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Hemorrhoids: A Serious Medical Condition
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2002, page 24
A federal district court in Illinois has denied a motion to dismiss a complaint for the failure to alter treatment for a prisoner's hemorrhoid problem. Prisoner Brian Jones brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against six medical doctors at Illinois' Stateville and Joliet Correctional Centers. The defendants sought dismissal ...
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