Skip navigation

Search

23709 results
Page 585 of 1186. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 ... 1182 1183 1184 1185 1186 | Next »

Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Detention - Generally
of inhumane conditions, abuse and neglect of detainees, and overcrowding. The Georgia facility was accused of failing to follow COVID-19 protocols, and abusive medical practices. In announcing the closures ...
Article • July 13, 2021
Filed under: Protests, Jail Specific
of policing and incarceration. Its 2020 abandonment of jail expansion plans revealed a new group of advocates against expansion of incarceration: medical and public health practitioners. With over 19,000 people ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
indifferent to the detainee’s serious medical needs. The court concluded the deputy was entitled to qualified immunity on the excessive force claim but not on the deliberate indifference claim. The court ...
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb et seq. At issue was BOP’s alleged refusal to provide oral medications after sundown, meaning Ajaj had to break his religious fasts—which ...
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
Filed under: Settlements
and taken to the Montefiore Medical Center (MCC). Doctors there admonished the escorting officers not to handcuff pregnant prisoners. The officers said they were following procedures in the New York Police ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
of fancy medications.” According to Dr. Williams, without a coronavirus vaccine, prisons are outmatched. Dr. Matt Willis, the top official at the county health department where San Quentin is located ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
relief class actions pertaining to COVID are either over or effectively moot, the damages cases for the legions of prisoners who died from medical neglect due to COVID seem to only now just be starting ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: Transfers, COVID-19
two weeks; 55 were not screened for symptoms within six hours of being loaded on the buses. To make matters worse, a CHCS medical executive told Chino it would be okay to exceed the 19-passenger ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
medical placement with his sister in Florida. The state Department of Corrections (DOC) denied his request. A week later, CRCC reported its first case of COVID-19 within the facility. Aided by counsel from ...
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Hepatitis, Settlements
Robert Barfield on July 19, 2018, accusing DOC of deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs by refusing to administer Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) treatments for his HCV. A game-changing ...
and police reports. A blood-stained jacket was draped over him and other bloody linen and clothes were piled on the floor. Thomas’s motionless body was rigid and cold, but guards and medics pulled him ...
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Consent Decrees
forced him into obstacles such as door frames and walls, breaking his glasses and injuring his face.” He was made to sit on hot pavement while medical treatment and decontamination from the pepper ...
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Civil Commitment
, sex offender treatment program, and conditions of confinement.” He called GEO a “criminal organization that has a chronic history of cover-ups, medical neglect, and psychological abuse ...
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
aggravates are medical conditions. At this time, a pandemic is spanning the globe, taking millions of lives and leaving many survivors with permanent lung and organ damage. Elderly persons are at an elevated ...
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Medical Center. In response to Scott’s tragic death, Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner launched an internal review of the sheriff office’s policies and procedures. “The death of this young ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Attorney Fees (PLRA)
, repeatedly shouting, “Man down!” But they were not given medical help nor allowed to exit the cell and decontaminate for some time. The two prisoners filed suits in U.S. District Court ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
he pounded on the pod door and smeared its window with blood from his hands. His request to go to medical for treatment was denied for lack of guard staff to escort him. Later, he was taken to medical ...
. Mitchell had been medically approved for sex reassignment surgery, but she was incarcerated in a men’s prison while serving up to 10 years for a 2015 robbery conviction. Mitchell also had a history ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
his last day on Earth. The family of Bluehorse sued alleging wrongful death in conjunction with a deliberate indifference to Bluehorse’s serious medical conditions. The lawsuit alleged ...
Center (JCC), another facility managed by LaSalle. At intake, JCC noted Carter was “very tender on the left side of [his] body and... peeing blood.” He attempted to see a medical provider ...
Page 585 of 1186. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 ... 1182 1183 1184 1185 1186 | Next »