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Pennsylvania: Woman Dies in Jail While Serving Sentence for Truancy Fines and Court Costs by Christopher Zoukis A 55-year-old mother of seven died in a Pennsylvania jail cell on June 7, 2014 while serving a 48-hour sentence for failure to pay truancy fines and court costs that totaled about $2,000. …
Private Prison Execs Continue to Make Much More than Guards by Information collected by the federal government has revealed the conspicuous inequality between private prison executives and the guards that their corporations employ. According to data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median salary for private …
Pfizer Deals Blow to Lethal Injections by Christopher Zoukis Pfizer, Inc., the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, recently announced new restrictions on the distribution of drugs used to execute prisoners. The May 13, 2016 announcement detailed “distribution restrictions” that the company is placing on certain drugs used in lethal injection protocols, …
Illinois Sheriff Demotes One, Fires 3, Suspends 10 after Death of Jail Detainee by Derek Gilna Lake County, Illinois Sheriff Mark C. Curran, Jr. demoted a jail supervisor and suspended ten guards over an incident in which a prisoner was paralyzed after an altercation with jailers and later died. Three …
DC Prisoner Awarded $70,000 for ADA Violations at CCA-run Jail by Derek Gilna William Pierce, a prisoner held by the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections (DCDOC), has won a $70,000 jury verdict for repeated violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Pierce, who suffers from severe hearing loss, …
Indiana ACLU Announces Settlement to Help Mentally Ill Prisoners by Derek Gilna In 2008, long before the issue became a focus of national attention, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana filed a federal civil rights suit against the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC), challenging inadequate treatment of mentally …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Bivens Suit Over Medical Care by Derek Gilna Ryan K. Mathison, incarcerated at FCI Pekin, a federal prison near Peoria, Illinois, suffered from high blood pressure. One morning he awoke at 3 a.m. with a sharp pain in his chest; he summoned a …
Multiple Suicides at Florida Jail a Cause for Concern by David Reutter Suicide is the leading cause of death among jail detainees according to an August 2015 report by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. While 80% of jails in the U.S. reported no deaths in 2013, six percent reported …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
A Deadly Dust is Plaguing Hawaii Prisoners in Arizona by Valley fever is widespread in the Southwest, yet Hawaii prison officials haven’t paid much attention to it, despite the recent deaths of at least two prisoners who had the disease. by Rui Kaneya, Civil Beat In the spring of 2014, …
UK Security Company’s Long History of Controversy, Misconduct by Derek Gilna According to its website, G4S is the world’s “leading global integrated security company.” Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Ninth Circuit Finds Accidental Amputation of Prisoner’s Fingertip Not a § 1983 Violation by Derek Gilna The tip of pretrial detainee Cherie Harding’s little finger was accidentally severed in her cell’s door frame when a guard at a San Francisco jail opened the door to commence a pat-down search. Harding …
Drouin v. Contra Costa County, CA, Third Amended Complaint, Medical Neglect - Disabled Inmates, 2016 ,,,..-, Case 4:15-cv-0'"' ... ~4-KAW Document 43-1 Filed 07i\.. _,16 Page 1 of a 1 Mark W. Kelsey, SB#295818 2 Law Offices of Mark W. Kelsey 877 Ygnacio Valley Rd, Ste. 208 Walnut Creek, CA …
Fuerstenberg v. Zaruba, IL, Amended Complaint, Failure to Treat Mental Illness, 2016 Case: 1:15-cv-10469 Document#: 17 Filed: 07/01/16 Page 1 of 16 PagelD #:38 IN THE UNITED STATESDISTRICTCOURT FOR THE NORTHERNDISTRICTOF ILLINOIS DIVISION CASE NO.1 :15-CV-10469 DEAN FUERSTENBERG, Plaintiff, JUDGE JOHN Z. LEE vs. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED JOHN E. ZARUBA …
Publication • June 30, 2016
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis
HIV AIDS and HCV in Prisons - A Select Annotated Bibliography, Jurgens, 2005 HIV/AIDS and HCV in Prisons A Select Annotated Bibliography November 2005 prepared by Ralf Jürgens with funding from the International Affairs Directorate, Health Canada For further information about this publication, contact: Interna tional Health Division International Affairs …
Publication • June 30, 2016
Filed under: Medical, Dental Care
Divens - WA Dentist - Amended Final Order, DoH DQAC, 2007
Duvall v. Hogan, MD, Opinion Granting Settlement Agreement, Baltimore City Detention Center, 2016 Case 1:94-cv-02541-ELH Document 575 Filed 06/28/16 Page 1 of 32 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND JEROME DUVALL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. ELH-94-2541 MARTIN O’MALLEY, Governor of Maryland, et …
Publication • June 28, 2016
Filed under: Corrections Audits, Medical
NCCHC Accreditation Report - Santa Rita Jail and Gleen Dyer Detention Facility, July 7, 2008 COR 4322 COR 4323 COR 4324 COR 4325 COR 4326 COR 4327 COR 4328 COR 4329 COR 4330 COR 4331 COR 4332 COR 4333 COR 4334 COR 4335 COR 4336 COR 4337 COR 4338 COR …
When Jail is Used as Drug Treatment by Brian Dolinar By Brian Dolinar, Smile Politely Some in our community say that those in the local jail are dangerous people that shouldn’t be let out on the streets. Yet the tragic story of Toya Frazier, who recently died in the jail, …
Fischer v. Georgia DOC, GA, Complaint, Inmate Mistreatment, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00143-RWS Document 1 Filed 06/23/16 Page 1 of 9 2:16-cv-143 Case 2:16-cv-00143-RWS Document 1 Filed 06/23/16 Page 2 of 9 Case 2:16-cv-00143-RWS Document 1 Filed 06/23/16 Page 3 of 9 Case 2:16-cv-00143-RWS Document 1 Filed 06/23/16 Page 4 of 9 …
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