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$12,630.50 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Who Suffered Leg Amputation by $12,630.50 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Who Suffered Leg Amputation Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $12,630.50 to settle a lawsuit by former prisoner Samuel L. Key for the failure to provide medical treatment that resulted in amputation of his left …
Article • May 24, 2015
Texas Prisoner’s ADA and Deliberate Indifference Claims Survive Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity by Texas Prisoner’s ADA and Deliberate Indifference Claims Survive Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has held in a Texas prisoner’s suit that one of two prison doctors was not …
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
In Washington State Prisons, Negligent Health Care Turns Illness into a Death Sentence by Rick Anderson In Washington State Prisons, Negligent Health Care Turns Illness into a Death Sentence Ricardo Cruz Mejia went to prison a murderer, he left a victim. by Rick Anderson Ricardo Cruz Mejia’s final days began …
Scott v. CCA, LA, Complaint, Medical Neglect Gangrene Amputations, 2014 Case 1:14-cv-00956-JTT-JDK Document 1-2 Filed 05/07/14 Page 1 of 26 PageID #: 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ROBERT SCOTT Plaintiff, v. COMPLAINT Civil Action No. - - - - - CORRECTIONS CORPORATION …
Brief • March 9, 2014
Filed under: Blood, Amputations
Eubanks v. Naik, TX, Summary Judgment Order, Untreated Sores Lead to Double Amputation, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS GALVESTON DIVISION DONALD R EUBANKS, Plaintiff, VS. KOKILA NAIK, et al, Defendants. § § § § § § § § CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:11-CV-432 MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Plaintiff …
California: State Not Liable for Failure to Provide Needed Treatment so Long as Medical Care is Summoned by On January 15, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that state prison officials were immune from liability, as a matter of law, for decisions that resulted in a prisoner failing to …
Brief • July 31, 2013
Filed under: Amputations, Malpractice
Baker v. United States, NC, Order Denying SJ, Med. Mal. Resulting in Amputated Penis, 2013 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:11-CT-3070-D GREGORY EARL BAKER, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Cook County Jail Agrees to Improvements by Brandon Sample It took a federal lawsuit by the United States Department of Justice to get Cook County to finally agree to remedy decades of inadequate conditions at its infamous Cook County Jail (CCJ). The sweeping deal between Cook County and the Justice …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Washington State Prisoner Granted Preliminary Injunction to Treat Neuroma; Case Settles for $120,000 by On Sept. 17, 2010, a federal district court in Washington State granted a preliminary injunction to a state prisoner, requiring prison officials to provide necessary medical treatment. The preliminary injunction was issued in a civil rights …
Article • July 15, 2011
Ohio Negligent Shackling Claim Remanded by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample On April 8, 2010, the Court of Appeals of Ohio remanded a prisoner’s negligence claim against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRD). Jack Nott sued the ODRC after his left leg was amputated from the knee down. …
$19.6 Million Verdict in Nassau County New York for Arrestee Run Over By Police by On February 19, 2010, a federal jury awarded $16.6 million to a former construction worker who was run over by a cop in 2005. Thomas Hartman sued Nassau County detective Karl Snelders after Snelders ran …
Brief • February 9, 2011
Rhea v. Washington Department of Corrections et al, WA, Settlement, medical neglect, 2011 LEME REL GREE OFC TAN JEAN RHEA v.WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et. al. rt Wes istrict 0 Cause No.1 0-0254 Distri hingto coma AND ONSI TION he su ONE DRED NTY ,0.00), Rhea, irs, ass g r …
Brief • September 17, 2010
Rhea v. Washington Department of Corrections et al, WA, Order, medical neglect, 2010 Case 2:10-cv-00254-BHS-KLS Document 24 Filed 09/17/10 Page 1 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 8 9 10 JEAN RHEA, Plaintiff, 11 12 13 No. …
Brief • July 9, 2010
Rhea v. Washington Department of Corrections et al, WA, Report and Recommendation, medical neglect, 2010 Case 2:10-cv-00254 J 3-KLS Document 18 Filed 07If ~01 0 Page 1 of 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 7 8 9 JEAN RHEA, …
Article • May 15, 2010
Washington Prisoner Paid $19,000 for Partial Loss of Toe by On September 14, 2007, the state of Washington paid $19,000 to settle with a prisoner who had a portion of his toe cut off while mowing grass at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. The suit, filed in Snohomish …
Los Angeles County Jail Agrees To Pay $900,000 to Settle Lawsuit over Inadequate Medical Care by Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $900,000 to a prisoner who lost his foot after staff at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in California delayed processing a culture test that later …
Article • January 15, 2010
Qualified Immunity Awarded to Guards for Restraint Necessitating Amputation by The Court of Appeals of Georgia has affirmed the grant of qualified immunity for two Glynn County Detention Center (GCDC) guards accused of violating a prisoner’s civil rights resulting in leg amputation. Diana Whitten was arrested for a probation violation …
Article • December 15, 2009
$15,000 Settlement for Amputated Finger by On February 2, 2007, Anthony Jose Gonzales accepted a $15,000 settlement from Sacramento County, California for the loss of his right-middle finger, which was amputated due to infection while he was being held in the County's Main Jail for drug possession. The settlement was …
$2.7 Million Settlement for Oklahoma Double Leg Amputee Jail Prisoner by On April 9, 2009, a federal district judge in Oklahoma signed a consent decree memorializing a $2.7 million settlement between an Oklahoma county and a former jail prisoner who suffered amputation of both legs while incarcerated at the jail. …
$899,500 Award in NY DOCS Medical Negligence Resulting in Leg Amputation by A New York Court of Claims awarded a former prisoner a total of $899,500 in a medical negligence claim. As a result of the delays and neglect in treatment of William C. Stephens’s peripheral vascular disease (PVD) by …
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