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Medical Care
Loaded on June 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1991, page 3
A former federal prisoner with diabetes was awarded $500,000 for failure to prison medical staff to provide proper diagnosis and treatment of foot infection which let to below-the-knee amputation of his right leg. The prisoner brought suit against the U.S. pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. Sec. …
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