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Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Mississippi Stops Segregating HIV-positive Prisoners by On March 17, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) had agreed to stop segregating prisoners with HIV. The policy change followed two decades of efforts by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other advocacy organizations. …
New York City Jail Prisoner Awarded $1.3 Million in Deliberate Indifference to Assault Claim by A New York federal jury awarded $1 million to Steve Tatum for severe injuries he sustained as a pre-trial detainee when he was assaulted by other prisoners at the Rikers Island jail. The district court …
14 Years of Litigation Fails to Remedy Deficient Jail Medical Care; Herrera Saga Continues in Washington State by by Mark Wilson In 1996, Tacoma, Washington officials settled a class-action federal lawsuit over unconstitutional conditions and insufficient health care at the Pierce County Jail (PCJ). Fourteen years later, however, prisoners continue …
$1 Million Award in New York State Prisoner’s Death Caused by Medical Malpractice by A New York Court of Claims has awarded $1,021,915.73 to the estate of a former prisoner who died as the result of a prison nurse and doctor departing from accepted standards of care. Leonard Pickell arrived …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$850,000 Award in Delaware Prisoner’s Suicide; State Declines to Renew CMS Contract by A federal district court has awarded $850,000 to the family of a Delaware prisoner who hanged himself, after entering default judgment against First Correctional Medical, Inc. (FCM). In other Delaware news, the state’s prison system did not …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Suit Filed for Oregon Jail Pneumonia Death by Holly Jean Casey, a homeless 36-year-old heroin addict, lived a rough life and died an agonizing death on the floor of an Oregon jail cell on January 4, 2008. The day before she died, Casey was on her way to the hospital …
Brief • September 2, 2010
Garcia v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Mental Illness Treatment, Failure to Protect, 2010 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX ---------------------------------------------------------------------x CLAUDIO GARCIA, Plaintiff, Index No.: -againstCOMPLAINT THE CITY OF NEW YORK, MARTIN F. HORN, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of …
Brief • August 20, 2010
Riker v. Gibbons, NV, Order for Hearing Class Action Medical Conditions, 2010 Case 3:08-cv-00115-LRH-VPC Document 148 Filed 08/02/10 Page 1 of 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 9 DAVID RIKER, et al., 10 Plaintiffs, 11 vs. 12 JAMES GIBBONS, et …
Everything Revolves Around Overcrowding: The State of California’s Prisons by Donald Specter by Donald Specter, Director, Prison Law Office I. Introduction California has the nation’s largest and the world’s third-largest prison system.1 In two separate class action lawsuits, filed a decade apart, California prisoners sued the governor and corrections officials …
$4.3 Million Award in Preventable Death of Cook County Pretrial Detainee by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a jury’s $4.3 million award to the estate of a pretrial detainee. The jurors found that guards at the jail in Cook County, Illinois …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
Washington DOC Settles MRSA Death Claim for $125,000 by Brandon Sample The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) has agreed to pay $125,000 to the family of a prisoner who died from pneumonia caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). On March 27, 2008, Jeremy Swaser was given a check-up by medical …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
Washington DOC Agrees to Pay $38,000 in Too-Much-Medicine Suit by On November 19, 2008, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $38,000 to a woman who was improperly administered her seizure medication. The settlement resulted after Cindi J. Heihn, a prisoner at the Washington Corrections Center for Women …
$500,000 Settlement in Maryland Prisoner’s Death from Pepper Spraying by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A half-million dollar settlement was paid to the family of a Maryland prisoner who died when prison officials used excessive pepper spray while extracting him from his cell, and then failed to provide medical …
DOJ Investigation into New York Jail Finds Unconstitutional Conditions by Justin Miller The findings of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) into conditions at a New York jail describe violations of prisoners’ constitutional rights – violations which, in the words of federal investigators, have resulted in “serious …
Wisconsin: Taycheedah Lawsuit Set for Trial by Michael Brodheim On November 24, 2009, a U.S. District Court judge in Wisconsin substantially denied prison officials’ motion for partial summary judgment and set for trial a class-action suit that alleges medical and mental health care provided to female prisoners at Taycheedah Correctional …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
California Prison Health Care System Plagued by Understaffing, Overtime by Michael Brodheim The rampant use of overtime to fill gaps in medical staffing in California’s prison system has resulted in windfalls for some of the state’s prison health care workers, fatigue for others, and lapses of judgment that endanger the …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
Released Prisoners More Likely to Die by Brandon Sample Recently-released prisoners are at a higher risk of death, according to studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the American Journal of Public Health. For a NEJM report entitled Release from Prison – A High Risk of …
Brief • August 12, 2010
Ritch v. DeSue, FL, Affadavits - Failure to Treat Eptopic Pregnancy (2009) _STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF VOLUSIA AFFIDAVIT OF TRUDY H. HAIDER, R.N. , BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, TRUDY H. HAIDER, RN., personally appears who being duly sworn says: That my name is TRUDY H. HAIDER, and I …
Farmer v. Miles, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-05055 Document #: 1 Filed: 08/11/10 Page 1 of 3 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Darryl Farmer, Plaintiff, ­vs­ Dr. Gwendolyn Miles and Dr. Thomas, Defendants. ) ) ) ) …
Brief • July 28, 2010
Riker v. Gibbons, NV, Order Granting Joint Mot Class Action Medical Conditions, 2010 Case 3:08-cv-00115-LRH-VPC Document 146 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 2 3 4 5 6 7 Filed 07/28/10 Page 1 of 2 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) DAVID …
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