El Paso, Texas County Jail Changes Medical Providers
El Paso County, Texas has, in the past, used University of Texas Medical Branch to provide healthcare to prisoners in its county jail. However, El Paso County Commissioners recently voted to approve a contract with University Medical Center to provide care to prisoners. Jails such as the El Paso County, Texas jail have constitutional obligations to provide reasonable medical care to prisoners. Such Texas jails also have obligations to mentally-ill inmates, if the jails are aware of such issues.
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Dean Malone
Dean Malone
Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.
Dean Malone