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Pro Se Tips and Tactics
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
by John Midgley
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 14
By John Midgley
Filed under:
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Expert Witnesses.
Location:
United States of America.
Many prisoners have difficulties obtaining good medical care. Often prisoners assume that every failure on the part of the prison system to provide adequate medical care is a constitutional violation that can be remedied in federal court, but this assumption is not correct. In this column, I ...
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- Dying For Profits: CMS and the Privatization of Prisoner Health Care, by Ronald Young
- CMS Fined Nearly $1 Million in Virginia, by Dan Pens
- Fired Washington Parole Officer Wins $250,000 Settlement
- Medical Claims Against CMS to be Refiled in State Court
- CA Court Overrules Parole Denial, by John E Dannenberg
- Controversy Surrounds Letourneau Tape
- WA Civil Commitment Ruling Published
- Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power, by Janet Stanton
- Actual Innocence--Five Days to Execution and other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted, by Roger Hummel
- Stun Gun Death in VA Prison
- Alabama Officials Guilty in Phone Scam
- Error to Dismiss Suit for Inability to Pay Filing Fee
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- Sandin Limits Property Interests
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, by John Midgley
- Dismissal for Texas Prisoner's Failure to State Facts of Prior Suits
- Excessive Force Claims Require Administrative Exhaustion
- Sexual Assault, Beatings State Claim
- En Banc Sixth Circuit Addresses Mental Health Care
- WA 35% Seizure Statute Ruled on by Ninth Circuit, by Paul Wright
- Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: CA Prisoners Denied Medical Care, by Linda Evans
- News in Brief
- Death as a Salesman: Benneton Ad Campaign Comes to Death Row, by Dan Pens
- Family Impact of Out of State Transfers Immaterial
- Illinois Supermax Hunger Strike, by Dan Pens
- Idaho Prisoners Can Sue for On-the-Job Injuries
- False Evidence Meets Some Evidence Standard
- Attorney Fees Awarded in Challenge to Nevada Shooting Policy
- DC Circuit Revives Hewitt v. Helms
- No Immunity for Private Prison Physician
- PA Prisoner Awarded $300,000 in Guard Beating
More from John Midgley:
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, June 15, 2004
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Magistrate Judges in Federal Courts, Nov. 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Damages, Aug. 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, April 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Dec. 15, 2002
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Unknown Defendant Identities, July 15, 2002
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Feb. 15, 2002
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, June 15, 2001
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Dec. 15, 2000
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Sept. 15, 2000
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