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Case • 1993
capacity only as Governor of the State of Oklahoma; and ROBERT SANDERS, individually and in his official capacity as Coordinator, Substance Abuse/Mental Health Services, Defendants [6] CAUTHRON [7 ...
Case • 1997
Facility, 105 F.3d 972, 975 n.2 (5th Cir. 1997); Grimes v. Texas Dep't of Mental Health, 102 F.3d 132, 137 (5th Cir. 1996). Thus, revised § 1915(b) provides that "if a prisoner brings a civil action or files ...
Case • 2001
remedies as to the claim for inadequate mental health care, the claim at issue at the preliminary injunction hearing. I find that plaintiffs' showing that one class member has exhausted his administrative ...
Case • 1982
to be transferred to North Carolina where he feels he will be safe. [16] "The State argues that it has a duty to protect the health of those who are incarcerated in the state penal system ...
Case • 2003
), Fla. Stat. (1997). See also New York Times Co. v. PHH Mental Health Serv., Inc., 616 So. 2d 27, 29 (Fla. 1993) (section 119.12(1) is designed to encourage public agencies to comply voluntarily ...
Frances Linder, a mental health counselor who works for the Washington Department of Corrections and who apparently learned some sign language from her parents. Sean already knew from his prior experiences ...
to the courts by denying them direct access to the law library and the assistance of a trained legal aide. This case goes on to hold that medical and dental practices, mental health practices and the recreation ...
. 2321 (1991) and Hudson v. McMillian , 112 S.Ct. 995 (1992), which refined the legal standards in eighth amendment cases. Wilson mandates an inquiry into prison officials' subjective mental state before ...
a threat to and undermine health and sanitation. This was remanded for trial. Lighting: Keenan stated that large fluorescent lights directly in front of and behind his cell shone into his cell twenty four ...
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
. Eleven men are now housed in the prison under the Civil Commitment law passed in 1990. Although the center is in a prison owned by the Department of Corrections (DOC), the Department of Social and Health ...
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
to show proof of the requisite mental state of culpability associated with medical indifference. The appeals court gave an overview of the legal standards in prisoners medical indifference claims ...
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
of the classes. To be eligible for the program, a man or woman must be between the ages of 18 and 28. Not be mentally or physically handicapped. Have no history of violence, and the crime for which ...
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
, Health Care and Judiciary committees. What are her qualifications to serve on, much less head, the corrections committee? Only a desire to bash prisoners and make already miserable lives even worse. Rather ...
$3,500 and the remaining $500 going to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. In addition, Lane will get to keep her $25,000 prize from PEN, said Blumenthal, adding that "Barbara Lane ...
and sexual predators in its training curriculum for medical and mental health personnel and investigators. The Rhode Island DOC is using its half a million dollars to address a wide range of issues, including ...
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
support of $3,150, this amount was seized and paid directly to the Dept. of Social and Health Services. His Seattle attorney was Edward Harper of Olmstead Gibbs & Harper, LLC. See: Ezell v. State ...
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
. But we have to do better than this. With over 2.1 million Americans locked up, which represents 1 out of every 75 men, millions more cycling through jails each year, the public health crisis represented ...
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Filed under: News, News in Brief
. The tobacco ban was ordered by Governor Pete Wilson as a first step towards ending smoking by prisoners throughout the prison system. Wilson claims the ban is to reduce prisoner health care expenses and arson ...
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Filed under: Sewage, Water, Media, PLN Litigation
importantly for organizers, unlike inadequate mental health care or prisoner on prisoner violence, this is an issue which affects the overwhelmingly poor, rural communities where most prisons are located. One ...
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
James Shull of Gate City from the bench. Among the reasons for his removal were deciding a child visitation case by flipping a coin. In another case, a woman with a history of mental illness sought ...
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