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PLRA Applies to PrivatePrisons
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Upholding a Tennessee federal district court, the U.S. Sixth
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled as meritless and frivolous a Wisconsin
prisoner's suit
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Oklahoma: Attacked Employee's Psychological Treatment Claim Compensable by The Supreme Court of Oklahoma held that an employee of a contract health care provider who was stabbed by a prisoner had a compensable psychological injury claim. Sandra Shivel, an employee of Wexford Health Sources (WHS), was attacked and physically injured by …
PrivatePrison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign Immunity
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PrivatePrison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign
Immunity
The U.S. Northern
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to a
serious medical need. This action was filed by a pretrial detainee against
officials at New Jersey's Cape May County Jail and employees of
CorrectionalHealthServices (CHS). The detainee, a dual amputee
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Sexually Harassed Prison Kitchen Worker Awarded $90,000 by On August 20, 2002, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky awarded $90,000 to a prison kitchen worker who was sexually harassed by a prison captain. The judgment was against her former employer, Kellwell Food Management (KFM). While working …
that PLRA applicability to privateprisons was an unresolved
issue, but assuming for this case that it did apply, the Tenth Circuit
held, "Even though matters involving federal and state law and regulation
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Tennessee Prisoner in PrivatePrison Not "Inmate" by Statutory Definition
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Tennessee Prisoner in PrivatePrison Not "Inmate" by Statutory Definition
The Tennessee Court
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several letters to government officials regarding prison mismanagement by
WCC. Elliott was suspended without pay from the privateprison where he
was employed and was never allowed to return to work
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EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury
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In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation
due to allegedly improperly applied restraints
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to the dental unit, run by PrisonHealthServices (PHS), on several occasions and filed grievances with the
result of inadequate delayed treatment causing the loss of two teeth.
In late 1996, Williamson
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." 2) Sarro could not maintain a
Bivens action against Cornell pursuant to CorrectionalServicesCorp. v.
Malesko, 534 U.S. 61, 122 S.Ct. 515, 151 L.Ed.2d 456 (2001). 3) Neither
Cornell nor the guards
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Texas Suicide Suit Alleging Medical Malpractice Settles For $288,130 by On June 23, 1993, a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Jefferson County (Texas) Detention Center settled for $288,130. The suit had alleged that STAT Care, the jail's contract medical provider, failed to properly screen …
Dismissal, Summary Judgment Against Prisoner's Medical Claims Affirmed by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, held that a prisoner failed to prove that Washington prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs when they treated him with anti-psychotic …
of mandamus, seeking
to compel Aramark Food Service to provide a copy of the food service
contract between Aramark and the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC).
The petition was filed by prisoner Thomas P
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against the prison health care company,
EMSA Correctional Care, Inc., in state court. The trial court dismissed,
finding that Seale had exceeded the one-year statute of limitations in
filing her lawsuit
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PA Jail Immune from Suit in Medical Services Contract Case
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CorrectionalMedicalCare, Inc. (CMC) entered into a contract with MHM
Services, Inc. (MHM) to jointly bid for a health care
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for Interlocutory Review
PrisonHealthServices, Inc. (PHS) was awarded a contract to provide health
care to prisoners in the Georgia prison system. Later, the state changed
its mind and gave the contract to another
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PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit by PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit On May 5, 2000, Jerry Irons, an AIDS patient was arrested in Maryland on an Ohio warrant. On May 17, TransCor, a company that transports prisoners, took …
IL DOC is Not a Joint Public Employer by The Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) farms out its prisoner-medical-services to subcontractors such as Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford). During an unfair labor practices case before the State Labor Relations Board (Board), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees …
was employed as a guard at a Texas privateprison owned and
operated by CorrectionalServicesCorp. (CSC). He blew the whistle on other
guards for misconduct, for which he was fired. He sued in federal district
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