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Complaint Claims Texas Psychiatrist Molested Prisoner Patients
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2002, page 11
A complaint has been filed in the 87th Judicial District Court of Anderson County, Texas, alleging that John W. Goodman, M.D., a former prison psychiatrist at the Gurney Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), sexually assaulted many of his prisoner patients. The complaint, filed by eleven prisoners ...
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Contractor Misconduct,
Medical Misconduct,
Mental Health.
Location:
Texas.
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