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Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
Oregon Illegal Detention Suit Settled for $30,000 by The State of Oregon and Multnomah County paid a former detainee $30,000 to settle his illegal detention claims. In 2006, Irving Robinson was confined in the Multnomah County Jail, facing criminal charges. The State failed to bring him to trial within 60 …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
California: City Liable for $237,000 Hospital Bill for Prisoner’s Medical Care by On May 22, 2003, indigent prisoner Kenneth Lee Denham was arrested and detained by Oakland police officers at the city jail. He was later taken to the county jail, but the county refused to accept him because he …
Article • July 15, 2009
Medicare Is “Victim” Under Pennsylvania Restitution Statute by Medicare is a “victim” for the purpose of receiving restitution under Pennsylvania law, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania decided July 16, 2008. Gregory Ricky Brown was ordered to pay $509.65 to Medicare as restitution for a criminal offense. Brown appealed, arguing that …
$899,500 Award in NY DOCS Medical Negligence Resulting in Leg Amputation by A New York Court of Claims awarded a former prisoner a total of $899,500 in a medical negligence claim. As a result of the delays and neglect in treatment of William C. Stephens’s peripheral vascular disease (PVD) by …
OIG Audit Finds Major Deficiencies with BOP Health Care by Brandon Sample OIG Audit Finds Major Deficiencies with BOP Health Care by Brandon Sample A comprehensive audit by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found numerous problems with the provision and management of medical services by …
Rehder v. Huggins, TN, Complaint, Excessive Force - Pepper Spray, 2009 .-. . case 2:09-cv-02037-JDT-tmp Document 1 Filed 01/21/09 Page 1 of 6 PagelD 1 ·· · IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE lA.l:ES,E&N DMSION § § § W:\Rt5TQl'HEf2. R1;HPE& P-omo : (Ents aboYo …
Article • August 15, 2008
Maine Ambulance Service Ordered To Respond To Reduced Rate Prison Calls by The Maine Department of Public Safety, Department of Emergency Medical Services (Department appealed a court ruling that it's board erred in requiring the Town of Warren Ambulance Service (Service) to respond to calls at the State Prison. The …
Release of Medically Incapacitated Prisoners Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis by Release of Medically Incapacitated Inmates Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis Will the Board of Parole Hearings and the Schwarzenegger Administration Follow the Law? …
As Connecticut's Prison Population Increases, So Does the Number of Imprisoned Mentally Ill by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Like other prison systems throughout the nation, Connecticut's is reaching peak capacity. In the midst of dealing with overcrowding and parole issues, the Connecticut Department of Correction (CDOC) must also …
Making the Bad Guy Pay: The Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction by Kirsten D. Levingston by Kirsten D. Levingston1 "At some point, we have to be able to say to people who have been incarcerated, and served time on probation or parole upon release, you have …
Privatized Medical Services Entangle Florida Sheriff in Litigation and Raises Costs by Proponents of privatization of prison services tout it as a way to not only save governmental entities money, but to remove them from legal entanglement. Officials in Florida?s Sarasota County Sheriff?s Office (SCSO) are not realizing those supposed …
Cheaper than Chimpanzees: Expanding the Use of Prisoners in Medical Experiments by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober "It is the duty of the doctor to remain the protector of the life and health of that person on whom clinical research is being carried out." Declaration of Helsinki In June 2006, …
Reformed Dental Care Will Have Ohio Prisoners Smiling by Michael Rigby The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) will hire dozens of dental health care providers, revise policies and procedures governing prisoner dental care, and implement oral health care education programs as part of a settlement agreed to in …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
Illinois Supreme Court Holds Prisoner Medical Co-Payment Fee Can’t Be Deducted From Future Funds by John Dannenberg Illinois Supreme Court Holds Prisoner Medical Co-Payment Fee Can't Be Deducted From Future Funds by John E. Dannenberg The Illinois Supreme Court held that the Illinois Department of Corrections' (IDOC) regulation levying a …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
California DOC Finally Discloses Some Records In $4.1 Billion Of Public Contracts by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Four years after California?s Department of General Services (DGS) ordered the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to publicly post details on $4.1 billion worth of contracts, CDCR complied in late …
California Contract Healthcare Management Firm Locked Out; Fees Withheld; by John Dannenberg State Officials Resign by John E. Dannenberg California?s federal receiver over prison healthcare, Robert Sillen, took umbrage with Florida-based private contractor Medical Development International (MDI) by withholding $2.6 million in fees and locking MDI out of two southern …
Publication • September 1, 2007
Department of Economics, Prison Health Care Contracting Study, 2007 Prison Health Care: Is Contracting Out Healthy? Kelly Bedard Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara kelly@econ.ucsb.edu H.E. Frech III Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara frech@econ.ucsb.edu September 2007 Abstract U.S. Prison health care has recently been in …
Florida Sex Offenders Must Pay for Court Order Treatment by Florida Second District Court of Appeals has held that a trial court's order that requires the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) to pay the cost of a probationers sex offender treatment violates the doctrine of separation of powers. The trial …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Prisoner-Medical-Co-Pay Law Retroactive by Joseph Woods, an Ohio state prisoner, is serving a prison sentence imposed before 1996. In 1996 Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.021 went into effect, requiring prisoners requesting medical attention to pay a $3 co-pay. When Woods was charged the co-pay in 2003, he sued prison …
CO Medical Co-Pay Fee Overturned, Plaintiffs Awarded Atty Fees by Colorado prisoners successfully challenged a state statute charging prisoners $3 each time they sought medical care. The lawsuit alleged the co-pay statute violated their Eighth amendment rights. Before trial the state amended the statute to exclude most services. The district …
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