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health appointments. For this reason, the federal court for the Southern District of New York has threatened to hold DOC in contempt of its orders in a long-­running class action, as PLN has reported ...
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
health-care standards. VDOC failed to fulfill its end of the deal and by January 2019 twelve prisoners had died while in FCCW’s custody since the settlement was approved. “Some women have died ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
and mental-health needs of prisoners. Approximately three years later, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson found the ADOC “horrendously inadequate” in meeting those needs and also criticized severe ...
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
by the state Department of Corrections (DOC), raising its COVID-19 death rate 19 times higher than that of the state’s general population. In the aftermath of the pandemic, families and advocacy groups ...
Contempt Order Entered Against Virgin Island’s Prison Mental Health Care by Contempt Order Entered Against Virgin Island’s Prison Mental Health Care A Virgin Islands federal district ...
health and substance abuse programs; however, the programs offered by Re-Direct were rarely attended and there was no record that Muldrow received his medication. The Re-Direct program allegedly provided ...
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
losing its license. Weeks later, Kirkland appointed Rich Streeter as its new executive director. “We’re trying to do everything we can,” claimed Streeter. “You’re talking ...
Brief • 2010
to take their medication consistently and privately. UMass Correctional Health – an arm of the University of Massachusetts Medical School hired by the DOC to provide health services to its prisoners – has ...
Publication • November 16, 2020
corrections officials to get the virus under control, much less to definitively shift the United States away from its decades-long practice of mass incarceration. Still, the speed with which these releases were ...
Brief • January 18, 2022
Filed under: Medical
corporate predecessor was Correct Care Solutions, LLC. 8. Defendant Renee Bingham, R.N., was, at all relevant times, an employee, agent, and/or subcontractor of Wellpath, working as its Health Services ...
, according to workplace safety complaints submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. During a one-year period ending January 15 of this year, OSHA received 81 workplace safety complaints ...
of adequate mental health treatment, and inability to qualify for parole,” DRNPA stated in its complaint. The settlement agreement contains sweeping, comprehensive changes in how the PDOC must handle ...
Publication • August 4, 2016
Adult Detention Facility (SFCADF) from October 2001 to April 2005 along with subcontractor Physicians Network Association (PNA), which administered medical and mental health care services (PNA ended its ...
OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION AL VIN PERKINS JR., ) ) Plaintiff, ) No. 15-cv-06188 ) ) v. Honorable Gary Feinerman ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES INC., LATONYA WILLIAMS, JAMES CARUSO, ATHENA SMITH, LAURA ...
and its' ability to do either preventive or repair work had been overwhelmed as a result of the problems caused by the overcrowding. Similarly, the medical and mental health care experts found ...
Brief • October 26, 2023
Filed under: Failure to Treat
2:23-cv-01430-WED Filed 10/26/23 Page 1 of 41 Document 1 in their official capacities. Prisoner plaintiffs and the Plaintiff Class are entirely dependent on Defendants for their basic health care ...
Publication • February 1, 2015
Filed under: Jail Specific, Sentencing, Bail
or the prevalence of mental health issues. The last time the BJS released data on these topics was in 2002 in its Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, a detailed survey of a sample of nationally representative jail ...
Case • 1999
to provide that care' constitutes `deliberate indifference.' Carswell v. Bay County, 854 F2d 454, 457 (11th Cir. 1988); Ancata v. Prison Health Svcs., 769 F2d 700, 704 (11th Cir. 1985)." (Emphasis omitted ...
Case • 2004
on his health problems under U.S.S.G. § 5H1.4, which explains that "an extraordinary physical impairment may be a reason to depart downward; e.g., in the case of a seriously infirm defendant, home ...
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
state prisons, where an estimated 9,000 of the state's 54,000 inmates are HIV positive. Health officials expect a surge in AIDS deaths among prisoners across the country. The penal systems in New York ...
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