Search for: "Mississippi Department of Correction Medical Department"
Results 61 - 80
of 123
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
31 May 2013, 1:47 pm
ACLU Files Civil Rights Suit Charging Massive Human Rights Violations at East Mississippi Correctional Facility: On May 30, the ACLU along with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF). [read post]
30 May 2013, 7:34 am
The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), which ultimately bears responsibility, has known about these conditions for years but failed to protect the health and safety of prisoners. [read post]
30 May 2013, 6:25 am
It is the largest settlement the Corrections Department has paid in a medical-negligence lawsuit in the past eight years, according to the department. [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 2:40 pm
Aramark announced under pressure in September 2008 that it was withdrawing from its contract with the Florida Department of Corrections. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 10:56 am
He wrote: For instance, a number of media reports cite problems at a facility formerly operated by GEO in Mississippi, the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, quoting a report by the Department of Justice issued in November 2010. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 8:59 am
To take just one example: last year, a federal judge issued a blistering order in a joint ACLU/Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit against the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, a GEO prison that held children and teenaged prisoners in Mississippi. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 7:24 am
(Such a program exists for inmates released receiving HIV medications, but not for the mentally ill.)Another 469 individuals during FY 2011 were paroled directly from ad-seg, Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) executive director Brad Livingston told the committee. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 1:13 pm
Gloria Perry, the chief medical officer for the Mississippi prison system, says her agency heard about the cost-cutting measure from a health care vendor looking for business in the state. [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 10:10 am
Epps, the commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, said his efforts to revamp that state’s prisons had reduced the number of segregated inmates by 75 percent.Durbin’s legislation, which has yet to be introduced, would cut the number of prisoners in solitary confinement, improve mental health screenings and give prisoners greater opportunities to challenge decisions. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 7:49 am
Mississippi correctional facility cited by US Department of Labor's OSHA forworkplace violence and other hazards; more than $104,000 in fines proposed The U.S. [read post]
22 May 2012, 12:40 pm
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a substantial stock of the thiopental at issue in the suit and was depending on it for its ability to carry out executions. [read post]
21 May 2012, 4:36 pm
This incarceration bonanza evolved with the wholehearted encouragement of the Louisiana Department of Corrections as a cheap, ad hoc solution to overcrowding in the state prisons. [read post]
21 May 2012, 7:53 am
“If the sheriffs hadn’t built those extra spaces, we’d either have to go to the Legislature and say, ‘Give us more money,’ or we’d have to reduce the sentences, make it easier to get parole and commutation — and get rid of people who shouldn’t be here,” said Richard Crane, former general counsel for the Louisiana Department of Corrections. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 1:38 pm
The good: the Mississippi Department of Corrections has ended its contract with GEO. [read post]
28 Apr 2012, 9:15 am
In a recent Mississippi decision, the court discusses the proof required in car accident cases. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 10:01 pm
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison," wrote Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 9:19 am
If the restrictions become effective, correctional departments may have to choose another drug or form of execution altogether, he said. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 10:27 am
The consent decree settles a lawsuit brought by the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of 1,200 Mississippi youth, ages 13 to 22, confined to the Walnut Grove Correctional Center. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 12:35 pm
Suzanne Singletary, director of communications for the state’s Department of Corrections, said only certain inmates are eligible to work in the governor’s mansion, and are reviewed by correctional staff as well as by the governor’s staff for security concerns. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 9:21 am
The expanded jail would add 384 beds, mental health and medical treatment, and other features. [read post]
