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Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers
Loaded on March 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2006, page 1
Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers
by Marvin Mentor
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is forcefully having its failed healthcare system both corrected and rehabilitated. Despite court-ordered healthcare remediation and monitoring over the past 25 years, CDCR's performance continued to fail …
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- Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers
- Ten Deaths At San Quentin from Macabre" Healthcare
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- From the Editor
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- Dallas Fake Drug Cases Settle For Millions, Jury Awards Damages
- Wisconsin Prison Employee Raped By Prisoner Awarded $366,000
- New York City Pays $75,000 for 28.5 Days False Imprisonment
- Supreme Court: Prisoners' ADA Right to Sue for Damages Trumps State's Sovereign Immunity
- Michigan Jail's Disproportionate Treatment of Women Results in $855,000 Settlement Agreement
- Texas Legislature Requires HIV Testing for Prisoners, by Gary Hunter
- Texas Prisoners Again Have Limited Right to Appear in Civil Cases
- New York City Jail Strip Search Suit Settles For $30 Million
- Florida Awards $2 Million to Wrongfully Convicted Man
- California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act
- Police Department Class Action Fraud Suit Filed Against Stun Gun Maker
- New Mexico Jail Prisoners Raped by Judge and Guards Settle for $890,000
- PLN Questions John Ashcroft on the Death Penalty
- Wackenhut Settles Pennsylvania Suicide Suit For $125,000
- Appointment Of Counsel Ordered To Determine California Prisoner's Request For Post-Appeal DNA Testin
- Washington Jail Pays Teenager $400,000 for Rape While Imprisoned
- New York Governor Illegally Halts the Release of 12 Sex Offenders
- BOP Enjoined from Terminating Boot Camp Program
- Sixth Circuit Upholds Michigan Ban On Prisoner Appeals of Discretionary Denials of Parole
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- Former Riker's Island Head Goes to Prison
- $3.6 Million Awarded in Rape and Murder by Erroneously Released NY Prisoner
- BOP Awards Unisys Corp. Nationwide Prison Phone Contract
- Federal Government Bans Medicaid Impotence Drugs for Sex Offenders
- BOP Secret Squirrel Photo File" Suit Remanded
- New York Jail Prisoner Injured In Assault Awarded $750,000
- Rebellion at CCA Prison in Texas
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- Washington State Forensic Scientist Helps Convict the Innocent, FBI Assists
- Avalon Correctional Services Delisted From NASDAQ
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- New Jersey's Legal Mail Policy Enjoined; Qualified Immunity Granted
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- Los Angeles County Pays Prisoner $42,500 for Legal Malpractice by Public Defender
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