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Abstract: 

William Faraday, a Connecticut state inmate, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a Connecticut state court, claiming that the commissioner of correction had violated his Eighth Amendment rights when the Department of Correction’s clinical director of medicine refused to provide the medical care that Faraday viewed as necessary for his chronic back condition. Francisco Castaneda, a detainee under the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from March 26, 2006 until his February 5, 2007, suffered from a raised lesion on his penis. It had prompted the medical staff of the California Department of Corrections, where he was initially incarcerated for three and a half months, to recommend a urology referral and biopsy. Immediately after transfer to the custody of ICE at the San Diego Correctional Facility, Castaneda told the Division of Immigration Health Services (DIHS) medical staff about his condition. By this time the lesion had grown, was bleeding, and was painful. Spalding County Sheriff Dee Stewart terminated an existing contract for provision of medical services at the county jail. It had been entered into by the county’s Board of Commissioners and Georgia Correctional Health, LLC (GCH), and he entered into a comparable contract with Inmate Physician Services, Inc. (IPS).

Keywords: MRI, CT scan, Supreme Court of Georgia, urologist, biopsy, condyloma

Affiliations:  1: Pace University.