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Detainee Dies After Two Days in Florida Jail Where Armor Correctional Allegedly Denied Heart Transplant Rejection Meds by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Dexter Barry, 54, waited 12 years to receive a new heart. He even moved to Jacksonville to receive the life-saving transplant in 2020. In just …
Article • January 13, 2015
Utah First to Explicitly Allow Organ Donation by Prisoners by Utah First to Explicitly Allow Organ Donation by Prisoners   On March 28, 2013, Utah became the first state to explicitly allow prisoners to donate their organs if they die while incarcerated, a controversial move that pits some prisoner-rights advocates …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Filed under: Transplants
Prisoner Organ Transplants, Donations Create Controversy by Prison officials in several states are mulling over two sides of the same coin with respect to organ transplants for prisoners: first, the eligibility and cost of such medical procedures, and second, whether prisoners should be allowed to donate their organs. Prisoners in …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Arizona TV Reporter Blames Prisoners for Citizens’ Lack of Healthcare by When Lynette Barrett was searching for someone to blame for her husband’s battle with liver disease and his long wait for a transplant, a TV reporter was quick to point his finger at America’s favorite scapegoat: prisoners. Morgan Loew, …
China Pledges to Stop Harvesting Organs from Executed Prisoners by On March 23, 2012, government officials in China said they plan to stop harvesting organs from the thousands of prisoners who are executed each year. However, many doubt the practice will entirely cease because the need for organs is too …
Article • March 15, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Transplants
Condemned Oregon Prisoner Launches Organ Donation Campaign by Christian Longo murdered his wife and three young children, stuffed their bodies in suitcases and sleeping bags and tossed them into the ocean off the Oregon coast in December 2001. Afterward he attended an office pizza party then fled for the sunny …
Article • May 15, 2010
Sacramento County Agrees to Pay $25,000 after Jail Failed to Give Prisoner Immunosuppressant Medication by On January 14, 2005, the County of Sacramento agreed to settle a suit for $25,000 for alleged negligence by Sacramento County Main Jail (SCMJ) staff in providing a prisoner with her medication. Prior to Tabitha …
Organ Harvesting In China Prison Goes High Tech by Gary Hunter China’s Ministry of Health currently employs several teams of specialized doctors to harvest organs from condemned prisoners. When a prisoner is scheduled to die selected teams are sent to China’s Changi Prison depending upon which organs are to be …
As New Regulations Limit Organ Transplants from Executed Chinese Prisoners; South Carolina Allows Organ Donations by Prisoners by In November 2006, China finally admitted that most of the human organs used to satisfy the burgeoning number of transplant-seeking foreigners came from executed prisoners. ?Apart from a small portion of traffic …
China Admits Illegally Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners by Gary Hunter China has long been accused of illegally harvesting human organs from its executed prisoners. On November 19, 2006 Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu admitted that the suspicions were true. ?Under-the-table business must be banned,? Mr. Huang told a conference …
Article • May 15, 2007
California Prisoner Wins PI For Liver Transplant Evaluations by by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court (S.D. Cal.) issued a preliminary injunction (PI), ordering the California Department of Corrections (CDC) to inquire of all liver transplant centers in California as to whether they could accept a prisoner as …
$75,000 Awarded to Prisoner for Inadequate Medical Care by $75,000 Awarded to Prisoner For Inadequate Medical Care An Iowa prisoner escaped from prison and shot two cops. When captured he was badly beaten and then denied medical treatment for his injuries. He filed suit and at trial he was awarded …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Furloughs, Medical, Transplants
WA DOC Can Provide Organ Transplants by A Washington Appeals Court has held that a defendant convicted of delivery and possession with intent to deliver cocaine is not entitled to home detention for medical reasons. The defendant had received two liver transplants, and he was still under close observation by …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Denial of Bone Marrow Transplant Questioned by The plaintiff complained that the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Missouri refused him an autologous bone marrow transplant. The court affirms the district court's dismissal because during the pendency of the appeal the plaintiff was permitted to take the first steps toward …
Article • May 15, 2007
Administrative Exhaustion for Kidney Transplant Habeas by Petitioner filed a habeas petition to get a furlough so he could get a kidney transplant. The court dismisses for non-exhaustion without commenting on the fact that this is a habeas proceeding, whether it is a proper habeas proceeding, whether the PLRA should …
Prison Liable in Denying Bone Marrow Transplant by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that prison officials can be held liable for promulgating policies that deny treatment to prisoners suffering from fatal illnesses, even when the prison has contracted out its medical care to a third party. …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
China’s Death Penalty On Wheels by Gary Hunter China's Death Penalty On Wheels by Gary Bunter China's death penalty has gone mobile. Death vans are now replacing firing squads as the preferred method of execution. In the past, condemned prisoners were executed publicly in prisons or court buildings. Kang Zhongwen, …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
NY State Prisoner Receives $400,000 Liver Transplant by by John E. Dannenberg An NBC News I-Team 10 investigation caused considerable media controversy when it reported that a New York state prisoner with end-stage liver disease had received a $400,000 liver transplant in November, 2005, at state expense. This is significant …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
Wisconsin District Court Reversed; PLRA Fee Limits Constitutional, Says Seventh Circuit by In a 6-5 decision marked by a plurality opinion and a strongly-worded dissent, the en banc Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, and held that provisions of the Prison …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
California Prisoner Who Received First Heart Transplant Dies by A California man, who is believed to be the first prisoner in the nation to receive a heart transplant while incarcerated, died last December from complications relating to the operation. The man, whose name has never been released, was serving a …
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