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42 U.S.C. § 1983, “alleging inadequate mental health and medical care and … inhumane conditions of confinement,” as that court later recalled. On November 15, 2018, it granted ...
medical care, of which the decedents were patients” and in this case  “Morgan was not a ‘patient.’” Thus the district court’s judgement was affirmed. Morgan ...
; medical expert, Dr. Dan Naim, on September 29, 2021. But Plaintiffs had another expert, John Robert High, whose testimony regarding use of force in jail settings was largely allowed by the Court ...
of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) pushed back against any suggestion that Rabbani suffered medical neglect while confined. “All inmates have access to comprehensive health care, including mental health care ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
that the public has in the public safety system.” An immediate crisis exists in DOC’s provision of medical care. “For instance, today there are 644 inmates who have advanced dementia, traumatic ...
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
the floor with their raw waste. Jones further alleged that prison staff was deliberately indifferent to his medical needs by denying batteries for his TENS unit, a device used to treat back pain. After ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
; But that’s against the law in Alabama, where medical examiners must notify next-of-kin when they retain the organs to determine the manner or cause of death. They must also get approval to keep organs ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
. Davoren Complex on Rikers Island, where he was assaulted by several other detainees and ultimately placed alone in Intake Holding Pen #11 to await transfer to a medical facility for treatment of injuries ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
was retaliated against for grievances filed after his cell fan failed during a muggy August 2019, causing him to suffer from medication-­induced heat sensitivity. [See: PLN, May 2023, p.25.] In this suit ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
a $72,000 settlement from DCRR’s then-­contracted medical provider, Corizon Health, in November 2020, and another $20,000 settlement from Corizon’s successor, Centurion of Arizona and MHM ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
revealed in its 39-page report, OIG found “a backlog of 725 laboratory orders for blood draws or urine collection and 274 pending x-ray orders” due to lack of medical staff to perform ...
doctrine.” The Court did not enjoin a section of the law prohibiting solitary confinement and setting standards for medical and mental health care, visitation, clothing and telecommunication access ...
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
and medical appointments. The non-profit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) examined this issue in a December 9, 2024 report, Why Jails and Prisons Can’t Recruit Their Way Out of the Understaffing Crisis ...
filed by a state prisoner making claims of excessive force and deliberate indifference to his medical needs. Waupun Correctional Institution prisoner Kurtis D. Jones engaged in an “inappropriate ...
provide one or more of the following: a bus pass, taxi service, medication, voluntarily delayed release (to an appropriate time of day), donated clothing, a phone call, phone charging, housing/shelter ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2014
inmates from receiving items such as children's report cards, medical records, bills and news articles, Simon noted in his findings of fact. Simon also declared the jail’s practice ...
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
medical training but were simply prison employees who had practiced a couple of times on a prosthetic arm. Unable to place the IV, the execution team – with tremulous hands and perspiring faces &ndash ...
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
by failing to provide a prisoner adequate medical care. With the aid of Washington, DC attorneys from Covington & Burling LLP and Samuel Weiss of Rights Behind Bars, Hoffman appealed. The Ninth Circuit ...
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
, a for-profit company with a lengthy track record of inadequate medical care that holds the contract to provide healthcare for the state Department of Corrections (DOC). Despite having a financial incentive ...
for the guards to stop while he was put in restraints; he was still being pinned down when he stopped breathing. But guards waited six minutes before calling 911. His death was ruled a homicide by the medical ...
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