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Article • October 19, 2015
$975,000 for Prison Clinic Error to Prisoner’s Estate by $975,000 for Prison Clinic Error to Prisoner’s Estate The Big Sandy Federal Prison settled for $975,000 in August 2012 with the estate of prisoner Timothy Bell before a magistrate judge. A prison doctor, in July 2008, ordered that a “Priority!!!” biopsy …
Article • October 12, 2015
Filed under: Cancer, Parole, Juveniles
Iowa Juvenile LWOP Prisoner Released to Hospice Care by Mark Wilson Iowa Juvenile LWOP Prisoner Released to Hospice Care by Mark Wilson In what is being described as an “unprecedented” decision, on December 3, 2013, the Iowa Parole Board ordered the release of a terminally ill prisoner who was sentenced …
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Cancer, Failure to Treat
$1.2 Million Award for Failure to Treat New York Prisoner’s Rectal Bleeding by David Reutter $1.2 Million Award for Failure to Treat New York Prisoner’s Rectal Bleeding by David Reutter A New York Court of Claims awarded $1.2 million to a former prisoner who was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer …
Article • September 11, 2015
$60,000 for CCDA Prisoner Denied Cancer Treatment by David Reutter $60,000 for CCDA Prisoner Denied Cancer Treatment by David M. Reutter Corrections Corporation of America paid $60,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that officials at the Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCF) failed to provide scheduled cancer surgeries for prisoner David E. …
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
$3,000 Jury Award to Arizona Prisoner Denied Prostate Care by David Reutter $3,000 Jury Award to Arizona Prisoner Denied Prostate Care by David M. Reutter An Arizona federal jury awarded $3,000 to a prisoner in a case involving the delay or denial of medical care. Post-trial, the district court awarded …
Pollution Prison in Pennsylvania by Mumia Abu-Jamal Pollution Prison in Pennsylvania by Mumia Abu-Jamal Recently, a group of human rights researchers, responding to letters from prisoners at SCI Fayette, found a slew of environmental dangers and threats to the lives, health and well-being of hundreds of prisoners, guards and other …
Malinowski v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2015 CONFIDENTIAL UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION JOHN MALINOWSKI, No. 2012 CV 08654 Plaintiff, Hon. Sara. :L- Ellis, District Judge v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., et al., Hon. Sidney I. Schenkier, Magistrate Judge Defendants. SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT …
Dismukes v. Baker, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2015 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD DIVISION CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and General Release is made and entered into this 11th day of May, 2015, by and between Plaintiff Corey Dismukes and …
Malinowski v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2015 Case: 1:12-cv-08654 Document #: 150 Filed: 04/02/15 Page 1 of 37 PageID #:876 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ) JOHN MALINOWSKI ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., ) IMHOTEP …
Dismukes v. Baker, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2014 3:11-cv-03345-SEM-TSH # 85 Page 1 of 22 E-FILED Tuesday, 09 September, 2014 09:01:53 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD DIVISION ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) v. ) ) DR. THOMAS BAKER, ) DR. …
Publication • August 5, 2014
Tobacco Control Policies and Deaths from Smoking in U.S. Prisons Medical Study BMJ 2014 BMJ 2014;349:g4542 doi: 10.1136/bmj.g4542 (Published 5 August 2014) Page 1 of 12 Research RESEARCH Prison tobacco control policies and deaths from smoking in United States prisons: population based retrospective analysis OPEN ACCESS 1 2 Ingrid A …
Mitts v. Shicker, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2014 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS JOECEPHUS MITTS, #N-83084 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, V. OBADINA, ET AL ) ) ) ) Defendants. CauseNo.3:ll-cv-00398 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAJMS The undersigned, …
Parisi v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2014 A~RE:€M€tJT PAGE: 1. ot= eom si&l-lcD e,~ t>f\UL M/t.:Tft\EW Ptt~i'S i ~ RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS In consideration ofthe payment to the undersigned of $15,000.00 (FIFI'EEN 1HOUSAND DOLLARS AND NO CENTS), the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the w,dersigned, being of …
Devbrow v. Kalu, IN, Plaintiff's Support of Motion in Limine, Deliberate Indifference to Medical Treatment, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION EUGENE DEVBROW, Plaintiff, v. DR. EKE KALU, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Cause No. 1:07-cv-1355-LJM-TAB PLAINTIFF’S MEMORANDUM …
Brief • February 18, 2014
Filed under: Cancer, Blood, Failure to Treat
Upsher v. New York, NY, Decision, Failure to Treat, Medical, 2014 [* 1] FILED ...._,,,,_,.,-~· STATE OF NEW YORK B t 8 2014 . COURT OF CLAIMS ;~K·:IWUDJ1~ .. ," ·~;,,. In the Matter of the Claim of STEVEN UPSHER, >:<·· ••• ,. Claimant, DECISION -vClaim No. 115797 STATE OF …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Deliberate Indifference Medical Claim Accrues Upon Discovery of Injury and its Cause by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has articulated a rule for determining when a prisoner’s claim of deliberate indifference to a serious medical need accrues. In so doing, the Court reversed an Indiana federal district court’s dismissal …
California: State Not Liable for Failure to Provide Needed Treatment so Long as Medical Care is Summoned by On January 15, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that state prison officials were immune from liability, as a matter of law, for decisions that resulted in a prisoner failing to …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Sixth Circuit: Failed Cancer Diagnosis Not Deliberately Indifferent by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's denial of qualified immunity to a Michigan prison doctor and nurse accused of failing to diagnose a prisoner's bone cancer. On February 13, 2007, Mound Correctional Facility prisoner Joshua Reilly …
Tenny v. Ghosh, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2013 SETILEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS 1. Upon consideration of the payment to the undersigned of $2,000.00 ( Two Thousand Dollars and No Cents), the undersigned, Robert Tenney, being of lawful age, does hereby release and forever discharge, Dr, Partha Ghosh, …
Mitts v. Shicker, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2013 Case 3:11-cv-00398-JPG-PMF Document 78 Filed 01/22/13 Page 1 of 10 Page ID #509 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS JOECEPHUS MITTS, #N-83084 Plaintiff, v. LOUIS SHICKER, DENNIS LARSON, JILL WAHL, CHRISTINE BROWN, NIKKI MALLEY Defendants. ) …
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