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California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals by The Superior Court of Sacramento County has granted a writ of mandate prohibiting the transfer of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners to out-of-state facilities to alleviate the prison system's chronic overcrowding …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
$150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner’s Fall-Related Death by $150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner's Fall-Related Death In November 2006, the family of a man who suffered fatal injuries when he fell over a railing on an upper floor of an Atlanta jail settled with the city for …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Los Angeles County Pays $475,000 In Jail Healthcare Wrongful Death by Los Angeles (LA) County settled out a wrongful death claim brought by the widow of a 71-year old prisoner who died allegedly for want of proper medical care in the county jail. On top of the $475,000 settlement payment, …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Texas Pays $250,000 for Lingering Death of Teen Prisoner by Michael Rigby In November 2006 the State of Texas paid $250,000 to settle with the family of Charles Billops, Jr., a teenager who died from an undiagnosed brain abscess caused by a sinus infection while imprisoned in 2003. The settlement …
Houston Jail Has Highest Number of Deaths in Texas: 101 by Gary Hunter Between 2001 and 2006, 101 prisoners died while in custody at Houston's Harris County Jail, more than in any other Texas county. Dallas County's jail had 70 deaths over the same period. The Harris County Jail has …
No Qualified Immunity for Ignoring Heart Condition Leading to Prisoner’s Death by No Qualified Immunity for Ignoring Heart Condition Leading to Prisoner's Death The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's denial of qualified immunity to jail officials who ignored a detainee's medical distress, causing his death. Walter …
Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Illinois Jail Prisoner Dies from Dental Infection by A 25-year-old prisoner at the Peoria County Jail died from an infection in his gums that spread throughout his body, causing multiple-organ failure. Jeremy L. Baksai had been in the Peoria jail since November 2006, awaiting an April 30, 2007 trial on …
$140,000 Settlement in Death of Asthmatic Texas Prisoner by Michael Rigby The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will pay $140,000 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from the needless asthma-related death of a prisoner at the McConnell prison unit in August 2004. At least six guards and a nurse were …
Delaware DOC Still Defends Abysmal Medical Care, Prisoners Still Die From Medical Neglect by After media reports detailed incidents showing prisoners within the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC) were being maimed or dying because of deplorable medical care, Stan Taylor, DDOC's Commissioner, charged the reports were "sloppy reporting." Taylor's testimony …
Policy of Hiring Trained Medical Professionals Does Not Immunize County from Municipal Liability in Wrongful Jail Death; Case Settles for $475,000.00 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that where a Los Angeles County Jail prisoner died of allegedly deficient medical attention, …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Prisoner’s Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John Dannenberg Prisoner's Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles County Claims Board settled a wrongful death lawsuit …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$5 Million Jury Award Against Doctor in Death of Michigan Prisoner by A federal jury awarded $5,000,000 to the estate of a deceased state prisoner who died after a prison psychiatrist prescribed him psychotropic medication without conducting a proper evaluation. Ozy Vaughn was a Michigan state prisoner who suffered from …
Excessive Force And Medical Negligence Death In Youngstown, Ohio Arrest Settles For $350,000 From Police, $100,000 From PHS by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The death of a Youngstown, Ohio arrestee who was severely beaten by police and negligently treated by Prison Health Services? (PHS) contract jail medical staff …
Alaska Jail Settles Alcohol Withdrawal Death Case For $573,000 by On June 12, 2006, the State of Alaska settled a federal civil rights lawsuit over the wrongful death of a prisoner in a state-run jail for $573,000. Julia Walker is the mother of Troy Wallace, who died while a prisoner …
Locklear v. Marlboro County, SC, Exhibit 12 - Contract Between SHP and Charles Bush, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2007 Exhibit 1 PHYSICIAN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AGREEMENT between Southern Health Partners, Inc. and CHARLES A. BUSH, M.D. THIS AGREEMENT IS MADE AND ENTERED INTO this 1ST day of July, 2001, between …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment of privatized medical services has learned the same hard lesson suffered by other states: a trail of inadequate care that leaves prisoners dead …
Michigan's Prison Health Care System Found Contemptuous by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "Step on a man's foot once, and a polite apology will do. Do it twice, and a profuse apology is in order. Do it thrice, and you have left the land of apology and entered the …
Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court has held that the use of in-cell restraints for punitive reasons constitutes torture. In reaching that conclusion, the Court reopened its previous judgment concerning mental health claims and issued a preliminary …
Bivens Action Legitimate For Deceased Prisoner's Mother To Pursue Damages by The U.S. Supreme Court held that a Bivens remedy was available to the mother of a prisoner who died while in custody and that the remedy was governed by federal law. Respondent, mother of a prisoner who died while …
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