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Dental Treatment Denial Claim Cannot Be Subdivided By Court by The court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that a prisoner's allegation of denial of dental treatment cannot be split into three separate sub-claims then dismissed for failure to exhaust state remedies on the sub-claims. James McAlphin, an Arkansas …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
California State Auditor Criticizes Prison Outside-Hospital Contract Costs by In a detailed 98 page report to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature, the California State Auditor criticized the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) lax management of contract outside-hospital medical services for CDC prisoners. The July 27, 2004 report observed …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Prison Health Issues Affect Public by by Michael Rigby Experts have long known that prisons are incubators for disease. Some diseases such as H.I.V. and hepatitis C are by some estimates ten times more common in prison than in the general population [PLN, June 2003, p.10]. Yet the health care …
Federal Court Orders Independent Evaluation, Training And Credentialling Of All California Prison Healthcare Practitioners by John E Dannenberg Under pressure from U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson, who earlier in 2004 threatened wholesale federal court takeover of the California Department of Corrections (CDC), the CDC stipulated to an order aimed …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Court Discusses Deliberative Process Privilege by In two separate rulings, a southern district of New York federal district court has expounded upon the deliberative process privilege, which is a sub-species" of the work product doctrine. This action was filed by the Administration of the Estate of Ralph Joseph Tortorici, who …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Sixth Circuit Clarifies "Verifying Medical Evidence" Requirement Of Napier by Sixth Circuit Clarifies "Verifying Medical Evidence" Requirement Of Napier The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that when a prisoner's medical malady is so obviously serious that even a layman would easily recognize the need for medical attention, …
PHS Responsible For Deaths Of New York Prisoners by by Michael Rigby Prison Health Services (PHS) has killed another patient. According to a highly critical 10-page report released by the New York State Commission of Correction on June 23, 2004, the 2001 death of Brian Tetrault, a prisoner in the …
Failure to Protect from HIV-Positive Prisoner Negates Qualified Immunity Defense by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison officials are not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil rights action filed by three prisoners at South Dakota's Mike Durfee State Prison. The prisoners alleged that prison officials …
California Jail Suicide Lawsuit Settled For $840,000; Contract Health Care Inadequate by A three year old federal wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a Yolo County, California jail detainee who hanged himself was settled for $840,000 on September 1, 2004. Contract health care provider California Forensic Medical Group, …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Filed under: Medical, Pain
Eighth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment Against Pretrial Detainee's Dental Claim by Robert Woodman by Robert H. Woodman The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa in a complaint filed by a pretrial detainee alleging …
Brief • May 20, 2005
Castillo v Dashiell, CA, Amended Complaint, medical neglect blindness, 2005 Case 2:04-cv-00737-GEB-GGH 1 2 3 4 Document 24 Filed 05/20/2005 Page 1 of 6 KING HALL CIVIL RIGHTS CLINIC CARTER C. WHITE SBN: 164149 University of California, Davis School of Law One Shields A venue, Building TB-30 Davis, CA 95616-8821 …
PHS Medical Care at Rikers Fails in Evaluation by Paul von Zielbauer PHS Medical Care At Rikers Fails In Evaluation by Paul Von Zielbauer A recent evaluation of the company in charge of prisoner health care at Rikers Island, coming months after it was awarded a new $300 million contract, …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Michigan Prisoner Awarded $376,525 For Back Injury Sustained In Crash by A Michigan prisoner has been awarded $376,525 for back injuries sustained in a prison van crash. Lorenzo Johnson, a 40-year-old state prisoner, was being transferred from one prison to another when the van he was riding in hit a …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Qualified Immunity Granted to Doctor Who Failed to Order Interferon Treatments for HCV+ Prisoner by The Eight Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a doctor was not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's medical condition by failing to order interferon treatments for his Hepatitis C virus (HCV). While imprisoned within …
Florida Jury Awards $3,000,000 for Medical Negligence Causing Prisoner's Death by After a seven-day trial, a Florida jury awarded $3,006,200 to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence, causing the death of a Florida prisoner. This was brought by the estate of prisoner Clifford E. Jones, Jr., 35, against …
Michigan's Restrictive Placement Of HIV+ Prisoners Enjoined; $2 Million Damages Awarded by by John E. Dannenberg Winning a fifteen year state court battle, Michigan prisoners who tested positive for HIV (AIDS virus), and who were otherwise eligible to serve their time in community residential programs, camps or farms, gained the …
Abu Ghraib's Stain on Military Medicine by Steven Miles by Steven H. Miles, MD This article examines the relationship of military medical personnel to abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. It is based on testimony before the US Senate and …
D.C. Prisoner Receives $19,500 Settlement for Slip-and-Fall by The United States and the District of Columbia agreed on June 4, 2004, to pay Robert M. North $19,500 for injuries he received from falling down a set of stairs while handcuffed. North was arrested on Thanksgiving Day 2000 by Federal Marshals. …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis
California Establishes Statewide Hepatitis-C Management Program by by John E. Dannenberg The California Department of Corrections (CDC) Health Care Services Division instituted a statewide Hepatitis-C Clinical Management Program (Program) in March, 2004. The Program draws from the prototype HCV protocol developed under federal court order at Pelican Bay State Prison …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Untreated Dental Infection Kills California Prisoner by A 41 year-old prisoner at the California State Prison (Solano) in Vacaville died six days after having a tooth extracted, when prison medical staff failed to treat his resulting infection. Anthony Shumake, sentenced to 12 years, 8 months in 2000, had an abscessed …
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