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Failure to Provide Medical Treatment Unlawful
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1996, page 20
The court of appeals for the fourth circuit has held that jail guards have a duty to provide medical care for injuries resulting from attacks by other prisoners. Failure to do so may subject them to eighth amendment liability. In its ruling the court maps out the elements of a ...
Filed under:
Skeletal Injury,
Injury -- Misc.,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Eighth Amendment,
Appeals.
Location:
Virginia.
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