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Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Drug Testing, junk science
and allow this color test to produce a color,” Harris pointed out. The result is that these kits can test positive, not only for illegal drugs, but for everyday items and over-the-counter medications ...
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
readily spread among prisoners and staff alike. Poor sanitation, overcrowding, rampant disease and inadequate medical care all help ensure that detention facilities act as petri dishes for disease ...
Article • July 11, 2022
)(A). The district court first said it would assume that Tinker’s medical condition did in fact present “extraordinary and compelling reasons” for early release, as the relevant statute required. Yet ...
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
of all prisoners who are part of the class he certified, which includes: • any prisoner at the facility 65 years old. • any prisoner with “documented, preexisting medical conditions&rdquo ...
;provide effective medical care for inmates.” While these cases concerned convicted prisoners, the Court stated that the “Due Process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendments and &hellip ...
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
’s medical director; and an Angola guard, Lt. Timothy Gordon. Their deaths have also altered the LDOC’s objective in response to the virus. As the Times-Picayune reported, “Hundreds ...
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Preliminary Studies: Black/Latino Populations Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a June 2020 report from Medical News Today ...
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
nutrition or any medical care. The Eastham Unit is named after landowners who used leased convicts to work the land where the prison is currently located. The Ferguson Unit is named after a Texas governor ...
Article • February 26, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Statistics/Trends
to be?// restrictions, Wetzel said the ratio of medically vulnerable prisoners had actually increased, leaving almost half the state’s incarcerated at risk of dying if they contract CDVID-19. Regardless of how ...
Article • June 23, 2021
. “That gave us exposure to a lot of advocacy groups that backed us up,” said Cesal. Earlier that decade, states like California and Washington had legalized medical marijuana, and other states ...
Article • July 8, 2021
on the side of the elderly and all of the medical expenses that go along with that age group. The report recommended ending mass incarceration and promoting community and public safety. To accomplish ...
for costs and attorney’s fees, the $150,000 settlement fund provided payouts to each class member of approximately $3,591 to compensate them for allegedly inadequate medical treatment and retaliation ...
Sandra Murphy, the mother of the 37-year-old father of four, scratching her head. She said he didn’t suffer mental illness and wasn’t on medication. But she added that the last time she saw him ...
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
statement that Chambers admitted “he was not in distress or having a medical emergency when he kicked his cell door.” Chambers then filed two suits pro se in federal court for the Northern ...
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Parole
and are costly to incarcerate due to much higher medical costs than younger prisoners. Gritsforbreakfast suggested that the Texas legislature look at the “objective-parole” law passed by Michigan ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
, and the medically vulnerable. The COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project at UCLA School of Law began to track these actions, and by mid-May they had noted over 500 legal filings and court orders as well as dozens ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
is an option to temporarily escape the suffocating summer heat. Klepper said prisoners have access to AC in the buildings such as the chapel, medical, classification, and buildings designed for classification ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Commissary
that did not allow for practicing social distancing should have been stopped sooner. El-Alamin and other prisoner advocates encourage Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to use her clemency powers to release medically ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
of Corrections (ADOC) records, which go back two decades. The next month, three other prisoners were killed. Back in 2014 Alabama was sued in federal court regarding failures in taking care of the medical ...
Article • May 31, 2022
in drugs being introduced and prisoners overdosing. His county jail is one of 27 in the state that refuses to employ medication-assisted treatment (MAT), which has been proven to provide relief ...
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