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$45,000 Award in BOP Tort Claim Medical Neglect Suit
Loaded on April 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1999, page 22
Afederal district court in Texas has awarded a pro se federal prisoner $45,000 under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680, for medical neglect by the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in failing to transfer him to a medical. facility.
Filed under:
Transfers,
Disabled Prisoners,
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Nervous System,
Pain,
Damages,
Federal Tort Claims Act.
Location:
Texas.
Wali Muhammed, a federal prisoner in ...
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