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Two-Week Lockdown at BOP Women’s Prison in Minnesota After Nine Overdoses, Two Deaths by The Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Waseca, a women’s prison on the former campus of a University of Minnesota technical school, was locked down for over two weeks after a mass drug overdose sent prisoners to …
Centurion’s $8 Million Track Record of Abuse and Neglect as New Mexico’s Correctional Medical Provider by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has long outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide prisoners adequate medical care to private, for-profit corporations with little incentive to do so. Before …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Washington State Patrol Accused of Confusing Driver’s Brain Bleed for DUI by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 17, 2024, the Washington State Patrol (WSP) was accused of negligently arresting and jailing a woman for suspected DUI when in fact she was suffering a life-threatening brain bleed. Beyond the …
Brief • November 20, 2024
Estate of Daniel James Murray v. Wellpath, LLC, CO, Settlement, Unconsitutional Medical Care, 2024 Steve Schleiker El Paso Countv1 CO 11/20/2024 10:24:35 AM Doc $0.00 20 Illllll lllll lllll lllll lllll lllll lllll1111111111 11111111 Rec $0.00 Pages 224092550 RESOLUTION NO. 24-455 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE …
Wellpath Sanctioned for Destroying Evidence in Two Oregon Jail Death Suits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 30, 2024, the federal court for the District of Oregon sanctioned private prison and jail medical contractor Wellpath, LLC for destroying evidence in a suit filed over a detainee death …
Brief • November 11, 2024
Estate of Lucas Bellamy v. Omweri, Proposed Order for Distribution of Wrongful Death Proceeds, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024 CASE 0:24-cv-00170-DWF-TNL Doc. 49 Filed 11/11/24 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Louis Bellamy, as Trustee for the next of kin of Lucas John Bellamy, Deceased, Plaintiff, …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Watchdog Calls for Hawaii Prisons, Jails to Stop Using Restraint Chairs by On April 18, 2024, Hawaii’s Correctional System Oversight Commission (CSOC) called on lockups in the state to stop using restraint chairs over concerns they are dangerous. CSOC said it wasn’t aware that any of the devices were still …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail by Private jail medical providers usually win contracts with promises to save a county money. But after two federal lawsuits filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio in 2023 against Ohio’s Richland County and its privately …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$1.8 Million Jury Award for San Diego Jail Overdose Death by Matthew Clarke On April 25, 2024, a federal jury in Southern California awarded $1.8 million to the Estate of a detainee who died of a methamphetamine overdose while incarcerated at the San Diego Central Jail. The verdict was preceded …
Brief • September 19, 2024
Estate of Shelly Monahan v. Clark County, WA, Complaint, Wrongul Death-Denial Medical Care, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-05392-TMC Document 29 Filed 09/19/24 Page 1 of 40 1 The Honorable Tiffany M. Cartwright 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Turn Key Health Clinics: Another Private Jail Medical Provider Leaving a Trail of Death and Misery by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Jails face a monumental task in the provision of medical care. Those who’ve just been arrested are often experiencing withdrawal from drugs or alcohol. Other pre-existing medical …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
“We Killed Him”: Alabama Jailers Cut Plea Deals After Detainee Freezes to Death by On July 31, 2024, a former guard at Alabama’s Walker County Jail agreed to plead guilty to federal charges filed after a detainee was left naked on his cell floor for two weeks and froze to …
No Dismissal for San Diego Jail Medical Contractor from Suit Filed Over Detainee’s Withdrawal Death by On February 8, 2024, the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California declined to dismiss all the claims brought by the family of a San Diego Jail detainee who died in custody …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Nevada DOC Under Fire for Hiring Unlicensed Medical Director by The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners confirmed on February 23, 2024, that the medical director for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) lacked a license to practice medicine within the state. Dr. Kenneth L. Williams, former medical director of Tennessee’s …
Florida Court Strikes $10 Million of $16 Million Judgment Against Armor Correctional Health in Jail Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 30, 2023, a Florida court entered final judgment awarding $6 million to the estate of a detainee who died at Santa Rosa County Jail (SRCJ) …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
$275,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Jail Detainee’s Death from Untreated Heart Infection by As the bankruptcy of private jail medical provider Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. wound down on October 23, 2023, the firm sold off its one remaining asset, a contract to provide medical services to prisoners at Texas’ Nueces …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arrested for Stealing Snacks, Baltimore Diabetic Dies in Jail by Louis Maurice Mason, a 67-­year-­old struggling with diabetes and a four-­decade cocaine addiction, died on March 8, 2024, in Baltimore’s jail system. Despite his deteriorating health, a judge had set his bail unaffordably high, effectively signing his death warrant. Mason’s …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arizona Agrees to $40,000 Settlement in Suit Over Mentally Ill Prisoner’s Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After a federal court found its provision of healthcare and mental health care to all state prisoners was “plainly, grossly inadequate,” Arizona settled a suit over one prisoner’s suicide on November 11, …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
New Mexico Jail Sued Again After Paying $787,500 In-Custody Death Settlement by New Mexico’s Santa Fe County was hit with another suit in October 2023 over a detainee’s drug-­related death at the county jail, just over a year after agreeing to pay $787,500 to the father of a young woman …
$7.5 Million Settlement in Suit Over California Jail Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 29, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement under which Riverside County paid $7.5 million to the survivors of a county jail detainee who died in custody. …
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