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Author:  Margaret  Moreland, JD.


Source: Volume 13, Number 03, March/April 2012 , pp.35-37(3)




Correctional Health Care Report

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Abstract: 

Reviews four recent appellate rulings related to inmate health care: in the first case,Tony Lee Mutschler, an inmate in Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution (SCI)—Albion, brought suit against Sandy Malena, a registered nurse at the facility, and the chief health care administrator, Maxine Overton, based on the fact that he was issued a catheter containing latex even though he had a documented allergy to latex. In the second case, the DOC recommended that New Jersey inmate Craig Szemple undergo a tooth extraction procedure under light sedation at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and serious complications occurred during the procedure. In the third case, an inmate at Menard Correctional Center (MCC) in Illinois claimed that MCC’s warden and two prison doctors had violated his constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by failing to provide adequate treatment for his hernia. In the fourth, the 3rd Circuit court ruled in the case of a state inmate at SCI Graterford in Pennsylvania who was suffering from a hernia, chronic pain and hypertension and had filed a federal civil rights alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs.

Keywords: Mutschler v. SCI Albion CHCA Health Care; Szemple v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey; Gonzalez v. Feinerman

Affiliations:  1: Pace University School of Law.

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