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Delay in Treatment for Jail Prisoner Actionable

Loaded on May 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News May, 1998, page 22
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Medical, Injury -- Misc., Vision, Failure to Protect (General). Location: Mississippi.
Afederal district court in Mississippi held that disputed issues of fact involving claims by a jail prisoner that he was beaten by his cellmates required a trial to resolve. Emmett Davis was sentenced to 54 days in the Greenville, Mississippi, jail because he was too poor to pay a $554 ...

 

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