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Rivas v. Jennings, CA, Order, COVID Negligence, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-02731-VC Document 867 Filed 12/03/20 Page 1 of 26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ANGEL DE JESUS ZEPEDA RIVAS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DAVID JENNINGS, et al., Case No. 20-cv-02731-VC ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SECOND PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Re: …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Scabies Outbreak at Michigan Women’s Prison Under Corizon Health by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Scabies is the name for an infestation of tiny mites that burrow under a person’s skin ...
Major Scabies Outbreak at CoreCivic Facility in Tennessee by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three lawsuits, filed in June and July 2017, allege corrections officials ignored an outbreak of scabies at the Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility (MDCDF) in Nashville, Tennessee. Affecting 89 prisoners, the outbreak also spread to at …
of Corrections personnel. Corizon, a private company with contracts all over the country, was brought in by Gov. Rick Scott, a former healthcare tycoon, promising to slash medical costs and save money. Corizon ...
of CoreCivic and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). CoreCivic is the nation’s largest private prison company. It employs about 350 people at the Eloy facility, according to Pinal County Department ...
to a private prison company. Until 2007, Taft was run by the GEO Group, and since that time it has been operated by Management and Training Corp. (MTC). Taft was built in the San Joaquin Valley, where the soil ...
Southern Health Partners to Face Liability in Kentucky Pre-trial Detainee’s MRSA Death by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP) in a civil rights action alleging the company failed to train and supervise its nurses at Kentucky’s Hopkins County …
CCA Prison Not Reporting Valley Fever Cases among Hawaii Prisoners by Coccidioidomycosis is the medical term for valley fever, an airborne fungal disease that led to more than 5,600 reported infections in Arizona in 2014; the disease is also prevalent in some areas of California. PLN has previously reported on …
Arizona Fines Wexford SIOK for Neglect, Hep-C Exposure by Arizona's Department of Corrections (ADC) disciplines private contractors like parents who banish teenagers to the cozy confines ...
A Deadly Dust is Plaguing Hawaii Prisoners in Arizona by Valley fever is widespread in the Southwest, yet Hawaii’s prison officials haven’t paid much attention to it, despite the recent deaths of at least two Hawaii prisoners who had the disease. by Rui Kaneya, Civil Beat In the spring of …
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 ...
was medical director of Cermak Health Services from 1999 to 2003. He can’t quantify the outbreak, but says the initial number of cases was negligible and there was no increase in skin and soft-tissue ...
units of the antibiotic Rifampin to give to all 146 potentially exposed prisoners and 27 staff at the jail. Healthcare at the Gwinnett facility is contracted through Prison Health Services. Another ...
Medical Services (CMS). While the mentally ill are hidden behind steel doors, those with medical conditions are often transferred off to private prison or have to be taken to the hospital because ...
prison system and its contract medical care provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), to properly diagnose and treat HCV infected prisoners. The Inquirer reported that its investigation revealed ...
Pubic Hair Search by Medical Personnel Constitutional by The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has overturned a district court's order that held as unconstitutional a Sheriff's policy of searching a prisoner's pubic hair prior to release. PLN previously reported the district court's order. (See: Skurstenis v. Jones , …