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Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
China’s Death Penalty On Wheels by Gary Hunter China's Death Penalty On Wheels by Gary Bunter China's death penalty has gone mobile. Death vans are now replacing firing squads as the preferred method of execution. In the past, condemned prisoners were executed publicly in prisons or court buildings. Kang Zhongwen, …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
California DOC Federal Receiver Is Granted First Waiver of State Law by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The federal court Receiver for healthcare in California state prisons (see: PLN, Mar. 2006, p.1, Federal Court Seizes California Prisons? Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers) surmounted his first statutory bureaucratic …
$275,000 Paid In Excessive-Force Michigan Jail Death Lawsuit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On May 25, 2006, Kent County, Michigan agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for $275,000 brought by the family of a Grand Rapids man who died of a heart attack suffered after struggling with …
PHS Loses $707 Million FDOC Contract Rebid; State Adopts Hybrid Model of Prison Health Care by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On September 20, 2006, Tennessee-based Prison Health Services (PHS), a for-profit prison medical care contractor [see: PLN, Nov. 2006, pp. 1-10], exercised an escape clause just ten months …
California Inspector General Assesses DOC’s Compliance With Past Audit Recommendations by John Dannenberg California Inspector General Assesses DOC's Compliance With Past Audit Recommendations by John E. Dannenberg California's Inspector General (IG), Matthew Cate, who has oversight responsibility over the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), issued an exhaustive 363 …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis
Alabama Spends $500,000 to Vaccinate State Prisoners by Gary Hunter The Alabama DOC has launched an innovative program to vaccinate prisoners for Hepatitis A and B. Hepatitis is a disease that damages the liver with the potential to be fatal. Alabama optimistically hopes to inoculate over half of its prisoners …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
New York HCV Treatment Suit Not Mooted by Equivocal DOC Concession; Class Certification Granted by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court (N.D. N.Y.) rejected the New York Department of Corrections' (NYDOC) attempt to moot a class action claim filed by HCV (Hepatitis-C) infected prisoners who …
Many U.S. Prisoners Mentally Ill, Few Receive Treatment by Michael Rigby Nearly half of the nation?s 2.3 million prisoners suffer from some sort of mental disorder, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released in September 2006. Yet fewer than a third of those receive any …
California DOC Ordered to Comply with Overdue Suicide Prevention Measures by Marvin Mentor On February 13, 2006, The U.S. District Court (E.D. Cal.) entered a remedial Stipulation and Order to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to force CDCR to implement the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) policy that the …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Texas Prisoners Face Mandatory Testing For HIV by Gary Hunter From January to May 2006, 480 Texas prisoners tested HIV-positive upon their release from prison. Testing for the virus has now become mandatory in Texas before a prisoner can be released. The bill for mandatory testing, passed in May 2005, …
Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby "Lock them up and throw away the key." Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosophy in Maryland has led to a criminal justice system that is defunct at every level. The state's adult prisons are "in crisis." …
Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America's Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's …
Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Correct Rx a New Major Player in the Prison Drug Industry by Gary Hunter Pharmaceutical drug distributors have found a future and a fortune in our nation?s prison system. Record rates of incarceration equal record profits for drug companies. One enterprising pharmacist has made herself a major player in the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Prison TB 10 Times Higher Than Non-Prison Cases by The number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in correctional populations far outpaced the general population between 1993 and 2003, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. TB case rates in the general population remained at fewer than …
$400,000 Wrongful Death Settlement After San Diego Jailers Hog-Tied Prisoner by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The County of San Diego, California agreed in September 2006 to pay $400,000 to settle an excessive-force wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a prisoner who died on February 2, 2001 in …
Federal Court Compels Activation of California DOC Mental Health Crisis Beds; Approves New $111 Million Mental Care Hospital by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg California?s 16-year-old prisoner mental health federal lawsuit (originally, Coleman v. Wilson) was given new and urgently needed life on May 2, 2006 when a frustrated …
Cleaning up Mississippi’s Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David Reutter Cleaning up Mississippi's Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David M. Reutter A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman charged that the totality of conditions are so "hellish" that it makes "Unit …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
California Governor Vetoes Open Records, Prisoner Condoms and Media Access Bills by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On September 29, 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislative bills that would have permitted better access to public records, condoms in state prisons as well as media access to specified prisoners. The …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
California DOC Medical Receiver’s Initial On-The-Job Impression: “Conditions Disgraceful” by John Dannenberg California DOC Medical Receiver's Initial On-The-Job Impression: "Conditions Disgraceful" by John E. Dannenberg In his first bi-monthly accounting to his boss (U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson), California's Prison health-care Receiver ("CPR") Bob Sillen concluded that the California …
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