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Article • May 15, 2007
in a pretrial detainee's hanging death. While at the Detention Center, Patrick Gaudreau exhibited behavior that resulted in him being involuntarily committed to the Hahnemann Correctional Mental Health Services ...
Article • May 15, 2007
and his evident paranoia and its consequences. At 1054-55: A competent adult has the right to refuse medical treatment. . . . Courts have based this right on either a common-law right that every ...
Article • May 15, 2007
the inmate to eat voluntarily are not successful and/or if the offender's medical condition indicates serious deterioration in ... health." WDOC force-fed McNabb "for several days, until he agreed to eat ...
of Sexually Violent Predators Act (the Act), Chapter 841, Texas Health and Safety Code, is not punitive and therefore is constitutional. Michael James Fisher is a civilly committed Texas citizen. He has been ...
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
challenging the arbitrary ban of Stateville Speaks, a nascent newspaper containing writings by IDOC prisoners. The IDOC amended its mail regulations regarding ?unacceptable publication? reviews (20 Ill. Adm ...
attorney fees. Once again, the appellate court reversed holding the EAJA allowed such an award. See: Hudson v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 839 F.2d 1453 (11th Cir. 1988). The EAJA provides ...
. This lawsuit was brought by the estate of deceased MCDC prisoner Daniel Tessier. The matter proceeded to a jury trial, and after the estate closed its case, the district court granted the Sheriff's motion ...
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
. This means that state and local governments spent four times more on justice than on education and twice as much as they spent on public welfare. Justice expenditures equaled hospital and health care ...
Case • 1986
would impinge on those beliefs. The challenged directive provides that males received as new commitments have an initial haircut and [**989] [***74] shave for reasons of health and sanitation as well ...
drinking water, have been a priority for the Human Rights Defense Center through its Prison Ecology Project, and Prison Legal News has previously reported on arsenic-tainted water at Wallace Pack. [See: PLN ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
Health Sources. Years later, Conley still suffers from chronic pain and limited mobility in his hand. Conley sued Dr. Birch and a number of Illinois Department of Corrections employees, alleging ...
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
apparently suffered a mental health episode and began banging his head against the door of his holding cell. He was removed from the cell and placed in a restraint chair, but was able to free one arm ...
incidental to the healing process.” In its ruling, the appellate court found it was error to deny a request to amend a complaint to allege the plaintiff was not aware she had been “injured ...
) and its medical contractor, Armor Correctional Health Services (Armor). In other BCJ news, a guard was acquitted of assaulting a pretrial detainee. Upon entering BCJ in February 2012, Raleigh Priester, 52 ...
five years. The prison system agreed to change its guidelines for disciplinary sentencing, capping the length of terms in solitary for certain offenses. Under the new guidelines, for example, possession ...
. The county settled its part of the suit for $7 million. When Ernest “Marty” Atencio, 44, a Gulf War veteran, was arrested by Phoenix police in December 2011, the officers knew he was mentally ill ...
the complaint, the defendants’ attorney sent Reyes five letters over the course of six months demanding that he sign a general medical release for his records held by Cermark Health Services, Cermark ...
Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
continue to suffer if he were not treated, and that “[h]is liver will continue to scar and its functioning will continue to deteriorate.” In granting the motion for a preliminary injunction ...
Article • February 8, 2018
in a “not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) verdict, followed by her placement in the Colorado Mental Health Institute Pueblo (CMHIP). In June of 2008, Torrez was found competent to proceed ...
Article • July 22, 2018
refused to provide Mitchell with the treatment its own expert recommended on the ground that Mitchell was within a month of release from the prison.” “Although DOC’s Mental Health ...
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