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26 Oct 2010, 11:49 am
Though they are incarcerated, inmates still retain basic human rights, namely: 1) Protection from cruel and unusual punishment, including sexual harassment and other sex crimes, 2) Access to the court to complain about their treatment and the prison system, 3) Protection from racial segregation, unless for safety reasons, 4) Accommodations under the American with Disabilities Act, and 5) Medical and mental health care. [read post]
12 May 2015, 5:03 pm
First, according to the HRW Report, prisons have become the primary mental health care facilities in the United States. [read post]
23 Aug 2009, 6:44 am
7 Jan 2021, 7:38 am
She was not given prenatal care and she miscarried a little over three months later, shackled to a prison bed. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 11:02 am
Congress must go beyond the authority it provided to DOJ and BOP under the CARES Act and explicitly legislate reduction of the federal prison population, as Rep. [read post]
8 May 2024, 2:00 am
” And, if found guilty, he faces up to two decades in prison on the illegal distribution counts and up to 10 years in prison on each of the health care fraud counts.As a condition of his release, pending a trial, he is not permitted to write prescriptions for controlled substances.I guess we can count that doctor out.# # #USDOJ PRESS RELEASE [read post]
4 Jan 2013, 12:58 pm
Medical and mental health care is generally provided through the cell door—with no privacy, and minimal ability for medical professionals to examine or even conduct a meaningful conversation with the men they are supposed to be caring for. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 10:49 am
Treaty obligations and acts of Congress require the United States to provide health care for Native Americans, but in 2004 a Civil Rights Commission report found the government spent more per capita on health care for federal prisoners than for Native Americans. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 7:38 am
Some Montana legislators have attempted to threaten health care providers with criminal punishment — including prison time — for providing reproductive health care.Reproductive freedom in Montana will be in the hands of our next governor. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 1:51 pm
Larry Duran, a health care executive who defrauded Medicare of hundreds of millions of dollars while lobbying the government to ease Medicare restrictions on mental health centers, received a record-breaking fifty year prison sentence for his role in orchestrating the fraud. [read post]
13 Oct 2023, 9:45 pm
A.C.L.U. attorneys allege that Delaware and its health care contractors routinely neglect inmates' medical needs, often to deleterious effect. [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 1:53 pm
Our business and health care law firm follows developments in the fraud and abuse legal arena. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 8:50 am
So the current opportunity cost of Colorado's extreme prison spending spree is a quarter billion dollars that could have been spent on health care and higher education. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 6:56 am
A Texas man could serve more than 20 years in prison if convicted of health care fraud for his alleged role in a $60 million health care fraud, wire fraud, and kickback scheme involving the submission of false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME), genetic tests, and foot bath […] [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 10:12 am
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] on Thursday ended its investigation [press release, PDF] into the health care conditions of incarcerated former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive], finding that the Ukrainian government provided her with adequate care. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 1:39 pm
The maximum sentence for conspiracy to commit health care fraud is 10 years in prison. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 6:49 am
On June 23, 2011, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced that, under the aegis of the inter-agency Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) program, three employees of the Solstice Wellness Center, a Brooklyn-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing physical therapy and diagnostic tests, have pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, in connection with a $3.4… [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 5:26 am
Stephen Catterton, a chiropractor in Norcross, Georgia, was recently sentenced to prison for health-care fraud and possession with intent to distribute testosterone. [read post]
23 Aug 2014, 3:45 am
Inmates leaving prison "don’t know how to find health insurance or medical care. [read post]
11 Dec 2012, 9:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law A former Daytona Beach chiropractor will spend more than 15 years in federal prison for an alleged health care fraud scheme and illegally prescribing pills, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Jacksonville Division. [read post]
