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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 …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population, Culpeper Foundation, 1998 Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population January 1998 Funded by: Charles E. Culpeper Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 500.C Table of Contents Glossary .......................................................................................................................... i Foreword ...................................................................................................................... iii I. Introduction and Executive Summary..................................................................... 1 Most Inmates …
Brief • August 8, 2016
Fox v. Peters, OR, Complaint, Spinal Injury Release Plan, 2016 Case 6:16-cv-01602-MC Document 1 Filed 08/08/16 Page 1 of 7 Lynn S. Walsh, OSB #924955 email: walsh@europa.com 209 SW Oak Street Suite 400 Portland, Oregon 97204 Telephone: 503-790-2772 Facsimile: 503-227-6840 Attorney for Plaintiff UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT …
Oklahoma County Settles Suit over Excessive Use of Restraint Chair for $200,000 by On May 20, 2014, Bryan County, Oklahoma agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former Bryan County Jail prisoner over maltreatment, including placing him in a restraint chair multiple times for days at a time and …
Article • August 5, 2016
Failure to Provide Hearing Aid Batteries is Deliberate Indifference to Serious Medical Need by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a prisoner who suffers from substantial hearing loss that may be remediated by a hearing aid may state claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need if prison …
Two Illinois Jail Guards Indicted in 2011 'Take Down,' Death of Homeless Man by Joe Watson Two former Illinois jail guards who were employed by the Lake County Sheriff's Office north of Chicago were indicted October 29, 2014, on felony charges related to the death of a homeless man booked …
Brief • August 5, 2016
Sandoval v. San Diego, CA, Order Denying MTD - Sufficient Notice, Failure to Prove Deliberate Indifference, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-01004-BEN-RBB Document 10 Filed 08/05/16 Page 1 of 10 1 FILED 2 2IlUUG-5 PH 2~29 3 ii,Il!!\llol1M pl.TRIGT ef 0 ...11'11' 'tl.iE1I1( us OI$TRtCT .cau~ 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT …
Woman Dies during 1,000 Mile Private Prisoner Transport Trip by David Reutter The death of a woman on a private transport van raised a much needed spotlight on the private prisoner transport industry. The 54-year-old woman was found slumped over in the back of the Prisoner Transportation Services of America …
Jails Sell Prisoners E-Cigarettes, a Gateway to Drug Addiction by As jail officials across the country market e-cigarettes to prisoners at profit margins topping 400 percent, a new study suggests that these “pure nicotine-delivery devices” may actually be a “gateway drug” to cocaine and other serious drug addictions. E-cigarettes use …
Private Corporations Rake in the Cash From DOJ and BOP by Derek Gilna Despite recent efforts to reduce federal prisoner counts and corrections expenses, private corporations continue to reap a financial windfall from other people's misfortune.  Several corporations have fattened their balance sheets as private prison operators and numerous health …
Article • August 4, 2016
Alaskan Prisoner Deaths under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Alaskan state legislature held a hearing in July 2014 after five Alaskan prisoners died between April and June of that year. According to Joe Schmidt, director of the Alaska Department of Corrections, the 2010 national prisoner death rate was .217% and …
Report Finds Fiscal Crisis of Increasing Low-Risk, High-Cost Older Prisoners by Matthew Clarke A report released by the Osborne Association found American prisons facing a crisis of aging in which an increasing percentage of older prisoners who are at low risk for recidivism are driving up the cost of running …
Suit Charges Florida Detainee Died of Neglect by David Reutter The estate of a pretrial detainee who was “neglected to death” sued Florida’s Broward County Jail (BCJ) and its medical contractor, Armor Correctional Health Services (Armor). In other BCJ news, a guard was acquitted of assaulting a pretrial detainee. Upon …
History as Substance Abuser Influences Nation’s Drug Czar by David Reutter America’s drug czar is an alcoholic who is approaching his job differently than his predecessors. In leading the White House Office of National Drug Control, Michael Botticelli is following the Obama administration’s policy of shifting away from the “war …
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