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BOP Owes Duty of Care to Prisoners
Loaded on June 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1997, page 23
The court of appeals for the third circuit held that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) owes federal prisoners a duty of care and that a district court erred in ruling otherwise. Rother Jones is a federal prisoner who filed a negligence suit against the United States after BOP officials denied …
Filed under:
Medical,
Medication,
Blood,
Brain Injury,
Federal Tort Claims Act.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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