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Article • December 15, 2007
Wisconsin Jail Heart Attack Case Settled for $25,000 by Waukesha County, Wisconsin, paid a prisoner $25,000 to settle claims related to a heart attack he suffered while imprisoned. Mr. Blavat was denied his prescribed heart medication while confined in Waukesha County Jail, causing him to suffer a heart attack. Blavat …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Suit Over Death in Rockwall County, Texas, Settles for $100,000 by Rockwall County, Texas, and Lake Pointe Medical Center will pay $100,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a prisoner who died after being turned away from the hospital twice in 2004. Sharon Mann claimed …
Dallas County Jail Deficient, Says 2006 Report; DOJ Files Suit by Gary Hunter Just over two years ago, the jail in Dallas County, Texas (DCJ) failed state certification inspections and came under fire for numerous high profile cases of prisoner deaths and neglect. A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report, …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
California’s Prison Drug Procurements Separate from Other State Agencies by California's Prison Drug Procurements Separate from Other State Agencies California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle issued a June 2007 report to follow-up on her past recommendation to implement bulk procurement cost-savings in the state's contracts for pharmaceuticals. Since 70% of …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
California DOC Contract Registry Pharmacist Accused of Diverting 93% of Referrals to His Own Corporation by California's State Auditor has found that a pharmacist, who was contracted by three state prisons to select other pharmacists from a state-approved registry to perform services at the facilities, directed 93% of such referrals …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal on Wrong Medication Claims by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court?s grant of summary judgment to prison officials, related to erroneous administration of another prisoner?s psychotropic medication. On January 26, 2004, Nurse Assistant Lorna Bell mistakenly required Missouri prisoner James Spann to …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Refusal to Give Nitro Tablets to Prisoner With Chest Pain Actionable by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a prisoner with a history of heart trouble who was denied any treatment for his chest pain could sue the nurse who denied him …
$140,000 Settlement in Death of Asthmatic Texas Prisoner by Michael Rigby The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will pay $140,000 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from the needless asthma-related death of a prisoner at the McConnell prison unit in August 2004. At least six guards and a nurse were …
Delaware Forced to Clean-up Medical Care by DOJ Settlement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a nine-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding prisoners in four Delaware prisons ?suffer harm or are placed at the risk of harm from constitutional deficiencies in certain …
Policy of Hiring Trained Medical Professionals Does Not Immunize County from Municipal Liability in Wrongful Jail Death; Case Settles for $475,000.00 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that where a Los Angeles County Jail prisoner died of allegedly deficient medical attention, …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment of privatized medical services has learned the same hard lesson suffered by other states: a trail of inadequate care that leaves prisoners dead …
Michigan's Prison Health Care System Found Contemptuous by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "Step on a man's foot once, and a polite apology will do. Do it twice, and a profuse apology is in order. Do it thrice, and you have left the land of apology and entered the …
Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court has held that the use of in-cell restraints for punitive reasons constitutes torture. In reaching that conclusion, the Court reopened its previous judgment concerning mental health claims and issued a preliminary …
Article • May 15, 2007
Denial of AIDS Cocktail: Actionable in Tacoma Jail Suit by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that officials at the Pierce County Jail in Washington State are not entitled to qualified immunity for their failure to provide a pre-trial detainee an AIDS "cocktail" promptly upon booking. The detainee was …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $100 for Delayed Pain Medication by On December 30, 2003, a court of claims in Albany, New York awarded a state prisoner $100 for pain and suffering associated with the prison's failure to timely provide pain medication after he broke his hand. Plaintiff Jonathan Greene, a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment Denied to Doctor Who Failed to Act Promptly by The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted summary judgment to a prison warden and deputy warden but denied it in part to a prison doctor in a medical deliberate indifference claim. Alfred Scicluna was convicted …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Medication, Malpractice
Jail Prisoner's Dismissed Medical Claim Vacated and Remanded by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's dismissal of a former jail prisoner's claim against a county jail in Minnesota. David Elijah Bowers, Sr., a prisoner at Waupon Correctional Institution, was a prisoner at the Milwaukee County …
Article • May 15, 2007
D.C. Prisoner's $125,000 Award for Medication Denial, Back Injury Upheld by In this case involving a prisoner who was denied pain medication and was subsequently injured in a fall, the District of Columbia. Court of Appeals held that standard of care was established, proximate cause was proven, and the $125,000 …
Prisoner's Disciplinary Conviction for Possession of Unauthorized Medication Affirmed by The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, held that a federal prisoner could be disciplined for possessing psychotropic medications at one prison that were prescribed for him at a different prison. Daniel Wesley …
Dismissal, Summary Judgment Against Prisoner's Medical Claims Affirmed by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, held that a prisoner failed to prove that Washington prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs when they treated him with anti-psychotic …
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