×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
Wexford Enters Into Confidential Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Death
Loaded on June 15, 2011
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2011, page 12
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Wexford Health Services,
Cancer,
Private Contractors,
Wrongful Death,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
New Mexico.
Pennsylvania-based Wexford Health Services, which bills itself as “the nation’s leading innovative correctional health care company,” entered into a confidential settlement with the estate of a New Mexico prisoner who died due to deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs.
When prisoner Michael Crespin arrived at …
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- States Scramble to Find Lethal Injection Drugs, by David Reutter
- Three Fulton County, Georgia Jail Guards Sentenced in Prisoner Abuse Investigation
- Blind Virginia Prisoner Settles Suit to Accommodate Disability
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Wexford Enters Into Confidential Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Death, by David Reutter
- Fire at Overcrowded Chilean Prison Kills Over 80 Prisoners, by Matthew Clarke
- Savings from North Carolina Prisoner Slave Labor Result in Additional Prison Beds, by David Reutter
- Uncollected Court Debts Piling Up in Tennessee
- New York Jury Awards Wrongfully Convicted Man $18.5 Million, but Court Grants Motion to Set Aside Verdict
- Ninth Circuit Upholds Washington’s “Two Strikes Law” for Repeat Sex Offenders
- Washington Prisoner Discovers Good Time Error; County Officials Admit and Correct Mistake, by David Reutter
- PHS and NY Jail Employees Have Conflict of Interest with Legal Representation
- Louisiana Sheriff Cages Suicidal Prisoners in Space Smaller than Required for Dogs
- $149,500 Settlement for Hawaiian Prisoner Denied Medical Care After Transport Accident
- Washington: Pierce County Jail Suit Ends After 15 Years
- Federal Courts Reject Leniency Pleas from Politically-Connected Defendants, by David Reutter
- Hopes Dashed for Criminal Defendants Facing Deportation in Virginia, by Derek Gilna
- Releasees from Rural Michigan Jail Frighten Neighbors on Long Walk Home
- Family of California Immigration Prisoner Who Died Due to Untreated Cancer Gets $3.68 Million, by Brandon Sample
- Uproar Over Background Checks for BP Oil Spill Workers Following Rape Allegation Against Sex Offender, by David Reutter
- Dozens of Israeli Prison Guards Die in Fire
- Fifth Circuit Holds Mississippi Felons May Not Vote in Presidential Elections
- Six Florida Jail Staff Arrested in Contraband Smuggling Probe, by David Reutter
- The Incarceration Capital of the U.S., by Jordan Flaherty
- U.S. Admits Infecting Prisoners, Mentally Ill Patients in Guatemala in 1940s, by Derek Gilna
- Los Angeles County Approves $444,000 in Settlements for Sexual Assaults by County Employees
- Controversy Involving North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab, by Matthew Clarke
- Ninth Circuit Rejects Challenge to BOP’s Implementation of Second Chance Act
- Federal Cell Phone Ban Becomes Law; California Bill Vetoed, then Re-Introduced, by Brandon Sample
- Sanctions Against Prisoner for Alleged “Frivolous” Habeas Petition Improper, Tenth Circuit Decides
- Texas Prison System Must Accommodate Hearing-Impaired Visitors, by Matthew Clarke
- Ohio: Mixed Verdicts Against Guards Involved in Prisoner’s Death, by Brandon Sample
- Wisconsin County Jail Administrator Charged with Stealing Jail Funds
- Tenth Circuit Reverses Lawsuit on Hygiene Versus Court Access for Second Time, by Bob Williams
- Remembering the High Point of Prisoner Rights, by David Hudson
- Department of Justice Reports on Sexual Victimization in U.S. Prisons and Jails, by Matthew Clarke
- Ex-BOP Pharmacist Sentenced for Stealing Drugs
- No Time Limit for Defendants to Raise a PLRA Defense, by David Reutter
- U.S. Deportations Set Record in 2010, by Derek Gilna
- Anarchists Claim Attack on NC Department of Correction
