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Alabama DOC Charges Prisoners Unlawful Fees to Cover Budget Shortfalls by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 1, 2007, the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts released an audit report critical of the funding practices of the state's Department of Corrections (DOC). The DOC operates 19 prisons, 10 …
Article • May 15, 2008
HIV Status Allows Plaintiff to Proceed Anonymously by The plaintiff was arrested, told the police he was HIV positive, and they put a pink sign saying HIV POSITIVE INMATE on his cell door in the police lockup (this in 1997!). The fact that a case involves a medical issue or …
$200,000 Settlement for Negligent Medical Care/ Treatment of Federal Prisoner by The Bureau of Prisons has agreed to pay Beatrice Codianni-Robles, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Connecticut, $200,000 to settle a federal tort claims suit. After concluding a job on the prison yard on September 12, …
Administrative Exhaustion Required in Alabama HIV/AIDS Class Action Suit by The plaintiffs sued on behalf of themselves and all present and future HIV-positive prisoners in the state prison system, complaining both of their segregation from the general prison population and their exclusion from most programming, and of inadequate medical care. …
Concealment of Medical Experiments Tolls Statute of Limitations by The plaintiffs sued over medical experiments ("boron neutron capture therapy") performed on their terminally ill relatives in the 1950s and then covered up. The right of access to courts is violated when government officials wrongfully and intentionally conceal information crucial to …
Article • May 15, 2008
No Cause of Action Under International Law for Medical Experiments by Plaintiffs complaining about being subjected to medical experiments in a mental hospital "have not established a cause of action for civil responsibility for crimes against humanity." (42) Although international law "is an inseparable part of American jurisprudence and as …
Article • May 15, 2008
No CMS Liability for Denying Treatment for Dislocated Shoulder by The plaintiff said he dislocated his previously injured shoulder in his sleep. At 511: "For purposes of this case, it is undisputed that a shoulder dislocation causes great pain and is a serious medical need." The defendants were not deliberately …
Article • May 15, 2008
NJ Prisoner’s Tuberculosis Suit Dismissed by NJ Prisoner's Tuberculosis Suit Dismissed The plaintiff tested positive for tuberculosis while incarcerated; he was given INH, which caused some liver problems. The defendants were not deliberately indifferent in not doing TB testing every six months rather than yearly and in giving him INH. …
Article • May 15, 2008
Denial of HIV/AIDS Treatment Upheld by At 448: A medical need is serious if it is one that has been diagnosed by a physician as mandating treatment or is one that is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention.... The serious …
Phillips v. Chandler, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2008 Case: 3:07-cv-50063 Document #: 68 Filed: 05/15/08 Page 1 of 17 PageID #:148 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION GEORGE PHILLIPS, Plaintiff, V. ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 3:07-cv-50063 ) NEDRA CHANDLER, KAROLYN SHERIDAN, ) RAJENDER …
Brief • May 14, 2008
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Transcript, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2008 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 SAN JOSE DIVISION 4 5 6 7 8 BETTY LOU HESTON, PLAINTIFF, V. CITY OF SALINAS, ET AL., 9 10 DEFENDANTS. _______________________ …
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0067 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0068 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0069 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0070
Brief • May 2, 2008
Castillo v Dashiell, CA, Order of dismissal, medical neglect blindness, 2005 Case ~ '04-cv-00737-GEB-GGH Filed 05/02/2008 Document 94 Page 1 of 2 EDMUND G. BROWN, Jr. Attorney General of the State of California 2 ALBERTO L. GONZALEZ Supervising Deputy Attorney General 3 OLIVER R. LEWiS, State Bar No. 133557 Deputy …
Brief • April 29, 2008
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Mot to Limit Opp Witness Testimony, 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: (626) 449-4417 E-Mail: jb@johnburtonlaw.com …
Brief • April 27, 2008
Gavira v. Los Angeles, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2007
As Connecticut's Prison Population Increases, So Does the Number of Imprisoned Mentally Ill by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Like other prison systems throughout the nation, Connecticut's is reaching peak capacity. In the midst of dealing with overcrowding and parole issues, the Connecticut Department of Correction (CDOC) must also …
Administrative Errors and Poor PHS Medical Care Precede Chronically Ill Vermont Prisoner's Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Report by the Vermont Protection and Advocacy System (VP & A) has found breakdowns by staff of the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) in its furlough procedure and troubling …
Making the Bad Guy Pay: The Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction by Kirsten D. Levingston by Kirsten D. Levingston1 "At some point, we have to be able to say to people who have been incarcerated, and served time on probation or parole upon release, you have …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Drug-Resistant Staph Infection (MRSA) Deaths Nationwide Now Exceed Those From AIDS; Prison Connection Ignored by John Dannenberg by John R. Dannenberg The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that nationwide, more deaths in the United States are now resulting from drug resistant invasive MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
$1,000,000 Settlement in Heroin Addict’s Death at Chicago, Illinois, Jail by $1,000,000 Settlement in Heroin Addict's Death at Chicago, Illinois, Jail On April 18, 2007, Cook County, Illinois, and the Cook County Jail agreed to pay a combined $1,000,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging wrongful death of a female heroin …
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