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$40,000 Assessed Against WA DOC For Failure To Release Contract Medical Provider's Records by $40,000 Assessed Against WA DOC For Failure To Release Contract Medical Provider's Records Columbia Legal Services (CLS) brought action against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) in 2003 for not providing public record documents requested …
Pro Se Suit against CMS and Aramark Dismissed
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The plaintiff's release from prison moots his request for declaratory and
injunctive relief.
The plaintiff's claim for "emotional
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$143,774.55 Attorney Fee and Costs Award in New York EMSA Suit
by Matthew Clarke
by Matthew T. Clarke
On May 16, 2006, a New York federal district court magistrate recommended awarding
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was unconstitutional and invalid.
The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and its medical provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), routinely transported women prisoners to abortion clinics at the prisoners
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U.S. Supreme Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Is an Affirmative Defense Under the PLRA by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held on January 22, 2007 that when a prisoner files an action governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), the question of whether …
FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit upheld a jury verdict against the Escambia county Road Prison in Florida for $500,000 in favor of a prisoner denied medical care. The plaintiff fractured his hip ball socket and was repeatedly denied …
), PrisonFellowship Ministries (PFM) and InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI), alleging that PFM's IFI program in the DOC violates the federal and Iowa state constitutional prohibitions against
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No Immediate Appeals for Injunction Clarifications by by Matthew T. Clarke This appeal involves the latest round in a Byzantine conditions-of-confinement class-action civil rights suit by Puerto Rico prisoners which has been pending since 1979. At issue was the transition of the prisoner health care system from the jurisdiction of …
Juvenile Correctional Facility (NMJCF), in Charleston, filed a law suit against PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a company that provides medical services for several prisons across the country including NMJCF
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with MCDC's medical contractor, PrisonHealthServices. Dr. Daniels
diagnosed Tessier with pleurtis, a begnign condition, and ordered he be
given a chest x-ray and motrin. About 5:00 p.m. on May 20, Tessier
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reversed the district court's decision and remanded the case for further
proceedings. See: Ancata v. PrisonHealthServices, Inc., 769 F.2d 700
(11th Cir. 1985).
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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. …
$2,500 Awarded in Pennsylvania False Arrest Claim by The plaintiff in this case alleged that Wackenhut Corrections Corporation falsely imprisoned him due to mistaken identity, and failed to immediately release him when it was informed of the mistake by a parole officer. Plaintiff was stopped for a traffic violation in …
incarcerated in a
privateprison suffered no violation of his right to meaningful access to
courts.
Danny Ray Thomas is a Tennessee prisoner held in a privateprison managed
by the Corrections Corporation
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Summary Judgment Partly Reversed for Refusing Amended Complaint Filing by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Arizona federal district court for refusing to allow a federal prisoner to file an amended complaint. Michael Satz, a prisoner in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was …
Failure to Accommodate Blind Prisoner Violates ADA
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A Florida federal district court has held that a private medical
contractor, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc. (EMSA), and Sheriff Ken Jenne
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Services (CMS) and Prime Care Medical (PCM) alleging
that the denial of proper medical treatment by defendants violated his
Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Wall sought, among other things,
$250,000
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prison operator should not have been
dismissed on Eleventh Amendment immunity grounds.
While confined in a prison operated by CornellCorrections Corporation
(CCC), Charles Akomolafe Abayomi was attacked
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, 1999, CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG) and two
doctors agreed to pay a total of $725,000 to settle claims against them
arising from a prisoner's death due to untreated tonsilitis. CFMG
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New York: Malpractice Suit Over Guard's Death Settles For $2,500,000 by On March 21, 2002, an unidentified plaintiff settled this medical malpractice claim against two physicians for $2,500,000. At issue was the medical treatment of a Riker's Island guard who suffered a heart attack in front of the jail's infirmary. …
