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Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
$200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death by $200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death To settle the claim that a prisoner who committed suicide was not properly treated, Wyoming’s Cambell County Detention Center (CCDC) has paid the prisoner’s estate $200,000. Nick Ashby, 38, was booked into CCDC on July …
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Of 426 California Prisoner Deaths in 2006, 66 Found to be Preventable by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In August 2007, former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) federal healthcare Receiver Robert Sillen issued a report titled Analysis of CDCR Death Reviews, prepared by the CDCR’s Death Review …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Survivors Guide to Medical Research in Prison by Greg Dober When one thinks of all the “Survivor Guides” that could be written for prisoners, the last one that comes to mind is for participating as a trial subject in medical research experiments. Yet medicine is science. Scientific theories and developments …
Burgeoning Immigration Detainee Population Stresses ICE by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Bush administration’s hard-nosed approach to immigration enforcement has caused an explosion in the immigrant detainee population, which has grown from a daily average of 19,600 in 2005 to 29,700 in 2007. This increase parallels a rise in …
Failure to Treat Immigrant Detainee’s Fatal Penile Cancer Ruled “Beyond Cruel” by John Dannenberg Failure to Treat Immigrant Detainee’s Fatal Penile Cancer Ruled “Beyond Cruel” by John E. Dannenberg A U.S. District Court (C.D. Cal.) has ruled that the repeated failure of U.S. immigration authorities over an eleven-month period to …
Sanabria v. Hillsborough County, NH, Deposition, employee sex bias jail prisoner abuse, 2007 COpy ~_ •. r THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE * * * * * * * * * * * * DORIS SANABRIA, * * Plaintiff, * v. * HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY …
Riley v. Corrections Corporation of America, CO, Complaint, Retaliation on Inmate, 2008 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. __________________ JAMES RILEY, Plaintiff, vs. CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a Tennessee corporation; HOYT BRILL, individually and in his official capacity as Warden of the …
Brief • August 25, 2008
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Memo of Law in Opp to Def Mot for Costs, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2008 1 John Burton, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, California 91101 3 Telephone: (626) 449-8300 4 Facsimile: …
Brief • August 25, 2008
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Memo of Law in Opposition of Def Mot for New Trial, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2008 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 360 Filed 08/25/2008 Page 1 of 37 1 John Burton, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South …
Brief • August 25, 2008
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Memo of Law Opp Def Mot for Judgment, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2006 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 358 Filed 08/25/2008 Page 1 of 31 1 John Burton, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Skin, Hepatitis, Limitations
CMS Found Liable for Inadequate Hep C Medical Care of Delaware Prisoner by The federal district court in Delaware has held that Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the medical provider for the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC), was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs. The ruling should come as no …
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
Discovery of AIDS Doesn't Render Sentence Cruel And Unusual by On February 9, 1990, a New York court held that a prisoner who subsequent to sentencing discovered he had AIDS could not have his sentence set aside as being cruel and unusual. Angel Escobales, a New York state prisoner, pleaded …
Article • August 15, 2008
Disabled Kansas Prisoners Forced Labor Claim Dismissed by The plaintiff, who had had heart bypass surgery and was on medical restrictions, was ordered to sand baseboard. He complained and the doctor said it was all right. He did the work, reported chest pains, and was taken to the clinic where …
Article • August 15, 2008
Drug Reaction Suit Dismissed for Lack of Causation by The plaintiff was prescribed Symmetrel, to which he had a reaction that required hospitalization; later he had two strokes, which he attributed to the drug. The plaintiff failed to establish a triable issue as to causation, since the prescribing doctor now …
New York Does DOCs Double Celling Suit Dismissed by The New York State prison system's practice of double-celling at Woodbourne Correctional Facility does not violate the Eighth Amendment. There was no evidence of denial of adequate food, medical care, or clothing. Protection from Inmate Assault (627, 629): There was little …
Court Orders Discovery of D.C. Cop’s Personnel Files by At 355: "... [A]ny claim that a party's potential witnesses and exhibits are not fit subjects for discovery is fatuous." The existence of a pre-trial order procedure does not retroactively make those subjects unfit for discovery. The court directs production of …
Article • August 15, 2008
Drilling Teeth Without Anesthesia and Denial of Lower Bunk Upheld by The plaintiff alleged that the defendant forced him to take an upper bunk despite his visual impairment and made him stay there after he got a medical direction to take a bottom bunk; a month and a half later …
Article • August 15, 2008
Arizona Prisoner Wins $10,000 for Sexual Battery by Nurse by Leanna Johnson, a Pima County, Arizona prisoner, was subjected to a less than professional pelvic exam by a male nurse at the Pima County, Arizona jail. She sued in state court where the jury awarded her $10,000 in 2001. See: …
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Medical, Dental Care
Arizona Prisoner Wins $100,000 for Neglected Dental Needs by Danny Thompson, an Arizona state prisoner, had to pull 5 of his own teeth because Department of Corrections (DOC) dentists wouldn't treat him. He sued in state court where the jury, in 1993, awarded him $100,000 to be split between 3 …
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