Skip navigation

Search

300 results
Page 13 of 15. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | Next »

Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, STDs
AIDS #1 Killer in FL DOC by According to Florida corrections officials, AIDS is the leading cause of death in Florida prisons and many prisoners are released without knowing if they are infected. Half of the people who die in Florida prisons die from AIDS. Prison officials estimate about 8 …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
Aids in WA DOC by AIDS in WA DOC Beth Anderson, health services administrator for the Washington DOC, said that since 1985, 7,604 WA DOC prisoners have been tested for the HIV virus and 135 have tested positive. Currently, the DOC claims there are 63 HIV positive prisoners in custody, …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
HIV+ Cellmate Doesn't State Claim by This is yet another addition to the growing area of HIV/AIDS in prison case law. Andrew Marcussen is an Iowa state prisoner. He filed suit claiming prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his safety by assigning an HIV+ prisoner to his cell, thus, he …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Ad Seg as Punishment Unlawful by Ad Seg As Punishment Unlawful Greg Stevens is an HIV+ Arkansas state prisoner, he is also missing a finger. Due to his medical condition he received a medical limitations slip which prohibited him from working in the prison fields. He reported to work in …
Voices from the Chowchilla Women's Prison by Judy Greenspan Women in prison are entitled to the same community standard of care that people have outside. However, just the opposite is true at the Central California Women's Facility at Chowchilla, California (CCWF). The CCWF is probably the largest women's prison in …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Attorney Contact Visits by This is a class action suit filed by Arizona state prisoners. They sued on two issues. First, they contend that the Arizona DOC's policy and practice of banning all contact visits between prisoners and their attorneys at various prisons violates their …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Nearly Third of All Prison Deaths Due to AIDS by More than half the prison inmates nationwide who died from AIDS in 1991 were in New York and New Jersey, where widespread drug abuse has caused much of the disease's spread, a government study said. Two thirds of the prisoner …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Segregation of HIV+ Prisoners Upheld, Again by James Camarillo was an HIV positive California state prisoner. He has since been released on parole. While in custody of the California DOC he was transferred to a housing unit of HIV+ prisoners. Camarillo filed suit under § 1983 claiming that the transfer …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Placing Con in Cell with Dying PWA Doesn't State Claim by Woodrow Johnson is a federal prisoner confined at FCI Talladega, Alabama. The suit was instituted pro se pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. § 2674, Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents , 403 U.S. 388, …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
AIDS Patient Released from Jail by Gregory Scarpa is a pretrial detainee with full-blown AIDS. He is an alleged mafia captain awaiting trial on charges of racketeering, various murders, murder conspiracies, etc. While on bail previously he was involved in a shoot out and, according to the government, continued his …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Women Prisoners Hold AIDS Walkathon by The April 24, 1993," Fight AIDS" Walkathon, held at the women's maximum security Shawnee Unit of the federal prison in Marianna, FL, was a great success. Eighty women participated, walking 1636 laps, over 300 miles. Over 90% of the prisoners joined in the effort, …
Damages Awarded to HIV+ Jail Prisoner by Louise Nolley is an HIV+ prisoner held in the Erie County Jail in New York. She filed suit under § 1983 contending that various jail practices violated her rights. The objectionable practices included: automatically segregating HIV+ prisoners; denying HIV+ prisoners law library and …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Dismissal of HIV+ Conditions Suit Reversed by Two HIV+ Mississippi state prisoners filed suit against Mississippi state officials challenging numerous aspects of the state DOC's policy regarding HIV+ prisoners. The policies they challenged include: placing HIV+ prisoners in administrative segregation and denying them all privileges; not providing adequate AIDS treatment …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Exposure to AIDS Contaminated Sewage Banned by Prisoners at a Missouri county jail were involved in the large scale cleanup of raw sewage at the jail hospital. The sewage was contaminated with the AIDS virus from AIDS patients in the jail hospital. Prisoners were not provided with protective clothing during …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medication
California HIV+ Prisoners on Medical Strike by California HIV+ Prisoners On Medical Strike The rate of HIV (the virus believed to cause AIDS infection) in prisons is higher than in all other institutions in the U.S. National studies have shown that prisoners with AIDS live half as long as people …
Brief • October 9, 1992
Letezeio v. Manson, CT, Stipulation, Prison Overcrowding and AIDS Cases, 1992 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT n 10 • ri '< r. t'.'\ ; JOSEPH L. LETEZ EIO , JR. : V• JOHN R . MANSON, et al. CIVIL NO. H82-252 CIVIL NO. H80-506' CIVIL NO. H81-512 CIVIL …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, STDs
D.C. Changes Jail Condom Policy by Washington, D.C., Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly recently unveiled a plan to combat AIDS that includes distributing condoms to the city's inmates. The plan, which was scheduled to take effect in July, will combine condom distribution with educational AIDS programming. A voluntary course for inmates …
Prisoner Entitled to Protection and Toilet Access by Kenneth Young is an HIV positive federal prisoner who was transferred to the US Penitentiary at Lewisburg, PA. While in the transfer segregation unit at Lewisburg Young was sexually assaulted by his cellmates several times. He repeatedly requested protective custody from a …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
High AIDS Rate Behind Bars by People entering U.S. prisons have high HIV infection rates and transmission of the virus that causes AIDS continues among prisoners because of intravenous drug use and homosexual activity, Federal health officials said June 4 in Atlanta. As of November 1990, there were 4,519 cases …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Guards Need Not Disclose Identity Of HIV-Positive Cons by A prisoner in the medium security unit of a Nebraska state prison brought a federal civil rights lawsuit against the warden and other prison personnel, claiming that they subjected him to cruel and unusual punishment by: (1) conspiring to conceal the …
Page 13 of 15. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | Next »