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Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Alaska Prison Design Case Settles for $1 Million by In August, 2001, the state of Alaska settled a lawsuit involving faulty prison design which resulted in serious injury to a prisoner for $1,000,000. In February, 1994, Carry Johnson was returning to his cell at the Ketchikan Correctional Center in Alaska. …
Medical Care Still Deficient in Texas Prisons by Gary Hunter Deficient medical care at the unit level has Texas prisons incubating a new, more virulent strain of HIV. Dr. William Obrien is one of the most noted doctors on staff with the University of Texas Medical Branch. (UTMB) Over a …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Louisiana Sheriff Pays $1.35 Million Settlement in Death of Diabetic Prisoner by On January 6, 2002, Orleans Parish criminal sheriff Charles Foti agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a diabetic female prisoner who died at the parish prison in April 1999. JoAnn …
Brief • December 6, 2002
Filed under: Medical
Brash v. Wexford Health Services, FL, Motion for Pi HCV Treatment, 2002 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. ALLEN BRASH, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., ) a Florida corporation, DAVID ) ROWE, and MICHAEL MOORE, in ) his official …
$1 Damages and $1.50 Attorney Fees in Guard Brutality Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Eighth Circuit US Court of Appeals affirmed the award of $1 nominal damages for guard brutality in violation of the Eighth Amendment and limited the prevailing prisoner plaintiff's attorney fees to …
District Court Sets Prisoner's "Deliberate Indifference" Hepatitis C Claims for Trial by A Connecticut Federal District Court has ordered that a state prisoner's Eighth Amendment claims arising from Connecticut Department of Corrections (CDOC) officials' deliberate indifference of his severe medical conditions be severed and that some of the claims proceed …
Prison Guards Can Be Liable for Prisoner Suicide by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded the dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit against Wisconsin prison officials. In so ruling, the court held that prison guards can be held liable under Eighth Amendment "deliberate indifference" claims …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Administrative Exhaustion Required But Unprejudiced; Dismissal and Equitable Tolling by Gary Hunter The 5th Circuit court of appeals, in accord with a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, held that administrative exhaustion is required in all prisoner cases, regardless of the relief sought. It held that cases pending at the time …
Brief • October 17, 2002
Rodgers v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2002 .. ... ORIGl~JAL SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ) ) ANDREW RODGERS #07967-007 FMC Devens P.O. Box 879 Ayer, MA 01432 ) Plaintiff v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA A Municipal Corporation Serve: Darlene Fields or Janice Stokes Authorized …
Florida Prisoner Dies in CCA Jail by Lonnie Burton On February 26, 2002, the family of a prisoner who died as a result of medical neglect at the privately-run Bay County jail in Florida filed formal notice that they intend to sue the jail, as well as the Bay Medical …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Sixth Circuit Upholds Denial of Prison Doctor's Qualified Immunity by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld denial of qualified immunity to a state prison doctor by the Federal District Court in Michigan. Richard LeMarbe is a Michigan state prisoner. In 1996, he was treated for chronic gallbladder problems …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
CMS Overdoses Five Boston Jail Prisoners by Five prisoners at Boston's Suffolk County jail in Massachusetts were rushed to a nearby hospital after receiving the wrong medication. Jail guards found the five prisoners unconscious on the morning of September 23, 2001, after other prisoners alerted the guards by raising a …
Brief • September 25, 2002
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Foree v. Broward County, FL, Expert Report, Indifference Pregnancy, 2002 Case 0:02-cv-61356-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/25/2002 Page 32 of 39 KENNETH KASSIN, M.D. 1600 S. Federal Highway, Suite 611 Pompano Beach, FL. 33062 (954) 941-8100 April 15, 2002 Jemey Nodan Counhouse Tower, Suite 400 44 West Flagler …
Brief • September 25, 2002
Foree v. Broward County Sheriff's Office, FL, Petition for Removal, Deliberate Indifference Pregnancy, 2002 Case 0:02-cv-61356-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/25/2002 Page 37 of 39 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO.: 02016927 CACE 05 CHARLEEN …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
From the Editor by Willie Wisely by Paul Wright Over the years, PLN has conducted a number of sample mailings to potential subscribers. This has always been a good way to expand our circulation, but such mailings are expensive to do. We have long recognized that our best outreach resource …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
California Prisoner Gets New Heart by Gary Hunter In early January 2002, an unidentified California prisoner received a heart transplant at the Stanford Medical Center. It was the first time any state prisoner has received an organ transplant; and it is not without controversy. Inflated prison populations, longer prison sentences, …
CYA Suit Alleges Abuse of Juveniles by Anne Mania The California Youth Authority (CYA) houses 6,000 juvenile offenders and was once considered a model for juvenile justice in this country. However, after decades of declining funding and worsening conditions, the California Youth Authority has deteriorated to where severely mentally ill …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Hemorrhoids: A Serious Medical Condition by A federal district court in Illinois has denied a motion to dismiss a complaint for the failure to alter treatment for a prisoner's hemorrhoid problem. Prisoner Brian Jones brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against six medical doctors at Illinois' Stateville and Joliet …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
No Qualified Immunity for Guards Who Failed to Provide CPR by No Qualified Immunity for Guards who Failed to Provide CPR The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit struck down a district court's grant of qualified immunity and summary judgment in favor of three Nebraska prison guards who …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Dental Care Denial Defeats Summary Judgment by A federal district court in Illinois has denied summary judgment in a prisoner's denial of dental treatment claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and expounded on the relations back upon amendment provision of Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(c). While a detainee at the Cook County …
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