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Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Prison Legal News and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), are best known for litigation involving censorship by prison and jail officials, HRDC also co-counsels select other ...
. “They are always fussing over us, yelling at nurses for sending inmates to the hospital,” Lauer said, reading Allen’s testimony. “This is Prison Health Services’ policy.... Its widespread practice. You heard nurse ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
prisoners killed themselves within one year after the change. “Although this might simply be a statistical aberration, mental health staff is concerned that it is not and that it represents a potential ...
at 2 p.m., and inventoried his property and clothing. No belt was listed on the inventory. Whitt denied suicidal thoughts or previous attempts, according to a mental health questionnaire. He did admit ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
staffing levels in general. An order to use “all available community health care services” to ensure prisoners receive timely medical care also was found to be within the district court’s ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
to Durham, hoping for a fresh start. Uniece’s brother had disappeared, so he was left behind.  After a fight at school, Uniece was recommended for mental health care by a school evaluator. Once her ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center, in censorship and public records cases in California, Nevada and Arizona, and co-counseled other cases with us. Over the years I have gotten ...
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
roaches on his food tray, he alleged; on another occasion, the tray was “soiled by a green mold-like substance.” After a mental health evaluation, Jenkins was returned to the jail’s ...
Brief • June 24, 1996
of this incident: See above. Treating Physicians: Glenn Baldwin, MA, Group Health Cooperative, 4301 South Pine Street, Suite 301, Tacoma, WA 98409. (206) 383-6179; Debroah Hammond, MD, Group Health Cooperative ...
Brief • April 5, 2007
and effect of Defendants' policies, customs and practices on Plaintiff and the putative class as a whole, and to attempt to identify the source of the infection and the means of its transmission ...
by OSH as a mental health security technician; however, he was terminated following a November 24, 2008 incident involving co-worker Gregory Charles. The two men, whose duties included patrolling OSH ...
Rights, and Brig. Gen. (ret.) Stephen N. Xenakis, a former Army psychiatrist who is now with the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. It is based on a previously secret document from 2004, laying out ...
an Illinois state prisoner a hard lesson on July 27, 2023, affirming dismissal of his medical neglect claim against prison contractor Wexford Health Sources, Inc., for lack of evidence that expert testimony ...
, treat and restore the defendant's mental health so that judicial proceedings may resume. If `[a] court determines that [a criminal] defendant lacks fitness to proceed [to trial], the proceeding against ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Release and Reentry, jobs
securing basic necessities like employment, housing, and health care. This can make reintegration into society exceedingly difficult. The restrictions and limited opportunities that ex-prisoners face often ...
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
the licensing exam based on the 2019 law. Ironically, Texas has both a mental health crisis and a shortage of social workers, who are often the first point of contact for people in need of mental health services ...
In-the-News Article • July 13, 2015
by government agencies that receive federal funds; if an agency is found in violation of Title VI, that agency may lose its federal funding. The prison sector should not be an exception. “Those ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
billion prison phone service market, GTL has recently been the subject of two federal class-action lawsuits over its pricing and account practices. (See PLN, Feb. 2020, p.38.) In Michigan, GTL has reduced ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
; prisoner health care — under standards promulgated by the state Board of Corrections. He could not withhold care or choose which patients to treat. He did not bill patients, and all of the supplies he ...
at three police officers and into occupied cars, carjacking and kidnapping. The trial court ordered him held without bond, and he was incarcerated at the jail. Five years later, in 2010, a mental health ...
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