Skip navigation

Search

6922 results
Page 2 of 347. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 343 344 345 346 347 | Next »

Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Tenth Circuit Upholds Nearly $8.8 Million Judgment for Utah Jail Death by Douglas Ankney On November 13, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld a jury award of more than $8.7 million to the Estate of detainee who died in Utah’s Davis County Jail. In its …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Eighth Circuit Excuses Missouri Prisoner’s Failure to Exhaust Remedies While He Was In a Coma by Douglas Ankney On November 15, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated a deliberate indifference claim lodged by Missouri prisoner Tremonti Perry, whose alleged medical neglect left him in a …
Sixth Circuit Limits Deliberate Indifference Standard in Kentucky Jail Medical Care Challenge by David M. Reutter Since its September 2021 ruling in Brawner v. Scott Cty., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has held that pretrial detainees challenging their medical care in jail are not fully held …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Private Contractors
Mississippi DOC Issues Almost $300 Million in No-Bid Contracts to VitalCore Health by When government agencies—including corrections departments—enter contracts with private companies, they typically go through a competitive bidding process, beginning with a Request for Proposals (RFP). This ensures that taxpayers have access to information used to award government contracts, …
Oklahoma Supreme Court Kills One Jail Death Suit, Threatening Settlement of Another by In a case with enormous implications for Oklahoma jail detainees, the state Supreme Court ruled on March 11, 2025, that a jail’s subcontracted medical providers are “employees” for the purposes of the Oklahoma Governmental Tort Claims Act …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$875,000 Award for Illinois Prisoner’s Delay in Getting Hernia Surgery by David M. Reutter On April 1, 2024, jury in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois awarded $875,000 to state prisoner John E. Taylor, Jr., after finding officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and its contracted …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$6 Million Settlement in Illinois Detainee’s Gruesome Untreated Heroin Withdrawal Death by David Reutter On December 18, 2024, notice was filed in the federal court for the Central District of Illinois that a $6 million good-faith settlement had been reached resolving a lawsuit seeking compensation for the April 2022 death …
Wellpath and VitalCore Skip Paying Nearly $2 Million in Settlements in South Carolina by In October 2024, Wellpath—a private for-profit contractor that provides medical care in prisons and jails—was ordered to pay a $1.5 million settlement it entered in a lawsuit alleging that one of the company’s nurses performed “unnecessary …
Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer by In a lawsuit filed by a former Florida prisoner who was released to die from prostate cancer that private prison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$2.95 Million Settlement for Untreated Pneumonia Death in Washington Jail by Washington’s Pacific County agreed in state Court on November 22, 2024, to a $2.95 million settlement resolving claims by the survivors of Crystal R. Greenler, 38, who died of untreated pneumonia in the county lockup nearly two years earlier. …
New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths by A suit filed in federal court for the District of New Jersey on February 19, 2025, accused officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of failing to protect prisoner Phillip Kellerman from …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Six Deaths in Eleven Months at Washington Jail by The South County Correctional Entity, a jail shared by six cities in Washington’s King County and located in the Seattle suburb of Des Moines, recorded its sixth death in 11 months on February 1, 2025. Known locally as SCORE, the lockup …
Study Finds Just 1% of Prisoner’s Eighth Amendment Claims Succeed by In a report published on December 19, 2024, Business Insider found just 1% of prisoners succeeded in claims against prison officials for violating the Eighth Amendment ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment. To arrive at that figure, researchers combed …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Idaho Warden Bought Execution Drugs on Roadside by On March 21, 2025, Idaho lost a bid to prevent disclosing its source of execution drugs to condemned prisoner Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. By then, though, a warden deposed for the case had already admitted to buying lethal drugs for the state …
Washington DOC On Hot Seat Over “Unexpected Fatalities,” Missed Autopsies by A report released on January 10, 2025, by the Office of the Corrections Ombuds (OCO) of the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) counted 26 “unexpected fatalities” during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2024. A report released …
Wellpath Sanctioned for Discovery Violation in Suit Over Kentucky Prisoner’s Death by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Private prison and jail medical provider Wellpath, LLC has announced a plan to exit bankruptcy proceedings, as reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, May 2025, p.56.] The plan offers some relief to …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Oregon DOC Replaces Top Medical Staffers Amid Turmoil by On February 25, 2025, less than half of the physician positions budgeted for the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) were staffed. Ten doctors had resigned, been fired or put on leave in the previous year. The decimation of the physician workforce …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$3.4 Million Settlement for Minnesota Jail Death Called “Real-Life Nightmare” by When Lucas John Bellamy, 41, was booked into jail in Minnesota’s Hennepin County on July 18, 2022, he informed staff that he had swallowed a bag of drugs shortly before his arrest. He was taken to a hospital, where …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Studies Link Incarceration with Lower Cancer Survival Rates—For Prisoner’s Partners, Too by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Two recent studies highlight decreased cancer survival rates for those who’ve been incarcerated and their partners, too. The studies effectively connect abysmal prison healthcare to the lack of access to cancer screenings …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wellpath Prepares Plan to Exit Bankruptcy by Prison healthcare giant Wellpath took a step closer toward exiting bankruptcy proceedings on April 15, 2025, when it announced a settlement reached with a group a notch below those senior creditors first in line for repayment. That group of junior creditors includes prisoners …
Page 2 of 347. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 343 344 345 346 347 | Next »