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Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Prisoner Health Update: MRSA Infections by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD MRSA — Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus — is a bacterium that has become immune to Penicillin-like and Cephalosporin-class antibiotics. The pathogen is found where people live together in close quarters such as hospitals, nursing homes, and overcrowded U.S. …
Article • December 27, 2022
Eighth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jailers and Medical Provider Who Misdiagnosed Prisoner’s Leukemia as Gingivitis by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On April 12, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said a Minnesota jail detainee was not subjected to unconstitutional treatment by jailers and …
Article • September 7, 2022
Seventh Circuit Lets Wexford Skate from “Appalling” Treatment of Illinois Prisoner With Painful Anal Abscess and Fistula by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss After an Illinois prisoner developed a painful anal abscess and fistula, his medical care was “appalling” and the prison healthcare system was “dysfunctional.” But that’s just …
Brief • February 4, 2022
Filed under: Medical Misconduct
Stirling v. Hendrix, OR, Expert Report of Michael T. Puerini, Lack of Medical Care, 2022 Case 3:21-cv-00974-SB Document 21-1 Filed 02/04/22 Page 1 of 5 Michael T. Puerini, MD, CCHP-A, FACCP Correctional Medicine Expert and Consultant Expert Report of Michael T. Puerini, MD, CCHP-A, FACCP Introduction In September, 2021, I …
Brief • February 4, 2022
Filed under: Medical Misconduct
Stirling v. Hendrix, OR, Status Report of 02-2022, Lack of Medical Care, 2022 Case 3:21-cv-00974-SB Document 21 Filed 02/04/22 Page 1 of 2 Lisa Hay, OSB #980628 Federal Public Defender 101 S.W. Main Street, Suite 1700 Portland, Oregon 97204 Tel: (503) 326-2123 Fax: (503) 326-5524 lisa_hay@fd.org Attorney for Petitioners IN …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Fifth Circuit Holds Confessed Medical Malpractice Does Not Insulate Prison Medical Providers From Finding of Deliberate Indifference by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 11, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a confession of medical malpractice by prison health care providers does …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Absent Expert Medical Testimony, Deliberate Indifference Tough to Prove in Medical Cases by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment for the defendants in a civil rights lawsuit alleging they were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s serious medical needs. …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Rikers Island Death Case Against City of New York Settles for $5.5 Million by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A wrongful death action filed by the decedent’s estate of a Rikers Island prisoner against the City of New York, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., Prison Health Services, …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
BOP Inspector General Rips State for Failure to Control COVID-19 at Lompoc in California by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz has issued a report itemizing the multitude of mistakes and mismanagement that aggravated the troubled agency’s response to the COVID-19 …
Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections, Motion for Preliminary Injuction, Medical Neglect of Hepatitis C, 2019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI CENTRAL DIVISION 1 2 3 4 MICHAEL G. POSTAWKO, et al., Plaintiffs, 5 6 7 V. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., 8 ) …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Medical Director of California Prison System Removed After Dubious Transfers Spike COVID-19 Counts by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Although California is in the middle of a pandemic with the governor ordering the lock-down of the state’s economy and encouraged people to “stay home-save lives,” California prison medical director Dr. …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Coronavirus Will Not Be Controlled in Country Until It Is Controlled in Prisons and Jails by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. There is growing concern that communities that host jails and prisons will never be able to control the coronavirus unless the epidemic in correctional institutions …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
San Quentin Had Zero COVID-19 Cases Until California Officials Sent Infected Prisoners, Triggered Wildfire by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a June 30, 2020, report from The New York Times, until recently San Quentin had zero cases of COVID-19. However, officials from the California Department of Corrections and …
Article • July 20, 2020
Vt. Supreme Court Holds Complainant Has No Right to Psychologist’s Response to Disciplinary Complaint Unless Disciplinary Charges Are Filed by The Vermont Supreme Court recently held that a prisoner who filed a disciplinary complaint against a prison psychologist alleging the psychologist falsified a risk assessment extending his incarceration by 14 …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Warden Reassigned From COVID-19 Inundated Louisiana Federal Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 22, 2020, Rodney Myers was removed from his position as warden of a federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, after severe criticism of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The former warden’s failure to isolate …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Connecticut Prisoners Win Lawsuit After Hepatitis Exposure by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In May 2019, a final settlement agreement was approved for 15 prisoners who were exposed to Hepatitis C when a Correctional Managed Health Care (CMHC) nurse at MacDougall-Walker State Prison in Suffield, Connecticut, used the same needle …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Pennsylvania Board Revokes Psychologist’s License Over Prisoner Suicides by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Pennsylvania Board of Psychology revoked the license of psychologist James Harrington and imposed $62,233 in civil penalties and costs. The revocation was based on seven suicides over an 18 month period at SCI Cresson, …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Alabama Jail Guards Face Liability for Inaction to Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In an unpublished opinion, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to guards in a civil rights action alleging they were deliberately indifferent to a pretrial …
Article • February 5, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
Orange County Pays $299K to Settle Claim that Deputy Forbade Nurse to Treat Prisoner by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 13, 2019, the Orange County Board of Supervisors approved a $299,000 settlement in a suit brought by a jail nurse who alleged a deputy refused to allow her …
Colorado Prisoner Dies as Nurse Watches Videotape; $2.45 Million Settlement by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In September 2019, the final signature of an Arapahoe County, Colorado official was affixed to a $2.45 million settlement agreement in a civil rights lawsuit over the death of prisoner Jeffrey Scott Lillis. Lillis …
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