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Article • May 15, 2007
and sweating profusely. When questioned by the jail's nurse, Tracy Lakatos, an employee of SecureCare, Inc., which the County had contracted with to provide prisoner medical care, Graham said he had smoked ...
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
prescribed him psychotropic medication without conducting a proper evaluation. Ozy Vaughn was a Michigan state prisoner who suffered from chronic schizophrenia. In January 2002, he was incarcerated ...
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing
process does not require that prison officials perform additional drug testing when a prisoner tests positive for illegal drugs and alleges that the positive result is caused by prescribed medications ...
Article • May 15, 2007
officials on a complaint by a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to a serious medical need by jailers. John Sandifer, a prisoner at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas, sued officials ...
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
MO Jail Guards Denying Seizure Medication amd Assigning Prisoner to Top Bunk May Violate 8th Amendment by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has reversed a federal district court ...
Article • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Medical, Statistics/Trends
are nearly twice as likely to have either a chronic medical condition or an infectious disease. Of course, the federal government does not point an incriminating finger at itself for not properly addressing ...
Article • August 10, 2016
Audit Shows California Sterilized Women Prisoners Improperly by Derek Gilna A report prepared by the California State Auditor has revealed yet another serious problem in prisoner medical care ...
Article • August 10, 2016
problems, which was characterized as a recent manifestation of mental illness or symptoms of a disorder. According to the BOP, 10% of its prisoner population is receiving medication designed to treat ...
Article • August 10, 2016
Guam Correctional Issues Plague Prisoner Medical Care by Derek Gilna For twenty-three years a federal receiver has overseen Guam's troubled correctional system, but unfortunately ...
Article • August 7, 2017
NV Prisoner with Hand Injury Settles for Used TV, Medical Evaluation and $40.70 in Copying Fees by Joe Watson by Joe Watson Robert Finley, a Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) prisoner ...
Article • August 23, 2016
and Paroles releasing dozens of sick and elderly prisoners annually to save millions in medical spending. But even though the reprieve application process has been streamlined. prisoners waiting to be heard ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: Cancer, Failure to Treat
when he was diagnosed with a paratracheal mass. Unfortunately, according to the Seventh Circuit, medical personnel at the facility “were aware of the problem, but they accused [him] of malingering ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Medical
Prisoner Loses Suit Against Jail Officials for Disclosure of His Medical Condition by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Joseph Leiser was in an Illinois jail pending extradition to Coffey County, Kansas ...
addiction and his asthmatic condition, jail officials were deliberately indifferent to his medical problems. According to the complaint, at the San Diego County Jail, "(c)ontrary to accepted medical practice ...
Article • October 25, 2016
denial of medical care for a dental infection that nearly killed him and left him with partial paralysis of his tongue and a resulting severe speech impediment. According to court documents, Christopher ...
8th Circuit Court of Appeals Dismisses Missouri Jail Failure to Protect and Medical Neglect Case by On December 23, 2008, William Holden filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against guards ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
was suffering from psychological problems, not medical ones. On the September 2012 night that Victorianne, 28, was booked, however, he was screaming that “something was burning his insides.” He ...
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Bivens Suit Over Medical Care by Derek Gilna Ryan K. Mathison, incarcerated at FCI Pekin, a federal prison near Peoria, Illinois ...
Article • August 22, 2016
to settle a federal lawsuit alleging inadequate medical care, pain management and living conditions. The State also agreed to a specialist consult, at state expense, and to house the prisoner in a single cell ...
Article • December 28, 2017
, Wisconsin, was awarded a total of $678,505.67 for the wrongful death of Norton due to negligence by prison medical staff between 1989 and 1991. Norton had been serving a 10-year sentence for racketeering when ...
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