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Ex-Prisoner Awarded $2.7 Million on Remand in Medical Neglect Suit
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2001, page 7
On April 20, 2001, a Denver jury awarded former Colorado prisoner Arthur Nieto, 44, damages totalling $2.7 million in a medical neglect suit against Colorado prison officials and medical staff. In 1991, while imprisoned at the Delta County Correctional Facility, Nieto contracted a sinus infection. Despite repeated requests for medical ...
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