204 judgments found.

Laddy Curtis Valentine, et al., v Bryan Collier, et al.

Country: United States
Year: 2020
Court: United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division
Citation: 455 F.Supp.3d 308 (2020)
Health Topics: Aging, Health care and health services, Infectious diseases, Prisons, Water, sanitation and hygiene
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Right to health, Right to life
Facts:

Plaintiffs Laddy Curtis Valentine (“Valentine”) and Richard Elvin King (“King”) were inmates at Wallace Pack Unit (“Pack Unit”), a geriatric state prison run by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”) in Grimes County, Texas. On March 30, 2020, plaintiffs filed a complaint, alleging that the defendants, TDCJ Executive Director Bryan Collier (“Collier”), Pack Unit …Read more

Tags: Aged persons, Awareness, Cruel and unusual punishment, Detention, Elderly, Health education, Imprisonment, Incarceration, Inmate, Notification, Prison conditions, Respiratory diseases, Testing
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M.A. v. Cyprus

Country: Cyprus
Year: 2020
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: [2020] ECHR 37321/18
Health Topics: Mental health, Prisons
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Facts:

The applicant is an inmate who argued that his living conditions did not meet the health standards set out under article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms after being displaced from the prison’s mental health unit. The applicant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and severe visual impairment. He was …Read more

Tags: Detention, Imprisonment, Inhuman treatment, Mental disability, Mental disorder, Prison conditions, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia
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Saribekyan and Balyan v. Azerbaijan

Country: Azerbaijan
Year: 2020
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: [2020] ECHR 35746/11
Health Topics: Prisons
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Right to bodily integrity, Right to life
Facts:

The applicants, Mamikon Saribekyan and Siranush Balyan, brought an application that their son, Manvel Saribekyan, had been tortured and killed under the detention of the Azerbaijan authorities. Saribekyan, was a resident of the Tutjur village in the Gegharkunik region of Armenia near the border of Azerbaijan. On September 11th, 2010, Saribekyan lost his bearings in …Read more

Tags: Abuse, Cruel and inhuman treatment, Cruel and unusual punishment, Cruel treatment, Custody, Detainee, Detention, Imprisonment, Incarceration, Inhuman treatment, Inmate, Jail, Law enforcement, Military, Police, Prison, Torture
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Thakker v. Doll

Country: United States
Year: 2020
Court: United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Citation: 451 F.Supp. 3d 358 (2020)
Health Topics: Aging, Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Disasters and emergencies, Health care and health services, Infectious diseases, Prisons, Water, sanitation and hygiene
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Freedom of movement and residence, Right to due process/fair trial, Right to health, Right to liberty and security of person, Right to life
Facts:

The Petitioners were a group of individuals being held in civil detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at three locations: the York County Prison, the Clinton County Correctional Facility, and the Pike County Correctional facility, while awaiting the final disposition of their immigration cases. With the rapid and expansive spread of the novel coronavirus …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Access to healthcare, Access to treatment, Aged persons, Detainee, Detention, Diabetes, Heart disease, Inhuman treatment, Kidney disease, Leukemia, Liver disease, Noncommunicable diseases, Prison conditions, Public hospitals
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United States v. Jeremy Rodriguez

Country: United States
Year: 2020
Court: United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Citation: 451 F.Supp.3d 392 (E.D.Pa. 2020)
Health Topics: Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health care and health services, Infectious diseases, Prisons, Water, sanitation and hygiene
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
Facts:

The defendant, Jeremy Rodriguez, was an inmate at FCI Elkton, a federal detention centre in Elkton, Ohio. Rodriguez was serving the seventeenth year of a twenty-one year mandatory minimum sentence for drug distribution and unlawful firearm possession, and was one year away from becoming eligible for home confinement, when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in the …Read more

Tags: Detention, Diabetes, Heart disease, Imprisonment, Incarceration, Inmate, Liver disease, Prison conditions, Testing
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Danilczuk v. Cyprus

Country: Cyprus
Year: 2018
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: [2018] ECHR 21318/12
Health Topics: Prisons, Water, sanitation and hygiene
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Facts:

The applicant, Mr. Robert Danilczuk, a Polish national formerly held at a Nicosia Central Prisons in Cyprus, submitted an application under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) alleging poor detention conditions. Specifically, Danilczuk complained that in the various cell blocks in which he was placed, there was overcrowding, …Read more

Tags: Abuse, Cruel and unusual punishment, Cruel treatment, Degrading treatment, Detainee, Detention, Humiliating treatment, Inhuman treatment, Prison conditions, Waste
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X v. Germany

Country: Germany
Year: 2018
Court: The European Court of Human Rights
Citation: App. No. 54646/17
Health Topics: Prisons, Public safety
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Freedom of movement and residence
Facts:

The applicant, a Russian national, arrived in Germany in 2002. In 2002 and 2011, the competent domestic authorities denied the applicant’s asylum requests. In 2012, the applicant was granted a residence permit, which was later prolonged until March 2018. In 2014, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution investigated the applicant due to …Read more

Tags: Cruel and unusual punishment, Cruel treatment, Degrading treatment, Detention, Execution, Forced disappearance, Inhuman treatment, Terrorism, Torture
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Nelson v. Livermore

Country: Canada
Year: 2017
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal
Citation: 2017 ONCA 712
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Informed consent, Mental health, Prisons, Public safety, Violence
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Right to liberty and security of person
Facts:

Rodney Nelson sought judicial review of his involuntary admission to a psychiatric hospital under Ontario’s Mental Health Act (“MHA”) and an order for his immediate release due to rights infringements. Nelson had a lengthy history of crimes with many violent offences, including sexual offences against women and children. A psychiatrist completed an application for psychiatric …Read more

Tags: Assault, Compulsory confinement, Compulsory treatment, Custody, Degrading treatment, Detainee, Detention, Diagnostics, Examination, Forced treatment, Health regulation, Humiliating treatment, Imprisonment, Incarceration, Inhuman treatment, Involuntary confinement, Involuntary treatment, Mental disability, Mental disorder, Mental illness, Mental institution, Mental retardation, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Rape
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Alimov v. Turkey

Country: Turkey
Year: 2016
Court: The European Court of Human Rights
Citation: Application no. 14344/13
Health Topics: Prisons, Water, sanitation and hygiene
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Right to liberty and security of person, Right to water and sanitation
Facts:

This case relates to the lawfulness and material conditions of the detention of an Uzbek refugee in Turkish holding facilities. The applicant and his family sought refuge in Turkey. The applicant was refused entry. He was placed in a detention facility at the airport pending his repatriation. The applicant’s new asylum request was rejected, to …Read more

Tags: Asylum, Cleanliness, Degrading treatment, Detainee, Detention, Immigrants, Immigration, Refugees
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Daniel Ng’etich v. Attorney General

Country: Kenya
Year: 2016
Court: High Court of Kenya, Constitutional and Human Rights Division
Citation: Petition No. 329 of 2014 [2016] eKLR
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Hospitals, Infectious diseases, Prisons, Public safety
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Freedom of movement and residence, Right to liberty and security of person
Facts:

The Public Health Officer in the Nandi Central District arrested the petitioners- Daniel Ng’etich and Patrick Kipng’etich Kirui stating that they had failed to take the prescribed TB Medications. Under Section 27 of the Public Health Act, a magistrate could order the isolation and detention of a person who has been exposed to an infection. …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Access to treatment, Clinics, Custody, Detainee, Detention, Health facilities, Imprisonment, Prison conditions, Private hospitals, Public hospitals, Safety regulation, TB, Tuberculosis
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