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Medical Services (CMS) mental health employee responded. Guards told them Randle had torn her suicide gown, made a noose, tied it around her neck and threatened to hang herself. Love ordered Randle placed
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Failure of CMS Nurses and Doctor to Properly Treat Broken Leg Overcomes Summary Judgment
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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to a doctor and two
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Limitations Period in Suit Over Delay in Providing Surgery Begins When Prisoner is Recommended for Surgery by Brandon Sample The statute of limitations in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence by prison officials in delaying a prisoner’s surgery begins to accrue when the prisoner is first recommended for surgery by a …
Are Doctors Complicit in Prison Torture? The Maine Medical Community Looks at Solitary Confinement by Lance Tapley In the past few years an outcry has arisen over the involvement of military and CIA medical professionals and psychologists in torture, including psychologically destructive solitary confinement of “war on terror” detainees at …
, after entering default judgment against FirstCorrectionalMedical, Inc. (FCM). In other Delaware news, the state’s prison system did not renew its contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS
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CMS Nurse Denied Summary Judgment for Failure to Treat Prisoner for Heat Illness;$400,000 Settlement Following Sixth Circuit Ruling
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
In February 2009
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Three Years Later, CMS Still Fails to Meet Medical Standards in Delaware
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
Despite federal oversight of its prison medical care, Delaware “continues
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Jail Guards Allowed to Assert Qualified Immunity Defense; Nurses Not by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Michigan federal district court’s decision that denied a group of jail guards qualified immunity in a case in which a prisoner died after complaining of chest pain and breathing problems. …
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Former New Jersey Prison Social Worker Abuse Lawsuit Reinstated by A New Jersey appeals court has reversed a lower courts dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former prison health care worker. Angela Hoag was a licensed social worker employed by Correctional Medical Services, Inc. and worked at Southern State …
articles that followed that article, PLN reported on the horrid care provided to Michigan prisoners by the private medical vendor, Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Those articles detailed
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behind the contract terminations. What is unusual is that the contracts were canceled, as prison officials normally tolerate CMS’s substandard performance in order to save money; also, using a private
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$3.6 Million Settlement in Michigan Prisoner’s Segregation Cell Death by The family of Timothy Souders has agreed to accept $3.25 to settle a wrongful death claim relating to Timothy’s death. Timothy, 21, was the subject of a May 2007 PLN cover article, and a February 11, 2007, report on 60 …
CMS Fails to Treat MRSA Infection; Florida Jail Prisoner Dies
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When Dorothy Dian Palinchik was booked into Florida’s Pinellas County Jail (PCJ) on February 13, 2008 for stealing a $9.00
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$885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse
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$885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse
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CMS Insurer Must Pay Wyoming Suicide Settlement
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CMS Insurer Must Pay Wyoming Suicide Settlement
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an insurer is required to indemnify
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Monitor’s Second and Third Reports Find Medical Care From CMS for Delaware Prisoners Still Lacking
by David Reutter
Monitor’s Second and Third Reports Find Medical Care From CMS
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CMS Nurse Injects 15 Delaware Prisoners with the Same Syringe
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That Delaware prisoners have been subject to dreadful health care by the state’s medical contractor, Correctional Medical
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and the Parnall Correctional Facility – is provided by a privatecontractor, Correctional Medical Services (CMS).
Despite federal court monitoring of MDOC health care, which has been ongoing since the mid
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CMS Found Liable for Inadequate Hep C Medical Care of Delaware Prisoner
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The federal district court in Delaware has held that Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the medical provider
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