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No Qualified Immunity for Medical Indifference
Loaded on July 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1993, page 1
Dennis Hamilton is an Alaska state prisoner. After an ear operation prison officials tried to fly him to a federal prison in Oklahoma. The trip was aborted after the first leg of the trip due to extreme ear pain caused by flying. Hamilton's doctor wrote prison officials stating Hamilton should …
Filed under:
Transfers,
Medical,
Pain,
ENT,
Hearing,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Alaska.
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