In a blistering verdict Thursday, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver concluded the state’s inaction showed it is acting with "deliberate indifference" to the risks of inadequate care and said the state has adopted a health care system for prisoners that has led to preventable deaths.
The ruling said prisoners aren’t getting timely access to emergency treatment, medications, treatment for chronic diseases and specialty care. Under the current system, nurses are the first — and often the only -- medical professionals available to see prisoners. Sometimes the nurses, who may be insufficiently trained to diagnose and treat a given condition, miss obvious signs that should lead to a referral to a higher level provider, Silver wrote.
Corene Kendrick, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who represented prisoners in the case, said Silver affirmed the bedrock principle that prisoners are entitled to basic health care under the Eighth Amendment. After Silver threatened yet another round of contempt fines, Shinn wrote a February 2020 letter to the state’s prison health care contractor to say the state expected the company to provide enough resources to meet the settlement’s requirements for care. The corrections director also wrote that the company would be on the hook for costs associated with noncompliance.
I didn’t think it was supposed to be the Hotel Hilton.
What truly defines “poor” care, lack of sodas?
another activist judge! hey they get food, toilet paper, clothing, new friends and new tattoos
People do stupid things in life. This does not make them animals. They are still human and deserve basic care. There are some who are evil down to their core and others who just screwed up.
Don't do the CRIME if you can't do the TIME.
So sad that these thugs are having their rights violated. Not that they didn’t violate their victims. 😡
When you vote for Gov or Senators you do your homework...same thing when you vote for judges that went to school in Santa Barbara, CA. Prisoner get 'poor care' for their actions.
Break the law, lose your rights. 🤷🏼♂️
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