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5 Mar 2018, 10:30 am
The state has also switched prison medical contractors multiple times, with little improvement from one to the next. [read post]
2 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
Though the Constitution obligates the government to provide competent care for prisoners, most states charge prisoners a copay for every medical visit. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 10:30 am
Similarly, medical understaffing — such as one prison’s decision to go without a full-time physician for eight months — seems to persist because it is cheaper for the private prison company to pay penalties for understaffing than to provide adequate medical staff. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 9:36 am
These cases show a system that is so broken and dysfunctional that, in my opinion, every one of the prisoners at Ely State Prison who has serious medical needs, or who may develop serious medical needs is at enormous risk. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 10:25 am
Federal prisons in the United States are operated by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). [read post]
14 Dec 2014, 11:12 am
It happens in jails and prisons in the United States and other countries. [read post]
29 Mar 2008, 12:22 am
At 89-1, when the s%*t hits the fan, guards can do little but run for their lives.I've been paying attention to chronic understaffing at Texas prisons and jails, and the state's response, but it sounds like the problem may be even worse (and the prisons therefore even more unsafe) at federal facilities, if this absurdly high inmate to staff ratio is typical.MORE: From the SA Express News blog describing the wounded and injured from the riot coming to San… [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:40 am
Yesterday the US Supreme Court, on a narrow 5-4 majority, ordered the state of California to reduce prison crowding because of inadequate medical care in a case style Brown v. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 8:08 am
When Wisconsin legislators passed the Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act at the end of 2005, they decided to tell Wisconsin prison doctors how to practice medicine, barring prison medical staff from treating transgender prisoners with the basic care they need, regardless of the health consequences. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 2:20 pm
” That risk is not localized exclusively to the prison population but extends to the staff at those facilities and the communities surrounding them. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 7:27 am
Most of the largest COVID-19 clusters are in jails and prisons, and the largest hotspot in most states is inside a jail or prison. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 2:30 pm
One of our independent physicians with expertise in correctional health noted that “medical staff continued to alternately miss the diagnosis and grossly mismanage it. [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 2:12 pm
The ACLU says the prisoner “is being denied essential medical care. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 11:49 am
In previous executions, penitentiary medical staff reported to the prison superintendent.The lethal injection index is here. [read post]
14 May 2020, 1:24 pm
” Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of prisoners and staff are stack on top of another, unable to move without rubbing shoulders while eating, getting into bed, washing their hands, working or waiting in line for medication. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 9:34 am
Rather than investigate, prison health care staff wrote in Ms. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 12:00 pm
As such, to address the situation, the Lege ulltimately will need to make different policy choices.See prior, related Grits posts:No easy fix for prison staffing shortage besides deincarceration Prison staff shortages and budget realityTDCJ can't keep rural units adequately staffedStaffing shortages force closure of TDCJ Connally unit wingAdult, juvie corrections took 39% of state employee reductions last yearJuvie, adult prison guards atop list of… [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 6:55 am
As previously stated, no one will lose their jobs as a result of this action. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 7:16 am
Finally, to protect public safety, states should consider developing relevant risk- and needs-assessment instruments, as well as reentry programs and supervision plans, for elderly people who are released from prison. [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 6:24 pm
Chief of Staff Yermak said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly emphasized that solders must receive medical aid first: The state can provide the necessary support and assistance. [read post]
