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McDonald v. Pinchak-139 N.J. 188, 652 A.2d 700 (NJ 1995).

Case • 1995

includes a hospital report indicating that McDonald was treated for a three-quarter inch superficial laceration on his head, but does not include any medical report for inmate Smith, McDonald's alleged ...

Smook v. Minnehaha County-340 F.Supp.2d 1037 (D.S.D. 2004)

Case • 2004

by JDC staff before the juvenile entered the shower. The only exceptions for the showering requirement were if the juvenile was too intoxicated to shower, if medical reasons prohibited showering ...

Tsombanidis v. West Haven Fire Dep't-352 F.3d 565 (2d Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

of Oxford Houses are governed democratically by the residents of each house without the presence of a medical or therapeutic professional. OHI has found that residents are more likely to succeed if houses ...

Pell v. Procunier-417 U.S. 817, 94 S.Ct. 2800, 41 L.Ed.2d 495 (1974)

Case • 1974

at Leavenworth Penitentiary and the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners 2 (Comm. Print 1974). [75] *fn2 Mills v. Alabama, 384 U.S. 214, 219. [76] *fn3 "While Mr. Chief Justice Hughes in Stromberg v ...

Garmong v. Montgomery Co, Tex-668 F.Supp. 1000 (SD TX 1987)

Case • 1987

, Copper Liquor, Inc. v. Adolph Coors Co., 684 F.2d 1087, 1099 (5th Cir. 1982), modified, 701 F.2d 542 (5th Cir. 1983). Expenses in the amount of $ 26.35 incurred for medical records and for Montgomery ...

Rice v. National Security Council-244 F.Supp.2d 594 (D.S.C. 2001).

Case • 2001

Development, 226 F.3d 223, 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 22229 (3rd Cir. 2000)(applying Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents: State may not be sued under Family and Medical Leave Act [FMLA]); Bellamy v. Borders, 727 F ...

Gonzalez v. Litschher-230 F.Supp.2d 950 (WD WI 2002).

Case • 2002

claims involving the adequacy of medical, dental and mental health care available to Supermax inmates and the use of stun guns and stun shields at the prison. However, I refused to certify a class ...

Federal Crime Bill Passes

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Transfers, Police Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Sex Offender Registration, Tuberculosis, DNA Testing/Samples, Drug Testing, Crime/Demographics, Crime, Databases, Overcrowding, Education, Disclosure of Records, Consent Decrees, Limitations, Good Time, Three Strikes, Immigration, Death Penalty, Federal Legislation, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison

federal courts from ordering improved medical or health care or imposing civil contempt fines and damages. With regards to consent decrees limiting prison and jail populations, the bill states ...

Rollins v. Hyatte-2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142269 (N.D. Ind.)

Case • 2023

. The prison considers only certain issues appropriate for the grievance process, like staff treatment, medical or mental health, acts of reprisal, and other concerns about conditions of care and supervision ...

The Crime of Being Poor

Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Racial Discrimination, Crime, Attorney Misconduct, Sentencing, Pardons/Clemency

in 2001. Cindy McCain is the wife of Republican Senator and presidential candidate John McCain. In 1995 Cindy admitted to stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a group she ...

Olim v. Wakinekona-461 U.S. 238, 103 S.Ct. 1741, 75 L.Ed.2d 813 (1983

Case • 1983

), summarily aff'd, 434 U.S. 1052 (1978). In that case, the District Court held that the language of a prison policy statement, stating that "[inmates] may be segregated for medical, psychiatric, disciplinary ...

King v. Wells-94 F.R.D. 675 (ED MI 1982)

Case • 1982

have no actual proof of any misdeeds on the part of Mr. King." n7 7. Memorandum to Hearing Officer from R. G. Huff, D.O., Medical Director, dated October 27, 1977. Dx D. It is uncertain whether ...

Wirsching v. Colorado-360 F.3d 1191 (10th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

to participate in the treatment program as including "no television or radio in the cell, no tobacco items, no canteen [except on medical or religious grounds]," removal of property items, denial of recreation ...

Wolfe v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Corrections-334 F.Supp.2d 762 (E.D.Pa. 2004)

Case • 2004

and was severely injured. Id. at 764. While receiving treatment from medical personnel, the plaintiff admitted to a patrol supervisor that he took the gun from one of the police officer's holsters and pointed ...

Masonoff v. Dubois-336 F.Supp.2d 54 (D. Mass. 2004)

Case • 2004

" in a case involving the failure to provide adequate medical care); but cf., Houston v. Sheahan, 62 F.3d 902-03 (7th Cir. 1995) (per curiam) (holding that prison officials should not be made to pay damages ...

In re Nicholson-181 F.Supp.2d 182 (E.D.N.Y. 2002)

Case • 2002

in accordance with the provisions of part one of Article sixty-five of the education law, or medical, dental, optometrical or surgical care, though financially able to do so or when offered financial or other ...

WI ACLU Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights

Article • December 15, 2007

Filed under: Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Grooming Rules, Court Access, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RLUIPA, Publications/Books, Sexually Explicit Materials, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits, Access to Media, Censorship, Required Religious Programming, Religious Grooming, Religious Diet, Denial of Religious Services, Religious Practices, Religious Property

and Attire (Non-Religious) Prison officials have wide latitude to impose grooming and attire restrictions. In general, they will only need to make exceptions that are necessary for medical reasons ...

Aramark: Prison Food Service with a Bad Aftertaste

Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Contractor Misconduct, Food, Death Row

from unsanitary conditions) or in the long term (poor diet that raises eventual medical bills) is truly penny-wise and pound-foolish. Aramark may have succeeded in whittling down the food service portion ...

In re Shaputis-37 Cal.Rptr.3d 324 (Cal.App. 4 Dist., 2005)

Case • 2005

. Accordingly, the BPT's conclusion Shaputis remained a danger to society, to the extent it was premised on a former lifestyle that all of the evidence showed was a historical relic, is so lacking in any medical ...

People v. Bordelon-162 Cal. App. 4th 1311, 77 Cal. Rptr. 3d 14 (Cal. App. 1st Dist. 2008)

Case • 2008

as a youth, and suffered from delusions after sustaining a brain injury in a carjacking when he was 22 years old. He could not keep a job and never consistently took the medications prescribed for his mental ...