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9-11 Detainees' Suit Survives Government's Motion to Dismiss

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Political Prisoners, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Federal Tort Claims Act, Alien Tort Claims Act, Alien Tort Statute (Federal), International, Immigration, Alien Tort Statute (International)

; and deliberately exposed to excessive heat, cold and continuous bright lighting. They also alleged they suffered interference with the exercise of their religious beliefs and interference with their communications ...

Mandala v. Coughlin-920 F. Supp. 342 (ED NY 1996)

Case • 1996

the plaintiff's shoulder problems from the moment he arrived, culminating in his having surgery. According to Mandala, from the moment he arrived at the NCCC he advised the County Defendants of his ongoing medical ...

U.S. Marshals Service Inspectors Find D.C. Central Jail Not Meeting Federal Detention Standards

Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022

Filed under: Failure to Treat, Conditions of Confinement, Sewage, Sanitation, Prison Conditions

of Corrections (DOC) have complained of inhumane conditions and mistreatment. Criticism of the 45-year-old main jail facility has also come from lawyers and judges, as well as detainees and their visitors. Yet ...

Andrews Testimony Before Senate Judiciary on Solitary Confinement 2012

Publication

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

represents a class of inmates with serious mental illness in South Carolina prisons, many of whom have spent significant time in solitary confinement. I am appearing today on behalf of that class and its ...

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Grossly Disfigures Misdiagnosed Washington State Prisoner

Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Medical Misconduct, Skin, Misdiagnosis, Amputations

Creek Correctional Facility infirmary in agonizing pain, with a rash covering his torso and slowly drifting into septic shock, had been misdiagnosed by infirmary staff as having only an allergic reaction ...

Prisoners Reportedly Locked in Showers in Oklahoma, Florida

Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Showers, Restraints

;No mattress, steel bunk, no pillow, no linen, no blanket, no toilet paper, no water. If you need a drink of water, tough.” He said that guards have little choice but to go along with the practice. &ldquo ...

Williamsturk v Bazzy Ny Court Order Excessive Force Restraints 2010

Brief • 2010

was zipped up and his identification was covered up. He replied, "I don't have to tell you shit." (Id. at 27-28.) It was a bitter cold night, so Plaintiff asked the officer to either come in or stay out ...

Tortured and Wrongly Held at Guantánamo for 14 Years, Abdul Zahir Now Has Freedom, but No Justice

Article • April 12, 2018

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Conditions of Confinement, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Political Prisoners (International)

;namo and the policies of indefinite detention and torture, which will, in all likelihood, continue with Trump as president. "I want to leave behind the bad things that happened to me while I have been ...

Scott Et Al v Doc Et Al Va Complaint Deficient Health Care for Women 2012

Brief • July 24, 2012

medication stronger than over-the-counter Tylenol for her chronic and severe knee, back and neck pain have been either ignored or refused by FCCW Medical Staff. 77. Ms. Knight had gastric bypass surgery prior ...

Gumm v Bop Ok Slip and Fall Complaint 2006

Brief • August 17, 2006

stated" the Plaintiff's injuries required surgery and that said surgery should have been performed within the first six (6) hours after Plaintiff sustained the injury to properly prepare and to enable her ...

Baker v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2013

Brief • September 23, 2013

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect, Skeletal Injury, Failure to Treat, Deliberate Indifference

condition. Defendants denied and delayed Baker’s access to proper medical care, resulting in Baker having to undergo a surgery that otherwise would not have been necessary and leaving him with diminished ...

Upsher v. New York, NY, Decision, Failure to Treat, Medical, 2014

Brief • February 18, 2014

Filed under: Cancer, Blood, Failure to Treat

for the past 18 years. He does not perform colon cancer surgery, nor does he perform colonoscopies, although he has done sigmoidoscopies in the past. In order to form the opinions they expressed at trial ...

Manzo v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Complaint, Medical Neglect and Solitary Confinement, 2017

Brief • March 2, 2017

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

, and suffered a spinal injury that required him to 9 take strong medications for his nerve pain. He was also due to have further surgery to remove 11 a temporary inferior vena cava ("IVC'') filter from his ...

No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game

Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Esmor/CSC, Staffing, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

at Otter Creek, women at the facility have complained consistently about cold temperatures in cells; loss of property during their transfer; racial and sexual harassment; bizarre medical care ...

Jones v. BCC San Juan Co, NM, Amended Complaint, wrongful death untreated strep throat, 2016

Brief • January 15, 2016

Filed under: Infections, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

surgery for appendicitis with perforation. This is alleged to have caused a more serious status of the appendicitis, adhesions and infection, requiring more extensive surgery and risk of complications; f ...

Corizon Loses Indiana DOC Medical Contract Amid Lawsuits

Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017

Filed under: Corizon, Medical Misconduct, Private Contractors

to the IDOC’s ombudsman jumped from 153 in 2010 to 509 in 2015. Prisoner deaths, including suicides, increased to 86 in 2015. Then there were the lawsuits. Indiana prisoners or their families have filed ...

Jail Conditions - Inmate, Staff and Family Perspectives Report, Santa Clara Co CA, Moscone et al, 2016

Publication • February 24, 2016

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Corrections Audits, Jail Specific

jail staff. The reported lack of professionalism is most apparent in the gap between policy and practice concerning:  Unresponsive jail staff—The Inmate Rulebook advises inmates that they have the right ...

French v Daviess Co Ky Plf Response to Def Mot for Sj Med Denial 2009

Brief • February 20, 2009

medications and psychotropics lawfully prescribed by dulylicensed treating physicians without ever having such inmates examined by a doctor, and pursuant only to standing "voice orders" blanketly administered ...

Mitchell v Hininger Et Al Ky Deposition Testimony Angela Steadman 2012

Brief • 2012

Page 15, Dr. Limbird again says that Mr. 14 Mitchell should have surgery for his back. 15 agree that Dr. Limbird ordered surgery for his 16 back? 17 A 18 19 it, no. I think he’s making ...

Copeland v. Jones, FL, Class Action Complaint, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2015

Brief • September 16, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Hernias, Failure to Treat

be provided. That decision-making is illustrated by Defendants’ approach to patients with hernias. Specifically, Defendants have a policy, practice, and custom of not providing hernia surgeries to prisoners ...