Inmates With Medical Problems Sleep On Floors
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LOS ANGELES  Overcrowding and staff shortages at Los Angeles County jails is forcing some incoming inmates with medical problems to sleep on floors while waiting to be transferred to cellblocks.
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A patient suffering severe chest pains claims he had to stand for hours in a hospital because of a lack of beds.
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Patients in intensive care units are so busy being poked, prodded, jabbed and medicated that they rarely have time for sleep.
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NEW YORK - Martha Stewart will do her time for lying about a stock sale at a remote West Virginia prison camp where inmates sleep in bunk beds and rise at 6 a.m. to do menial labor for pennies an hour...
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KINGSTON, ONT. - The Ontario Medical Association has added its name to a list of organizations concerned about increasing rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections among prison inmates.
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Reports highlight problems in two UK prisons, including a vermin infestation in one
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A US newspaper says detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba were regularly subjected to abuse, including sleep deprivation and exposure to loud noise and extreme temperatures.
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An overweight inmate was executed by injection Thursday after a delay of more than an hour while prison medical staff struggled to find suitable veins in his arms.
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A new lawsuit seeking to prevent Massachusetts from placing mentally ill inmates in segregated cells reflects an increasing national concern.
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In a bid to free up blocked beds, patients are being discharged from hospital against their needs, a report shows.
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U.S. military doctors working in Iraq  collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of prisoners at  Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, an article in the British  medical journal The Lancet said on Friday.
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While other prisoners are lifting weights or playing basketball, Michael Ray is working 40 hours a week, his head buried in legal texts and journals. Over the years, the jailhouse lawyer has helped dozens of fellow inmates file appeals, sometimes with success.
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Â· More prisoners being held in police and court cellsÂ· Slopping out returns as repairs are cancelled
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Nursing home worker John Riems had a temper and spent long periods in patients' rooms with the doors closed, neighbors and former co-workers say, troubling observations that have suddenly taken on a sickening weight.
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An inmate passed through three county jails and a state prison before officials diagnosed him with tuberculosis, possibly infecting nearly 50 other people, according to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Doctors at Guantanamo Bay&#39;s holding facility say some of the detainees are being treated for various mental disorders. detainees of Camp Delta were suffering from mental disorders, with half of that figure requiring medication.
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Parents charged with forcing some of their 11 special-needs adoptive children to sleep in cages managed to improve the youngsters' behavior with the enclosed bunks, according to testimony from a social worker also charged in the case.