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Tenth Circuit Holds COA Required on All State Habeas Appeals by The Tenth District Court of Appeals has denied a certificate of appealability (COA) to, and dismissed the appeal of the habeas corpus petition of a Wyoming state prisoner housed in a private Colorado prison. In so ruling, the appeals …
of epilepsy and
brought his medication with him to the jail. A doctor employed by
defendant PrisonHealthServices ordered the prisoner to have his
medication.
The prisoner was denied the medication
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sufficient to
withstand a motion to dismiss. Nartin Drake, a prisoner at the Cook County
Jail, brought actions under §1983 and state law against jail officials and
Aramark Food Services (AFS), which contracts
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Texas: Sexually Assaulted Boot Camp Prisoners Awarded $2,800,000 Against CSC by On December 12, 2001 three former female prisoners who claimed they were sexually assaulted while imprisoned in a privately operated boot camp in Mansfield, Texas were awarded a total of $2,800,000 against the camp's operator. Plaintiffs, Keri Echols Chattha, …
Jury Need Decide Superintendents Liability in GA Prisoner's Death by This case was before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the second time on a 42 U.S.C. §1983 action arising from the death, after a severe asthma attack, of a Georgia prisoner. The first appeal, Howell v. Evans, 922 …
involving a Title VII discrimination suit against CorrectionalPhysicianServices (CPS), the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that
the company's buyer, PrisonHealthServices (PHS), was subject
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. Sanchez then reportedly
followed Ellison to the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, which is
operated by Management and TrainingCorporation (MTC), a private company.
At the jail Sanchez allegedly told
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CCA Settles Wrongful Death Suit in Texas For $60,000 by In 1998, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $60,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the father of a prisoner who died from a drug overdose at a CCA-operated prison. Hugh Wayne Martin, a Texas state prisoner, was transferred to …
PLRA Exhaustion-of-Remedies Requirement Applies to PrivatePrison
by
by Matthew T. Clarke
On September 8, 2004 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners
incarcerated
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Eighth Circuit Upholds Judgment Against CMS For Delayed Dental Care
by
In an unpublished opinion filed on August 7, 2001, the U.S. Eighth Circuit
Court of Appeals upheld a judgment against
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for
approximately 2 years as an employee of PrisonHealthServices, which
contracted with the state to provide medical care at the prison. According
to the plaintiff, she was a consistent critic of PHS procedures
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Private Medical Services Skirmish Over INS Contract
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A Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss filed by PrisonHealthServices, Inc. The motion sought to dismiss the complaint
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CMS Doctor Not Liable for Delaying Bone Graft
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The plaintiff saw a specialist who said he needed a bone graft procedure
immediately, and the prison doctor defendant recommended that he get
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CMS Liable as State Actor For Denying HCV Care in NJ
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The plaintiff complained about his medical care, reciting a long and
tortured history of his treatment and non-treatment for Hepatitis
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Denial of HIV Treatment Suit against BOP, CCA Dismissed by The plaintiff complained that he did not get adequate HIV treatment in the District of Columbia system because the Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to transfer his medical records (though they did send a piece of paper saying he was …
Private Medical TransportCompany Not Liable for Police Actions
by
At police direction, a private corporation transported the plaintiff to a
police station, where he collapsed from
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Debruyn,
Health Care and CMS will be liable in a large monetary damages."
Plaintiff's mention of Defendant CMS, however, is not done "against the
person or persons he ultimately seeks to sue." Curry, 249 F
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protected by the statute
giving the Bureau of Prisons discretion to select where prisoners serve
their sentences. See: DismasCharities, Inc. v. United States Dep't of
Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 287
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Plaintiffs May Opt Out of Esmor Brutality Class Action by In litigation against the operator of a notorious private immigration facility (one certified class action and two individual actions which appear to have multiple plaintiffs), the class members were so difficult to locate that the court questions whether the case …
Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements by Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a Palm Beach Circuit Court improperly dismissed a prisoner's medical malpractice suit for failing to comply with pre-suit …
