexford Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect. Location: Wyoming.
We have a new Health Service provider that took over from the state. They worry about costs over and above prisoners' health care. The name of the provider is Wexford Health Services, Inc. Their home office address is 4500 PGA Blvd. Suite 302, Palm Beach, FL 33418. It is rumored that they provided services in Alabama ten years ago and were kicked out. Besides Wyoming they are providing services in Michigan, Illinois; South Dakota and Florida. I'm wondering if you could print something asking if any of your readers has information about past or present litigation against this company or has discovered any other information about them they would be willing to share. There are several suits filed against them in Wyoming, but none of them are in the discovery stages yet that I am aware of. We are having problems with them changing medication without doctors orders, not passing out medications in a timely manner or handing out the wrong medications to the wrong people. They deny surgery after the doctors have recommended it, have tampered with medical records, lied to the prison administration and are guilty of general incompetence. Please send any information to Andy Renken, 2121 Douglas Street Apt # 1106, Omaha, NE 68102.

As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.

Subscribe today

Already a subscriber? Login

More from this issue:

  1. Supreme Court Turns Back Parole Challenge
  2. 4th Cir. Clarifies IFP Dismissal Standard
  3. Private Physician Subject to Section 1983 Liability
  4. No Interlocutory Appeal of Discovery Order
  5. 9th Cir. Upholds Attorney Fee Award
  6. Appointment of Counsel
  7. Unprovoked Assault States Claim
  8. Prisoners Entitled to Meaningful Ad Seg Review
  9. Helms Amendment Ruled On
  10. Qualified Immunity Granted for Denial of Exercise
  11. AA Probation Requirement Illegal for Atheist
  12. Denial of Food May Violate Eighth Amendment
  13. Confinement Claim Barred by Res Judicata
  14. NJ Sex Offender Registration Ruled On
  15. Retaliatory Infraction States Claim
  16. PA Class Action Settlement Published
  17. Denial of Witnesses Violates Due Process
  18. Dismissal for Failure to Amend Complaint Reversed
  19. Warden Survey Released
  20. TDCJ Selling Counterfeit Meat
  21. MI Drug Patch Testing
  22. CA Families Fight to Maintain Bonds, by Willie Wisely
  23. NV Phone Rate Scalping Examined
  24. 51 Months for Sex With Prisoners
  25. Who's Treating the Doctor
  26. AL Brings Back Chain Gangs
  27. Violence Increases in Fed Prisons
  28. SC Prisoners Protest Haircut Policy
  29. From The Editor, by Dan Pens
  30. FL Prisoner Has Right to Die
  31. Books Available: The Penitentiary in Crisis: From Accomodation to Riot in NM, by Mark Calvin
  32. Books Available: Cages of Steel, by Ward Churchill
  33. Books Available: Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention, by Barbara Harlow
  34. Prisoners and the Law
  35. Book Review: Prison Violence in America, by M Braswell
  36. Litigation Status Report Available
  37. News in Brief
  38. Book Review: Civil Liability in Criminal Justice, by HE Barrineau
  39. The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement (Book Review), by Mark Cummins
  40. Raze the Walls Burned
  41. Health Problems in WY

More from these topics: