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Mis-Managed Health Care in Texas Prisons by In 1993, Texas state prisons over-flowed with 70,000 prisoners. But the state was nearing completion of a $1.5 billion prison construction program that would more than double the number of state prisons. State Comptroller John Sharp appreciated what few Texans knew: the $1.5 …
Ohio Prison Doctor Liable in Asthma Death by A federal district court in Ohio held that factual disputes required a trial to determine if Ohio DOC medical staff were liable in the death of a prisoner who died from an asthma attack. Ernest Davis was an Ohio state prisoner with …
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 …
$168,500 Awarded in Prisoner's Death by Gregory Stampley, 46, was convicted in 1993 of kidnapping and making terroristic threats. He was sentenced to eight years and sent to the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater. Prison doctors who examined him diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, aggressive-personality disorder and bipolar disorder. According to court …
Washington Prison Doctor Has License Suspended, Again by In October, 1994, the Washington State Medial Quality Assurance Commission began an investigation into the qualifications of Dr. Thomas McDonnell, the supervising physician at the Washington Corrections Center (WCC) in Shelton, WA. The investigation began after the Commission received two anonymous complaints. …
WSR Prisoner Murdered by Neglect by On December 12, 1994, Stanley Watson died of a heart attack at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, WA. While heart attacks do happen and can be fatal Watson's death could have been easily prevented, so easily that his death amounts to negligent …
Police, Death and Inquests by Adrian Lomax David Urban, 35 years old, was serving a 30-day sentence in the Winnebago County Jail in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, when, at 1:00 pm on January 13, he began complaining to guards that he felt ill and needed medical attention. The sheriff's deputies who run …
Age Adjusted Death Rates NHCS 1995 Number 6—Revised March 1995 Revised to clarify computations in tables III and V From the CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION/National Center for Health Statistics Direct Standardization (Age-Adjusted Death Rates) Lester R. Curtin, Ph.D. and Richard J. Klein, M.P.H. Introduction Most population-based mortality objectives …
Brief • January 1, 1995
Moffitt v. Meyers, PA, Plaintiff's Interrogatories to Mercy Health System Northeast,1995 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA GARY A. MOFFITT, Plaintiff, - against RICHARD MEYERS, JANUSZ WOLANIN, MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM NORTHEAST REGION, MERCY SPECIAL CARE HOSPITAL, MERCY HOSPITAL, NANTICOKE, and MERCY HEALTH CARE CENTER, Defendants. : : : …
WA DOC Negligence Caused Prisoner Death by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported on the death of Gertrude Barrow, a prisoner at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) at Purdy. On May 16, 1994. Barrow died of a perforated ulcer with …
Breach of Contract Claim OK Against Medical Contractor by On December 22, 1992, Eddie Cherry began serving a 30 day sentence in the Polk county jail, Florida, for drunk driving. At the time of his incarceration he told jail staff that he drank approximately a case of beer a day. …
Prisoner Dies at Purdy by In the April, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Hallett v. Payne, a class action suit filed by prisoners at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) at Purdy. The suit contends medical care is wholly inadequate to meet the medical needs of prisoners. On …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Officer's Family Awarded $120,000 for Contracting TB by In what may be an important precedent setting case, the U.S. Department of Justice awarded almost $120,000 to the family of Peter Petrosino, a 57 year old state prison guard at the Auburn, N.Y. prison, who died Oct.24, 1991, as a result …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Incompetent Medical Exam Violates 8th Amendment by Eugene Souza was a Rhode Island state prisoner. He developed acute appendicitis and sought treatment from prison doctors. The prison did not provide direct access to doctors; instead, sick prisoners were screened by a guard/nurse who would schedule doctor visits if they felt …
The Prison Privatization Debate by Ed Mead "Prisons are by their very nature coercive and oppressive institutions, designed to disempower and destroy the resistance of those confined within them, so any discussion of `reform' is largely meaningless and futile. Prisons, whether controlled and operated by the state or private companies, …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Pleas for Medical Attention Ignored by Adrian Lomax Pleas For Medical Attention Ignored By Adrian Lomax [Editorial Note :While medical neglect by our captors is nothing new, we are printing this piece because of the commonness of the events described, not because it is "news " to those of us …
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