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30 May 2011, 5:03 am
Then in 2001, a companion case challenging the medical care of prisoners was initiated.These consolidated cases have everything, from a procedural standpoint. [read post]
29 May 2011, 8:04 am
And since we clearly won't be incarcerating fewer people (and since the prison population is aging, with health costs therefore rising), it's hard to imagine this won't result in further erosion of health services despite assertions from officials that previous levels of care were "barely" constitutional.This budget isn't quite as damaging as cuts in 2003, but it replicates that Legislature's approach of promoting incarceration… [read post]
27 May 2011, 6:00 pm
Supreme Court Orders California to Reduce its Prison Population to Alleviate Overcrowding On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population in order to alleviate extreme overcrowding that endangers the health and safety of the state’s prisoners and prison staff. [read post]
27 May 2011, 2:39 pm
A decade ago, in connection with a separate class action, California actually conceded that deficiencies in its prison medical care also violated the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
27 May 2011, 11:33 am
A decade ago, in connection with a separate class action, California actually conceded that deficiencies in its prison medical care also violated the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
27 May 2011, 7:14 am
Plata, a case brought against California’s governor (when it was argued, the case caption included the Governator, who has been in the news for other reasons lately) by prisoners who – as a result of severe overcrowding in California’s state prisons – have been subjected to terrible conditions such as inadequate medical care, lack of appropriate living and toilet facilities, and poor mental health care for many, many years. [read post]
26 May 2011, 5:10 pm
The court further upheld the lower three judge panel's determination that the exploding prison population now deprives inmates of basic sustenance and medical care. [read post]
26 May 2011, 3:11 am
Care. [read post]
25 May 2011, 1:56 pm
Cigarettes have been banned as contraband in Texas prisons for years. [read post]
25 May 2011, 1:36 pm
Plata affirms a lower court ruling in two long-running cases in which the medical and mental health care provided in California's prisons was found to be so deficient that it endangers the lives of prisoners and violates the U.S. [read post]
25 May 2011, 7:35 am
” And at the Rolling Stone’s Politics Daily blog, Tim Dickinson connects the decision to the challenges to the constitutionality of the Administration’s health-care legislation; he argues that the Court’s decision in Plata should “boost the spirits of defenders of Obamacare. [read post]
25 May 2011, 2:30 am
Kennedy's opinion thus concluded:The medical and mental health care provided by California’s prisons falls below the standard of decency that inheres in the Eighth Amendment.Agreeing with courts below that had attributed this deficiency to exponential overcrowding in the state's prisons -- double the stated capacity of 80,000 -- Kennedy sustained those courts' solution, the release of prisoners. [read post]
24 May 2011, 9:05 pm
He says that most prisoners in California--and even most prisoners with serious medical or mental health problems--will not receive sub-Eighth-Amendment-quality care, and thus most people in the prisoner class do not appear to have valid individual claims. [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:05 pm
LEXIS 9944 (9th Cir 5/17/2011) Trial counsel’s “decision to cease further investigation into Leavitt’s already heavily analyzed mental health was entirely rational. [read post]
24 May 2011, 6:24 pm
Brown the District Court found that prisoners with serious mental health problems failed to receive treatment complying with the Eighth Amendment and California v. [read post]
24 May 2011, 6:12 pm
On April 8th 2008, an investigating judge sent the ex-director of the prison ”La Santé” and the health care provider AP-HP to trial. [read post]
24 May 2011, 1:02 pm
This includes women enrolled in Medicaid, disabled women enrolled in Medicare, federal employees (other than members of the Armed Services), women who receive health care through the Indian Health Service and women in federal prisons. [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:40 am
Wait times for mental health care range as high as 12 months. [read post]
24 May 2011, 7:33 am
The bottom line: The medical and mental health care provided by California’s prisons falls below the standard of decency that inheres in the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
23 May 2011, 5:23 pm
Finally, Pakistan aims to combat poverty with health care and President Obama visits Europe. [read post]
