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PLRA Doesn't Require Exhaustion of Non Prison Remedies by The plaintiff alleged that he was subjected to unconstitutional medical care for a spinal injury among other problems and that he ...
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
was unconstitutional and invalid. The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and its medical provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), routinely transported women prisoners to abortion clinics at the prisoners ...
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
they are incarcerated. Moreover, prisoners are the only group in the United States with a constitutional right to medical care. Yet the difference between having a right in theory and being able to exercise that right ...
based on qualified immunity without mentioning the factual dispute or the medical care claim, even though the officers did not mention qualified immunity in their motion. The plaintiff filed a motion ...
-destructive behavior and suicide attempts, was treated by psychiatrists at the Garner Acute Inpatient Medical Unit the prison system's psychiatric facility on August 11, 1998 after exhibiting symptoms ...
was an apathetic guard, Phillip G. Balthazar. "What do you want me to do, get a Band-Aid for his ass?" quipped Balthazar. Mack did not receive any medical attention until four hours later. In the meantime he ...
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
employees to manipulate inmate medical files before, during and after the special master’s visit for inappropriate purposes,” and that practice clearly “crosse[d] the line.” Previously ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 28 years, Prison Legal News has reported on prison and jail medical care that ranges from abysmal to the barbaric. With the possible ...
at facilities where Walden was employed. While the latest case was filed in January 2017, seven lawsuits have settled since 2013. Walden, who worked for private medical services provider Corizon Health, had ...
and substandard medical care at the West Valley facility, which houses some 3,000 prisoners. All six of the plaintiffs who filed suit were confined in the jail’s Unit 11, a segregation wing for those needing ...
of at least 30 more years in prison. The longer any offender in Minnesota spends incarcerated, the more likely that the state's Department of Corrections (MDOC)—which had a $68-million medical budget ...
Article • December 21, 2017
), where he remains locked in his cell 23-hours a day. ACU prisoners may request medical attention by sending a “kite.” If their condition is a life-threatening emergency situation, the prisoner ...
Colorado: Defendants Settle After Death of Prisoner Denied Medical Treatment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The estate of a man who died in a Colorado jail of a treatable foot malady has ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Medical Misconduct
Street Jail in Hillsborough County. The suspension followed allegations of professional misconduct. Dr. Matthew J. Masewic worked part time at the Valley Street Jail. He also served as director of medical ...
in his cell 23-hours a day. ACU prisoners may request medical attention by sending a “kite.” If their condition is a life-threatening emergency situation, the prisoner may press a duress button ...
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
prisoner Earnest Shields. Shields sued prison medical staff and the Illinois DOC’s private medical contractor, Wexford Health Sources, which he alleged had bungled his treatment for a torn tendon he ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Deliberate Indifference Medical Claim Accrues Upon Discovery of Injury and its Cause by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has articulated a rule for determining when a prisoner’s claim ...
Settlement by Mark Wilson The Ninth Circuit Court of Ap­peals has held that an individual California prisoner’s medical care injunctive relief claims are not barred by Plata v. Brown, the class ...
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment planning and medication management, and monitor medication side effects.” The use of “unnecessary or excessive use of restraints on prisoners with mental ...
Center (OCCC). By the end of the month, after several colossal failures by the facility’s medical staff, Persin was released – via a local hospital – after having lost all of his fingers ...
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