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Only One California Jail Has State-Mandated Psychiatric Treatment Center Licensure by by John E. Dannenberg Although California law has since 1998 required all county jails that provide inpatient medical or psychiatric care to have a correctional treatment center license, only one (Los Angeles) has obtained one. The issue was highlighted …
Bailey v. MN DOC, MN, Order awarding atty fees, ASL interpreter sex offender treatment disabled prisoner, 2005
Brief • September 4, 2005
Filed under: Medication, Mental Health
Gibson v. Blankstrom, MI, Wrongful Death, SJ Order 205 Case 1:03-cv-00053-MOB Document 266 Filed 08/04/2005 Page 1 of 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION ANTOINETTE GIBSON, Personal Representative of the Estate of OZY VAUGHN, Deceased, Case No. 1:03-CV-53 HON. RICHARD ALAN ENSLEN Plaintiff, v. JILL …
Sanchez v. MTC, NM, Amended Complaint, PNA neglect misconduct drug withdrawal jail inmate suicide, 2005 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO LUCILLE SANCHEZ, Individually and as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF JUAN IGNACIO SANCHEZ, Deceased, and FELIMON SANCHEZ, Plaintiffs, vs. No. CV 05-784 …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Prison Health Services: Missed Signals in New York Jails Open Way to Season of Suicides by by Paul Von Zielbauer; Joseph Plambeck contributed reporting for this article. The warnings were right there in her medical ?le: a childhood of sexual abuse, a diagnosis of manic depression, a suicide attempt at …
Arbitrary Draconian Restrictions on Texas Parolees by by Matthew T. Clarke Texas parolees have been subjected to a number of draconian measures not necessarily related to their conviction. For instance, parolees who were not convicted of sex offenses have been made to register as sex offenders and take sex offender …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
CCA Finally Loses Contract at Mismanaged Tulsa Jail by by Matthew T. Clarke For years the Sheriff of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Stanley Glanz, has been telling anyone who would listen that he, not CCA, should be running the county jail. Now, after five years of CCA mismanagement, he may finally …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
President Bush Signs Mentally Ill Offender Treatment And Crime Reduction Act Of 2004 by President Bush Signs Mentally Ill Offender Treatment And Crime Reduction Act Of 2004 by Michael Rigby On October 30, 2004, George W. Bush signed into law the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Court Discusses Deliberative Process Privilege by In two separate rulings, a southern district of New York federal district court has expounded upon the deliberative process privilege, which is a sub-species" of the work product doctrine. This action was filed by the Administration of the Estate of Ralph Joseph Tortorici, who …
California Jail Suicide Lawsuit Settled For $840,000; Contract Health Care Inadequate by A three year old federal wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a Yolo County, California jail detainee who hanged himself was settled for $840,000 on September 1, 2004. Contract health care provider California Forensic Medical Group, …
Court Orders Washington DOC to Stop Dragging Its Feet on Sex Offender Release Plans by Hank Balson Court Orders Washington DOC to Stop Dragging Its Feet on Sex Offender Release Plans by Hank Balson The Washington Court of Appeals ruled in May that the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) has …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Vermont DOC Settles PLN Writer's Suicide Suit for $750,000 by On October 14, 2004,the estate of PLN contributing writer James Quigley sued the Vermont Department of Corrections (V.D.O.C.) and several V.D.O.C. employees, alleging their mistreatment of Quigley resulted in his suicide death. Four months later the state settled the suit …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Texas Prisoner Kills Prison Employee and Himself by On October 21, 2004, a prisoner at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s 2,800-bed, maximum-security Connely Unit in Kenedy, Texas, killed a prison employee, then committed suicide. Gary Laskowski, 38, a Texas state prisoner, had been serving a life sentence in TDCJ …
Publication • May 13, 2005
Incident Review of Suicide Death by Inmate, FL Correctional Program Manager Bay Count Jail, 2005 --·- ·· ------- ---·- - ------ May 13, 2005 Kevin Watson CCA Bay County Jail/Annex Facility Administrator 314 ½ Harmon Avenue Panama City, Florida 32401 SUBJ: UNUSUAL INCIDENT REVIEW - - SUICIDE DEATH OF INMATE …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Louisiana Jail Settles Suicide Suit For $3 Million by On June 10, 2004, the City of Shreveport, Louisiana, agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in. the city's jail. Frances Loggins, 48, was arrested for public drunkenness and taken to …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Georgia Prison Official Immune, Prison Nurse Not, in Prisoner's Suicide by by Robert H. Woodman The Court of Appeals of Georgia, Second Division, affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the Gwinnett Superior Court in a case brought against a prison official, a prison nurse, and other …
Brief • March 4, 2005
Telder v. Coutny of Volusia, FL, Discovery Notice, Jail Suicide, 2005 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION TERRENCE JAMES TELDER as Personal Representative for the Estate of Eric Jon Telder, and on behalf of himself and survivors Tristyn Telder, Kendel Cheatham and …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders by California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders Today, nobody wants to keep paroled sex offenders around. Except the Los Angeles County district attorney, that is. In an odd "man bites dog" scenario, the district attorney is trying to retain four …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Sexual Predator Unconditionally Released by California's first "graduate" of the state's sexually violent predator (SVP) program, who was released in August, 2003 to highly supervised conditions while living in a trailer on the grounds of Soledad State Prison, was granted unconditional release by a state judge in San Jose, …
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