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BOP Organ Transplant Ban Questioned
Loaded on March 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2001, page 7
The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit dismissed, without prejudice, a habeas corpus petition filed by Kenneth Barron, a federal prisoner, claiming his longterm survival was at risk because the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) refuses to provide him with a kidney transplant. Instead, Barron requires kidney dialysis to survive. ...
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