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No Right to Medical Care beyond that Given by Prison by No Right to Medical Care Beyond that Given by Prison The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a Washington prisoner who died of a heart attack had no constitutional right to medical care beyond that given …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Claim of Medical Co-payment and Delay in Treatment for Aspirin Dismissed by Prisoner Claim of Medical Co-payment and Delay in Treatment for Aspirin Dismissed Colorado Department of Corrections prisoner Benito Negron filed a State mandamus action seeking relief from a prison policy of co-payment for medical services and an …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical Expenses, Juveniles
L.A. County Pays $46,752 for Hospitalization of Juvenile Injured During Arrest by by John E. Dannenberg The County of Los Angeles (L.A.) settled a claim brought by St. Francis Medical Center for hospitalization of a juvenile who was severely injured when his car crashed while he was evading arrest. On …
Suit over Door Injury Medical Co-Pay Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that he was injured when a metal door closed on him and that he waited 90 minutes for medical attention. The claim about the door is dismissed as constituting only negligence. The medical care claim is dismissed for lack …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Medical Co-Pay for Indigent Illinois Prisoners by The Illinois Appellate Court reversed a lower court's denial of injunctive relief on a pro se prisoner's claim that indigent prisoners are improperly being charged $2.00 medical co-payments. Illinois statutes and rules authorize the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to deduct a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Cost, Political/Public Criticism Not Legitimate Concern in Denying Transsexual Medical Needs by Cost, Political/Public Criticism Not Legitimate Concern in Denying Transsexual Medical Needs This case takes on the more bizarre aspects of the Farmer v. Brennan deliberate indifference standard in a more direct way than anything I have previously seen. …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Audit of California DOC Contracted Healthcare Expenditures Reveals Rampant Waste, Abuse and Management Deficiencies by Marvin Mentor In August 2006, State Controller Steve Westly reported his fiscal review of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation?s (CDCR) prisoner healthcare delivery system expenditures to Robert Sillen, Receiver for the California Prison …
Article • May 15, 2007
Medical Co-Pay Challenge Dismissed, Denial of Medication & Surgery Remanded by Medical Co-Pay Challenge Dismissed, Denial of Medication & Surgery Remanded The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a challenge to a Nevada prison policy charging prisoners $3 each time they sought medical attention was frivolous where …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
NY Mental Patient Liable For Cost of Treatment Even Though She Is Without the Ability to Pay by NY Mental Patient Liable For Cost of Treatment Even Though She Is Without the Ability to Pay Patricia II was a patient at a state-run psychiatric center in 1997, for which a …
Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby "Lock them up and throw away the key." Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosophy in Maryland has led to a criminal justice system that is defunct at every level. The state's adult prisons are "in crisis." …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
Federal Court Orders California DOC to Pay $58 Million In Overdue Medical Bills by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On March 30, 2006, the U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal., ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to pay its backlog of overdue medical subcontractors bills within 60 …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
California County Jail Settles Overdue Prisoner Hospital Bills For $1.5 Million by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Settling a long-simmering dispute in billing rates for medical treatment of jail prisoners, San Diego County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to multiple hospitals for bills dating back over three years. …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Florida County Bucks Paying $300,000 in Prisoner Medical Bills by Florida's Brevard County has been sued by three local hospitals seeking payment for medical care rendered to prisoners who incurred injuries during their arrests. The County refused to pay, arguing the detainees technically were not in custody at the time …
Ohio DOC Stipulates To Vastly Improved Medical Care by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) settled a prisoner class action federal lawsuit on October 6, 2005 by stipulating to comprehensive improvements to its prisoner medical care, grounded in adding 321 medical personnel …
Alabama Work-Release Prisoners Working But Not Getting Paid by Gary Hunter Prisoners in an Alabama work-release program have been working without getting paid. Problems have come mostly from prison employees who have hired prison workers then defaulted on their debt. Prisons located in Decatur, Birmingham and Loxley posed the greatest …
Colorado DOC s Medical Oversight Found Remiss by G.A. Bowers An independent auditor found the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) to be lax in its oversight of medical care contractors. In April 2005, Navigant Consulting, Inc., reported the results of its audit, commissioned by the Colorado State Auditor, of the …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
NY State Prisoner Receives $400,000 Liver Transplant by by John E. Dannenberg An NBC News I-Team 10 investigation caused considerable media controversy when it reported that a New York state prisoner with end-stage liver disease had received a $400,000 liver transplant in November, 2005, at state expense. This is significant …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Texas State Auditor Questions Necessity of Prison Health Care Oversight Board by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas State Auditor's Office has released a report which scathingly criticized the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee (Committee) for failing to perform its contractual duties and having several conflicts of interest with the …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
California's Preferential Bulk Price For Hepatitis-C Drugs Kept Secret by The good news is that California's Department of General Services (DGS) negotiated a bulk discount price for the large quantities of pegylated interferon it buys for the treatment of Hepatitis-C infected prisoners, and will save the state $1 million on …
Privatized Medical Services in Delaware Kill and Maim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anthony Pierce was serving a 14 month sentence for parole violation of a burglary charge at Delaware's Sussex Correctional Institution when he discovered a marble-sized lump growing on the back of his head. A prison …
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