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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 ...
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
to state prisoner John E. Taylor, Jr., after finding officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and its contracted medical provider, Wexford Health Sources, had violated his constitutional ...
violation of the ADA, which encompassed Farris’ mental health diagnosis in its description of a “person with a disability.” See: Farris v. Kohlrus, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23805 (C.D. Ill ...
Article • November 5, 2022
request that was allegedly ignored. Only when a guard noticed the injury two days later was Sobczyk sent to the health care unit. Once there, he was seen by nurse Lynn Chattic, informing her that he heard ...
by the City and County to pay $160,000 to Sanchez and Jordan; Denver Health Medical Center settled its part of the suit for an additional payment of $320,000. See: Sanchez v. City & Cty. of Denver, USDC (D ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2005
centered on the state's Public Disclosure Act, which Wright used while he was still behind bars to seek copies of various documents related to prison health workers who'd been found to have committed ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
. A suicide attempt followed, and he was transferred to Jester IV Unit — without crutches — for mental health treatment. There Davis complained of pain to medical personnel, who ordered additional X ...
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
$10 Million Post-Appeal Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Prisoner Death Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After having most of its defenses rebuked by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Tulsa ...
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
in this era of near-constant war, NeSmith suffered from untreated mental health issues. After nearly being killed in a training accident in April 2013 at Camp Horn, his mental condition rapidly deteriorated ...
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
filed suit pro se in January 2014. The Court then granted summary judgment to Defendants, DOC, Dr. Ronald Woodall (an employee of its privately contracted health care provider, Wexford Health Sources ...
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
of sight, out of mind” attitude that turns the country’s prisons and jails into human warehouses. Disregarding its impact on communities is dangerous — especially in the midst of the COVID ...
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis
in accessing care,” said Gregg Alton, Chief Patient Officer at Gilead Sciences. Because HCV infections are easily spread by sexual contact and sharing needles, the disease poses a health risk to the rest ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Lawsuit Over Conditions at BOP’s New York City Prison Continues as COVID-19 Spreads by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A prison health expert report found that Brooklyn’s Metropolitan ...
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