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BOP Guard, Nurse in Virginia Indicted in Prisoner’s Death by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 6, 2023, a federal grand jury indicted two employees of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in Virginia for allegedly showing deliberate indifference to a prisoner suffering a cardiac emergency that killed him …
Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A lawsuit filed in federal court for the Western District of Arkansas on January 13, 2023, makes a stunning claim: That a man was left to starve to death in jail because …
Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino, CA, Summary Judgment Order, Wrongful Death, 2024 Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino United States District Court for the Central District of California April 22, 2024, Decided; April 22, 2024, Filed 5:23-cv-00540-RGK-SHK Reporter 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74108 * Frances Enyart et al. v. …
NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement approved by the federal court for the Eastern District of California on January 16, 2024, recalls an all-­too familiar jail story. A wheelchair-­bound detainee named …
Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Delays in improvements mandated in a 2020 consent decree resulted in at least six preventable detainee deaths at Sacramento County jails, according to a grand jury investigative report on June 2, …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Washington DOC Outfits Guards with Narcan by On August 31, 2023, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) completed implementation of a new policy permitting staffers to carry naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, while on duty. But allowing guards to carry the life-­saving drug—used to counteract the effect of a …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Months-­Long Wisconsin Prison Lockdown Prompts Lawsuits by A federal lawsuit filed on October 26, 2023, seeks class-­action status for a group of Wisconsin prisoners challenging poor healthcare and conditions of confinement in the state Department of Corrections (DOC), resulting from “a prolonged, unnecessary and unexplained lockdown” that has so far …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$2,000 Paid to Former Arkansas Jail Detainees Given Horse Dewormer for COVID-­19 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 7, 2023, five former detainees at Arkansas’ Washington County Detention Center (WCDC) informed the federal court for the Western District of Arkansas that they had accepted payment of $2,000 each …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Corizon Health in State Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Diabetes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of Arizona reversed a grant of partial summary judgment to Corizon Health, the former private medical contractor for the state Department …
$33 Million Awarded to Family of Oklahoma Jail Detainee Mocked By Nurse and Guards As He Died Begging for Help by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 23, 2023, a jury in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma made a massive award of $33 million to …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$9,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Heat-­Related Illness Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 3, 2023, the Wisconsin Department of Justice sent a check for $9,000 to a state prisoner in settlement of his claims that he suffered a heat-­related illness, fell and injured himself after state Department …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
At BOP California “Rape Club” Prison: Historic Ruling, FBI Raid, Warden Removed by On March 11, 2024, FBI agents raided the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California, the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lockup plagued by staff sexual assaults on prisoners—so many that it has become known as …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Woman Denied Cardiac Care in Federal Prison in Texas—Despite Personal Assurance of BOP Medical Director by In September 2023, an elderly prisoner went into cardiac arrest at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Carswell, Texas, after the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Medical Director had assured her sentencing judge that he …
Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria by Douglas Ankney Douglas Ankney On September 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted a transexual prisoner’s motion for summary judgment in a suit accusing the state Department of Correction (DOC) of violating …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help by On October 17, 2023, a month after a Topeka Correctional Facility prisoner fell and had to crawl back to her cell because guards refused to help her, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) fired …
Brief • April 1, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Taylor v. Wexford Health Sources Inc, IL, Verdict, Failure to Provide Medical Care, 2024 ---!------------------ - - --- - ------------- -------- --4-------- - -------- ----- ----- .. Case: 1:16-cv-03464 Document#: 545 Filed: 04/01/24 Page 1 of 1 PagelD #:21108 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE Northern District of Illinois -CM/ECF-NextGen …
Brief • March 21, 2024
Filed under: Malpractice
Stanbro v. Palou, NY, Opinion and Order, Medical Malpractice, 2024 Case 7:19-cv-10857-KMK Document 190 Filed 03/21/24 Page 1 of 29 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CHAD STANBRO, Plaintiff, v. CORRECTION OFFICER NADYA PALOU, et al., Defendants. Nos. 20-CV-1591 (KMK), 19-CV-10857 (KMK) CHAD STANBRO, Plaintiff, v. WESTCHESTER …
Brief • March 7, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Appleby-El v. Wexford Health Sources, MD, Settlement, Failure to Provide Medical Care, 2024 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement is made this 27th day of March, by and between Nathaniel Appleby-El (“Plaintiff”), on the one hand, and Dayena Corcoran and Frank B. Bishop, Jr. (hereinafter “Defendants”), on the other …
Brief • March 5, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Moye v. Butler, AL, Order Granting Denying in Part MSJ, Inadequate Medical Care, 2024 Case 1:22-cv-00026-JB-B Document 104 Filed 03/05/24 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 4185 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION CANYON DUFF MOYE, Plaintiff, v. REOSHA BUTLER, et al., …
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