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Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medication
California HIV+ Prisoners on Medical Strike by California HIV+ Prisoners On Medical Strike The rate of HIV (the virus believed to cause AIDS infection) in prisons is higher than in all other institutions in the U.S. National studies have shown that prisoners with AIDS live half as long as people …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Medication Must Be Delivered in Timely Manner by Medication Must be Delivered in Timely Manner Raymond Aswegan is a 70 year old Iowa state prisoner serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary. Aswegan has numerous health problems including coronary artery disease, arthritis, obstructive pulmonary disease and a history …
Prisoner Entitled to Receive Medication by Lawrence Hill is an Ohio state prisoner. While in the Cincinnati jail Hill tested positive for tuberculosis and was prescribed medication to prevent it from becoming active and to eradicate it. The medication had to be taken continuously for one year otherwise the bacteria …
Brief • October 9, 1992
Letezeio v. Manson, CT, Stipulation, Prison Overcrowding and AIDS Cases, 1992 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT n 10 • ri '< r. t'.'\ ; JOSEPH L. LETEZ EIO , JR. : V• JOHN R . MANSON, et al. CIVIL NO. H82-252 CIVIL NO. H80-506' CIVIL NO. H81-512 CIVIL …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
23% of NY Prisoners Test Positive for TB by Twenty-three percent of New York's prisoners and six percent of the prison employees have tested positive for tuberculosis infection, according to the most thorough study to date. Thomas A. Coughlin, the Commissioner of Correctional Services, released the data. The tests included …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, STDs
D.C. Changes Jail Condom Policy by Washington, D.C., Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly recently unveiled a plan to combat AIDS that includes distributing condoms to the city's inmates. The plan, which was scheduled to take effect in July, will combine condom distribution with educational AIDS programming. A voluntary course for inmates …
Prisoner Entitled to Protection and Toilet Access by Kenneth Young is an HIV positive federal prisoner who was transferred to the US Penitentiary at Lewisburg, PA. While in the transfer segregation unit at Lewisburg Young was sexually assaulted by his cellmates several times. He repeatedly requested protective custody from a …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
High AIDS Rate Behind Bars by People entering U.S. prisons have high HIV infection rates and transmission of the virus that causes AIDS continues among prisoners because of intravenous drug use and homosexual activity, Federal health officials said June 4 in Atlanta. As of November 1990, there were 4,519 cases …
NCCHC Asks Congress to Improve Prison Health Care by NCCHC Asks Congress To Improve Prison Health Care Carl C. Bell, M.D., chairman of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care's (NCCHC) Board of Directors, in testifying to a congressional subcommittee, stated that "...the Federal Government must act to improve health …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Guards Need Not Disclose Identity Of HIV-Positive Cons by A prisoner in the medium security unit of a Nebraska state prison brought a federal civil rights lawsuit against the warden and other prison personnel, claiming that they subjected him to cruel and unusual punishment by: (1) conspiring to conceal the …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Virginia Sets Guidelines for Terminally-Ill Prisoners by Virginia Sets Guidelines For Terminally-Ill Prisoners The state of Virginia has released a policy to handle requests by terminally-ill prisoners for early release. The policy was developed in response to a request by Alex Velazquez, a prisoner at Powhatan Correctional Center, to be …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Dental Care
Prison Dentist Sues to Hide AIDS by A dentist who has treated patients at the Metropolitan Corrections Center, Chicago's federal prison, recently filed a lawsuit trying to prevent the Bureau of Prisons from disclosing the fact that he has AIDS to anyone except in medically justified cases. In what lawyers …
Confiscation of Legal Papers States Claim by Charles Brownlee, a Wisconsin pretrial detainee filed a civil rights complaint, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, after jail officials confiscated legal documents relevant to a law suit he had filed. That suit claimed he'd been denied access to a dentist for treatment …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Pleas for Medical Attention Ignored by Adrian Lomax Pleas For Medical Attention Ignored By Adrian Lomax [Editorial Note :While medical neglect by our captors is nothing new, we are printing this piece because of the commonness of the events described, not because it is "news " to those of us …
Pelican Bay Conditions Suit Filed by The Pelican Bay Information Project (PBIP) is an independent citizens' group that has formed in response to the complaints of prisoners. The group is composed of prison visitors, writers, ex-prisoners, lawyers and human rights advocates. Since Pelican Bay's 1250 cell Security Housing Unit (SHU) …
Pregnant Con Miscarries After Taser Attack by Afemale parole violator was told to submit to a strip search, but refused, noting five male officers were present right outside the cell. She stated that she would allow the strip search if she were taken to another cell, outside the view of …
Counsel Appointed in Denial of Telephone, Beating Claim by Counsel Appointed In Denial Of Telephone, Beating Claim Billy Tucker was arrested and jailed in Kendall County, Ill. At the time of his arrest he was bloody and had a broken hand and ribs. He was taken to a hospital and …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Prisoner Must Be Informed of HIV Status by Prisoner Must Be Informed Of HIV Status Tyrone McIlwain was a Virginia prisoner who overdosed on heroin and was taken to the Prince William hospital emergency room for treatment. Without his knowledge or consent, blood tests were performed which revealed he was …
Detainee's Beating is Cruel and Unusual by Detainee's Beating Is Cruel And Unusual Marcus Miller was a detainee in the Tulsa, OK, jail when he was ordered out of the jail law library. Miller refused and jail guards knocked him to the floor, handcuffed him and put him in a …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Caring Captors? by By Robert Pierce A recent issue of the Cincinnati Enquirer contained an article in which Mid-Western law enforcement officials were complaining about the increasing cost of providing health care to prisoners in county jails. One sheriff, Tim Bivins of Lee County, Illinois, had what he thought was …
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