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Delay in Treating Injured Shoulder States Claim
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2000, page 20
A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that prison officials delaying treatment for a prisoner's dislocated shoulder states a claim under the Eighth amendment. On July 30, 1997, Daniel Petrichko, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, dislocated his shoulder when another prisoner pushed him into a pole. Petrichko immediately sought medical attention …
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