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California Sex Offender Registration not Constructive Custody for Habeas Purposes by David Stier, a physician and California state sex offender registrant, pled guilty to taking indecent liberties with a child in North Carolina in 2000. After Stier moved to California he completed a two-year probationary period ordered by the North …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Pennsylvania Prison Medical Firm’s Performance Called into Question by Dr. Edward Zaloga, co-owner of Correctional Care, Inc. (CCI) of Moosic, Pennsylvania, a firm that provides medical services at the Lackawanna County Prison, had his past called into question when a female prisoner was forced to give birth alone in her …
Missouri Execution Nurse, Doctor Have Questionable Histories by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A Missouri nurse employed by the state’s execution team was hired by federal officials to participate in the execution of mass killer Timothy McVeigh at Terre Haute, Indiana in 2001. However, before the nurse could leave …
Article • July 15, 2008
Washington Union Shop Stewards Pay Reduction Appropriate for Possessing Confidential Prisoner Medical Information by The State of Washington Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has a prison nurse who viewed confidential material from a prisoners medical file in her capacity as a shop steward properly was sanctioned a pay reduction when that …
Article • July 15, 2008
Nurses Use of Prisoner Medical Information for Personal Reasons Merits Salary Reduction by The State of Washington Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held a temporary salary reduction as sanction for a prison nurses act of accessing a prisoner’s medical file and using the information from the file for personal reasons …
Prison Health Services Physician’s Assistant License Revocation Upheld by On June 2, 2005, a Maryland court of appeals upheld the revocation of a Prison Health Services (PBS) Physician’s Assistant (PA) certificate for fraudulently procuring prescriptions for his adult son. Carl F. Oltman, Sr., was a PA, employed by PHS, contracted …
Gautier v. Hickman, CA, Settlement, prisoner medical death, 2007 Case 2:07-cv-00390-GGH 1 2 3 Document 92 Filed 06/27/2008 Page 1 of 3 LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD SELTZER RICHARD A. SELTZER, SBN 92317 2 Theatre Square, Suite 234 Orinda, California 94563 Telephone: (925) 253-7909 Facsimile: (925) 254-0550 4 5 Attorneys for …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Grossly Disfigures Misdiagnosed Washington State Prisoner by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A Washington state prisoner who lay for two days in the Stafford Creek Correctional Facility infirmary in agonizing pain, with a rash covering his torso and slowly drifting into septic shock, had been misdiagnosed by …
Prison Doctors, Tainted by Regulatory Board Discipline, Administer Wisconsin Prisoner Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Whenever prisoners complain about inept healthcare, prison officials accuse them of being manipulating whiners, or assert they are being administered the ?community standard of care? by competent medical professionals. A review by …
Washington DOC Pays PLN $541,000 for Illegally Withholding Records by Michael Rigby The Washington Department of Corrections will pay Prison Legal News $541,000 for illegally withholding public records. It is the largest records-related settlement in Washington state history, and it brings the total amount PLN has won against the state …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
North Carolina Execution Laws Trump Medical Board’s Ethics Declaration by John Dannenberg North Carolina Execution Laws Trump Medical Board's Ethics Declaration by John E. Dannenberg In September 2007, the Wake County, North Carolina Superior Court ruled that because executions are not "medical procedures," a state law that requires a physician …
Missouri: New State Law Conceals Identity of Executioners by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Missouri enacted a new law declaring the identity of those personnel participating in the execution process to be a state secret. The statute provides a legal cause of action for damages and punitive damages against …
$620,000 Settlement for Florida Jail Beating Death by While imprisoned in Florida's Palm Beach County Jail, a 35 year old Haitian laborer was beaten by guards. He sustained in June 1985, a broken neck and was left in his cell with no medical treatment. When he was finally taken to …
Article • December 15, 2007
Nurse’s Head Slap Nets Virginia Prisoner $16,676 by Nurse's Head Slap Nets Virginia Prisoner $16,676 A Virginia prisoner was awarded $16,676 for injuries sustained when a male nurse struck him on the back of his head. Mr. Shaver was struck on the back of the head, causing him to hit …
Prison Privatization Launders Taxpayer Dollars into Political Contributions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter If you know a company is not saving you money or performing its contractual obligations, why would you continue to use that company? The normal consumer would end the relationship quickly. When it comes to …
California DOC Chief Health Care Official Ousted by The top California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) health-care official, a gubernatorial appointee, was forced to resign by the federal court appointed healthcare Receiver, Robert Sillen. Dr. Peter Farber-Szekrenyi, who was hired in November 2005 to head CDCR?s Division of Health …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Dr. Yank: Washington Prison Dentist Nearly Kills Patient by by Rick Anderson If anyone really needed another reason to fear the dentist, Dr. Joel Diven provided it one day in May 2006, when a state prisoner climbed into his dental chair with a toothache. State investigators say Diven, 72, a …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment of privatized medical services has learned the same hard lesson suffered by other states: a trail of inadequate care that leaves prisoners dead …
Article • May 15, 2007
Failure to Administer Doctor's Treatment Plan States Eighth Amendment Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a nurse's failure to administer treatment ordered by a doctor states an Eighth Amendment violation that is not entitled to a qualified immunity defense. David G. Boretti, a Michigan prisoner, was …
$7,500 Paid in Beating of WA Female Prisoner by Lila McCrary filed a tort claim with the office of Risk Management stating that while she was imprisoned at the Washington Corrections Center for Women on April, 27, 1997, she was assaulted by Jerry Keen, Correctional Mental Health Counselor I. She …
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