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Deliberate Indifference Demonstrated
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1991, page 8
Proof of prison administrators' "consistent pattern of reckless or negligent conduct" in providing prisoners with medical care is enough to establish the deliberate indifference to prisoners' serious medical needs necessary to make out an Eighth Amendment violation and hence to subject the officials to civil liability. The December 4, 1990, ...
Filed under:
Medical,
Tuberculosis,
Medical Records,
Staffing,
Supervisory Liability,
Failure to Train/Supervise.
Location:
Minnesota.
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