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Medical Care Still Deficient in Texas Prisons by Gary Hunter Deficient medical care at the unit level has Texas prisons incubating a new, more virulent strain of HIV. Dr. William Obrien is one of the most noted doctors on staff with the University of Texas Medical Branch. (UTMB) Over a …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Louisiana Sheriff Pays $1.35 Million Settlement in Death of Diabetic Prisoner by On January 6, 2002, Orleans Parish criminal sheriff Charles Foti agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a diabetic female prisoner who died at the parish prison in April 1999. JoAnn …
Florida Prisoner Dies in CCA Jail by Lonnie Burton On February 26, 2002, the family of a prisoner who died as a result of medical neglect at the privately-run Bay County jail in Florida filed formal notice that they intend to sue the jail, as well as the Bay Medical …
Boot Camp or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel Boot Camp Or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel On February 15, 2002, Charles Long II was arrested on murder and child abuse charges growing from the …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
No Qualified Immunity for Guards Who Failed to Provide CPR by No Qualified Immunity for Guards who Failed to Provide CPR The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit struck down a district court's grant of qualified immunity and summary judgment in favor of three Nebraska prison guards who …
Ill Treatment on Our Shores by Anne-Marie Cusac ( On October 24, 2001, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 …
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
Remand Defeats Georgia DOC's Attempted 11th Amendment Immunity Bar by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The US District Court (M.D. Ga.) remanded a state prisoner 42 USC §1983 medical indifference civil rights suit back to state court because under state law, defendant Georgia Dept. of Corrections (DOC) could …
Deaths in Florida and Virginia Jails Spark National Investigations by Gary Hunter The badly bloated body of Kathy Kearns was removed from her Virginia Beach jail cell in the early morning hours of April 26, 2001. Testimony from witnesses and evidence from jail and city records show that Kearns desperately …
TDCJ Not Immune from Suit in Medical Malpractice Death Case by A Texas state court of appeals has held that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) does not enjoy sovereign immunity from being sued in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case. Charles Edwin Miller, III, was a Texas state prisoner …
Wisconsin Medical Care Substandard, Even for Prisoners by Gary Hunter Michelle Greer had asthma, the operative word being had past tense. Her asthma no longer exists because Michelle Greer is dead. On February 29, 2000, at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution, she died of an asthma attack, suffocated by the apathy …
Washington DOC Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $245,000 by Washington DOC Settles Wrongful Death Suit For $245,000 In February 2001, Washington prison officials agreed to settle a $2.9 million wrongful death suit for $245,000 in costs, damages, and attorneys' fees. The lawsuit was brought in state court by a prisoner's …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
$630,000 Plus Paid in Ulcer Related Death by $630,000 plus paid in ulcer related death On May 16, 1994, Gertrude Barrow, 41, died at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) of a perforated chronic peptic ulcer and acute peritonitis. She was just three months short of her release date. …
$225,000 Paid in Mentally Ill Prisoner's Death by $225,000 paid in mentally ill prisoner's death In 1991, John E. Rickert was placed in the DOC's custody to serve a sentence upon conviction of a crime. Mr. Rickert was suffering from an unspecified mental illness at the time of his incarceration, …
Allen v. Rouse, MA, Third Amended Complaint, Class Action Medical Neglect and Excessive Force, 2002 (Part 2) -, Case 1:00-cv-10981-RWZ Document 53 Filed 03/14/2002 Page 1 of 121 ~ , ' " "l I UNITED STATES DISTRICT COu;RT. IN THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS " . i ; :,.,; iii i:) …
$1.5 Million Awarded in CDC Medical Neglect Suit by $1.5 Million Awarded In CDC Medical Neglect Suit In November 2000, a jury awarded the Estate of Mark Holton and Amanda Holton a total of $1.5 million in costs and damages, as well as $279,000 in attorneys' fees, in a civil …
Family of BOP Prisoner Awarded $1.1 Million in Wrongful Death Suit by Ronald Young A federal judge in Oklahoma City ruled in May 2001 that the government was negligent in the death of federal prisoner Kenneth Michael Trentadue and ordered the family to be paid $1.1 million for emotional distress. …
America's Jails: The Dungeons of the New Millenium by Sam Rutherford At any given time there are approximately 500,000 people incarcerated in the more than 3,500 city and county jails across the United States. Some of these individuals are confined while awaiting trial, others are serving relatively short sentences for …
Wyoming Prison Officials Settle Poisoning and Medical Suits for over $200,000 by Wyoming Prison Officials Settle Poisoning And Medical Suits for over $200,000 In August 2000, Wyoming officials agreed to settle two consolidated cases for $200,000 in damages, costs, and attorney fees. The cases were filed in a Wyoming federal …
CCA Medical Cost-Saving Contract Unconstitutional by A Tennessee federal district judge as found an incentives contract between the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and a private doctor unconstitutional and must be stopped. The contract provided for financial incentives for the physician to reduce costs, which motivated him to reduce medical …
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