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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$325,000 Paid to Former Wisconsin Prisoner Whose Cancer Biopsy Was Delayed by Previously Disciplined Doctor by Chuck Sharman On September 19, 2024, Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Mary Kathlin Sickel put the final signature on an agreement paying $325,000 to former state prisoner Darnell Price, settling his claims that a state …
Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer by In a lawsuit filed by a former Florida prisoner who was released to die from prostate cancer that private prison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Studies Link Incarceration with Lower Cancer Survival Rates—For Prisoner’s Partners, Too by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Two recent studies highlight decreased cancer survival rates for those who’ve been incarcerated and their partners, too. The studies effectively connect abysmal prison healthcare to the lack of access to cancer screenings …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
$9.9 Million Paid to Washington Prisoner Whose Misdiagnosed Cancer Is Now Terminal by On January 31, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay a former prisoner and her family $9.9 million for failing to diagnose and treat her uterine cancer, leaving the disease to spread and become …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Florida Prisoners Exposed to Cancer-Causing Chemicals by When Florida lawmakers approved a $116.5 billion annual state budget on March 8, 2024, it included $3.5 million for a new Alachua County water pipeline that is critical to the health and safety of state prisoners confined at Lowell Correctional Institution and the …
Third Circuit Revives Claim by Federal Prisoner in Pennsylvania that Delayed Cancer Treatment Cost Him a Testicle by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a precedential opinion issued on August 21, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a federal prisoner incarcerated in the …
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On November 14, 2022, the Florida arm of Centurion Health, one of the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare companies, filed a lawsuit in Putnam County …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
No Compassionate Release for Bank Robber Turned Angel of Mercy at North Carolina BOP Lockup by As reported by the Atavaist on May 31, 2023, Gary Settle, a federal prisoner in North Carolina, has outlived his 18-month diagnosis with terminal prostate cancer—and is still in prison. Settle is serving an …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Incarceration Increases Death Risk for Cancer Patients by PBS News Hour reported on March 7, 2023, that people with cancer who have been incarcerated are more likely to die than patients who were never in prison. The reporting was based on research from the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice …
Newly Released Government Records Reveal Horrible Neglect of Terminally Ill Woman in Federal Prison by C.J. Ciaramella by C.J. Ciaramella A woman who died in federal prison suffered in pain for eight months while waiting for a routine CT scan, records released to Reason show. Doris Nelson was one of …
Article • May 24, 2023
Sheriff Accused of Blocking Investigation Into Georgia Jail Detainee Death by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott After an otherwise healthy 32-year-old succumbed to testicular cancer at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail in January 2023, the Director of the county Medical Examiner’s Office accused Sheriff Levon Allen of withholding documents …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Federal Judge Tells BOP Officials They “Are Not Above the Law” by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On October 4, 2022, Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. of the federal court for the Middle District of Florida excoriated officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and its Seagoville Federal …
Article • December 27, 2022
Eighth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jailers and Medical Provider Who Misdiagnosed Prisoner’s Leukemia as Gingivitis by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On April 12, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said a Minnesota jail detainee was not subjected to unconstitutional treatment by jailers and …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
$3.75 Million Settlement for Estate of Washington Prisoner Who Died From Untreated Breast Cancer by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 17, 2022, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) stipulated to a $3.75 million judgment in state court to settle all claims — including costs and attorney’s fees …
Article • June 27, 2022
Seventh Circuit Vacates $8 Million Award to Illinois Prisoner Whose Cancer Metastasized Awaiting Wexford Doctors’ “Collegial Review” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 8, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied a petition for the full court to rehear en banc a decision …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Environmental Indifference by Anthony Moffa Exposure to Radon in Prisons May Be Functioning as a Form of Mass Capital Punishment by Anthony Moffa I can’t breathe. –Eric Garner, George Floyd, and at least seventy others   The thought of radioactive gas in the night air in the place you lay …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$8.6 Million Award Against Wexford for Deliberate Indifference to Prisoner’s Kidney Cancer by An Illinois prisoner was awarded $11 million by a federal jury in a lawsuit alleging doctors with Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford), were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by failing to treat his kidney cancer. …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Investigation Finds “Deadly Delays” in Cancer Diagnosis at Washington State Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The State of Washington Office of Corrections Ombuds (OCO) found in a January 14, 2021 report that the Department of Corrections (DOC) delayed cancer diagnosis that resulted in some prisoner deaths. Several …
Publication • 2021
Washington Office of Corrections Ombuds Investigation of Delayed Cancer Diagnosis and Management 2021 OCO INVESTIGATION OF DELAYED CANCER DIAGNOSIS & MANAGEMENT CONDUCTED BY PATRICIA H. DAVID MD MSPH CCHP, DIRECTOR OF PATIENT SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE REVIEW SUMMARY OF CONCERN The Office of the Corrections Ombuds (OCO) previously conducted two investigations …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
North Carolina Cancer Patient Dies From COVID-19 After BOP Denies Compassionate Release and Sentencing Judge Rejects Appeal by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 3, 2020, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) reported prisoner John Dailey died of COVID-19 at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Butner, North Carolina. …
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