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Judge orders changes in medication distribution at women's prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Judge orders changes in medication distribution at women's prison By John Diedrich of the Journal Sentinel Apr. 24, 2009 A federal judge ruled Friday that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections must make changes to its inmate prescription system at Taycheedah Correctional Institution and hire licensed practical nurses to hand out drugs there, all within two months. Chief U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa's order came in response to an American Civil Liberties Union motion for an injunction forcing the state to make changes. The action is part of a federal class-action lawsuit the ACLU filed in 2006 on behalf of inmates at the state's largest women's prison. The ACLU contends the state is violating the rights of Taycheedah prisoners by having guards without medical training dispense drugs to inmates, routinely resulting in the wrong medications or wrong dosages being given to inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 25, 2009 (boomark / email).