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Florida Department of Corrections and Wackenhut Corrections Corporation Paid $35,000 Settlement in Discrimination Lawsuit by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation and the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) paid $35,000 to settle a discrimination and retaliatory practices lawsuit. In his civil complaint, ex-FDOC senior psychologist Majid A. Shams, who is of Iranian descent, …
PHS’s Policy of Profits over Medical Care Results in Death of Pregnant Prisoner’s Fetus by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is not required to exhaust administrative remedies that jail officials do not let prisoners know exist. Additionally, the appellate court held that a jail …
EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury by In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation due to allegedly improperly applied restraints, the Ohio Court of Appeals, Tenth Appellate District, affirmed a jury's verdict in favor of EMSA Correctional Care, a for-profit health care provider. Plaintiff …
Article • May 15, 2007
FL Prisoner's Suit Against Prison Health Care Providers Timely Filed by On February 8, 1996, Geraldine Seale, a Florida state prisoner, complained to the state Human Relations Commission (Commission) about the medical care she was receiving. The Commission didn't make a reasonable cause determination within 180 days as required by …
$143,774.55 Attorney Fee and Costs Award in New York EMSA Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On May 16, 2006, a New York federal district court magistrate recommended awarding $143,774.55 in attorney fees and costs to the attorneys who represented a prisoner in a civil rights action. Byron …
Failure to Accommodate Blind Prisoner Violates ADA by A Florida federal district court has held that a private medical contractor, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc. (EMSA), and Sheriff Ken Jenne violated a blind prisoner's rights under the Eight Amendment and the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they failed to provide …
Article • May 15, 2007
Private Medical Company Not Municipality Subject to Punitive Damages by The plaintiff, who had had repeated shoulder surgery, reinjured his shoulder in jail. He got an x-ray but no treatment except pain killers and referrals to mental health. After release, he had to have two additional surgeries on his shoulder. …
Private Prison Execs Win Big While Guards and Prisoners Lose Out by Michael Rigby Many of the problems associated with imprisonment in the U.S. high staff turnover, prisoner neglect and abuse, and the introduction of contraband by employees, for example can be attributed to the paltry salaries and few benefits …
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc. (ASG), continues to face lawsuits and lose contracts for its deplorable record of prisoner health care gaffes in a …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
EMSA, Florida County to Pay $500,000 for Untreated Ectopic Pregnancy by Michael Rigby Broward County, Florida, and EMSA Correctional Care, Inc., must pay $500,000 to a county prisoner who suffered permanent injury and weeks of unnecessary pain because jail medical personnel failed to diagnose or treat her ectopic pregnancy, a …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
EMSA Negligent In Florida Jail Prisoners Death, County Pays $65,000 by Michael Rigby EMSA Negligent In Florida Jail Prisoners Death, County Pays $65,000 by Michael Rigby On April 1, 2005, a jury in the 19th Circuit Court of St. Lucie County, Florida, found EMSA Correctional Care negligent but not liable …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Sixth Circuit Reverses Judgment for EMSA Physician, Remands for Trial by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a grant of summary judgment to a physician employed by EMSA Correctional Care, Inc (EMSA) in an Ohio pretrial detainees inadequate medical care claim. On October 5th or 6th, 1998, James …
Judge Reduces Damage Award Against PHS In New York Jail Heart Attack Suit by by John E. Dannenberg In July 2005, a New York federal jury awarded $150,000 in compensatory damages and $632,988 in punitive damages to a jail prisoner who suffered permanent disabilities when treatment for his heart attack …
Exhaustion of Administrative Remedy Requirement May be Excused by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the failure to exhaust administrative remedies may be excused in limited circumstances and should be excused in this case. This civil rights action arose from events that occurred while Ivan Rodriguez was …
$240,000 Settlement in Florida Juvenile Boot Camp Suicide by Lonnie Burton Although described as a troubled kid, 16-year old Chad Franza didn't deserve to die they way he did. Only 24 days after entering a juvenile boot camp in Bartow, Florida, the teenager was found dead after hanging himself with …
EMSA and Nevada Jail Pay $40,000 Settlement to Quadriplegic by In April, 2002, Robert Cornwall, 30, a quadriplegic, settled a lawsuit against the Washoe county jail in Nevada for $40,000. The lawsuit stemmed from Cornwall being arrested on domestic violence charges against his wife on July 25, 2000. Cornwall spent …
Jail Term for DUI Turns into Death Sentence by On July 11, 2000, Rodney "Rocky" Eickstadt began serving a 175day jail term at the Franklin County (Ohio) Jail for drunken driving. Ten weeks later he was dead _ from complications related to untreated diabetes. Eickstadt didn't know he was diabetic …
Medical Cost-Cutting by Private Care Provider Opens Liability by Afederal district court in New York held that a jail prisoner had stated a claim for violation of his Eighth Amendment rights when he was denied medical care as a part of the county's effort to cut medical costs by contracting …
Managed Care Infects Prison Health Services by by Adrian Lomax In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest pains and having trouble breathing. Nurses at the jail, finding no discernible blood pressure, concluded that Bird was suffering a heart …