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DC Not Proper Venue for BOP Suits
Loaded on June 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1993, page 8
James Cameron is a federal prisoner. While at the penitentiary at Terre Haute he suffered a massive heart attack. Prison doctors stated he should receive a low sodium diet. The prison at Terre Haute could not provide a special diet and the warden requested that Cameron be transferred to a …
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