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Article • July 15, 2009
Class Claims for Injunctive Relief in HPC Suit Dismissed as Moot by U.S. District Judge Noel L. Hillman has dismissed as moot class claims brought by a group of New Jersey prisoners alleged to have been unreasonably exposed to Hepatitis C (HPC). Walter Bennett on behalf of all others similarly …
Article • July 15, 2009
Protective Order Entered in Hepatitis C Cases by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel B. Rosen has entered a protective order in a group of lawsuits challenging the New Jersey Department of Corrections’ (NJDOC) policies regarding the screening and treatment of Hepatitis C. The protective order was entered with the consent of …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Filed under: Medical, Medication, Hepatitis
Study Shows Treating HCV in Prisons with Pegylated Interferon Is Cost-Effective by Matthew Clarke Study Shows Treating HCV in Prisons with Pegylated Interferon Is Cost-Effective by Matt Clarke A new study published in the November 2008 issue of the medical journal Hepatology found that treating hepatitis C-infected prisoners with the …
Brief • May 11, 2009
Coats v. Fox, CA, Complaint, failure to treat hep c, 2009 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 10 of 53 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 13 of 53 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 16 of 53 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 18 of …
Article • February 15, 2009
$11,000 Settlement For Failure To Treat Federal Prisoner's Hepatitis "C" Virus by Illinois federal prisoner Louis Sheptin brought a combined federal tort and Bivens action against the United States in 2000 for the failure to treat and disclose to him that he was infected with Hepatitis "C." The $10 million …
Prisoners’ Death Rate Report Indicts Prison Medical Care by Implication by David Reutter Prisoners’ Death Rate Report Indicts Prison Medical Care by Implication by David M. Reutter A report by the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics has issued a report on the 12,129 state prisoners’ deaths reported …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Will California’s $11 Billion Prison Outlay Survive State Budget Cuts? by Marvin Mentor As California deals with a projected $28 billion budget shortfall over the next 18 months, it remains to be seen if the requisite two-thirds of the state legislature has the political courage to make cuts to the …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
CMS Nurse Injects 15 Delaware Prisoners with the Same Syringe by That Delaware prisoners have been subject to dreadful health care by the state’s medical contractor, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), is not a new revelation for readers of PLN. We previously published an exposé on the deaths, injuries and deliberate …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Skin, Hepatitis, Limitations
CMS Found Liable for Inadequate Hep C Medical Care of Delaware Prisoner by The federal district court in Delaware has held that Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the medical provider for the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC), was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs. The ruling should come as no …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis, Damages
Illinois Prisoners Win $8 Million for Failure to Treat Hep C by A federal jury has awarded four Illinois prisoners over $2 million apiece in a civil rights action filed against state prison officials for denying treatment for Hepatitis C (Hep C). In 2005, Edward J. Roe, Anthony P. Stasiak, …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Pennsylvania Prison Medical Firm’s Performance Called into Question by Dr. Edward Zaloga, co-owner of Correctional Care, Inc. (CCI) of Moosic, Pennsylvania, a firm that provides medical services at the Lackawanna County Prison, had his past called into question when a female prisoner was forced to give birth alone in her …
Article • August 15, 2008
D.C. Circuit Reverses Res Judicata Dismissal; Failure to Treat HCV Constitutes “Imminent Danger” by The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a pro se prisoner’s suit, on res judicata grounds. The court also granted the prisoner leave to appeal in forma …
Article • July 15, 2008
Massachusetts Action to Compel Medical Treatment Dismissed; Lacked Eighth Amendment Claim, Diagnosis by Massachusetts State pro se prisoner Kenneth Mocks brought an action to compel the State Department of Corrections Director of Health Services, John Noonan, to provide allegedly needed medical care. Also named as a defendant, but judicially dismissed, …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Texas Prisoner’s Hepatitis C Claim Not Frivolous, Fifth Circuit Holds by A Texas prisoner’s claim alleging that his civil rights were violated by the denial of hepatitis c treatment based on policy decisions rather than on medical factors was not frivolous, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held, in …
Cheaper than Chimpanzees: Expanding the Use of Prisoners in Medical Experiments by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober "It is the duty of the doctor to remain the protector of the life and health of that person on whom clinical research is being carried out." Declaration of Helsinki In June 2006, …
Article • January 15, 2008
Alleged Inappropriate Delay in Prisoner’s Hep C Treatment States 8th Amendment Claim by Alleged Inappropriate Delay in Prisoner's Hep C Treatment States 8th Amendment Claim Salvatore Chimenti, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, was taken off his medication for Hepatitis C and made to wait over two years for a new drug, …
Article • December 15, 2007
Prisoner-Exclusion Clause in Virginia's Freedom-Of-Information-Act is Not Unconstitutional by by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (W.D. Va.) held that the statutory exclusion of prisoners from utilizing the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) (Va. Code Ann. 2.2-3703(C)) was neither unconstitutional on its face nor as applied to the …
Dallas County Jail Deficient, Says 2006 Report; DOJ Files Suit by Gary Hunter Just over two years ago, the jail in Dallas County, Texas (DCJ) failed state certification inspections and came under fire for numerous high profile cases of prisoner deaths and neglect. A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report, …
Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail – Four Prisoners Dead by Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail - Four Prisoners Dead Family members of prisoners who became sick or died at the Santa Rita jail in Alameda County, California have alleged inadequate health care …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis, Complaints
U.S. Supreme Court: Colorado Prisoner Alleging Injury From Suspension Of Medical Treatment Stated Adequate Claim To Preclude Dismissal by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a per curiam ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Colorado state prisoner seeking reinstatement of his Hepatitis-C medical treatment had stated an …
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