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Tennessee Public Records Act Requires Fees For Copying, Production by Pro se Tennessee State prisoner Omawali Shabazz, aka Fred Dean, appealed a 1999 ruling denying certain documents and requiring fees for others. Dean had brought an action to compel the production of documents from various Tennessee Department of Corrections personnel, …
$620,000 Settlement for Florida Jail Beating Death by While imprisoned in Florida's Palm Beach County Jail, a 35 year old Haitian laborer was beaten by guards. He sustained in June 1985, a broken neck and was left in his cell with no medical treatment. When he was finally taken to …
PHS Fails Benchmarks In NYC Jail Medical Contract; Fined $250,000 by Prison Health Services (PHS), nearing the end of its three-year $359.6 million contract to provide medical, dental, mental health and pharmaceutical services to ten of the eleven New York City jails, was audited by the State Comptroller's Office in …
Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail – Four Prisoners Dead by Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail - Four Prisoners Dead Family members of prisoners who became sick or died at the Santa Rita jail in Alameda County, California have alleged inadequate health care …
$1.6 Million Settlements by PHS and Hillsborough County in Death of Baby Born in Florida Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Inadequate medical care by Prison Health Services (PHS) has resulted in yet another death and $1.6 million in settlements for the mother of a baby boy who …
$4 Million Settlement In Rape and Beating Death of Mentally Ill New Jersey Prisoner by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby The daughters of a mentally ill man who was raped and beaten to death by another prisoner in New Jersey's Camden County Correctional Facility (CCCF) will receive a combined $4 …
Prison Privatization Launders Taxpayer Dollars into Political Contributions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter If you know a company is not saving you money or performing its contractual obligations, why would you continue to use that company? The normal consumer would end the relationship quickly. When it comes to …
Prisons as Incubators and Spreaders of Disease and Illness by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg America’s lockups are turning from prisoner dumping grounds into infectious disease breeding grounds. Isolation is intended to be the punishment inflicted by society upon prisoners. But concentrating prisoners in the process of isolating them, …
Excessive Force And Medical Negligence Death In Youngstown, Ohio Arrest Settles For $350,000 From Police, $100,000 From PHS by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The death of a Youngstown, Ohio arrestee who was severely beaten by police and negligently treated by Prison Health Services? (PHS) contract jail medical staff …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal Denied for Delay of Dental Treatment by A federal district court in Delaware has held that a prisoner's claim of proper dental treatment being delayed defeats the Defendant's Motion for Dismissal. While incarcerated at Delaware's Multi-purpose Criminal Justice Facility, prisoner David W. Williamson developed an abscessed tooth and periodontal …
Article • May 15, 2007
GA Prisoners Seeking to Appeal the Denial of a Motion to Intervene Must Apply for Interlocutory Review by GA Prisoners Seeking to Appeal the Denial of a Motion to Intervene Must Apply for Interlocutory Review Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) was awarded a contract to provide health care to prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2007
PHS Avoids Liability in Maine Prison Suicide by The decedent committed suicide in prison. The court refuses to draw an adverse inference against the medical defendants from missing records because almost all of them were from a period later than when they had any dealings with the decedent, and the …
Expert Witness Rate for Discovery Reduced by Compensation to an expert for time spent in responding to discovery includes a reasonable amount of time preparing for a deposition. Here, 3.5 hours was reasonable for a review of medical records more than a year after the expert prepared his report (no …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Loses Dental Suit Against PHS by The plaintiff told the prison dentist that he wanted his remaining teeth pulled and to be provided with dentures. The dentist said he would try to avoid dentures and that the plaintiff had many sound teeth that he could keep with proper care. …
Article • May 15, 2007
$200,000 Verdict for Florida Prisoner in Failure to Treat Epilepsy by The plaintiff in this case was arrested and housed in Florida's Broward County Jail. Upon his arrest, he had a history of epilepsy and brought his medication with him to the jail. A doctor employed by defendant Prison Health …
Third Circuit: PHS Subject to Successor Liability, Relation-Back Statute Inapplicable by Third Circuit: PHS Subject to Successor Liability, Relation-Back Statute Inapplicable In this case involving a Title VII discrimination suit against Correctional Physician Services (CPS), the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the company's buyer, Prison Health Services …
Former PHS Employee Awarded $200,000 for Retaliation, Age Discrimination by On August 16, 2001, a Maine jury awarded $200,000 to a registered nurse who claimed she was fired by Prison Health Services (PHS) for voicing concerns about the quality of care being provided to juvenile prisoners and because of her …
Private Medical Services Skirmish Over INS Contract by A Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss filed by Prison Health Services, Inc. The motion sought to dismiss the complaint of Up and Up Health Services, Inc. Both companies were bidding for a contract to provide managed health care services …
FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit upheld a jury verdict against the Escambia county Road Prison in Florida for $500,000 in favor of a prisoner denied medical care. The plaintiff fractured his hip ball socket and was repeatedly denied …
$200,000 Awarded to Prison Nurse for Wrongful Termination by $200,000 Awarded To Prison Nurse For Wrongful Termination Joan Gilles, a 67-year old former prison nurse at the Northern Maine Juvenile Correctional Facility (NMJCF), in Charleston, filed a law suit against Prison Health Services (PHS), a company that provides medical services …
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