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No Damage Award for Emotional Injury Where Underlying Harm is De Minimis by The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona has granted in part and denied in part a summary judgment motion filed by the Durango Jail in a civil rights action challenging unsanitary conditions. Aaron Wittkamper sued …
Releasing The Disease: Is Overcrowded Cook County Jail Responsible For The Rise Of MRSA On The Outside? by Kelly Virella Releasing The Disease: Is Overcrowded Cook County Jail Responsible For The Rise Of MRSA On The Outside? by Kelly Virella The sudden death of a 17-month-old boy in Hyde Park …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Illinois Guards Protest Prison’s Failure to Treat Scabies Outbreak by Illinois Guards Protest Prison’s Failure to Treat Scabies Outbreak An outbreak of scabies, a mite infestation that causes itching and rash-like symptoms, has hit the Illinois River Correctional Center. Guards protested outside the facility on October 1, 2008 to decry …
Prisoners Can Sue Virginia DOC’s Contract Medical Provider for Breach of Contract by Prisoners Can Sue Virginia DOC’s Contract Medical Provider for Breach of Contract Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) prisoners who receive inadequate medical care may sue the VDOC’s contract medical provider for breach of contract, the Supreme Court …
$1.8 Million Award After Illinois Federal Prisoner's Suicide; Award Reversed On Appeal by Illinois State resident Karen Johnson brought a federal tort and 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983 action against the United States in 1996 after her husband Robert committed suicide in a federal prison. The court awarded her $1.8 million. …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Pennsylvania Prisoner Appointed Counsel on Retaliation / MRSA Infection Claims by Pennsylvania Prisoner Appointed Counsel on Retaliation / MRSA Infection Claims A Pennsylvania federal district court appointed counsel to a prisoner in a lawsuit claiming he contracted a serious infection and faced retaliation after filing grievances about his medical condition. …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
South Carolina Jail Pays Prisoners $80,000 for Failure to Prevent/Treat MRSA by $80,000 to South Carolina Jail Prisoners for Failure to Prevent and Treat MRSA South Carolina’s Greenville County has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle 25 prisoners’ lawsuit that claims jail officials failed to take preventive measures to prevent …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
CMS Fails to Treat MRSA Infection; Florida Jail Prisoner Dies by When Dorothy Dian Palinchik was booked into Florida’s Pinellas County Jail (PCJ) on February 13, 2008 for stealing a $9.00 Philly cheesesteak sandwich from a grocery store, she was seemingly healthy. Two weeks later she died of pneumonia and …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Filed under: Medical, Medication, Skin
Prison Health and Self-Care: MRSA by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen MD Introduction There is much concern among prisoners about skin infections caused by a well-publicized germ called MRSA. This article explains what MRSA is, what you can do to protect yourself from MRSA, and how to …
Administrative Exhaustion “Yardstick” Under PLRA is Prison Grievance Procedures by by David Reutter The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held in an unpublished ruling that the determination as to whether a prisoner has “properly” exhausted a claim is based on an evaluation of the prisoner’s compliance with institutional …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Skin, Hepatitis, Limitations
CMS Found Liable for Inadequate Hep C Medical Care of Delaware Prisoner by The federal district court in Delaware has held that Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the medical provider for the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC), was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs. The ruling should come as no …
Claim Exhausted When Prison Rules in Favor of Prisoner by The plaintiff complained of improper discipline and retaliatory reclassification and transfer At 506: "The violation of a constitutionally protected right is a sufficient injury for purposes of standing." The defendants had argued that the plaintiff lacked standing because he didn't …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
“Hot Bunking” at Cook County Jail Could Violate Consent Decree by In December 2007, to alleviate the problem of prisoners sleeping on the floor due to chronic overcrowding, Illinois’ Cook County Jail started “hot bunking.” The practice entails prisoners taking turns sleeping in the same bed in shifts. Each prisoner …
Article • July 15, 2008
Massachusetts Action to Compel Medical Treatment Dismissed; Lacked Eighth Amendment Claim, Diagnosis by Massachusetts State pro se prisoner Kenneth Mocks brought an action to compel the State Department of Corrections Director of Health Services, John Noonan, to provide allegedly needed medical care. Also named as a defendant, but judicially dismissed, …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
California Homosexual Prisoner Family Visits Policy Draws Fire by California’s newly adopted state prison policy permitting overnight conjugal visits for registered domestic partners who are in prison has been praised by homosexual advocacy groups but has drawn fire from religious conservatives. Prison conjugal visiting began in 1918 in Mississippi as …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Grossly Disfigures Misdiagnosed Washington State Prisoner by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A Washington state prisoner who lay for two days in the Stafford Creek Correctional Facility infirmary in agonizing pain, with a rash covering his torso and slowly drifting into septic shock, had been misdiagnosed by …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Deadly Staph Infection 'Superbug' Has a Dangerous Foothold in U.S. Jails by Silja JA Talvi by Silja J.A. Talvi Dr. Jeff Duchin, the communicable diseases chief for Seattle/King County Department of Public Health holds his soap-lathered hands in an attention-grabbing newspaper cover photo. Above his dignified image is a highly …
Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians by Roger Smith Since the mid-1990s, Washington State jail populations have increased exponentially. Obsolete facilities built decades ago to hold a handful of prisoners are now packed like sardine tins, with as many prisoners sleeping on …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Drug-Resistant Staph Infection (MRSA) Deaths Nationwide Now Exceed Those From AIDS; Prison Connection Ignored by John Dannenberg by John R. Dannenberg The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that nationwide, more deaths in the United States are now resulting from drug resistant invasive MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) …
Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County'sJail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket by Rick Anderson Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County's Jail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket by Rick Anderson A few months after two prisoners in the downtown King County Jail in Seattle, Washington …
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