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Telemedicine Behind Bars by The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), which provides accreditation for medical services in prisons, jails and other correctional facilities ...
of Corrections in 2002, she had a long and well-documented history of health problems. She had numerous ailments that, without proper care, “bore a significant risk of experiencing kidney and liver damage ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
that is growing older each year, and thus in need of more medical treatment. “It’s becoming an issue for the state and the [criminal justice] department,” said Dr. Owen Murray, vice president for prisoner health ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
period ending in August 2010, mental health and education employees at Mule Creek State Prison routinely worked less than the 40 hours a week reflected on the timesheets they submitted for pay. The noted ...
Article • April 15, 2013
companies will have to bid for those coveted contracts like everyone else. “The long-term relationship between MDOC and its contractors appears to be a contributing factor,” according to OPEGA ...
, contracts that include "occupancy guarantees" of 80, 90 and even 100 percent and unsafe prison conditions. But it's not just the prisons that are handed over to CCA or GEO group. Almost every service ...
;dangerously inadequate medical and mental health care.” They contend that conditions in Aurora violate the Fifth Amendment due-process standard and impede a detainee’s participation ...
in the areas of corrections, use of force, custodial medical and mental health care and sanitation, the investigators conducted extensive interviews with OPP staff and prisoners. Additionally, a wide range ...
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
-Integrated Health (CC-IH) took him off his medications this request four months before he was placed in segregation. Medical and security staff decided Embrymust owe money, and fear of the people he owed ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
in isolation can have devastating effects on incarcerated individuals’ mental and physical health. In Oregon, people who were incarcerated typically spent between 60 and 150 days (approximately two to five ...
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Medical Expenses, COVID-19
. Connecticut’s DOC waived its $3 medical copays in March 2020, as the virus spread throughout the state. “We didn’t want the lack of funds to be a reason offenders were denied medical treatment ...
Prisoner Health Update: K2 by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Drugs are ubiquitous behind prison walls, but screening of items sent to prisoners and random drug testing incentivizes the use ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Environmental Law, Water
;hundreds of thousands of dollars” on improvements to the water system. Regardless, prisoners at NCCW continue to report health-related issues blamed on the water, including gastrointestinal ailments ...
Illinois Prisoner Awarded Over $822,000 For Hernia Care Denied by Wexford Health by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   On April 2, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District ...
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
proposition regardless of whether a citizen or prisoner is in need of care. Tight budgets have pushed many jails and prisons to turn to prison profiteers to provide medical and mental health care to detainees ...
to substandard medical, mental health treatment, overcrowding, and unsanitary conditions that have existed for over a decade. The settlement followed over two years of investigation and litigation initiated ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
a senior lecturer at the University of Texas’ Law School and Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. A written statement from DPS stated a federal law called the Health Insurance Portability ...
Publication • February 11, 2016
Filed under: Hepatitis
will consider many factors, including your current liver health, the length of your sentence, and your medical history. If you have been told that you are not eligible for HCV treatment or you have to wait ...
and forever discharge Parthasarathi Ghosh, M.D., Liping Zhangt M.D., LaTanya Williams, P.A. and Wexford Health Sources, Inc., as well as its agents, partners, employees, successors, assigns, attorneys ...
improperly housed prisoners – severely limiting or eliminating access to treatment, education, exercise and visitation. The settlement is the first of its kind to incorporate broader criminal justice system ...
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