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Publication • August 12, 2016
Filed under: Medical, Statistics/Trends
National Survey of Prison Health Care - Selected Findings, NHSR, 2016 National Health Statistics Reports Number 96  July 28, 2016 National Survey of Prison Health Care: Selected Findings Karishma A. Chari, M.P.H., Alan E. Simon, M.D., Carol J. DeFrances, Ph.D., National Center for Health Statistics; and Laura Maruschak, M.A., …
Article • August 11, 2016
Prisoner Receives $15,000 in Eye Loss Negligence Suit by The federal  Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paid $15,000 to settle a negligence lawsuit alleging officials at FCI-Lompoc in California failed to provide a prisoner medical treatment, resulting in blindness in his left eye. When prisoner Sheldon Woods entered FCT-Lompoc in September …
Article • August 11, 2016
Police Cruiser Accident Costs Georgia County $400,000 by A $400,000 settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought by a man who was injured when an Athens-Clarke County, Georgia police car turned directly into a van driven by Ralph Bell, 62. The county did not contest liability in the December 11, …
Brief • August 11, 2016
Fox v Peters, OR, Order, Spinal Injury Release Plan, 2016 Case 6:16-cv-01602-MC Document 14 Filed 08/11/16 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON STEVEN FOX, Case No. 6:16-cv-01602-MC Plaintiff, ORDER v. COLETTE PETERS, Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, in her …
San Diego County Hit With $3 Million Dollar Jury Verdict In Prisoner Jail Death by Derek Gilna In 2011, Daniel Sisson, a 21-year-old asthma-sufferer with a severe heroin addiction and already in a drug-diversion program in San Diego County, California, was arrested again for drug possession. When he went with …
Article • August 10, 2016
California Lawmakers Block Prison Sterilization Epidemic by Derek Gilna California legislators passed a bill in August of 2014 that should put an end to a clear abuse of power by the state's jailers. Female state prisoners in California have been the victim of scores of forced sterilizations by prison medical …
Article • August 10, 2016
Guam Correctional Issues Plague Prisoner Medical Care by Derek Gilna For twenty-three years a federal receiver has overseen Guam's troubled correctional system, but unfortunately for prisoners, medical care still appears to be substandard. According to a status report issued in the past two weeks, of 144 prisoners seeking some form …
Deaths of Two Pennsylvania Jail Prisoners Being Investigated By Amnesty International by David Reutter Amnesty International is investigating the deaths of two prisoners at Pennsylvania’s Burlington County Jail (BCJ). The Prosecutor’s Office took the unusual step of responding to a letter from Amnesty upon conclusion of its own investigation. The …
Article • August 10, 2016
Audit Shows California Sterilized Women Prisoners Improperly by Derek Gilna A report prepared by the California State Auditor has revealed yet another serious problem in prisoner medical care in the state.  The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation carried out dozens of illegal sterilizations of its women prisoners from 2005 …
Media Tip Cast Light on Medical Neglect as Prisoner Starved by David Reutter Absent a tip to the Associated Press, the death of a prisoner at Kentucky State Prison would have remained shrouded in darkness. The tip led to an investigation that uncovered lapses in medical care as the prisoner …
Article • August 10, 2016
Jail Called to Scrutinize Detox Procedure in Wake of Increased Deaths by David Reutter The second death in six months of a pre-trial detainee at Pennsylvania’s Buck County prison has raised questions about its detox procedures. The scrutiny of such procedures should be a focal point for jail administrators throughout …
Florida Sheriff Tosses Private Health Administrator from Jail Overnight Job by David Reutter An administrator for Armor Correction Health Services, Inc., was forced out of his position by Florida’s Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri. The administrator, Lewis Hays, was involved in the death of Allen Hicks, Sr. 51, who died …
Federal Detention Center in Chicago Agrees to $1 Million Wrongful Death Settlement by Derek Gilna For over ten years defense attorneys and their clients in Chicago have complained about the quality of medical treatment for prisoners at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), Chicago, located in a decaying 28-story high rise …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Corrections Audits, Medical
Delaware Prisoner Health Care Finally Meets Constitutional Standards by David Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has released the Delaware Department of Correction (DDOC) from the terms of an amended memorandum of agreement (AMOA) on prisoner medical and mental health care. The DOJ and DDOC reached the original memorandum …
60% of Louisiana Prison Doctors Disciplined by Medical Board by Matthew Clarke Of the fifteen physicians employed by the Louisiana prison system, nine have received medical board disciplinary sanctions. Of those nine, two have served time in federal prison, five are on probation, two have their practice limited to "institutional …
Article • August 9, 2016
Nevada Chief Medical Examiner Must Assure Prisoners Receive Healthful Diet by David Reutter The Nevada Supreme Court held a prisoner was entitled to the grant of a writ of mandamus to compel the Nevada's Chief Medical Officer to periodically examine and semi-annually report to the Board of State Prison Commissioners …
Article • August 9, 2016
New Hepatitis C Treatment to Dramatically Increase Texas Prison Health Costs by Matthew Clarke Hepatitis C is a slow-progressing potentially-fatal viral disease that ultimately destroys the liver. Unlike HIV, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is resilient, capable of surviving for weeks outside the human body. It is spread by blood-to-blood …
Article • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Medical, Statistics/Trends
Bureau of Justice Study Statistics Show Depth of Prisoner Health Issues by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A special report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in February, 2015 documents what prison rights advocates have known for years, that “half of state and federal prisons and local jail …
Article • August 9, 2016
Texas Rejects GEO Bid to Privatize State Mental Hospital by On October 3, 2012, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced that it had rejected a bid by the GEO Group, a private prison company, to operate the Kerrville State Hospital. GEO Care, a GEO Group subsidiary, was …
Mothers Behind Bars, National Womens Law Center, 2010 Photo: © Rebecca Epstein The Rebecca Project for Human Rights 2029 P Street, NW, Suite 301 Washington, DC 20036 202.265.3906 202.265.3909 (fax) www.rebeccaproject.org National Women’s Law Center 11 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202.588.5180 202.588.5185 (fax) www.nwlc.org Mothers Behind …
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