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Article • September 15, 2009
serious medical needs. Determining that a state is not a "person" and therefore may not be sued under §1983, the district court's dismissal of Martin's claim against the State of Washington was affirmed ...
Article • September 15, 2009
the jail failed to take steps to treat his seizure disorder. When Deimerly entered the jail on June 4, 2002, he informed medical personnel of the disorder. Despite that and several “kites,” he ...
Publication • February 16, 2016
medications. Long-term measures 4. Under no circumstances should prisoners with a history or symptoms of mental illness be held in long-term solitary confinement conditions. 5. Juveniles and pre-trial detainees ...
Case • 1995
that the Appellants violated his constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment in that they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by failing to provide either medication ...
Case • 2002
officials violated his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when they failed to dispose of Schreiber's medical blood samples in a manner consistent with his religious beliefs. Prison nurses routinely draw ...
Case • 1997
. In October 1989, Clofer filed a § 1983 action against four members of the Angola medical staff, an emergency medical technician, and Warden John P. Whitley alleging their deliberate indifference to his serious ...
. He requires several daily medications as well as care to prevent body sores. While in the Wabash County, Indiana, jail he was placed in a padded cell with no bed, furniture or running water, poor ...
will be adjusted up or down in proportion to changes in the DRC population. The decree describes the delivery system for medications, including "forced medication," which "shall in all respects comply ...
suit against the L.A. County Sheriff's Department for shoddy medical and psychiatric care. The lead attorney remembered Kupers from press accounts of the treatment of Panthers in the L.A. County Jail ...
Turner Applied to Rehabilitation Act Claims by Prisoners at the California Medical Facility (CMF) in Vacaville filed a class action suit challenging the adequacy of medical care ...
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
health. See, e.g., 20 U.S.C. § 3601(a)(3), 4011(a)(3) (noting the congressional finding that medical science has not established any minimum level of exposure to asbestos considered safe). Wallis' medical ...
Louisiana state prisoners became ill, along with half the Louisiana State Penitentiary, due to food poisoning. They were treated by medical staff and excused from work that day. The next day they were still ...
the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to charge prisoners $5.00 for each visit for medical treatment as well as for prescriptions, medication and prosthetic devices. A similar practice by the Nevada DOC ...
. Bledsoe was then hog-tied and placed on his stomach in the back of a police car while the deputies continued to interview witnesses. Although Bledsoe was in obvious need of medical attention, the lawsuit ...
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
on the appropriate uses of seclusion and restraint. These experts concluded unequivocally that the duration that that the Resource Center applied seclusion was medically inappropriate and universally condemned ...
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
or supervised release," is an affirmative defense to prosecution." The law also exempts penetration if that is part of a medically recognized treatment or diagnostic procedure; or...in order to search for weapons ...
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
by even more ignorance and prejudice than now. In the mid- to late80's, the medical establishment, the government and the media didn't even recognize that women get HIV, and, largely as a result ...
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
$174,175 Awarded in D.C. Conditions and Medical Suit by The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has denied motions by the District of Columbia Department of Corrections ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
medical condition. In 2001, McKenna was told that his infection had progressed to cirrhosis of the liver and he required treatment because his cirrhosis was decompensating. When McKenna requested a liver ...
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
recover without expert medical testimony to establish proximate cause the court concluded that while Baker needed expert medical testimony to establish that he suffered long-term medical repercussions ...
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