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HIV+ Cellmate Doesn't State Claim
Loaded on July 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1994, page 19
This is yet another addition to the growing area of HIV/AIDS in prison case law. Andrew Marcussen is an Iowa state prisoner. He filed suit claiming prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his safety by assigning an HIV+ prisoner to his cell, thus, he claimed, exposing him to possible HIV ...
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