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Brief • September 2, 2005
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Complaint, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2005 1 John Burton, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, California 91101 3 jb@johnburtonlaw.com Telephone: (626) 449-8300 4 Facsimile: (626) 449-4417 5 Attorneys for plaintiffs Betty Lou Heston, …
Manning v. CCA, TN, Complaint, poor medical care pregnant infant death, 2005 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0099 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0100 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0101 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0102 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0103 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0104 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0105 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0106 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0107 CCA-AF (6/2/14 …
Sanchez v. MTC, NM, Amended Complaint, PNA neglect misconduct drug withdrawal jail inmate suicide, 2005 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO LUCILLE SANCHEZ, Individually and as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF JUAN IGNACIO SANCHEZ, Deceased, and FELIMON SANCHEZ, Plaintiffs, vs. No. CV 05-784 …
Prison Health Services: As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence by By Paul Von Zielbauer; Joseph Plambeck contributed reporting for this article. Brian Tetrault was 44 when he was led into a dim county jail cell in upstate New York in 2001, charged …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Prison Health Services: Missed Signals in New York Jails Open Way to Season of Suicides by by Paul Von Zielbauer; Joseph Plambeck contributed reporting for this article. The warnings were right there in her medical ?le: a childhood of sexual abuse, a diagnosis of manic depression, a suicide attempt at …
Federal Immigration Detainee Taken Off Life Support Without Family's Consent by by John E. Dannenberg A 69 year-old Mexican national, who suffered a heart attack at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles and was put on life support at White Memorial Medical Center, was taken off life …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
$600,000 Settlement In Death Of Unmedicated Wisconsin Prisoner by A lawsuit over the death of a mentally ill epileptic Wisconsin prisoner has settled for $600,000. Kelvin Brooks, an epileptic state prisoner with a long history of mental illness was imprisoned at Wisconsin's Green Bay Correctional Facility. For unknown reasons Brooks …
Brain Dead California Prisoner Guarded Around The Clock by A California parole violator, who was declared brain dead from being shot in the head by a guard at 6,100 bed Wasco State Prison during a lounge-area fight, was guarded at a nearby Bakersfield hospital at a cost of $1,056/day in …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Wackenhut Settles Suit Over Premature Birth for $98,000 by On August 12, 2004, Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, now known as GEO Group, Inc., settled a suit alleging that inadequate medical care at a 640-bed Wackenhut-run jail caused a prisoner to give birth prematurely. Melissa Villarreal, 32, a former prisoner at the …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
42 Alabama AIDS Prison Deaths In Five Years Spurs Major Medical Suit Settlement by John Dannenberg By John E. Dannenberg The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) settled a class action federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Limestone Correctional Facility AIDS-afflicted prisoners who had complained of unconstitutional conditions of medical treatment …
Washington DOC Settles Contempt Action For $500,000; Money To Fund Patient Advocate by Michael Rigby The Washington Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a contempt action stemming from alleged violations of a consent decree governing medical care at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW). Pending …
Besmirched California Prison Doctors Sue To Block Higher Qualification Standards by By John E. Dannenberg California Department of Corrections (CDC) doctors, who have been much maligned in recent scathing federal court reports depicting “horrible” medical care conditions in California’s prisons, made a defensive move on April 29, 2005 by having …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Staph Infections Kill Women Prisoners In Pennsylvania; Coroner’s Office Raided by Michael Rigby By Michael Rigby Three female prisoners have died after contracting a deadly strain of Staph infection while confined in Pennsylvania jails. All of the deaths occurred in March 2005. Two of the women, originally said to have …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Filed under: Medical
Two Pennsylvania Prisoners Win $1.2 Million For MRSA Skin Infections Contracted County Jail by by John E. Dannenberg An uncontrolled and untreated chronic infection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), a highly contagious, stubborn, disfiguring and sometime fatal bacterial disease, has permeated the Bucks County Correctional Facility (BCCF), unabated, for …
Brief • June 22, 2005
Presley v. Epps, MS, Complaint, Supermax Conditions Class Action, 2005
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Audit Finds Colorado DOC Loses Large Quantities of Drugs by by Matthew T. Clarke A $436,484 shortage in the Colorado Department of Corrections's pharmacy budget in 2003 prompted an internal audit. The audit found that close to a half-million dollars worth of drugs have been lost by the prison system. …
$1.45 Million To Be Paid In Death Of Florida Juvenile Prisoner by Michael Rigby The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) will pay $1.45 million to settle a federal lawsuit arising from the 2003 death of Omar Paisley at the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, the Miami Herald reported on …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Filed under: Medical, Surgery
$1,000 Awarded After Surgeon Loses Broken Instrument in NY Prisoner's Mouth by On February 5, 2004, a New York Court of claims awarded a prisoner $1,000 for the negligence of an oral surgeon under contract with the New York Department of Correction (NYDOC). Sean Tapp was a prisoner at Attica …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
NY Prisoner Awarded $160,000 for Lost Testicle by A New York Court of Claims has awarded a former Collins Correctional Facility prisoner $160,000 in a medical malpractice suit. On November 22, 1998, Robert Hicks experienced pain in the area of his left waist. He said he laid on his bed, …
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