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Post-Election Clean-up, Jail and Deliberate Indifference  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 20, Number 04, November/December 2018 , pp.57-58(2)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Anita Andrews will surely regret the election of Nov. 6, 2012, when she accompanied a friend engaged in post-election clean-up of political signs from public areas. A Lee County Deputy pulled their vehicle over due to a broken headlight. And Andrews’ adventure with the County jail and Corizon health care, which held the contract to provide health care services, began. Plaintiff has alleged that Corizon had a “de facto” policy, custom, or practice of “allowing agents and subordinates to treat arrestees/detainees with reckless indifference to their constitutional rights, including having unchecked processes for hydration and attention for a serious medical need, and unchecked processes for the misdirection of detainees to the county jail psych ward, resulting in the improper Baker Acting of detainees.” Personnel at the Lee County Mental Health Hospital revealed to Andrews the ‘routine’ receipt of detainees from the county hospital in a “beat up” condition, from which one can reasonably infer an ongoing custom and practice, and acquiescence to a de facto policy of medical indifference” and a policy of “delaying providing necessary prescription medications to pre-trial detainees in the custody of the Lee County Sheriff at the Lee County Jail.” In Andrews v. Scott, 2018 WL 4360623 (M.D. Fla.) Judge Chappell forcefully denied Corizon’s motion to dismiss. There is enough here to find a plausible of claim for relief.

Keywords: Andrews v. Scott, 2018 WL 4360623 (M.D. Fla.)

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