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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 CDOC …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
California State Auditor Criticizes Prison Outside-Hospital Contract Costs by In a detailed 98 page report to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature, the California State Auditor criticized the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) lax management of contract outside-hospital medical services for CDC prisoners. The July 27, 2004 report observed …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Untreated Dental Infection Kills California Prisoner by A 41 year-old prisoner at the California State Prison (Solano) in Vacaville died six days after having a tooth extracted, when prison medical staff failed to treat his resulting infection. Anthony Shumake, sentenced to 12 years, 8 months in 2000, had an abscessed …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Massachusetts Court Enjoins Sheriff from Charging Jail Prisoners Assorted Fees by Michael Rigby Massachusetts Court Enjoins Sheriff from Charging Jail Prisoners Assorted Fees by Michael Rigby The sheriff of Bristol County, Massachusetts, has been enjoined from gouging prisoners and their families on jail service fees in accordance with his Inmate …
Vermont Auditor's Report Blasts CCA and CMS by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Keys to Success report issued by the Vermont State Auditor on May 26, 2004, concludes the Vermont Department of Corrections' (VDOC) "failure to monitor its contracts with private companies and individuals has resulted in significant …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Washington Jail Trustees Entitled to L&I Benefits by Division 3 of the Washington State Court of Appeals (Div. 3) has ruled that county jail trustees who are hurt while performing their duties are entitled to benefits from Labor & Industries (L&I) under RCW § 51.12.035 et seq. In July of …
CCA Medical Contract Doesn't Violate 8th Amendment by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated an injunction holding a contract between Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and a private doctor; Dr. Robert B. Coble, was unconstitutional. The contract at issue required Dr. Coble to, among other things, "determine the …
Article • February 15, 2004 • from PLN February, 2004
Montana Supreme Court Denies Hepatitis-C Treatment by A divided Montana Supreme Court denied a state prisoner's habeas corpus petition seeking treatment for his Hepatitis-C (Hep-C) disease because the factual basis presented was inadequate. Keith Brown, incarcerated at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby, Montana, alleged he suffers from diagnosed Hep-C …
Bad Medicine, No Oversight, Total Secrecy: ACLU Reports on VA DOC Medical Care by Bad Medicine, No Oversight, Total Secrecy: ACLU Reports on Virginia DOC Prisoner Medical Care by Matthew T. Clarke In May 2003, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia issued a report on the status of …
The Deadly Health Services of Naphcare in Alabama by Lonnie Burton It is often said that you can tell a lot about a society by checking the condition of its prisons. Based on the way prisoners in Alabama are treated (or, more accurately stated, not treated), citizens of that state …
The Shame of Prison Health by Sasha Abramsky A report is sitting at the Justice Department, unpublished. It has been there for three years. Titled The Health Status of Soon-to-be-Released Inmates, it was compiled by experts who sat on three panels: one on communicable diseases, one on chronic diseases and …
Federal Legal Standards for Prison Medical Care by Daniel E. Manville Federal Legal Standards For Prison Medical Care by Dan Manville The State is required to provide adequate medical care to those it confines.1 In this time of shrinking budgets, many prison systems have turned to contracting with private health …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
California Prisons Contract-Medical-Care Audit Reveals Millions In Waste by Marvin Mentor At a time when the California Department of Corrections (CDC) is already under intense Legislative criticism for overspending its annual budget by $544.8 million (see: PLN, Aug. 2004, p. 41), an April, 2004 report by the California State Auditor …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Report Blasts South Carolina Plan to Privatize Prison Health Care by Michael Rigby South Carolina's disastrous 15-year experiment with prison health care privatization should be a warning to those hardheaded state leaders who plan to do it again, according to a report sponsored by Grassroots Leadership and South Carolina Fair …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Veteran's Benefits Deposited to Prisoner Trust Account Cannot Be Attached by The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals held that veterans benefit funds deposited to a state prisoner's prison trust account could not be attached by prison authorities, even to pay an overdraft they accorded him for dental appliances he …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
$540,000 Settlement in Minnesota Jail Beating by In October 2001, Hennepin County, Minnesota, agreed to pay $540,000 to settle a brutality suit against the county jail. It is believed to be the largest brutality settlement in county history. On September 4, 2000, Derek Martin, 43, was arrested on suspicion of …
CCA Medical Cost-Saving Contract Unconstitutional by A Tennessee federal district judge as found an incentives contract between the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and a private doctor unconstitutional and must be stopped. The contract provided for financial incentives for the physician to reduce costs, which motivated him to reduce medical …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Kentucky Judge Orders Hepatitis C Treatment by A federal court in Kentucky has ordered the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC) to provide hepatitis C treatment to a prisoner suffering from both hepatitis C and cirrhosis of the liver. In response, the KDOC has implemented a treatment plan whereby up to …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
County Must Pay Prisoner's Medical Expenses by AKansas Court of Appeals found that a governmental agency is not entitled to seek reimbursement from a prisoner for the cost of medical treatment received by the prisoner while in the agency's custody. While incarcerated in the Haskell County {Kansas) jail, David Sullivan …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
BOP Organ Transplant Ban Questioned by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit dismissed, without prejudice, a habeas corpus petition filed by Kenneth Barron, a federal prisoner, claiming his longterm survival was at risk because the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) refuses to provide him with a kidney transplant. Instead, …
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