Alison Hardy

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  "They've told the state, 'You're going to lose,'" said Alison Hardy, a lawyer with Berkeley, California-based Prison Law Office, which with other attorneys represented plaintiffs who had sued the state over overcrowding in its prisons.

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  Published on: 10/1/2004    Last Visited: 11/24/2007  

  "The Department of Corrections has been a refuge for doctors who have been unable to provide care in other places," said Alison Hardy, staff attorney at the Prison Law Office, the San Quentin group investigating prison health care."As a result, there are a lot of prisoners who have been harmed."
  
  Hardy said the Grillo case follows a pattern in the Corrections Department of using doctors practicing outside their specialties.

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  Carlos Perez, incarcerated at CDCRs maximum security Salinas Valley State Prison, was the named plaintiff in a statewide class-action dental health care complaint filed by attorney Alison Hardy of the venerable Prison Law Office.

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  Published on: 2/6/2004    Last Visited: 5/30/2007  

  I called the Prison Law Office in San Rafael (right outside San Quentin), and talked to attorney Alison Hardy about the Plata federal civil rights suit, which was brought by the Prison Law Office on behalf of California state prisoners with serious medical concerns.
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  Alison says that it's really important for people to use the 602s.She said that when Prison Law Office attorneys come out to monitor, they go through the 602 file, and use the number of complaints about various issues to zero in on where the most problems are occurring.
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  Finally, Alison said that anyone that is having an emergency medical care problem, like not getting their prescription for vital medications such as insulin or nitroglycerin, should write directly to Prison Law Office, in addition to following the 602 remedies.
  
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  Published on: 8/7/2001    Last Visited: 7/27/2007  

  Alison Hardy, a Portland attorney who did the bulk of the trial level work, billed at $175 an hour; Marc Blackman, a Portland attorney who assisted Ms. Hardy billed his time at $200 an hour, and Sam Stiltner, the Seattle attorney who did PLN 's appeal to the Ninth Circuit, charged $175 an hour for his time and $35 an hour for the time of his legal assistant, Janet Stanton.
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  Alison Hardy, a Portland attorney who did the bulk of the trial level work, billed at $175 an hour; Marc Blackman, a Portland attorney who assisted Ms. Hardy billed his time at $200 an hour, and Sam Stiltner, the Seattle attorney who did PLN 's appeal to the Ninth Circuit, charged $175 an hour for his time and $35 an hour for the time of his legal assistant, Janet Stanton.
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  Alison Hardy and Marc Blackman of Portland argued the case at the trial level; Sam Stiltner and Janet Stanton of Seattle filed the appeal on plaintiffs' behalf.

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  Published on: 9/23/2004    Last Visited: 9/23/2004  

  "The Department of Corrections recognized that there was a significant problem with patient care," said Alison Hardy of the Prison Law Office, the legal organization that sued the state on behalf of prisoners who received poor health care.

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  ABC News: Feds to Oversee Calif.'s Prison Health - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/30/2005    Last Visited: 7/1/2005  

  "The judge has clearly recognized the ongoing risk of death and harm to patients is unconstitutional and basically horrifying," said Alison Hardy, an attorney with the Prison Law Office.

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  ABC News: San Quentin Warden Fired Over Health Spat - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/7/2005    Last Visited: 7/8/2005  

  "My observation is she inherited a big mess at San Quentin," said Alison Hardy, a staff attorney for the nonprofit Prison Law Office, which represents inmates in the class-action lawsuit.
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  Brown's demotion stems from a confrontation during a visit to the prison earlier this year by Hardy, said another Prison Law Office attorney, Keith Wattley.
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  San Quentin's health care manager, Dr. Robert Chapnick, had asked to talk with Hardy privately.

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  Published on: 10/14/2004    Last Visited: 10/28/2005  

  According to Alison Hardy, Staff Attorney for the Prison Law Office in California, which represents the inmates in the class-action case, the problems with health care in California's prisons have been long standing.
  
  "The major problem is the health care program has been the poor stepchild of the Department of Corrections.Their first and foremost concern has been the safety and custody of prisoners.Health care isn't what they consider to be their mission," she said.
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  But this lack of support is only the tip of the iceberg, according to Hardy and those who are familiar with the case.
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  Beyond the management problems at the department, Hardy said, are issues with staffing and maintaining a professional atmosphere that have also not been addressed.
  
  "The DOC for many years would hire physicians that virtually no one else would hire," she said, adding that many physicians are not board-certified or have had their licenses suspended.
  
  The court's investigation into staffing revealed that more than 80 percent of higher level management positions in the Health Services Division are vacant, that the department has not hired regional directors as ordered by the court - which provide supervision to staff at the institutional level -- and there is no central office leadership in nursing.
  
  "They [the DOC] haven't paid very well and never made it a priority.Not only were they hiring people who weren't good, but they couldn't fill all the positions," said Hardy."There are prisons that have never been able to fill their vacancies."
  
  She added that an independent study of nursing staffing last year showed that the department nurses were being paid 20 to 25 percent less than similar positions in the community.Hardy added these salaries would not support hiring a group of professionals who would probably rather work in the community anyway.
  
  Hardy said that problems of oversight at an institutional level persist as well.
  
  Even as recently as a few months ago, the department had hired two nurse practitioners for one institution, but did not provide a local physician to serve as their supervisor.Hardy said when she asked them who was their supervisor or "proctor" to contact when they had questions or problems, their answer was the health care director of the entire department.They had been given her cell phone.
  
  "That is the level at which they are operating," said Hardy, who added that despite her many other duties, the department's health care director did respond to their questions when they called.
  
  The lack of qualified staff and the lack of oversight over those who treated inmates at the institutions played a major role in the problems revealed in the inmates' case - the most serious of which led to inmate deaths.
  
  "This is the perfect storm of things that could go wrong," Hardy said.

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  Feds to oversee state prisons - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/30/2005    Last Visited: 7/1/2005  

  "The judge has clearly recognized the ongoing risk of death and harm to patients is unconstitutional and basically horrifying," said Alison Hardy, an attorney with the nonprofit Prison Law Office, which represents the plaintiffs.

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