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Estate of Epileptic New Mexico Prisoner Settles for $1,250,000 by During the week of May 22, 2000, the estate of a deceased epileptic prisoner who was denied medical attention and then allegedly tortured and beaten by a jailer in the Taos County, New Mexico, jail settled prior to trial for …
Article • May 15, 2007
Florida Sheriff Liable for Wrongful Death Stemming from Failure to Provide Medical Care by Florida Sheriff Liable for Wrongful Death Stemming from Failure to Provide Medical Care Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal held the Sheriff may be liable for failing to provide proper medical care to a prisoner who …
Article • May 15, 2007
No SJ in § 1983 Claim Over GA Prisoner's Death by No SJ in § 1983 Claim Over GA Prisoner's Death The Court of Appeals of Georgia held that genuine issues of material fact precluded summary judgment in a civil rights action brought by a deceased prisoner's daughter and administrator …
Texas Suicide Suit Alleging Medical Malpractice Settles For $288,130 by On June 23, 1993, a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Jefferson County (Texas) Detention Center settled for $288,130. The suit had alleged that STAT Care, the jail's contract medical provider, failed to properly screen …
Deceased Michigan Prisoner's Estate States Eigth Amendment Claim by The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan held that the estate of a prisoner who allegedly died as a result of indifference to his medical needs sufficiently stated an Eighth Amendment claim and that individual defendants were …
Deceased PA Prisoner's Medical Records Disclosable by Darlene Lucretia Joe was a Pennsylvania state prisoner at the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center. Between 4/29/97 and 6/30/97 she requested medical care 15 times, to no avail. On 8/4/97 she died of cerebral herniation. Her estate sued the prison medical subcontractors (defendants), who …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Prisoner's Estate Awarded $78,000 for Suicide by In July 1998, a federal court awarded $78,000 to the estate of a prisoner who committed suicide at a federal prison in Missouri. The estate claimed in the lawsuit that prison medical personnel failed to provide medication for the decedent's known depression. …
Court Denies Defendant Attorney Fees in Prisoner Death Case by The decedent died of pneumonia in prison and the defendants moved for attorneys' fees after the court granted them summary judgment. The court denies the motion, since the plaintiffs' allegations were not frivolous. The defendants argued that plaintiffs sued defendants …
CA Peer Review Records Not Privileged in Jail Death Suit by The decedent died in jail after making repeated complaints of abdominal pain. He was diagnosed after his third complaint with gastroenteritis and prescribed palliatives; nine days later he died of peritonitis due to idiopathic perforation of the descended colon. …
Article • May 15, 2007
$1.45 Million Settlement in Mentally Ill Alabama Jail Prisoner's Death by Fifteen days after he entered Alabama's Mobile Jail, James Carpenter died of an infection from a flesh-eating bacteria. During his period of incarceration, Carpenter was kept in solitary confinement, naked and shackled on his hands and wrists. Abrasions from …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Not Liable for Arrestee's Cocaine Overdose Death by The decedent died in jail of a cocaine overdose after denying that he had ingested cocaine (though there was an empty plastic bag with drug residue around it at the scene of his arrest) and refusing medical treatment. At 686-87: ". …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Liability for Untreated Cancer Death Claim by The decedent was imprisoned after he was diagnosed with widespread testicular cancer; he had two rounds of chemotherapy and was brought into remission each time. After his imprisonment, the cancer reappeared and his doctor advised immediate commencement of "salvage chemotherapy" (within five …
AIDS Death Complaint Dismissed After Three Amendments by The decedent died of AIDS in prison. He was diagnosed on July 31, 1996 with Hepatitis C with symptoms corresponding to initial manifestations of AIDS; tests were ordered, he was referred to the health educator, and was told to come back to …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Liability for Medical Neglect Death of Mental Patient by The plaintiff, involuntarily committed to a civil mental hospital, suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was prescribed clozapine, which presented risks for someone in her condition and also caused weight gain, which further aggravated the risk. Her problems were …
Article • May 15, 2007
Alabama County Commission Responsible for Jail Conditions by The decedent died in jail, allegedly because of a failure to provide adequate medical care, not described. Punitive damages cannot be awarded against the county under § 1983 or under state law. The County Commission cannot be held liable under state law …
Article • May 15, 2007
Michigan County Settles Suicide Suit For $150,000 by In January 1997, Eaton County, Michigan, paid $150,000 to settle with the estate of a woman who committed suicide in the county jail. While imprisoned in the Eaton County Jail in January 1995, Mullins, a wife and the mother of four minor …
Article • May 15, 2007
Meningitis Death In Racine County, Wisconsin, Jail Settles For $383,000 by According to a report published by Wisconsin Jury Verdicts on November 1, 2004, a lawsuit involving the death of a 21-year-old prisoner it the Racine County Jail settled for $383,000. From the sketchy details in the case, the prisoner …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Liability in Jail Prisoner's Medical Neglect Death by The decedent was found unconscious in his cell. Staff attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and a physician's assistant attempted "full CPR." The decedent was transferred by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The cause of death was toxic diffuse goiter. …
Court Denies Jail Staff Motion to Dismiss in Death Suit by The plaintiff sued over the decedent's death in jail. A nurse, a doctor, and a private medical provider moved for a more definitive (sic) statement, asserting that language in the complaint such as "inter alia" and "is not limited …
SICK ON THE INSIDE: Correctional HMOs and the Coming Prison Plague by By Wil S. Hylton When David Hannah walked into a small office on the second floor of the Moberly Correctional Facility in Moberly, Missouri, last fall, carrying his belly like a hundred-pound sack of sand, the staff knew …
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