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Pro Se Tips and Tactics
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
by John Midgley
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 14
By John Midgley
Filed under:
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Expert Witnesses.
Location:
United States of America.
Many prisoners have difficulties obtaining good medical care. Often prisoners assume that every failure on the part of the prison system to provide adequate medical care is a constitutional violation that can be remedied in federal court, but this assumption is not correct. In this column, I …
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- Dying For Profits: CMS and the Privatization of Prisoner Health Care, by Ronald Young
- CMS Fined Nearly $1 Million in Virginia, by Dan Pens
- Fired Washington Parole Officer Wins $250,000 Settlement
- Medical Claims Against CMS to be Refiled in State Court
- CA Court Overrules Parole Denial, by John E Dannenberg
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- Error to Dismiss Suit for Inability to Pay Filing Fee
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- Dismissal for Texas Prisoner's Failure to State Facts of Prior Suits
- Excessive Force Claims Require Administrative Exhaustion
- Sexual Assault, Beatings State Claim
- En Banc Sixth Circuit Addresses Mental Health Care
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- Family Impact of Out of State Transfers Immaterial
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- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Damages, Aug. 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, April 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Dec. 15, 2002
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Unknown Defendant Identities, July 15, 2002
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