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AZ Medical Care Unconstitutional
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1994, page 2
This lengthy (76 pages) opinion deals with a DOC-wide class action suit filed by Arizona state prisoners challenging the medical and dental care, treatment available for seriously mentally ill prisoners, and unequal medical treatment provided to females compared to that provided male prisoners. District court judge Muecke ruled in favor …
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