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Article • June 17, 2019
of mentally ill prisoners, the jail is overtaxed. Vela’s family filed a wrongful death suit in federal court. Vela had informed jailers at her admission that she needed medical treatment for diabetes ...
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
AMA Passes Resolution Prohibiting Shackling of Pregnant Prisoners in Labor by On June 15, 2010, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a resolution prohibiting the use of restraints ...
, but not against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a correctional institution, or the institution's medical staff. The court also held that under the FTCA venue was proper in the district wherein the acts ...
Hawaii Prison Doctors Denied Qualified Immunity by AU.S. district court found that Hawaii state prison physicians were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's medical needs and were ...
Seventh Circuit Remands § 1983 Medical Negligence Suit to State Court by Seventh Circuit Remands § 1983 Medical Negligence Suit to State Court The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court ...
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
. It is a horizontal bar 57 and 45 inches from the ground to hitch prisoners of various heights. Prior to hitching a prisoner, the health care unit must be called to check if the prisoner has medical problems ...
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
that Illinois Department of Corrections medical staff had shown deliberate indifference to his medical needs by failing to treat a ruptured appendix. In March, 1995, Sherrod was at the Big Muddy Correctional ...
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Medical Claim Accrues on Last Date of Treatment Denial by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner's medical claim accrues on the last date that he was refused treatment ...
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Magistrate Judge Recuses Self in BOP Medical Treatment Case by Magistrate Judge Recuses Self in BOP Medical Treatment Case A Magistrate Judge for the District of Columbia has recused ...
with medication for his heart and blood pressure. He also alleged that he was not provided postoperative dental care or treatment for glaucoma. Henry Washington was described as “a frail and elderly prisoner ...
Article • October 4, 2020
and was subjected to a hostile work environment. Laurie Astern was hired by Corizon on August 11, 2014, to work as a physician assistant at the Union Correctional Institution medical clinic in Florida. Her civil ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
to a $425,000 settlement to resolve a civil rights action. The settlement requires payment from Pulaski County and its medical vendor, Turn Key Health Clinics. Sharon L. Alexander, 41, was arrested on December 13 ...
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Drug Addiction
and international law requires that people in prison receive the same standard of care as others: opioid agonist therapy (OAT). It is considered front-line treatment, provides medication (often “buprenorphine ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
PrimeCare Medical Pays Bulk of $252,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Detainee’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $252,000 settlement was reached in October 2019 in a lawsuit ...
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of individual cases, Jail Health Services is actively working to improve its systems of care. For example, we are implementing an electronic health records system that allows medical providers and management ...
of the denial of medical care allegations in a federal action resulting from a 1999 mutually injurious altercation. The judgment was affirmed. Douglas stabbed Supermax guard Jack McCarty, alleging prior assault ...
Article • July 15, 2008
responsible for a jail suicide even if the chief promulgated a policy of not giving intoxicated arrestees a medical examination prior to incarcerating them in a cell and even if the police knew the arrestee ...
Article • August 15, 2008
gender identity disorder or transsexualism to be a serious medical need for purposes of the Eighth Amendment.” It also observed that “failure to provide access to medical personnel capable of evaluating ...
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Former Mississippi DOC Chief Medical Officer Charged with Embezzlement by Dr. Kentrell Liddell, 35, was arrested on May 21, 2009 and charged with 13 counts of embezzlement. She was taken ...
and Paulsen for inhumane conditions of confinement, inadequate medical care and negligence were allowed to proceed. Reyes was arrested in 2003 and the Immigration and Naturalization Service contracted his ...
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