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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$1 Million Partial Settlement for Washington Jail Detainee’s Leg Amputation by Reports surfaced in October 2024 that low-level medical professionals in multiple Washington jails were making decisions about detainee healthcare that they were not trained or licensed to make. That was due to an absence of higher-level medical staffers, which …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Failures Brought to Light in Arizona Prison System’s COVID-19 Response by The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Re-entry (DCRR) has faced bitter criticism for the healthcare provided to state prisoners, which a federal judge in 2022 called “plainly, grossly inadequate,” as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Dec. 2022, p.1.] So …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Fifth Circuit Revives Texas Prisoner’s Sleep Deprivation Claim—Again by Texas prisoner Michael Garrett has been fighting the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for a good night’s sleep since 2013. His case has twice gone before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, after the district court …
New Mexico Corrections Department Continues Pattern of Abuse With Contract Medical Provider Wexford Health Sources by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford As PLN reported, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has for many years outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide healthcare to those it confines, contracting the service from private, …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
$9.9 Million Paid to Washington Prisoner Whose Misdiagnosed Cancer Is Now Terminal by On January 31, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay a former prisoner and her family $9.9 million for failing to diagnose and treat her uterine cancer, leaving the disease to spread and become …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Harvey Weinstein Files Notice of Claim Over Rikers Island Detention by In a Notice of Claim filed against New York City and its Department of Correction (DOC) on November 26, 2024, lawyers for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein said that their client has suffered at least $5 million in damages …
Oregon DOC Investigation Puts Top Medical Officials on Leave by A mid an investigation into complaints about prisoner medical care, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) put two top healthcare officials on leave on December 5, 2024. Assistant Director of Health Services Joe Bugher and Chief of Medicine Dr. Warren …
DOJ Settles Complaints About Conditions for Disabled Detroit Jail Detainees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved an agreement with Michigan’s Wayne County that promised to improve conditions at its jail in Detroit for prisoners with physical and mental disabilities. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Arizona DCRR Ordered to Fill Prison Medical Staff Vacancies—Again by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2024, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) was ordered to implement a pilot program that would immediately bring two state prison complexes up to medical staffing levels recommended by …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Under Fire for Hiring Censured Doctors by The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) was on the hot seat after an investigation published in the New York Times on July 2, 2024, revealed that nearly a third of physicians hired by the prison system over the past decade had …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Hep-C Treatment Needed in Los Angeles County Jails to Save Lives and Money by Over a five-year stint working in Los Angeles County’s jail system, Dr. Mark Bunin Benor saw hundreds of detainees with Hepatitis-C who were not being treated. In an article published by the Los Angeles Times on …
$400,000 Jury Verdict for Medical Neglect Resulting in Amputation of Alabama Prisoner’s Toes by On May 20, 2024, a federal jury in Alabama returned a verdict against a doctor employed by Wexford Health Sources, Inc., the private medical provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC). It was part …
Four-Month Wait for 40 Percent of South Carolina Jail Detainees Needing Psychiatric Evaluation by A backlog in court-ordered psychological evaluations had stranded 136 South Carolina detainees in jail by the end of September 2024, nearly 40% of them held over 120 days. Waiting on admission to the state’s forensic psychiatric …
Top Doc Sacked from Maryland Psych Hospital with “Climate of Chaos” by At Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Maryland’s primary secure psychiatric facility, a team from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors arrived on October 8, 2024, to conduct a two-day evaluation of processes, policies and procedures …
Shrewd Federal Prisoner Salvages $5,000 from Suit Against Arkansas Jail Where He Was Held Pre-Trial by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Randall Morris was held in Arkansas’ Miller County Detention Center (MCDC) from January 20, 2020, until he was transferred to Saline County Detention Center (SCDC) on March 24, …
Centurion’s $8 Million Track Record of Abuse and Neglect as New Mexico’s Correctional Medical Provider by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has long outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide prisoners adequate medical care to private, for-profit corporations with little incentive to do so. Before …
BOP Settles Muslim Prisoner’s Religious Discrimination and Medical Denial Claims at Colorado Supermax by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 26, 2024, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) entered into the last of multiple settlement agreements with a Muslim prisoner who accused the prison agency of failing to …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Ninth Circuit Provides Cover to Oregon Governor for Prioritizing Guards Over Prisoners for COVID-19 Vaccine by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against a class of Oregon prisoners suing over the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal court …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Louisiana Fights Federal Court Order to Remedy “Callous and Wanton Disregard” for Angola Prisoners’ Healthcare by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On November 6, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana issued a Remedial Order (RO) to correct unconstitutional healthcare at Louisiana State Prison …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Class-Action Challenge to Medical Care at Tennessee Jail Results in $3.8 Million Settlement by For years, prisoners at the Bradley County jail in Tennessee received poor medical care or none at all. Former prisoner Darrell Eden, who was denied treatment for pre-arrest injuries sustained during a car accident, including seven …
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