- ACLU Investigates Prisoners’ Deaths at Puerto Rican Prison, by Derek Gilna
- First Circuit Reverses Finding that Sexual Interest in Adolescents Not Disorder Warranting Civil Commitment, by Brandon Sample
- Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity for Guards Accused of Deliberate Indifference; $5.2 Million Verdict, $450,000 Settlement on Remand, by Brandon Sample
- Virginia DOC Settles Censorship Suit Over The Final Call
- New York Ex-Jail Doctor Charged With Selling Prescription Painkillers
- Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Insider Makes Misconduct Allegations; Resignations Result, by Matthew Clarke
- News In Brief:
More from David Reutter:
- Eight Circuit Reverses Denial of Partial Qualified Immunity in Detainee’s Pepper Ball Claim, Remands Excessive Force Claims, Sept. 1, 2026
- Nevada Prisoners, Families Call Out Predatory Tablet Program, Sept. 1, 2026
- Fourth Circuit: Error in Granting Judgment Prior to Adjudging Spoliation Motion, Sept. 1, 2026
- Fourth Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity in Strip Searches Resulting from Anonymous Tips, Sept. 1, 2026
- Tenth Circuit: Colorado Governor Unentitled to Eleventh Amendment Immunity on Claim Related to DOC Religious Policies, Aug. 1, 2026
- Michigan Appeals Court: Witnesses Cannot be Forced to Wear Jail Clothes at Trial, Aug. 1, 2026
- Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of State-Law Qualified Immunity in Scabies Case, Aug. 1, 2026
- Fourth Circuit Revives Disabled Prisoner’s Claim for Denial of Out-of-Cell Exercise Time, Aug. 1, 2026
- Sixth Circuit Announces State-Law Exceptions to Appeal Deadlines Preserve “Pending” Status Under AEDPA, Holding Belated-Appeal Procedures Toll Federal Habeas Limitations Period, April 1, 2026
- Florida Supreme Court Announces Rule 3.170(f)’s Good-Cause Plea-Withdrawal Standard Does Not Apply at Post-Appeal Resentencing, April 1, 2026
More from these topics:
- “Nothing Short of Disgraceful”: New York Prisoner Wins Injunction Ordering Cancer Treatment Delayed Seven Years, Sept. 1, 2026. Cancer, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Injunctions, Deliberate Indifference.
- BOP Denies Providing Substandard Dialysis Treatment Despite Prisoners’ Deaths, Court Filings, Understaffing and Lack of Oversight, Sept. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Staffing, Inadequate Health Care Facilities.
- Delaware’s Lack of Prison Healthcare Oversight, Sept. 1, 2026. Contractor Misconduct, Corrections Audits, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Grievances.
- $280,000 Paid for South Carolina Detainee’s Death in Charleston Jail, Sept. 1, 2026. Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Contractor Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Monell Liability.
- New Commission to Investigate Death and Abuse of 230 Black Children at Segregated Maryland Reformatory, Sept. 1, 2026. Racial Discrimination, Prison Labor, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Juvenile Prisons.
- Isolation and Medical Neglect at Illinois’ Joliet Treatment Center Drive Prisoners to Set Fatal Fires, Sept. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Security Systems, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
- Illinois Prisons Have Gone a Year Without Long-term Healthcare Contract, Sept. 1, 2026. Wexford Health Services, Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Staffing.
- $3 Million Paid by San Diego County for Diabetic Detainee’s Jail Death; NaphCare Settles Separately for Undisclosed Amount, Sept. 1, 2026. Naphcare, Diabetes, Failure to Treat, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
- Ohio Finds Guards and Medical Staff Failed to Render Life-Saving CPR to Detainee, Sept. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Failure to Train/Supervise, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Deliberate Indifference.
- Hawai‘i Pays $600,000 for Prisoner’s Withdrawal Death, Sept. 1, 2026. Medication, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Failure to Treat, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice.

