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In Washington State Prisons, Negligent Health Care Turns Illness into a Death Sentence

Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Blood, Amputations, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Aberdeen, was diagnosed as having an allergenic reaction to Robitussin, the cold medicine. He endured two days of pain in the prison infirmary, treated with an ice pack and medications. He was then belatedly ...

HRDC represents family in WA prisoner's medical death

In-the-News Article • July 9, 2014

in advance, Sacred Heart doctors were ready when Mejia was wheeled in. He was immediately prepared for surgery, and doctors realized they’d have to cut away infected sections of his body. He had ...

News in Brief

Article • September 2, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018

Filed under: News in Brief

of a prisoner. Johnson admitted to performing oral sex on prisoner Adam Hill, 39, on his birthday on September 9, 2016. Crawford admitted to having intercourse with Hill on August 14, 2016 – apparently ...

News in Brief

Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013

Filed under: News, News in Brief

. Arizona: Alcohol appears to have been a factor in a single-vehicle rollover accident on June 14, 2013 that injured five off-duty prison guards from ASPC-Yuma. The accident occurred in a personally-owned ...

Final-aclu-nj Immigration Detention Report

Publication

Filed under: International, Immigration

to the hospital. The doctor in the hospital said the surgery should have been done a long time ago, even over the objections of DHS. The process through which detainees request health care is referred to as “sick ...

In Re Phillips - Ny Ruling Against Parole Board - 2006

Brief • September 29, 2006

that the denial was an appropriate exercise of discretion based upon consideration of statutorily prescribed factors. The relevant facts are not in dispute: Petitioner is 75 years old and in ill health, having ...

George v Wa Doc Claim Prisoner Chemical Injury 2006

Brief • July 21, 2006

,tato employees having knowledge about this incident: SEE ATT~CHED _ Names, addresses and telepbone nwnbers of any and all individuals not already identified in #11 and #12 above thac have knowledge ...

Dying for Decent Care - Bad Medicine in Immigration Custody, FIAC, 2009

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, International, Immigration, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

, specialty care, or surgery. Even when detention or outside medical personnel have recommended treatment, on-site medical staff is required to submit a Treatment Authorization Request (TAR) to off-site DIHS ...

Rangolan v. The County of Nassau-370 F.3d 239 (2nd Cir. 2004).

Case • 2004

that the $820,000 award to the Rangolans is excessive and that the award of costs to the Marshals Service is unauthorized. The Rangolans have cross-appealed from so much of the 2003 Judgment as, in light ...

Wethington v Tippecanoe County in Court Order Medical Misconduct Withholding Medicine 2010

Brief • 2010

. In addition, Wethington informed jail personnel that his saliva glands were removed as part of his treatment for oral cancer and that he suffers from persistent “dry mouth” as a result of this surgery ...

Cuoco v. Moritsugo-222 F.3d 99 (2nd Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

Cuoco that she would not get any synthetic estrogen because, not yet having undergone surgery, she was not a "true or genuine transsexual." He said that the Bureau of Prisons policy applied only to "true ...

Allen et al. v. N.Y. State Dept. of Corrections and Community Supervision, class action complaint, failure to provide pain management under new policy, 2019

Brief • September 2, 2019

Filed under: Medication, Pain, Conditions of Confinement, Eighth Amendment

, Defendant Dinello was in charge of two hubs, due to a staffing shortage of RMDs. 41. The CMO and RMDs do not usually have access to the patient’s full hard copy Ambulatory Health Record (“AHR”), which ...

HRDC data mentioned in article on the prison phone industry

In-the-News Article • August 9, 2016

, critics called for greater regulation of the companies, arguing that inmates and their families had effectively been priced out of staying in touch. Today, some of those regulations have been put in place ...

Johnson v Aguinaldo Il Complaint Deliberate Indifference Colon Cancer 2011

Brief • January 6, 2011

to ensure that Mr. Johnson continued to have access to the morphine that his treating physicians had prescribed for him, Dr. Aguinaldo decided to discontinue cold turkey the prescriptions Mr. Johnson ...

News in Brief

Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004

Filed under: News, News in Brief

of the Judiciary. Public support he gained from his violation of the law and constitution have made him one of the most popular figures in Alabama. Alaska: On October 12, 2003, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Cooper ...

Lapan v State of New York Ny Judgment Settlement Prison Worker Compensation Hand Nervous System Injury 2010

Brief • 2010

in her left hand is decreased, as is her grip and strength. She experiences numbness in her finger, sensitivity to the cold, and to her the left hand at times appears discolored, almost black and blue ...

Silverstein v Bop Co Affidavit Thomas Silverstein Due Process Solitary Confinement 2011

Brief • 2011

SILVERSTEIN I, Thomas Silverstein, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, declare under penalty of perjury as follows: I. I have been held in solitary confinement for the past 10,220 days, which is 336 months, or 28 ...

Harvard v. Inch, FL, Exhibit a Declarations, Solitary Confinement, 2021

Publication • May 28, 2021

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

of stomach. As a result of that surgery, I have to use an urostomy bag and diapers for my waste. I am a small guy, weighing about 91.5lbs. This means I wear a Size 6 diaper, which is a child’s size. When I’m ...

Johnson v Carroll Mn Appeal Brief Wrongful Death Police Brutality 2010

Brief • 2010

enforcement officers. Minn. Stat. § 609.06 subd. 2 (last revision 2002) prescribes one statutory exception to Minn. Stat. § 609.06 subd. 1: “Deadly force may not be used against peace officers who have ...

State v. Nieto-993 P.2d 493 (Colo. 2000)

Case • 2000

in the custody of the DOC, sought treatment at the prison medical clinic for cold and flu symptoms. The nurse on duty treated him for a cold based on the symptoms and returned him to his cell. [30 ...