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Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections, Motion for Preliminary Injuction, Medical Neglect of Hepatitis C, 2019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI CENTRAL DIVISION 1 2 3 4 MICHAEL G. POSTAWKO, et al., Plaintiffs, 5 6 7 V. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., 8 ) …
NCCHC Adopts New Solitary Confinement Standards by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Based on recent studies showing the adverse mental health effects of solitary confinement, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) adopted new standards for solitary in a report and position statement released April 10, 2016. The report …
Publication • November 12, 2010
St. Anthony Work Camp, ID Update Report NCCHC 2010 St. Anthony Work Camp, ID November 12, 2010 UPDATE REPORT The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is dedicated to improving the quality of correctional health services and helping correctional facilities provide effective and efficient care. NCCHC grew out of a …
Publication • June 25, 2010
St. Anthony Work Camp, ID Accreditation Report NCCHC 2010 St. Anthony Work Camp, ID Accreditation Report #248 June 25, 2010 The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is dedicated to improving the quality of correctional health services and helping correctional facilities provide effective and efficient care. NCCHC grew out of …
Arizona Jail’s Medical Failures Due to Inadequate Record Keeping, Understaffing by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Medical care for approximately 10,000 prisoners in the Maricopa County jail system is an abject failure. That may explain why the Arizona county, which is the fourth largest in the nation, has had to …
$2,925,000 in Recent Settlements Involving Maricopa County and Sheriff Joe Arpaio by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The most recent developments in a thirty-year history of abuse and medical neglect of prisoners by Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) include three lawsuits in which the county paid almost $3 million …
Years Later, $95,000 Attorney Fees Paid in Essex County Jail Conditions Suit by After 12 years of disputing the amount to be paid to Massachusetts Correctional Legal Servicer (MCLS) for attorney fees relating to a class action suit, officials in Essex County agreed on July 8, 2004, to pay $95,069.89 …
Dying For Profits: CMS and the Privatization of Prisoner Health Care by Ronald Young By Ronald Young Marvin Johnson, a 28-years-old diabetic, required 100 units of insulin per day to stay alive. On the morning of July 27, 1995, he was arrested and jailed in Little Rock, Arkansas for driving …
Presence of Prison Rape in Utah Denied by Julia Lutsky Early in 1996 Utah's Legislature mandated that state prison hospitals achieve national accreditation. Consequently, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) was given a three-day review of Utah prison medical records and a tour of Utah prisons, including interviews …
NCCHC Asks Congress to Improve Prison Health Care by NCCHC Asks Congress To Improve Prison Health Care Carl C. Bell, M.D., chairman of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care's (NCCHC) Board of Directors, in testifying to a congressional subcommittee, stated that "...the Federal Government must act to improve health …