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Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Federal Court Upholds and Monitors Requirement for Tennessee Jail to Provide COVID-19 Vaccination for Detainees by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 22, 2022, an inspector appointed by the federal court for the Western District of Tennessee reported that the Shelby County Jail remained understaffed even as …
$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 • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Massachusetts Supreme Court Continues Trend of Easing Prison COVID-19 Protocols by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Even as the COVID-19 pandemic persisted and more variants appeared in late 2021, courts were steadily easing restrictions to mitigate its spread in prisons. A case in point: Massachusetts, where initially strong rulings by …
Lawsuits Filed Over Withheld Pain Medications That Left Ailing New York Prisoners in Agony by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Two suits playing out in federal court in New York in mid-2022 will determine whether the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is held to account for a …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
$3.8 Million Paid for Michigan Detainee’s Death from Alcohol Withdrawal After Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of Summary Judgment to Jailers for Deliberate Indifference by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On March 7, 2022, a federal court approved a $3.8 million settlement between a Michigan county and the estate of a …
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
U.S. Marshals Service Inspectors Find D.C. Central Jail Not Meeting Federal Detention Standards by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian For decades, prisoners held by the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) have complained of inhumane conditions and mistreatment. Criticism of the 45-year-old main jail facility has also come from lawyers …
$405,000 Paid to Prisoner Disabled and Left Untreated at LaSalle-Managed Louisiana Jails by Anthony W. Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A man disabled in a Louisiana jail privately operated by LaSalle Corrections has settled claims of neglect and mistreatment he suffered there and at another lockup the firm ran, accepting …
Seventh Circuit Refuses to Hold Wexford Liable for Prisoner’s Pain from Medical Transports in “Black Box” Restraint by David Reutter David M. Reutter For prison officials and healthcare providers who refused to grant an Illinois prisoner an exemption from wearing “black box restraints” during medical transport, a federal district court …
Article • July 11, 2022
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Compassionate Release Where One Factor Isn’t Satisfied Even After Assuming Other Factors Were by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   On September 28, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied the appeal of a federal prisoner in Florida, whose application for …
Brief • July 8, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Buetenmiller v. Cogwell, MI, Order Granting and Opinion, Breach of Medical Care, 2022 Case 2:20-cv-11031-DML-CI ECF No. 109, PageID.2503 Filed 07/08/22 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION REBEKAH BUETENMILLER, SAMANTHA BILLS, and STACEY GLASS, Plaintiffs, Case Number 20-11031 Honorable David M. Lawson …
Brief • July 6, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Richard v. Pfister, IL, Satisfaction of Judgment, Denial of Medical Care, 2022 Case: 1:17-cv-04677 Document #: 217 Filed: 07/06/22 Page 1 of 3 PageID #:2603 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION WILLIAM H. RICHARD, Plaintiff, No. 17 C 4677 v. Hon. Judge Thomas M. …
Brief • July 1, 2022
Brightly v. Corizon Health Incorporated, AZ, Order, Medical Neglect, 2022 Case 4:21-cv-00127-JCH Document 173 Filed 07/01/22 Page 1 of 15 1 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 4 5 Christopher Brightly, 6 No. CV 21-00127-TUC-JCH Plaintiff, 7 v. 8 ORDER GRANTING Corizon Health …
Brief • June 30, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Jensen v. Shinn, AZ, Order, Failure to Provide Medical Care, 2022 Case 2:12-cv-00601-ROS Document 4335 Filed 06/30/22 Page 1 of 200 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 Shawn Jensen, et al., 9 10 Plaintiffs, 11 v. 12 …
Article • June 27, 2022
The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Over the course of its 233-year history, the United States Supreme Court (USSC) has reversed its prior decisions on occasion. Until now those reversals have generally been to expand constitutional rights for the populace, …
Article • June 27, 2022
Seventh Circuit Vacates $8 Million Award to Illinois Prisoner Whose Cancer Metastasized Awaiting Wexford Doctors’ “Collegial Review” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 8, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied a petition for the full court to rehear en banc a decision …
Article • June 27, 2022
California Grandfather with Dementia Dies After Being Jailed for Suspected Intoxication That Was Really Diabetic Shock by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott   On February 11, 2022, after police spotted Gilbert Gil, 67, driving erratically in Escondido, California, his daughter rushed to the scene to explain her dad had …
Article • June 27, 2022
Seventh Circuit Holds Jail Guard Not Deliberately Indifferent to Illinois Prisoner’s Withdrawal from Smuggled Pills by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a decision published on June 21, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a guard was not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s symptoms …
Brief • June 24, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Gray v. County of Riverside, CA, Order Revising Covid-19 Plan, Covi-19 Protocols, 2022 Case 5:13-cv-00444-VAP-OP Document 212 Filed 06/24/22 Page 1 of 6 Page ID #:18093 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 11 QUINTON GRAY, et al., on …
Brief • June 24, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Powers v. Shinn,AZ, Settlement, Lack of Medical Care, 2022 - I SETTLEMENT, RELEASE, INDEMNITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT WHEREAS, Edmund Powers. (herei nafter the "PLAINTI FF"), initiated a lawsuit, which is currently pending in the United States District Court for the District or Arizona under Case No. CY-20-01597-PHX-GMS (JZB) (the .. …
Brief • June 24, 2022
Lippert v. Jeffreys, IL, Consent Decree, Inadequate Medical-Dental Care, 2022 Case: 1:10-cv-04603 Document #: 1557 Filed: 06/24/22 Page 1 of 28 PageID #:22927 THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DON LIPPERT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ROB JEFFREYS, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) …
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