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Florida Prisoner Sues for Contracting HIV
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2002, page 28
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Workplace Injury,
Work Conditions/Safety,
HIV/AIDS,
Blood,
Civil Procedure,
State Law Claims.
Location:
Florida.
Florida prisoner Richard James Randles filed simultaneous state and federal lawsuits alleging guard B.D. Hester ordered him, on three separate occasions, to clean up blood from other prisoners who had accidentally wounded themselves or attempted suicide at the Zephyrhills Correctional Institution medial/psychiatric ward. Randles requested to ...
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