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Who’s Monitoring Prison Medical Contract Requirements in New Jersey? No One by David Reutter Who's Monitoring Prison Medical Contract Requirements in New Jersey? No One by David Reutter PLN subscribers often read reports about the effects of privatized prisoner health care and the spread of privatization to prison and jail …
Article • January 15, 2008
Removal to Federal Court Denied State Court Jurisdiction by The Missouri Court of Appeals held that a state circuit court lacked jurisdiction to rule on a summary judgment motion in a case that had been removed to federal court. Missouri prisoner Edward Moore successfully sued Correctional Medical Services (CMS) for …
Article • December 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Dental Care, Surgery
Untreated Periodontal Disease, Loss of Teeth Results in $110,000 Jury Verdict for NY Prisoner by A New York prisoner who lost all his teeth due to inadequate treatment of periodontal disease, was awarded $110,000. Mr. Singh, a New York prisoner, suffered from periodontal disease that prison officials failed to treat …
Reformed Dental Care Will Have Ohio Prisoners Smiling by Michael Rigby The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) will hire dozens of dental health care providers, revise policies and procedures governing prisoner dental care, and implement oral health care education programs as part of a settlement agreed to in …
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 …
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0071 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0072
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Dr. Yank: Washington Prison Dentist Nearly Kills Patient by by Rick Anderson If anyone really needed another reason to fear the dentist, Dr. Joel Diven provided it one day in May 2006, when a state prisoner climbed into his dental chair with a toothache. State investigators say Diven, 72, a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal Denied for Delay of Dental Treatment by A federal district court in Delaware has held that a prisoner's claim of proper dental treatment being delayed defeats the Defendant's Motion for Dismissal. While incarcerated at Delaware's Multi-purpose Criminal Justice Facility, prisoner David W. Williamson developed an abscessed tooth and periodontal …
Article • May 15, 2007
Failure to Treat Mild Paid Doesn't State Claim by The plaintiff cut his mouth on a piece of metal in his food. He got a tetanus shot and x-rays to make sure he hadn't swallowed any metal. He then went on a hunger strike and during that time complained about …
Article • May 15, 2007
8th Circuit Remands Damages Seizure for Reconsideration under Hankins v. Finnel by In an unpublished opinion, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court order refusing to enjoin Missouri from attaching a § 1983 judgment for incarceration costs. Missouri prisoner Edward Moore successfully sued Correctional Medical Services (CMS) …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Loses Dental Suit Against PHS by The plaintiff told the prison dentist that he wanted his remaining teeth pulled and to be provided with dentures. The dentist said he would try to avoid dentures and that the plaintiff had many sound teeth that he could keep with proper care. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Loss of Prisoner's Dentures and Heart Medication Valid Claims by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit has held that a guard's intentional loss of a prisoner's dentures and heart medication is actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as two separate claims for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs …
Article • May 15, 2007
Refusal to Treat Tooth Cavity States §1983 Claim by Refusal to Treat Tooth Cavity States §1983 Claim The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a federal district court's grant of summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity to prison officials who refused to treat a prisoner's tooth …
Article • May 15, 2007
Waiver of Right to Sue Questioned in Prisoner's §1983 Claim by Waiver of Right to Sue Questioned in Prisoner's §1983 Claim The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed dismissal by the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, in a state prisoner's dental care suit and ordered the lower …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit Upholds Judgment Against CMS For Delayed Dental Care by In an unpublished opinion filed on August 7, 2001, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgment against Correctional Medical Services (CMS) for failing to provide adequate dental care to a Missouri prisoner. While imprisoned in the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Dismisses Dental, Diet and TB Suit by A prior decision collaterally estopped the plaintiff's claim about placement in isolated confinement when she received a positive tuberculosis test. The fact that the prior decision involved a different prison and different defendants did not matter, since the plaintiff was a party …
Article • May 15, 2007
$100,000 Paid to Arizona Prisoner for Failure to Treat Dental Problem by Danny W. Thompson, a prisoner at Arizona's Winslow Prison, suffered from severe periodontal disease when he requested medical assistance in January 1993. Thompson self-extracted 5 teeth prior to being seen by a dentist in May 1993. His lawsuit …
Plaintiff States Claim Against Private Medical Providers In § 1983 Action by Plaintiff States Claim Against Private Medical Providers In § 1983 Action The United States District Court for the District of Maine held that although a prisoner did not utter "the magic words 'policy and custom' in his" § …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Dental Care
$100,000 Awarded in Dental Negligence by Needing a lower wisdom tooth removed, Michigan prisoner Rodney Hicks reported to his prison's dentist, Zolton Campbell. Prior to making the extraction, Campbell relied on a 9-year-old x-ray for the extraction. Another film revealed Campbell removed the tooth in parts, leaving 25% of the …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Jail Prisoner Awarded $190,000 For Guard-Inflicted Facial Injuries by In December 1997, a New York state court awarded $190,000 to a prisoner who sustained severe facial injuries when a guard at the Nassau County Jail pushed him into his cell. The plaintiff prisoner, 66 at the time of …
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