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Arizona DOC Faces Lawsuit Over Inadequate Medical Care by Joe Watson There are cuts to health care and there are health care cuts. At least one Arizona prisoner has personal knowledge of the unfortunate difference. Prisoners and their advocates have accused the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) of being so …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Filed under: Medical, Cancer, Misdiagnosis
$3,750 Posthumous Settlement in California Prisoner’s Medical Suit by State officials have settled a federal lawsuit against California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation medical staff that alleged lengthy delays in the diagnosis and treatment of a prisoner’s stomach cancer. Gerardo Richardo Gallegos was a California state prisoner who did not …
Article • May 15, 2012
Filed under: Medical, Cancer
California Prison System Settles Untreated Cancer Case for Undisclosed Sum by A settlement was reached in a lawsuit claiming prison medical personnel failed to provide treatment for a growing cancerous lump in a prisoner’s neck. When Dean L. Brooks, a prisoner at California’s Calipatria State Prison, noticed a lump on …
Parsons v. Ryan, AZ, Complaint, Systemic Medical Neglect Class Action, 2012 Case 2:12-cv-00601-NVW--MEA Document 1 Filed 03/22/12 Page 1 of 77 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Daniel J. Pochoda …
Article • February 15, 2012
California DOC Agrees to $135,000 Settlement for Failing to Diagnose Prisoner’s Cancer, Resulting in Death by A $135,000 award was granted in the wrongful death suit against California Department of Corrections (CDOC). In July of 2000, Jake Mumm, a California prisoner, was housed at California Men’s Colony, where he began …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Rikers Island Guards File Suit Alleging Cancer-Causing Toxin Exposure by Mark Wilson The Rikers Island jail in New York City was built atop a toxic landfill that is causing cancer, according to lawsuits filed by seven cancer-stricken Rikers employees. “That island is toxic and it’s killing people,” said guard Vanessa …
Brief • December 7, 2011
Bell v. BOP, KY, Amended Complaint, Lymphoma Ignored Willful Neg Death, 2011 Case: 7:10-cv-00072-ART-REW Doc #: 83 Filed: 12/07/11 Page: 1 of 7 - Page ID#: 861 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY SOUTHERN DIVISION at PIKEVILLE [Filed Electronically] MARY BELL, Mother and Personal Representative of TIMOTHY U. …
Tenny v. Ghosh, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:11-cv-01548 Document #: 15 Filed: 07/15/11 Page 1 of 43 PageID #:52 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ROBERT TENNEY (N10482), Plaintiff, vs. DR. PARTHA GHOSH, DR. CATALINO BARTISTA, S.A. GODINEZ, MARCUS HARDY, DAVID MANSFIELD, MARGARET THOMPSON, …
Parisi v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:11-cv-00013 Document #: 12 Filed: 06/16/11 Page 1 of 13 PageID #:99 PBP 56426-57 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION PAUL MATHEW PARISI, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., ) DR. …
Wexford Enters Into Confidential Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Pennsylvania-based Wexford Health Services, which bills itself as “the nation’s leading innovative correctional health care company,” entered into a confidential settlement with the estate of a New Mexico prisoner who died due to …
Family of California Immigration Prisoner Who Died Due to Untreated Cancer Gets $3.68 Million by Brandon Sample The family of an illegal immigrant who died from untreated penile cancer was awarded $1.73 million in damages against state prison officials by a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury on November 10, …
Article • April 15, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Cancer
Virginia Prisoner’s 8th Amendment Claims Dismissed by From January 1994 to September 1994, Darrell Coppage was a prisoner at the Rappahanock Security Center (RSC) in Virginia. For several months of his stay at RSC, Coppage experienced pain, paralysis, and incontinence due to an undiagnosed cancerous tumor at the base of …
Article • March 15, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Cancer
D.C. Prisoner’s Pro Se Complaint for Untreated Tumor Settles for $5,000 by On May 23, 2001, Plaintiff Keith Richards-El settled his lawsuit alleging medical negligence by the District of Columbia and others for $5,000. Plaintiff’s pro se suit, filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia pursuant to …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
Michigan Prison Doctor Liable for Late Prostate Cancer Diagnosis by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner stated sufficient facts to defeat dismissal of his claim alleging a prison doctor was deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs. However, the appellate court affirmed judgment in favor …
Federal Prisoner’s Death at FCI Pekin Triggers FBI Investigation by Derek Gilna The November 13, 2009 death of Adam Montoya, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Pekin, Illinois, resulted in an investigation by the FBI. The Associated Press (AP) reported that “an autopsy concluded that the 36-year-old …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Former Ohio Prison Guard Dies Shackled to Hospital Bed by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke For five years, Jeff Maier, 53, was an Ohio prison guard. Then for 13 months he was an Ohio state prisoner. The change from one side of the bars to the other occurred after Maier …
Prisoner Not Allowed to Sue One DOC in Another State by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois held that New Mexico Department of Corrections (NMDOC) officials cannot be sued in Illinois due to lack of personal jurisdiction. Jimmy Kinslow, an NMDOC prisoner, was transferred in 1995 to the …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Deliberate Indifference Claim by On July 14, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a grant of summary judgment for two doctors accused of deliberate indifference. Greg Duckworth, an Illinois prisoner, sued two prison physicians after it was discovered that he …
$678,505.67 Settlement After Federal Prisoner Dies From Misdiagnosed Cancer by Illinois State resident and executor of her deceased husband's estate, Mary Norton, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996. She claimed that her husband James Norton, died due to negligence and medical malpractice. The court awarded …
Federal Prisoner's Negligent Tumor Diagnosis Results In Partial Colon Loss by Former Alabama federal prisoner John Trevor brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2002 after personnel at the Federal Corrections Center (FCC) at Talladega failed to diagnose and treat a cancerous tumor. The $1 million suit …
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