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Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Sixth Circuit Revives Claim Over Michigan Prisoner’s Fatal Overdose on Allegedly Smuggled Fentanyl by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 10, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to employees of the Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) …
Article • February 7, 2023
Two Prisoners Stabbed, One Overdosed: Just Another Day at Rikers Island by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 14, 2023, the violence at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex began early, when a guard saw one detainee slashed by others. In a separate incident later that …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
CDCR’s Medication Assisted Treatment Program for Substance Abusers is a Resounding Success by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Between 2016 and 2019, fatal drug overdoses more than doubled for California state prisoners. The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said that hospitalizations for drug overdoses rose almost as fast. …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Fifth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Texas Jailers Who Refused Medical Care to Detainee Dying of Drug Overdose by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to staff …
Publication • October 1, 2022
New York State Office of the Attorney General-Second Annual Report , Oct. 2022 New York State Office of the Attorney General Office of Special Investigation October 1, 2022 Second Annual Report Pursuant to Executive Law Section 70-b I ,,.,,G,~,..,; Letitia James NYS Attorney General 0 Table of Contents 1. Introduction …
Article • September 21, 2022
Filed under: Drug Overdose, Accidents
Sixth Circuit Says Detroit Jail Guard Suspended for Failing To Check on Detainee Not Liable for His Death From Drugs Hidden in His Rectum by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 8, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held a guard at the Detroit …
$1 Million Paid After Indiana Jailers Fatally Beat and Taser Detainee, But Prosecutor Finds No Crime by Keith Sanders, Benjamin Tschirhart by Keith Sanders and Benjamin Tschirhart When a caregiver fails to seek medical attention for a person during an emergency, inflicting instead additional pain and suffering and looking on …
Article • June 6, 2022
Alabama Prisons Still Lethal, Record Another Seven Deaths in May 2022 by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott Seven prisoners held by the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) died during May 2022. One of the seven was murdered. One most likely died of a drug overdose, authorities said, given …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Overdoses Skyrocket in Tennessee Prisons During Pandemic Despite Visitation Restrictions by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the three years before the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, fourteen Tennessee state prisoners died from overdoses, according to the state Department of Correction (DOC). Over the two years since then that number …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Drug Overdose
2019-2021 Impacts of the Integrated Substance Use of Disorder Treatment Program, April 2022 IMPACTS OF THE INTEGRATED SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT PROGRAM | 2019 — 2021 I cmmN<i : IT!nuJil~ hr d1nq ~~rt Asedi11l} YourseW ~ u•lil~ \o (nli ,i Deali1~ wi~ Peer Pr ,d Iir¥1 lnvolv~ inc n JXJl~ll5= …
Article • May 31, 2022
Overdoses Climb in Colorado Prisons and Jails With Drugs Smuggled by Mail, Uber Eats by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A Denver jail guard was fired on April 29, 2022, after an investigation revealed he allowed deliveries from Uber Eats in which drugs were hidden and later used by a …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
These Meds Prevent Overdoses. Few Federal Prisoners Are Getting Them by Beth Schwartzapfel Three years after the First Step Act required the Bureau of Prisons to treat more people with medications for opioid addiction, only a tiny fraction are receiving them. by Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project In 2018, Congress …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Massachusetts Cop Indicted for Lying About Checking Cell of Prisoner Who Died of Drug Overdose by In May 2021, a former Brockton, Massachusetts police officer was indicted for allegedly lying about performing checks on a man in police custody who died in his cell of a drug overdose. Alfonso Brandao, …
$750,000 Settlement in South Dakota Pretrial Detainee’s Overdose Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $750,000 settlement was reached in the methamphetamine overdose death of a female South Dakota pretrial detainee. The lawsuit brought claims against two separate county jails, state troopers, and guards at the jails. Sarah …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Drug Overdose, Dismissal
Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Lawsuit in Prisoner Overdose at San Diego Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a January 13, 2021 opinion by the Ninth Circuit court of appeals, district court erred in upholding meritless objections to the summary judgment evidence supporting a lawsuit brought by …
Article • October 4, 2020
$47,000 Settlement in Detainee’s Overdose Death Claim by Corizon Health agreed to pay $47,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it negligently failed to assure street drugs did not enter its Jail Alternatives to Substance Abuse (JASA) program. Brian G. Brewer was transferred from Florida&rsquo;s Polk County Jail on May 12, …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Texas Jail Prisoner’s Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The family of a Texas detainee who died of a suicidal overdose under jailers&rsquo; noses can continue its lawsuit against Young County, Texas. That decision was handed down on April 22, 2020, by the Fifth …
NaphCare, Oregon Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider, Required to Disclose Records in Detox Death Suit by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson An Oregon federal court in January 2020 compelled NaphCare, Inc., the private medical care provider for the Washington County Jail (WCJ) in Hillsboro, to disclose lawsuits and financial records in …
Circle Bear v. Milbrandt, SD, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2020 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE I, personal in David R. consideration Dollars Gienapp, representative of the ($750,000.00), payments as set of forth the Public Assurance Alliance, Management, Employers of which Public Mutual is estate Entity Seven of to the for the future …
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
Arizona Prisoners Required to Pay Medical Expenses for Overdoses by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 15, 2019, the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) implemented a change to its disciplinary procedures for prisoners. Policy No. 803 now mandates that prisoners requiring hospital treatment for substance abuse must repay the …
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