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Excessive Force and Delaying Medical Treatment Defeats Dismissal

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2003 published in Prison Legal News January, 2003, page 25
Filed under: Injury -- Misc., Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: Rhode Island.
A federal district court in Rhode Island has denied a prison guard's Motion to Dismiss a prisoner's claim that the guard intentionally slammed a cell door on the prisoner's fingers, and waited over an hour to get the prisoner medical treatment. Rhode Island prisoner Anthony S. Ducally sued under 42 ...

 

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