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Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Tuberculosis Outbreak Exposed Weak Washington DOC Response by Washington’s Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) issued an advisory to healthcare providers on December 13, 2023, to test for tuberculosis in anyone incarcerated by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) during an outbreak of the disease in 2021. Over 800 people were released from …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Tuberculosis
Prisoner Health Update: Tuberculosis by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Tuberculosis (TB) is an illness caused by a mycobacterium, a class of bacteria that is hard to see under the microscope, difficult to grow in culture, and has the audacity to live in the very immune cells (marcophages) …
Texas Prisoner was Emaciated and Sick when Killed by Cellmate by A fight with his cellmate, Joe Greggs, led to the January 19, 2016 death of prisoner Alton Rodgers at the William P. Clements Unit in Texas. An official report listed Rodgers’ fatal injury as trauma consistent with having his …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Tuberculosis
New Treatment Regimen for Latent TB Shows Promise by Prisoners constitute less than one percent of the nation’s population, yet according to statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), they account for up to 6% of tuberculosis (TB) cases reported in the United States. [See: PLN, Aug. 2007, …
$30,000 Award for New York Prisoner Held in Tuberculosis Isolation by $30,000 Award for New York Prisoner Held in Tuberculosis Isolation A New York Federal Jury awarded a prisoner $30,000 for injuries incurred from constitutional violations that resulted from him being held in tuberculosis isolation against his will, despite not …
Article • August 12, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Failure to Treat Tuberculosis Suit Survives Summary Judgment, Settles for $1.4 Million by Derek Gilna Failure to Treat Tuberculosis Suit Survives Summary Judgment, Settles for $1.4 Million by Derek Gilna In January 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington denied a motion for summary judgment filed …
Williams v. Hardeman Co and CCA, TN, Settlement, medical neglect inmate death TBC, 2014 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0449 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0450 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0451 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0452 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0453 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0454 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0455 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0456 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0457 …
Qualified Immunity Denied to Nurses who Ignored Prisoner's Symptoms of Active TB; $2.28 Million in Damages, Fees and Costs on Remand by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held on July 12, 2012 that a former prisoner had presented sufficient evidence against three nurses to overcome qualified immunity in a …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oregon Pays Record $5.85 Million for Abuse of Foster Child and Abuser's Death in Prison by The State of Oregon has paid $3.75 million to a little girl who was injured by an abusive foster parent. Then, in an ironic twist, state officials agreed to pay another $2.1 million to …
Article • May 15, 2012
California Settles Former Parolee's Untreated HIV and Delayed Release Suit for $2,500 by Bradley G. Dreher was a California parolee when he learned that he was HIV-positive. He was seeking treatment, but was arrested and incarcerated for alleged parole violations before he could begin a treatment regimen. He remained in …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
North Carolina Jail Prisoner Housed with TB Infected Cellmate Receives $2,250 Settlement by The defendants in a lawsuit related to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak at North Carolina’s Brunswick County jail have agreed to settle the case for $2,250. The suit was filed in June 2010 by former prisoner Frank Baldwin, …
Article • April 15, 2011
Purposeful Exposure to Ultraviolet Light Warrants Denial of Qualified Immunity by On March 25, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit affirmed in part a summary judgment denial is a 42U.S.C. §1983 suit that alleges Arkansas prison guards maliciously and out of retaliation exposed a prisoner to …
Brief • May 10, 2010
Filed under: Tuberculosis
McCaster v. Ramsey County, MN, Settlement, Failure to Treat TB, 2010 CASE 0:08-cv-05779-RHK-AJB Document 104-1 Filed 05/10/10 Page 1 of 81 CASE 0:08-cv-05779-RHK-AJB Document 104-1 Filed 05/10/10 Page 2 of 81 CASE 0:08-cv-05779-RHK-AJB Document 104-1 Filed 05/10/10 Page 3 of 81 CASE 0:08-cv-05779-RHK-AJB Document 104-1 Filed 05/10/10 Page 4 of …
Brief • November 16, 2009
Filed under: Tuberculosis
McCaster v. Ramsey County, MN, Complaint, Failure to Treat TB, 2009 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 1 of 23 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 2 of 23 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 3 of 23 CASE 0:09-cv-03196-RHK-AJB Document 1 Filed 11/16/09 Page 4 of …
Article • September 15, 2009
$10,000 Settlement in Failure to Protect From Tuberculosis by Seattle Jail by Washington State’s King County Jail paid $12,500.32 to settle the claim of Michael Regan, who claimed that he contracted tuberculosis (TB) while in the jail from June 28 to July 4, 2001, because he was housed with a …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
Filed under: Medical, Tuberculosis
$25,000 Settlement in Washington Detainee Contracting for TB in Seattle Jail by Washington State’s King County Jail has paid $25,000 to settle a pretrial detainee’s claim that he contracted tuberculosis while held at the jail. While held at the Jail from November 2003 through January 2004, Jason Perez contracted tuberculosis …
New York Does DOCs Double Celling Suit Dismissed by The New York State prison system's practice of double-celling at Woodbourne Correctional Facility does not violate the Eighth Amendment. There was no evidence of denial of adequate food, medical care, or clothing. Protection from Inmate Assault (627, 629): There was little …
Article • August 15, 2008
Refusal of TB Test on Religious Grounds Discussed by The plaintiff refused a PPD on religious (MOVE) grounds and was placed in administrative custody and kept there even after he submitted to a chest x-ray, which was negative. There is no evidence that MOVE is actually a religion (and the …
Article • August 15, 2008
Prison Tuberculosis Cases Far Exceed Non-Prison Cases by The number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in prison far outpaced the general population between 1993 and 2003, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. While TB rates in the general population remained fewer than 10 cases per …
Preliminary Injunction For Improved TB Testing in Pennsylvania Prisons by On September 29, 1992, a federal district court granted Pennsylvania state prisoners a preliminary injunction ordering the implementation of a new policy on the detection and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Pennsylvania state prisons. This is a, class-action suit …
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