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Williams v. Hardeman Co and CCA, TN, Complaint, medical neglect inmate death TBC, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0459 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0460 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0461 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0462 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0463 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0464 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0465 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0466 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0467 …
Article • May 15, 2008
NJ Prisoner’s Tuberculosis Suit Dismissed by NJ Prisoner's Tuberculosis Suit Dismissed The plaintiff tested positive for tuberculosis while incarcerated; he was given INH, which caused some liver problems. The defendants were not deliberately indifferent in not doing TB testing every six months rather than yearly and in giving him INH. …
Independent Monitor Issues First Report on Delaware Health Care by by David M. Reutter Joshua W. Martin III, the Independent Monitor who is overseeing an agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC), has issued his first semi-annual report. The agreement with the …
Dallas County Jail Deficient, Says 2006 Report; DOJ Files Suit by Gary Hunter Just over two years ago, the jail in Dallas County, Texas (DCJ) failed state certification inspections and came under fire for numerous high profile cases of prisoner deaths and neglect. A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report, …
Prison A Major Factor In Spreading AIDS by Gary Hunter A recent study entitled African Americans, Health Disparities and HIV/AIDS has directly linked incarceration to the spread of AIDS in minority communities. Robert Fullilove ED.D., of Columbia University authored the study which was released on December 1, 2006 to coincide …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Tuberculosis
TB Prevention and Control In Prisons and Jails: New CDC Guidelines by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The National Center for Disease Control (CDC) updated its 1996 standard guidelines for effective prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB) in detention facilities by issuing fifteen new recommendations in 2006. These were …
Prisons as Incubators and Spreaders of Disease and Illness by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg America’s lockups are turning from prisoner dumping grounds into infectious disease breeding grounds. Isolation is intended to be the punishment inflicted by society upon prisoners. But concentrating prisoners in the process of isolating them, …
Delaware Forced to Clean-up Medical Care by DOJ Settlement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a nine-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding prisoners in four Delaware prisons ?suffer harm or are placed at the risk of harm from constitutional deficiencies in certain …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Tuberculosis
Ohio Prison Officials Not Liable for TB Exposure by The plaintiff tested positive for TB in prison and alleged that various actions of prison officials had exposed him to it. There was an outbreak of TB after prisoners had filed numerous grievances based on rumors about an active case of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Dismisses Dental, Diet and TB Suit by A prior decision collaterally estopped the plaintiff's claim about placement in isolated confinement when she received a positive tuberculosis test. The fact that the prior decision involved a different prison and different defendants did not matter, since the plaintiff was a party …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eye Damage Cause by TB Medication Suit Dismissed for Failure to Exhaust by The plaintiff suffered severe visual damage from TB medication. He didn't exhaust against the nurse who made him take the medication and ignored his complaints of side effects. Non-exhaustion is not excused by the fact that he …
Article • May 15, 2007
Contracting Tuberculosis in Prison States Claim by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit hell that a district court when it dismissed, for failing to state a claim, a Texas prisoner's lawsuit complaining of filth, overcrowded conditions and that as result of the overcrowding plaintiff contracted tuberculosis. While the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fugitive Disentitlement Rule by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the fugitive from justice rule does not mandate the automatic dismissal of a civil case under the fugitive rule. In May 1987, James Perko, while confined at a Missouri State Penitentiary, brought suit under § 1983 for deliberate …
Dismissal for Want of Jurisdiction is Judgment With Prejudice in Texas by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On May 28, 2004, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a dismissal of a suit against a governmental entity for want of jurisdiction under the Texas Tort Claims Act is a …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Prison TB 10 Times Higher Than Non-Prison Cases by The number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in correctional populations far outpaced the general population between 1993 and 2003, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. TB case rates in the general population remained at fewer than …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Mississippi DOC Guts TB Program by For many years the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) has led the nation in controlling tuberculosis (TB) in its prison system. This was accomplished by giving chest x-rays to all incoming prisoners to determine whether they had the disease. Unfortunately this practice has been …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
Florida Jury Awards $3,000,000 for Medical Negligence Causing Prisoner's Death by After a seven-day trial, a Florida jury awarded $3,006,200 to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence, causing the death of a Florida prisoner. This was brought by the estate of prisoner Clifford E. Jones, Jr., 35, against …
Alabama Settles Class Action Medical Suit; Institutes HCV Treatment Protocol by John E Dannenberg Alabama Settles Class Action Medical Suit; Institutes HCV Treatment Protocol by John E. Dannenberg In a major milestone along the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) march towards gaining humane medical care in Alabama's prisons, a Settlement …
Court Continues Oversight and Orders Corrections in Georgia Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "The Court is totally out of patience with the assurances and promises that compliance will be achieved" with the Final Settlement Agreement signed on January 24, 2000. So said Judge Shoeb, U.S. District Court …
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