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his next parole hearing for five years. Mr. Chance attempted to obtain a medical furlough through a state program that was designed to save money by releasing sick prisoners who pose no risk ...
Article • November 7, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
a higher failure rate for the medications they manufacture – leading states to try to keep their origins secret. Texas, Oklahoma and Florida, as well as Missouri, all have laws to keep the identities ...
million in pay raises. However, the ADOC will need to ensure its medical contractors properly staff the newly-funded positions, which it has failed to do in the past. Prison officials announced in March ...
to medical indifference and conditions of confinement. In response to various deposition questions, Landis pleaded the Fifth Amendment at his attorney’s direction rather than provide answers. Despite ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Gusman dreamed of a new building equipped with an additional 380 beds, a medical clinic and mental health facilities. But New Orleans officials did not want to increase his budget to provide for the jail ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
lawsuit against the TDCJ for its failure to provide him with kosher food in the medical unit to which he was assigned. Moussazadeh was serving a sentence related to his role as a lookout in a 1993 Houston ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
“suffering from an acute mental health crisis and ... in urgent need of medical attention. Instead of providing him with such care, jail officials knowingly allowed him to decompensate” &ndash ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
, served as an expert witness in a long-running California class-action medical care suit, Plata v. Brown. [See: PLN, July 2011, p.1]. On April 25, 2013, Dr. Galgiani filed an 80-page affidavit ...
Article • August 5, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
approved a $20,000 contract to hire Dr. Kenneth W. Faistl to review medical practices at the jail, where classification and intake medical screenings are conducted by an independent contractor. “We ...
Article • July 31, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Filed under: Hepatitis
by pharmaceutical company AbbVie, uses a formulary drug that combines three medications in one pill and is usually taken twice a day for 12 to 24 weeks. In trials, Viekira Pak had an efficacy rate of over 90 ...
in correctional rather than medical facilities, shifting the burden and costs from the medical to the correctional sector. According to the report, in almost 90% of the states the largest prison or jail housed more ...
Article • August 13, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: Medication, Death Penalty
a compounding pharmacy. The execution drugs used by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) are made-to-order from a compounding pharmacy. Compounding pharmacies mix medications to order on site ...
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
members and prisoners were offered masks and hand sanitizer, and flu shots were given to anyone who requested them. Despite criticism from prisoners’ families, Indiana Department of Correction Medical ...
. Lawsuits were filed and the federal courts intervened, placing prisoner medical and mental health care under the control of a Receiver and special master, respectively. Ultimately, a three-judge panel ...
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Filed under: Smoking, Eighth Amendment
in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in August 2014, comparing mortality rates in prisons that ban tobacco with those that do not, found facilities with long-term bans reduced smoking-related deaths by up to 11 ...
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
; the other, Kelvin Dejan Jordan, was transported by helicopter to the University of South Alabama Medical Center. The Department of Public Safety and local police are investigating the accident. Arizona ...
Article • July 11, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
informed Dr. Michael Bednarz, Rushville’s Medical Director, and Mitchell assured him that Smego was receiving appropriate care. Dr. Hughes Lochard, a Wexford physician who saw Smego for an unrelated ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
. They have been excluded from the programs and services that are available to hearing inmates.” ODOC officials routinely deprived Baldridge of qualified interpreters for medical appointments, counselor ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Filed under: Editorials, PLN Litigation
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story about the Washington Department of Corrections killing prisoner Ricardo Mejia through medical ...
Article • August 15, 2011
, prompting a February 2009 email from Acree, claiming that Tim’s injuries were caused by the fire but declining to say more, citing medical confidentiality. Prison officials initially refused to let Mike visit ...
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