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CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After being in business for twenty-three years, one would think that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) would have refined the art of running prisons and jails. Yet an examination of CCA's three jails in Florida …
$9 Million Jury Award In Arizona County Jail Death by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal jury awarded $9 million to the family of a Scottsdale, Arizona prisoner who suffocated in a restraint chair in the Maricopa County Jail (MCJ) in 2001. Found negligent and liable were Sheriff …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
South Carolina Jury Awards $28.5 Million For Diabetic Jail Prisoners Death by South Carolina Jury Awards $28.5 Million For Diabetic Jail Prisoners Death A South Carolina jury has awarded $28.5 million to the family of a mentally ill diabetic man who died from insulin deficiency while imprisoned at the Sumter …
Estate of Pennsylvania Prisoner Killed By Wexford Health Sources Settles Suit for $2.15 Million by Michael Rigby Wexford Health Sources and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have agreed to pay $2.15 million to the family of an asthmatic prisoner who died after her medication was denied at the State Correctional Institution …
GEO Buys CSC After Settling $38.8 Million Judgment in Texas Boot Camp Death by Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) has settled a $38 million judgment that held the company responsible for the 2000 death of Bryan Dale Alexander, an 18 year old prisoner at a Texas boot camp. The terms are …
Failure to Procure Medical Treatment Suit Proceeds Against Puerto Rican Guard by The First Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed in part and reversed in part a Puerto Rico District Courts grant of summary judgement to prison officials in a civil rights action alleging failure to render or procure adequate …
Publication • 2006
Patient Suicide and Litigation, Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management, 2006 -c H A p T E R 2 7 Patient Suicide and Litigation Charles L. Scott, M.D. Phillip J. Resnick, M.D. Suicides account for nearly 30,000 deaths annually in the United States and are the eleventh leading cause of …
Publication • 2006
The Psychological Autopsy, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2006 Psychiatr Clin N Am 29 (2006) 805–822 PSYCHIATRIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA The Psychological Autopsy: Solving the Mysteries of Death Charles L. Scott, MD*, Elena Swartz, MD, Katherine Warburton, DO Division of Psychiatry and the Law, University of California, Davis Medical …
Brief • May 27, 2006
McCoy v. TDCJ, TX, Response Motion to Dismiss, asthma death, 2006 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION L.J. MCCOY, et. al Plaintiffs v. ANN-MARIE DE LA ROSA, et. al. Defendants ' ' ' ' ' ' CIVIL ACTION NO. 05-CV-370 PLAINTIFFS’ RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT R …
Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter When Rikers Island was purchased in 1884 it was only 87 acres. The city of New York made …
Report Details Suicide and Homicide Rates in Prisons, Jails by Michael Rigby Even though suicide and homicide rates among prisoners have been falling since the 1980s, thousands still die in U.S. prisons and jails every year. During 2001 and 2002, 5,824 state prisoners died in custody, according to a Bureau …
Neglected New York Prisoner Dies At Jail Following Heart Surgery by Michael Rigby Laura Woolseys biggest fear was dying in jail. But thanks to the inept care provided her at New Yorks Schenectady County Jail, that fear was tragically realized. Woolsey, 39, died at the jail on August 3, 2005, …
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 …
PHS Pays $350,000 to Settle Claim for Over-Medication Death of Florida Jail Prisoner by Prison Health Services (PHS) has, once again, entered into a pretrial settlement to pay the family of a prisoner who died from the negligent care provided by PHS at Floridas Leon County Detention Center (LCOC). The …
State Auditor Blasts Colorado DOC's Private Prison Oversight Failures by Matthew T. Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2005, the Colorado State Auditor released its April 2005 report of the performance audit of private prisons contracted by the Colorado Department of Corrections. The report strongly criticized the private prisons …
Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers by Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is forcefully having its failed healthcare system both corrected and rehabilitated. Despite court-ordered healthcare …
Arkansas Juvenile Prisons Cornell Kills a Prisoner, Hires Guard DOC Fired by by Matthew T. Clarke Arkansas paid Cornell Corporations of Houston, Texas, $9.5 million a year to manage the Alexander Youth Services Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. What they got for their money was a prison that killed by …
Wackenhut Settles Pennsylvania Suicide Suit For $125,000 by On May 11, 2005, Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (now known as Geo Group) agreed to settle for $125,000 a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Wackenhut-operated George W. Hill Correctional Facility, also known as the Delaware County prison. …
Maryland's PHS Prison Health Care Under Fire, New System Implemented by by Michael Rigby A Maryland prison is no place to get sick. Virtually every facet of prisoner health care, which has been provided by Tennessee-based Prison Health Services (PHS) since 2000, is in disarray. Prisoners sometimes receive the wrong …
Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails by by Michael Rigby Tennessee isn't known for its huge prison system, like Texas or California. Nor is the state's capital city, Nashville, recognized for massively overcrowded jails such as the ones in Los Angeles or New York City. But one …
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