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Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Incarceration Exacerbates Obesity in America by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Incarceration poses many health risks. Violence, inadequate medical care, as well as physical and emotional trauma, all take a sometimes deadly toll inside American jails and prisons. Yet one often overlooked problem incarcerated Americans encounter is obesity. Health experts …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Discrimination, Obesity
University of Michigan-The Fat Prisoners' Dilemma, 2022 The Fat Prisoners’ Dilemma: Slow Violence, Intersectionality, and a Disability Rights Framework for the Future RABIA BELT* America is having a reckoning on mass incarceration. Events such as George Floyd’s killing, COVID behind bars, and Black Lives Matter have punctured our collective consciousness. …
Thompson v. Wexford, Settlement, Inadequate Health Care, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case # Case# Filed Case Name Received 19-288 19-CV-288-SMY Thompson, Dennis v. Wexford Health Sources Inc., et al. 8/5/19 Defendants: Plaintiffs: Opposing Counsel : Institutions: Date Served Status 8/8/19 closed Class Action D On Appeal D …
Thompson v. Wexford, IL, Merit Review, Inadequate Health Care, 2019 Case 3:19-cv-00288-SMY Document 7 Filed 08/06/19 Page 1 of 11 Page ID #112 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DENNIS THOMPSON, # B67474, Plaintiff, vs. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., JACQUELINE LASHBROO~ MOHAMMED SIDDIQUI, AND …
Article • December 21, 2017
Violation of State Regulation Not a Constitutional Violation by David Reutter by David Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal district court's summary judgment granted in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit. The suit was brought by the Simpson estate, against Sheriff Mark E. Gorbett and Deputies …
Article • December 7, 2017
Filed under: Pain, Obesity, Death Penalty
Eighth Circuit Denies Stay of Execution to Arkansas Prisoner Who Claimed His Obesity Created Risk of Severe Pain by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On April 24, 2017, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a series of rulings paving the way for the state of Arkansas to continue …
Article • August 15, 2008
Obesity Upheld as Classification Criteria by The plaintiff's placement in administrative segregation and his transfer did not deny due process. Assuming he had a liberty interest in remaining in general population at the sending facility, he received due process under Helms v. Hewitt. Enhancing the level of his assaults for …
Arkansas Field Death Suit Dismissed by The decedent died of heat exhaustion on his first day on the hoe squad (on November 6, mid-afternoon temperature 72 degrees). Although overweight, he had been medically cleared for the work detail; there were hourly breaks for rest, water, and smoking; there was no …
Doctors Can Be Held Liable in Heat Death of Obese Mental Patient by The decedent, an obese diabetic suffering from hypertension with a heart condition with abnormal EKG readings, was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital where he took psychotropic medications. He died on a day with 90 degree heat …
Qualified Immunity for ADA Suit by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit ruled that Virginia prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity from an obese prisoner's suit filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA). The court went into extensive detail discussing the …
State Prisons Subject to RA & ADA by State Prisons Subject to RA & ADA Anthony Torcasio is an extremely obese Virginia state prisoner who is 5' 7" tall, weighs over 460 pounds and has a girth of 78" . He filed suit under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 …