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Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
for a crime require proof of a subjective component, and that where the claim alleges inhumane confinement conditions or failure to attend to a prisoner's medical needs, the standard for that state of mind ...
unconstitutional in light of his disability. On remand, the lower court was instructed to consider whether the plaintiff was involuntarily given anti-psychotic medications. The court also held the plaintiff ...
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Among the conditions attacked by the inmates were overcrowding, inadequate medical care, increasing violence, the continuation of a lockdown, insufficient and poorly trained ...
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
ventilation, medical treatment and food. The court begins its ruling with a quote by Dr. Karl Menninger who described American jails, including he Cook County (Chicago) jail where this suit arose ...
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
prison riot in Maracaibo ended in the Guard's massacre of over 100 prisoners. Thereafter troops were ordered into seven prisons on a permanent basis. Medical service, like food and clothing, is sorely ...
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
in a breakdown of jail classification whereby stronger prisoners prey on the weaker, there is inadequate medical care for prisoners, drug and alcohol use and fighting increase. The evidence also showed ...
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
conditions of their confinement, including: patterns of sexual assault and harassment; disparities between programs available to women prisoners compared to male prisoners; inadequate medical care; vermin ...
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
of confinement, access to showers, toilets, health and medical services, food service, work and recreation. Many California institutions have adopted the "broom closet, classroom" approach for finding bedspace ...
the jail nurses. The court held Kaufman had adequately stated an eighth amendment claim. "A medical condition that threatens one's ability to walk, even if ultimately reversible, is unquestionably a serious ...
with several important PCP leaders (all high ranking PCP leaders were killed in the attack). Prisoners who had been wounded in the initial May 6 attack had not been allowed to receive medical treatment and those ...
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
was put on lockdown after a guard shot a prisoner July 18 when he tried to escape during a medical trip to University Hospitals in Iowa City. The lockdown reason was 'to head off hostile reactions." On July ...
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
for prisoner initiated medical visits, $3 for pharmaceutical prescriptions, $5 for eyeglass prescriptions, $5 for a hair cut or beard trim, and $12.95 to register and take the General Equivalency Diploma (GED ...
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
the poor communication with medical personnel at the jail. “The problem is the medical department hasn’t been totally forthcoming,” he said. “They’re uncooperative at best and way too secretive.” Four ...
:1172(B)." Initially, Section 1171 of the CARP provisions" made no reference to tort actions. However, in 1989, the Legislature amended Section 1171 to expressly include personal injury in medical ...
on the back of his head, injuries to his face and bandaged cut over his left eye, Moreland received no medical attention. Rather, guards simply took him to the first floor, changed his clothes and returned him ...
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
. Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP), a private corporation, contracted with the Sheriff of Blount County to provide medical care" to prisoners in the Detention Center. While incarcerated [Passmore ...
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
." Perhaps the most heartrending situation is Zaire, where the general breakdown of society and rampant official corruption mean that almost no food or medical supplies are reaching the inmates. In 1991 ...
receive adequate medical care. Antonelli claimed he was denied psychological treatment and medication. Reading Materials: Antonelli claimed the jail provided no reading materials. "The arbitrary denial ...
defendants' motions to dismiss and for summary judgment. The defendants are: officials of the New Jersey Department of Corrections; Correctional Medical Services, Inc. ("CMS"), a private corporation providing ...
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
PLN is seeking records showing the discipline of DOC medical staff for medical neglect and misconduct, the partial records disclosed as a result of the litigation to date shows that at least two ...
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