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PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues

Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing, Prison Health Services, EMSA, Contractor Misconduct, Medical Misconduct, HIV/AIDS, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Injury -- Misc., Private Contractors, Skin, OB/GYN, Vision, Diabetes, Hepatitis, Discovery, Contractor Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

Morris died of what PHS called natural causes at the Tutwiler Prison for Women. Visibly unnatural, however, was Morris condition at the time of her death: her legs were so badly swollen that her shackles ...

Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry

Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Crime, Statistics/Trends, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

, state, federal and private detention facility officials have exploited their monopoly sourcing power to enter into what amount to profit-sharing arrangements with the major telephone companies, offering ...

PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, OB/GYN, Stroke, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

died of what PHS called natural causes at the Tutwiler Prison for Women. Visibly unnatural, however, was Morris' condition at the time of her death: her legs were so badly swollen that her shackles dug ...

United States v. Kriesel-508 F.3d 941 (9th Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

substantive legal duties . . . other than what the statute already imposed."*fn6 Alcaraz v. Block, 746 F.2d 593, 613-14 (9th Cir. 1984). Nothing in these regulations supports a claim that the rules ...

In re Andrade-141 Cal.App.4th 807, 46 Cal.Rptr.3d 317 (Cal.App. 1 Dist. 2006)

Case • 2006

in this country. (8 U.S.C. §§ 1182(5)(A), 1324a.) It is self-evident that the government may not require as a condition of parole that someone arrange to violate the law. But this is precisely what the Board's ...

Sell v. United States-123 S.Ct. 2174 (2003)

Case • 2003

a trial unfair. The first question focuses upon the right to avoid administration of the drugs. What may happen at trial is relevant, but only as a prediction. See infra, at 13. The second question focuses ...

Sharpe v. Cureton-319 F.3d 259 (6th Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

.2d at 273. This test is an objective one, and the Court determines "what event should have alerted the typical lay person to protect his or her rights." Dixon v. Anderson, 928 F.2d 212, 215 (6th Cir ...

Tinius v. Carroll County Sheriff Department-255 F.Supp.2d 971 (N.D.Iowa 2003)

Case • 2003

to determine precisely what qualifies as a suit against the state. "'What is a suit? We understand it to be the prosecution, or pursuit, of some claim, demand, or request. In law language, it is the prosecution ...

Jackson v. Fauver-334 F.Supp.2d 697 (D.N.J. 2004)

Case • 2004

was treated in the prison's health clinic, and was given another EKG. This EKG was highly abnormal, and Castellano was provided with nitroglycerine. Castellano alleges that what he suffered was a misdiagnosed ...

Peters v. State, 984 So. 2d 1227 (Fla. 2008)-984 So. 2d 1227 (Fla. 2008)

Case • 2008

at sentencing is the right not to be sentenced on the basis of inaccurate or unreliable information."); United States v. Espinoza, 481 F.2d 553, 555 (5th Cir. 1973) ("What is involved...is the right ...

Beeson v. Fishkill Corr. Facility-28 F.Supp.2d 884 (SD NY 1998)

Case • 1998

levels of the administrative scheme" (emphasis added)). What can be disputed -- because there is a conflict among federal courts on two aspects of the issue -- is whether the administrative exhaustion ...

Glover v. Johnson-35 F.Supp.2d 1010 (ED MI 1999)

Case • 1999

would become the primary arbiters of what constitutes the best solution to every administrative problem, thereby "unnecessarily perpetuating the involvement of the federal [**11] courts in affairs ...

Williams v. Benjamin-77 F.3d 756 (4th Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

component). What must be established with regard to each component "varies according to the nature of the alleged constitutional violation." Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 5, 117 L. Ed. 2d 156, 112 S. Ct ...

Jolly v. Coughlin-76 F.3d 468 (2nd Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

decision in this case, inmates who refused to submit to the test were placed in "medical keeplock"-i.e., permitted to leave their cells only for one ten-minute shower per week. Medical keeplock is what ...

Martin v. Shell Oil Co.-198 F.R.D. 580 (D.Conn. 2000)

Case • 2001

property, what steps Shell would need to take with respect to site remediation on each plaintiff's own property and what damages that plaintiff suffered. The court sees no reason why this would necessarily ...

People v. Whaley-160 Cal. App. 4th 779, 73 Cal. Rptr. 3d 133 (Cal. App. 6th Dist. 2008)

Case • 2008

by examining the statutory language, giving the words their usual and ordinary meaning.? [Citations.]? (Id. at p. 911.) ?If the terms of the statute are unambiguous, we presume the lawmakers meant what they said ...

Hadix v. Caruso-U.S.D.C. (W.D. Mich.), Case No. 4:92-CV-110; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52884.

Case • 2009

, docket # 2787, at 250 ("[P]risoners with mental illness?have trouble conforming their behavior to what is expected. They get into disciplinary trouble.")) Prisoners who do not obey those rules typically ...

Carnaby v. Houston-USDC, S.D., No. 4:08-cv-1366 (Aug. 26, 2009)

Case • 2009

over and do what the police commanded, Carnaby told him that it might be a "set up" from "the agency." (Id.) During the chase, Foster reported over the radio that Carnaby threw an object out of his ...

Champagne v. Thurston County-163 Wn.2d 69, 178 P.3d 936 (2008)

Case • 2008

representing the difference between the statutory minimum wage and what was actually paid.? SPEEA, 139 Wn.2d at 831 (citing RCW 49.46.090(1)). The Court of Appeals seized upon this language in dismissing ...

Vasquez v. State of California-45 Cal.4th 243, 195 P.3d 1049, 85 Cal.Rptr.3d 466 (2008)

Case • 2008

settlement demand. Moreover, the Legislature clearly knows how to require prelitigation demands unambiguously when that is what it wishes to do. Many statutes illustrate the point. For example, a plaintiff ...