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medical care policy was an unconstitutional custom supporting municipal liability. The court notes that detainees' medical care claims are usually decided under the same deliberate indifference standard ...
needles, a four-fold increase in medication errors during a 6 month period, and "errant infection control standards," among other violations. This led to annual DOH investigations at WCCW. Despite more ...
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
screen showing evidence of marijuana. DOCs policy generally forbids the prescription of HCV medication to any prisoner with evidence of active substance abuse within the previous two years. All of his ...
Case • 2003
prison officials and state agencies for violating his Eighth Amendment rights by denying medical care after he became infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and developed various symptoms. Upon ...
ignored obvious signs of Bock’s deteriorating condition with fatal results. As part of the Bock settlement, the jail hired a new medical director, two nurses with emergency room experience, a public ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
asked guards to move or silence him. Neither Armstrong nor Culloton spoke to Harrell or entered his cell, and although they observed his odd behavior during the WBCs, they did not request medical ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Audit Criticizes Milwaukee County Jail’s Contracted Medical Services by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In August 2018, a comprehensive audit report revealed that the private healthcare provider ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
alerted a guard and requested medical attention. The guard called the medical center but Nurse Mary Susan Robinson was the only medical staff on duty. Robinson knew that severe abdominal pain may ...
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
complaints of breathing problems were ignored by the jail’s medical staff, that’s exactly what happened. Lason’s chest filled with fluid, collapsing her lungs; she died in the middle ...
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to supervisory prison officials for inadequate third-party medical care resulting in a prisoner’s suicide. The Delaware ...
County, the county prison board and warden Eugene Berdanier, as well as the prison’s private healthcare provider, PrimeCare Medical, nine medical assistants and nurses, three unidentified prison ...
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
Filed under: Vision, Surgery
In an October 24, 2014 corrected ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed a Nevada prison policy that denies prisoners with one good eye medical treatment for their other eye. The 2-1 decision ...
Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015
Prisoner’s Request for Medical Care after Signing Refusal Form Precludes Summary Judgment by David Reutter Prisoner’s Request for Medical Care after Signing Refusal Form Precludes ...
decision on August 14, 2014, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a district court had abused its discretion when it required an inadequate medical care claim involving the death of a pretrial detainee ...
, 2014, Madaline Pitkin, 26, told medical staff that she had injected one gram of heroin before being arrested on a possession charge the previous day, and was already experiencing withdrawal symptoms ...
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
or mentally.” While that is what some people assume, things go awry when privatized medical care is involved. The PCSO contracts with Management and Training Corporation (MTC) through a subsidiary, MTC ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Medical Misconduct
Lawsuit Claims Denial of Medical Care Nearly Killed Prisoner at Colorado Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A former Colorado jail prisoner whose medical bills exceeded $2 million filed ...
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Hill, a 55-year-old mother, sister and aunt, who died at Washington’s Spokane County Jail in 2018 after being denied medical care for a ruptured intestine that led to a fatal infection. Hill had ...
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
the lack of medical attention over the preceding six days. That same day, he was transported to White County Medical Center, where hospital staff diagnosed a staph infection for which he was prescribed ...
Brief • May 7, 2009
of This lawsuit arises from medical treatment received by an inmate while in the custody of the Sheriffs Department. HOA.609795.! CASE SUMMARY INFORMATION ON PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF LITIGATION CASE NAME Estate ...
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